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Cake day: December 9th, 2023

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  • wait but the problem they always say we have is that we are too impulsive and just keep doing things that give us instant gratification instead of things that are good for our future… so how does that square with the background radiation feeling of being so anxious that things that make us feel instant pleasure also make us feel instant guilt?

    hmmm

    looks at the concept of “instant gratification” with a skeptical squint of a lone cowboy in a standoff

    “I have beef with you Instant Gratification, but today is not the day, no matter, I swear I am going to make consequences come for you soon, any day now. Maybe tomorrow I think I just have some other things I need to do, I have been meaning to get it done so that means I will you can rest assured about that.






  • I propose Antartica adopt an irrational approach.

    Decide on Antartica North as a basis, clearly this should be Antartica’s tentacle where it reaches out trying to touch the South American tentacle. 1 AntArcSpan is thus the rational radius of Antartica.

    Multiply Antartica North by the square root of -1 a.k.a. the number i.

    I propose as international law that real estate/territory claims all have to be solely defined in terms of trignometric functions on Antartica.

    It would also hopefully draw irrationality from other continents, maybe acting as an irrationality sink.



  • annoying nitpick

    There is no progression up a ladder in evolution, not towards sophistication nor complexity.

    Every single species alive on earth comes from a genetic lineage precisely as old and thus “evolved” as we do. Species can shed complexity and capabilities from evolutionary pressures just as much they can gain them.

    I know this is a meme but framings subconciously slip into our ways of thinking like this very easily.




  • No, the AI was most certainly trained on the same stack overflow posts as humans would manually search out in the past.

    Thus the effective difference is precisely that between an active attempt to understand and blindly copying since the AI is specifically there to introduce a stochastic opaqueness between truth (i.e. sufficiently curated training data) and interpretation of truth.

    There is a context to stackoverflow posts and comments that can be analyzed from many different perspectives by the human brain (who posted the question with what tone, do the answers/comments tend to agree, how long ago was it posted etc…), by definition the way LLMs work they destroy that in favor of a hallucinating-yet-authoritative disembodied voice.