Warning: Potentially Embarrassing References To 1980s Music
Of course, the autocrats are assuming that the AIs will be nietzschean ubermenschen, but …
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Warning: Potentially Embarrassing References To 1980s Music
Of course, the autocrats are assuming that the AIs will be nietzschean ubermenschen, but …
I used to be a highly creative person. I’m not bragging but one idea I threw out over a sushi dinner at Higashi West got turned into a start-up which netted the founder about $200mn. I’ve had a bunch to drink and topped it off with a Zoloft, so forgive me if I wander a bit. It’s snowing out and the shop is too cold and I’m not sure if I want to play computer games, tonight, or try to write.
This may be image-heavy or long. I’ve been busy with the thing, and it’s turned out/turning out nicely.
[WARNING: Long for today’s attention-spans. Readers over 50 should be OK.]
You’ve probably heard that before. Perhaps you’ve heard the same regarding large language models. One thing that this does is casually glosses over the fact that the two approaches work very differently. Or, more precisely, the two approaches are categories of approaches, which can have independent implementation details, as well.
I used to raid my dad’s library in the summers, when I ran out of books to read. One summer I grabbed Robert Paul Wolff’s In Defense of Anarchism, which sits beside me as I write this. [Umass Amherst]
A couple months ago, that I don’t think AI is going to threaten William Shakespeare’s high seat, but it might obliterate John Ringo by making him just another mediocrity in a sea of mediocrities? I asked my friend Ron, who’s up an all the current APIs and scripting languages, and he did a parameterized version of the original script that brought the computer security book by “R. J. Wallace” [stderr]
I don’t know how you feel right now, but I feel like the racist lunatic fringe of conspiracy theorists and kooks have somehow broken out of the asylum, found a way onto the command deck, and taken control of the great big nuclear aircraft carrier that is the USA.
Part 1: Sir Pervicale and the Quest of the 1/2-20 Wingnut
Today, someone at the hardware store said, almost aggressively, “Merry Christmas.”
I’m going to post about this project as it assembles itself, to remember what I did, and/or what I was thinking at the time. So, it’s going to be kind of self-referential and possibly contain bad sketches.