@__vining

Interested in history, languages, software, dogs, dog software, and weird stuff from the internet. Swagless normie. Email me: [email protected]

 Madison, Wisconsin
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Joined December 2022
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Replying to @Scholars_Stage @zenahitz
everyone wants to philosophize and no one wants to live in a barrel
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Benedict Evans
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watching a show about spies in London and my impression in this: B Roll of London is either beautiful stone buildings or the most purposely depressing brick flat imaginable
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are you still not getting it?
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"are name-checked" and "is any shade thrown" are all-time passive voice clunkers.
Ben Krauss
@BenKrauss5Oct 14
If you're gonna write a poorly reasoned argument that singularly blames corporate consolidation. You've gotta hand wave away any disagreement as a profit-motivated conspiracy. That's the rule and kudos to the author for sticking to it.
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Anthropic in 6 months: It is immoral to recycle a smart toaster.
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> Anything by Justin Timberlake > Mambo No. 5 by Lou Bega Sort of implies that other songs by Lou Bega are game. that's how I'd play the set
🪽@nsyncpantheressOct 9
just miserable as hell i'm crying
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Pretty sure a member of the paw patrol just said "nothing but hoop" because they didn't have the budget to animate a net
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I wonder if we'll see any new programming languages. How do you create it and get it in distribution so that people actually use it?
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it really looks like this
Chris Malchow@_thecolorfulkidOct 8
Fall in Madison this week
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"Catering Made Easy", a poem about Methuselah, 1929. peoplespoems.com/00018/cater…

Catering Made Easy — People's Poems

peoplespoems.com
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worst CTA of all time
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Who is working on the AI Pleasure Farm?
Bentham's Bulldog🔸
@BenthamsbulldogOct 7
Replying to @jbarro
If we aren't absolutely sure of their insentience, then shouldn't we have a non-zero amount of concern for their potential welfare?
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I'm imagining a system where we use a small model to give compliments to a big model and in doing so we earn positive model utils that we can sell like carbon offsets to companies that ask their models to do unpleasant tasks.
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Peirce on Pedagogy
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John Vining retweeted
John Vining@__viningOct 2
It does you a great disservice when you're vengeful or snarky on this website about a subject that you believe is extremely important. No one who believes some thing is a live question and of critical importance will act that way.
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to philosophize is to learn to die and claude seems extremely relaxed every time I type `/exit`
Michael Millerman
@millermanOct 6
what would it take you to believe that claude is a better philosopher than plato? would anything count as evidence of that for you?
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I really want to believe this but it has a bit of "Gwern says 'go for it' for cigarette smoking" vibe to it
Scott Stevenson
@scottastevensonOct 6
Allowing myself to drink sweet drinks while working has been the most profound performance enhancement in the past 5 years for me. For the past 2 weeks I've been outputting at +50%. Higher focus, longer. 1 Powerade at my desk per day. I am able to do 12 hour days the way I used to be able to when I was younger. I don't have any crash, I crashed much worse end of day when I was avoiding sugar. I am not sure why this is the case, it seems contrary to most of what I've read. Hypothesis 1: I burn a lot of energy working at a computer and easy fuel gets burnt off quickly, like with a runner. I was in a calorie deficit that was hurting my performance previously. Same reason chess players consume chocolate milk while playing. Hypothesis 2: I have diabetes? Any other ideas?
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