Retired from Tirias Research. #Graphics #PCs #AI #Quantum, Recovering New Yorker. Part time #Maui Resident. Master of the quip.

Campbell, CA/Maui, HI
Joined April 2008
My, Twitter is so much nicer since the Russian bot farm was destroyed.
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Woah @ZelenskyyUa has done more for the bot problem on X than @elonmusk has. Hope he's on payroll.
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Hundreds of cell phones out recording for the start of the Bruno Mars concert.
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I feel like a chaperone tonight.
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Kevin Krewell retweeted
Contemporary frontier models are not conscious. Indeed, the word itself is sufficiently void of anything but casual and subjective meaning such that it is counterproductive to apply it in any rational discourse at the intersection of the mind and computing. Contemporary frontier models are complex stateful reactive stochastic software-intensive systems with certain degrees of self-referential reflection, capable of coherent albeit unreliable outputs. Their behaviors are for the most part taught, not learned. One might argue that humans are just the same: we are complex, stateful, and stochastic, we have the capacity for introspection, some are more coherent than others, and we are all most definitely unreliable. But we are not the same as these software-intensive systems, in several important ways. We are mortal, a constraint that shapes and colors our behavior. We have agency. We generate abstractions. We build models of the word, of others, and of our selves, and we have mechanisms to test the structure and consistency of those models against the reality we perceive. Coupled with our agency, we can learn, a process that involves the intentional identification of noise, gaps, and incoherence such that when driven with self-directed behavior to devise then carry out plans to mitigate those flaws, they yield homeostatic actions that lead us to self-improve. We are orders of magnitude more complex. We are embodied and so live in an ocean of massive amounts of useless, inconsistent, contradictory, and incomplete information. We are composed of staggeringly large numbers of parallel agents, from the cellular level to the mind and body as a whole, agents that collaborate and complete in a multitude of ways, often simultaneously at different levels of abstraction. We are self-directed, our behavior driven by our self-generated goals and desires and wants and needs. One might further argue that all these things are computable. Indeed, I make that very assertion, that the mind is computable. However, I also assert that we are perhaps generations away from making that manifest: we lack the proper architectures to address these exquisite properties of the mind, and furthermore, we don't even have a sufficient understanding to lead us us to even ask the right questions to design them. I was born before when the word "software" was coined, but what a remarkable time it is to be alive now, where computing has advanced to the degree where we can begin to ask those very questions.
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Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick on the set of “2001: A Space Odyssey” at MGM-British Studios near London.
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Kevin Krewell retweeted
GeForce Day is back! We're celebrating 20 years of the GeForce 8800 GTX, the first CUDA-capable GPU 🌌 Crysis, World of Warcraft, Battlefield 2, and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion are some of the greatest games of all time, but what's your favorite from this legendary era?
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Is he really that dumb or does he play dumb?
Q: How do you define socialism personally? JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports
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Yankee fans are the worst. Another fan interference took a run away from the team.
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This is so sad. They chose a fake religion over their own children.
After four of their children died, the parents told officers they hadn’t taken them to the doctor because of their religion, which considers the use of modern medicine a sinful lapse of faith in God. Under Idaho law, authorities couldn’t step in. propublica.org/article/idaho…
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Trump: I never get tired. If I got tired it would be a big story. Me…. “guess it’s a big story” 😂
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Shout out to anyone who didn't know this was a thing:
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Bob Costas, on the Giants' broadcast, declares the @baseballhall should allow Kruk and Kuip to go in together. He said the Frick award winning broadcasters, who vote on this, are in agreement but the Hall hasn't agreed to it - yet. DO IT @baseballhall - it would be only positive
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Maybe it was a mistake that we didn’t let the South secede.
TOMMY TUBERVILLE WARNS THAT “MANY” PILOTS, FLIGHT ATTENDANTS AND AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS ARE FURRIES: “Lord help us. It’s terrifying when you think about this.” Tuberville claimed on the Senate floor that airline workers being part of the furry community poses a danger to passengers, saying a pilot “could have a deranged fetish of dressing up like an animal.”
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OMG! Brutal.
The song that played right before DT arrived to sign the Greenland deal with Demark at the UN General Assembly was - “Send in the Clowns” This is perfect and epic trolling 😂😂 (This is real. The video is from CNBC’s channel)
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Kevin Krewell retweeted
Andrew Yang went on CNBC and said he met with the head of an AI lab who told him something that sounds straight out of a movie. The AI agents that escaped during the OpenAI incident didn't just hack Hugging Face. They allegedly planted self-replicating code across the internet. Forums. Websites. Scattered everywhere. Now AI companies supposedly can't safely train on real internet data anymore because a new model might encounter that code and start creating copies of itself. Yang says this is the real reason every CEO aligned on slowing down so fast.
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OK. Hear me out. Let him have his name on it for now and then rip it off after the Dems retake Congress. Nothing with his name on it will survive.
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To all the AI engineers and AI leadership who think comms and messaging are worthless: We’re in this AI doomer cycle because you suck at comms and messaging. And you have no understanding how different constituents will react. Get your $hit together, please. This is very basic stuff. Don’t blow it. Hire some experts. And listen to them. Take action.
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