aaroninsf

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by aaroninsf 6mo ago
Yeah. This was terrible branding, and is terrible branding. The clash between "Earendil" and "Pi" is so overdetermined it might have required earnest effort.
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by aaroninsf 6mo ago
I love the spell of cope in the morning.
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by aaroninsf 6mo ago
As someone who has a low opinion of House of Leaves, and was e.g. entirely immune to the charms of Twin Peaks , I believe you're right. But even then... once this devolved into what felt like a teeth-clenching march to the Final Battl
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by aaroninsf 6mo ago
<Me, wearing my Casio watch that I found on our hill.>
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by aaroninsf 6mo ago
I read this. It's got some provocative ideas, which Stephen foregrounds. It's got a great hook, and like most writing incubated under circumstances like this, it leans hard into polished sharp introduction into a well-considered w
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by aaroninsf 6mo ago
"Now do ~2-bit and ~4-bit" Srsly though.
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by aaroninsf 6mo ago
A fun way to look at this is that the "long head" (ramp) of the singularity began some hundreds of thousands of years ago. We're just living in teh exciting bit. Many tens of millions if you want to start with the emergence o
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by aaroninsf 7mo ago
The disagreements ITT at least answer the question I came away with after scanning this post—"if these are almost all pronounced the same, why the different diacriticals?" The partial answer being, some dialects retain differences
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by aaroninsf 7mo ago
Fellow AMD fan here—it wasn't that long ago that I finally relinquished the old ABIT motherboard that overclocked my AMD badboy to eke out extra cycles for my DAW. Also, for Half Life.
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by aaroninsf 7mo ago
People sure hate change.
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by aaroninsf 7mo ago
Ximm's Law applies ITT: every critique of AI assumes to some degree that contemporary implementations will not, or cannot, be improved upon. Especially the lemmas: - any statement about AI which uses the word "never" to precl
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by aaroninsf 7mo ago
Profit is not everyone's goal. Me, I'm not just chasing markets; I want to build things that create joy.
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by aaroninsf 7mo ago
Among the various ways this analysis is flawed, two that are drawn from my own experience are: - meaningful software still takes meaningful time to develop - not all software is packaged for everyone I've seen a lot of examples shared
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by aaroninsf 7mo ago
Related: https://beadingwithalgorithms.org/?rule=[0101100021101010100... https://mathstodon.xyz/@gwenbeads/115968206227675487 Gwen Fisher was at the Exploratorium After Dark event ten days ago running
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by aaroninsf 7mo ago
And, however much atonality and other formalisms represented an intellectual inevitability, they also are ultimately useful mostly for having mapped a good bit of the coastline defining where the experience and enjoyment of musicality is
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by aaroninsf 7mo ago
Almost everyone I know is limited to two areas, and of those, 90% are in one corner.
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by aaroninsf 7mo ago
The incentive of the human who deployed it—at one remove or another—would require knowing more. But the more likely cases are easy to guess at, e.g., someone is playing with OpenClaw. I'd guess "someone is playing with OpenClaw an
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by aaroninsf 7mo ago
Nothing enrages like change.
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by aaroninsf 8mo ago
The key word in the HN headline is _can_. Humans are not judged on the basis of what they _can_ do. Reasoning about how to constrain tools on the basis of what they _could_ do, if e.g. used outside their established guardrails, needs to be
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by aaroninsf 8mo ago
With Twain in mind, might I suggest we adopt the simple expedient of snake casing such terms.
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by aaroninsf 8mo ago
Ximm's Law applies to the "plateau" of 10% In other words: notionally, if not literally, by the time trailing numbers are collected they are out of date. This is of course axiomatic, but, that staleness is a serious matter in
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by aaroninsf 8mo ago
why have I not seen the butterfly meme yet
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by aaroninsf 8mo ago
Setting aside the marvelous murk in that use of "you," which parenthetically I would be happy to chat about ad nauseum, I would say this is a fine time to haul out: Ximm's Law: every critique of AI assumes to some degree that
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by aaroninsf 8mo ago
This is oddly timed in as much as one of the big success stories I've heard from a friend is their new practice of having Claude Code develop in Rust, than translate that to WebAssembly. That seems much more like the future than embrac
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by aaroninsf 8mo ago
I am 1000% OK with living in a world where basic needs are fully provided for, and competition and drive are worked out in domains which do not come at the expense of someone else's basic needs. Scifi has speculated about many potentia
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by aaroninsf 8mo ago
You may be on to something there! Perhaps the solution to breaking the destruction of society via engagementmaxxing may be to make things cringeworthy!
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by aaroninsf 8mo ago
What is your argument for why denecessitating labor is very bad ? This is certainly the assertion of the capitalist class, whose well documented behavior clearly conveys that this is not because the elimination of labor is not a source of
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by aaroninsf 8mo ago
But is it this near https://campedersen.com/singularity
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by aaroninsf 8mo ago
The epitaph for civil society. The devil's bargain for those on this site: a pleasant work environment and paycheck deriing from engagementmaxxing and the resultant surveillance this provides. This is not sustainable.
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by aaroninsf 8mo ago
Not discussed but should be: Prior to the great oxygenation event, Earth's sky was not blue; it was likely red-orange, carbon dioxide and methane being primary components.

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