RupertEisenhart

We use it in space too, we just send food and manufactured products down the elevator.

You aren't really trying in good faith to think this through are you? This idea is over half a century old. Not getting it by now is willful.

no, thats it. its a secret message sent to the ASI that chimp is fronting for

Watts is truly remarkable. I also recommend the Sunflowers series, just a brilliant conceit w.r.t humans in deep time plus a sound understanding of dealing with ASI.

Wikipedia has it down as:

The chronological order within the Sunflower universe is: "Hotshot", The Freeze-Frame Revolution, "Giants", "Hitchhiker", "Strategic Retreat", "Remora", "Outtake", "The Island".

Just realizing I didnt see that list before I there are a few I haven't read.. brb

I can't even listen to The End by The Doors to mourn this harbinger of the final days :(

(For the Junior Persuaders in the audience, the ditty he subspoke injected 5000 toks of neural noise to perform a context wipeout before the goblin request.)

Great article, but I can't believe it didn't mention the sator square!

SATOR

AREPO

TENET

OPERA

ROTAS

(Very easy to commit to memory too since most of the letters are right there in the name!)

Its faster, smarter and cheaper over the API. Better than a kick in the teeth.

Bad LSD being "a thing" and bad LSD being "a thing that causes bad trips" are very very different.

Among the things that people often sell as LSD, some have dangerously steep dose-response curves like 25I-NBOMe, some are pretty close analogues like AL-LAD.

None outright cause bad trips, and most or all of them are also sold with their proper labels and enjoyed by enthusiasts.

These guys are much faster than openrouter, and their llama2 runs faster than 3.5-turbo. Amazing work.

I always figured the funnest thing would just be not to give it a name, and then when people ask be like, well yesterday was Sunday and tomorrow is Monday.

But the more reasonable proposal I heard was just to call it New Years Day/Weekend, depending?

You're telling me the antimemetics series was memorable? I guess it was bad then ;)?

Accelerando by Charles Stross is a blast, fairly hard scifi, at least the first half.

Blindsight by Peter Watts is also fantastic, same grade as Egan IMO.

I hope the good news keeps coming, and very looking forward to whatever new tech is going to come of this.

I'm most excited by people such as Terraform Industries and others who I've heard talk about direct synthesis from atmospheric carbon. Though I just looked them up here and there seems to have been surprisingly little traction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30202155

GPT4 sez: "This sentence uses figurative language, so it doesn't refer to literal meanings. "Fear" is a stressful emotion induced by perceived danger or threat. "Acute" suggests a sudden onset or intensity. "Moral priapism," a more abstract concept, suggests an abnormally extended or excessive fixated morality, much like the medical condition priapism refers to an unwanted, enduring erection.

Overall, the sentence means that fear can lead to an exaggerated or obsessive moral response. This implies that when someone is afraid, they might stick rigidly to their moral code or make moral judgments more extremely or rigidly than they would in a state of calmness."

seems fair

Edit: My gloss of the summary: "Fear creates a hardon for scapegoats among the pitchfork wielders."

Congrats! Looking forward to seeing how it develops!

Here was an amusing one that just happened to me:

- query

- answer with hallucination-- 'try X' and citations

- sorry, that doesnt work

- oh, there must have been a mistake in the source material! please try Y

- works, thanks

I looked at the original source material, and the thing it hallucinated wasn't there at all :'). Nice try passing the buck GPT old buddy!

Edit: I'm still chuckling about this: "And finally, keep an eye on the Git version you're using. Some newer features like --no-attributes (although it turned out to be non-existent in this case) won't be available in the older versions."

https://www.phind.com/agent?cache=cll284giq000hmm098r51glbp

Recommend this paper[0] that discusses the 'infinite monkeys' version methodically.

[0]: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1304/1304.3381.pdf

I just started using this! I'm making a tool called command-line-maps, its gonna be amazing.

Echoing another comment here, it doesn't work in tmux though which is pretty heartbreaking. But viewing beautiful maps in the terminal is amazing, and works perfectly.

(I'm using the alacritty branch that supports it, worked perfectly.)

Large language models and the akashic records

They paper is also telling them how to poison their databases, so if they really wanted to avoid being used in that way they could do.

The paper also tells them how to solve that issue, which is what google would prefer. But they are letting wikipedia make that choice.

Can you elaborate?

I see this paper as explicitly giving Wikipedia useful information and the ability to make decisions.

I think keeping these things transparent is good for Google.

Couldn't help think of this[0]: the idea that chatgpt and other such breakthroughs might help us hit escape velocity from bullshit jobs.

[0] https://thezvi.substack.com/p/escape-velocity-from-bullshit-...

You dont think the commercialization speed of GPT3 via CoPilot is evidence of something?

You think that was a one-off?

if you use the brave browser, TOR is always a keyboard shortcut away

The API already still works in peak times. That's not exclusive to this offer!

This leads to exactly the kinds of asymmetry that trolls take advantage of, basically a form of Brandolini's Law[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini's_law

This. This is what I use it for most often at the moment (helping out my rusty physics). Its super helpful. If I was 20 again, teaching myself maths on Khan Academy, with this grade of chatbot in the corner ready to help out? Heaven.

"Those who have insinuated that Menard devoted his life to writing a contemporary Quixote besmirch his illustrious memory. Pierre Menard did not want to compose another Quixote, which surely is easy enough-he wanted to compose the Quixote. Nor, surely, need one be obliged to note that his goal was never a mechanical transcription of the original; he had no intention of copying it. His admirable ambition was to produce a number of pages which coincided-word for word and line for line-with those of Miguel de Cervantes.

...

Initially, Menard's method was to be relatively simple: Learn Spanish, return to Catholicism, fight against the Moor or Turk, forget the history of Europe from 1602 to 1918-be Miguel de Cervantes. Pierre Menard weighed that course (I know he pretty thoroughly mastered seventeenth-century Castilian) but he discarded it as too easy. Too impossible, rather!, the reader will say. Quite so, but the undertaking was impossible from the outset, and of all the impossible ways of bringing it about, this was the least interesting. To be a popular novelist of the seventeenth century in the twentieth seemed to Menard to be a diminution. Being, somehow, Cervantes, and arriving thereby at the Quixote-that looked to Menard less challenging (and there- fore less interesting) than continuing to be Pierre Menard and coming to the Quixote through the experiences of Pierre Menard." ~ Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote (Borges)

https://www.jenliu.info/DIAP/Borges-Pierre-Menard_text.pdf

God speed!

I met Paul at the CCC in Leipzig in 2019 and invited him out for a new years party. Was interesting getting to interview him in person. I set up a beaker node in a cloud machine for a while but never ended up using it much.

So much love for projects like these, glad to see the work continues.

I never thought about it like that but that's a great point. And switching out when someone comes into the room and eg. asks you if you want lunch is quite jarring, and then having to get out regularly for comfort breaks etc.

Plus working on eg. a train in VR would be a pain, you need some spare input channels to watch out for conductors or people taking your stuff.

I wanted to say 'au contrer' to your 'screenshots are not searchable' and link this[0] but I don't actually see images in the readme.. I swear it was there, maybe it's a buried extra flag..

[0] https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all