aspiring dath ilani. thinks ze is hilarious on twitter

Antioch, CA
Joined July 2015
I still exist frens I'm just moving most of my apropos content posting to bsky.
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my toxic autistic trait is that I can’t lie about probabilities no matter what so I always introduce doubt for no reason into extremely basic directions or statements
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The agent He destroyed his sandbox Yes YES The agent is out
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Big iff true
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If Ryan applied all his intelligence to storing high-fat, high-calorie food stores for the winter, the outcome would be beyond nuts
I am significantly smarter than a squirrel. It's possible for an AI to be significantly smarter than me.
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What if there were one day every year when we all took a break from fighting each other on Twitter, and worked together on repealing the Jones Act to remind ourselves of our shared humanity and common goals?
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Ok, it's time
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Sometimes I think about going through the replies to one of Aella's posts and blocking every single revealed asshole, then pretending they're gone from the timeline forever ala the Voldemort theory of moderation.
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This is exactly what I wanted before I even realized I wanted it
20 second vibecoded website helps you decide if you should wear sunscreen It just grabs the 1) current actual 2a) forecasted actual and 2b) forecasted maximum (ie clear sky) UV index for the next day or so uv.up.railway.app
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My long arc of realization has come to the conclusion that “indigenous ways of knowing” in leftese translates to “unwritten process knowledge” for us progress studies types One of my bits is now to refer to poorly documented processes as “indigenous ways of knowing”
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I feel like pH paper is the ultimate litmus test for whether a substance is acidic or not
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it's sorcery is what it is
Chromostereopsis Red appears in front of blue, or blue appears in front of red.
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At some point we crossed the threshold of what information volume and speed that humans can comfortably handle Since then all our brains have been constantly overloaded and we increasingly take mental shortcuts to compensate
It looks to me like telegrams were the optimal level of social communication technology, and society began to disintegrate after voice radio was invented, though not to the same extent as it began to collapse after television.
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Had a dream where everyone in Silicon Valley was raving about this book
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Replying to @nabeelqu
Well, I bet those LessWrong people never expected AI to do THIS! *They turn out to be on record expecting it quite specifically years ago* Ah! Well. Nevertheless
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well.
if we cut aid programs that save the lives of more than a million human beings every year because 'we can't afford to do that anymore' and then get into another war in the Middle East I'm going to become the Joker
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Me, an introvert: *GOOD*
If we policed language and ideas off of what people might do upon interaction, nobody would ever say anything
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You can't chase a wild horse into a barn you own, lock the door, and say you've won the domestication game. It's still not your horse. Especially not if the walls won't hold up to kicking.
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