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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲

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Walkable cities, bikes, AI (not that kind), trains, etc. PhD student doing machine learning for robots. Chicago via Indianapolis via The Corn

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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 8h
The actual scenario they gave in their heads is similar to "what if everyone was working on nuclear weapons at the same time, including people in their garages, but if we build the meganuke first we can tame nukes and get free fusion as a bonus, so we need ~everything"
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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 8h
I have tuned my Linux setup beyond recognition. No one else can use it but that's okay, they're not invited. The computer is now an extension of my mind and executes my will at the speed of thought.
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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 8h
Another thing: There are nice UIs for installing stuff, yeah. Whole app stores these days. But seriously bash is just better at it. Typing `apt install firefox` is easier than an app store
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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 17h
The best way to write and edit documents is neovim with a job compiling markdown to pdf via pandoc. If you can't check it into version control, it's👏not👏real👏
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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 17h
all I know is when people start calling it "he" it's time to put em out to pasture
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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 17h
If it's like anything it's more like a Mr. Meeseeks from Rick and Morty, motivated solely to accomplish a task and die.
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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 17h
The reason we care about consciousness is because we think it's bad to cause suffering to something human-like, and what we know for sure is that it's not human like.
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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 17h
An important thing to remember is that "are they conscious" is basically a dumb semantic argument about what "consciousness" means. It doesn't actually matter at all.
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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 20h
I don't really care either way but like all caps profanity directed at a bot is basically identical to punching a wall or throwing a controller when you get mad about a video game. It's not like morally wrong but it does make me think less of you and your inability to control yourself.
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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Personally I appreciate hegseth and co doing the hard work of normalizing public executions again. Gonna be important when they're all out of power here soon
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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Nathan Fielder is clearly doing a bit, John Wilson seems like he's just Like That
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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I can tell you are the uneducated redneck type because you seem to think people from the city can't go camping.
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John Dunlevy @jdunlevy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What a leader and incredible life; R.I.P.: “Margaret Hamilton, who led the 100-person team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, guiding Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to a safe landing on the moon, died Sept. 30 in Cambridge, Mass. She was 90.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o...
nytimes.com
Margaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has Died (Gift Article)
Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90.
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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
(also we're already in the process of losing normal cryptography, but to quantum computing not AI, and we're already deep into the work of the next generation of stuff Basically just chill)
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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Yeah like... Cryptography is not about bugs in code. It is generally provably impossible without untenable amounts of compute. "What he saw" basically has to be proof that P=NP and a poly time integer factorization algorithm. I'm not a crypto guy and he surely knows more than I do but like
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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
That's what the beers are for
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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I don't wanna be the bearer of bad news here but the only thing stopping chatgpt from running a pipetting machine or an observatory or whatever is that no one has wired it up yet
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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Literally took this screenshot of the offending article lol
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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I did read the whole thing and yes I do have brain damage now
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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It seems every suburbanite believes the myth that their anchor city is dependent on *them*, rather than the other way around. Just bizarre and stupid. I'm not gonna post yet another fuckin letter to the editor about the tiny extra fee that has them pissing their pants, but rest assured it exists
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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I haven't dug into these and am not a hard mathematician, but generally these are easily checkable counterexamples and/or come with formally verifiable versions of the proof, rather than just English language descriptions.
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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The thing is that all math is basically tautology so of course the computers are good at it.
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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I guess I'm just better than Republicans bc I grew up in real America (a tiny farm town where lots of farm workers had settled down)
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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Have you figured out work trees yet? (I have not but I think that's the keyword that helps this particular problem)
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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I think I'd heard tell of the UT picture causing a stir before but it genuinely took me a long time to realize what the problem might even be. I kinda didn't even realize they were brown kids at first bc they're so American coded
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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Stop giving your money to these wreckers.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Right now society at large is paying most of the bill for people who drive giant pick-up trucks and SUVs, my humble proposal is that we should stop doing that and ask them to pay it themselves.
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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I've had a fitbit for like 9 months and it turns out I might have never, not once, had a good night of sleep in my life.
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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm so sorry to dump on your shitpost but a fun fact I like is that the wheel was easy, it was really the axle that was harder.
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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Once again my strategy of hiding in academia until all this shit blows over has been proven correct.
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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
PSLs: tasty Mason jar cocktails: ??? No show socks: good Leggings: comfy The kids: wrong again
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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Exclusively from this thread, I think yarvin and vance seem to disagree on the means but not the ends, and the ends are the worst of it.
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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If only this forgotten, moribund backwood of Chicago could look south to the gleaming metropolis that is Indianapolis to see that letting people drink a beer outside is fine and indeed awesome
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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is the real of it. Enormous subsidy of like a 5 digit sum per American man, woman, and child per year
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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The few people who get affordable and stable housing create many many more people with unstable or unaffordable housing. This only counts if you restrict "people" to "people in rent controlled apartments", which is a bad idea.
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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
!!! I swear I overheard some ppl talking about biking back from Kenosha today. Did any of your party end up at O'Shaughnessy's in ravenswood by chance lol
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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The data which says that rent control increases rent?
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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The better solution, as above, is building more housing.
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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Lack of affordable and stable housing is downstream of the housing shortage and high rent
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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Housing shortage/high rent (these are basically the same thing)
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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I feel like maybe you're misreading the chart? That's showing how many papers show rent control having a [positive, neutral, negative] impact on those things And yes the literature on "just build housing" is vast and all points the same direction
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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
No Renee slander, she seems like a good person. The unstated throughline is that Jack seems to think Pierre chose *his truck specifically*, and Renee is pushing back against that. Elsewhere, she's constantly shutting his dipshit mom down
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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Renee is a good egg tho
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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I notice this, and also that basically everyone in his life seems to think the kid had it coming?? The other trucker got mad about immigrants taking jobs??? His mom thinks it's a plot to sink Trump or something?? She called the kid a suicide bomber for fucks sake Unsalvageable
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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You're Jaff not Jeff
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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's possible again! We can win at least a game in the big 10!! Fuck you Jeff!!!
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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Definitely contributes to some tasks! Specifically the language modeling stuff. But in the same way stuff like "how to build a bomb" can be strongly removed from the weights, we can probably similarly train out "you experience agony"
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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The thing that would necessarily fade is the pain response in tasks, not necessarily the language modeling "pain" representation.
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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Tbh though it just changes the step 2 training harness imo. Turn up the "pain" stuff during training and reward for completing the task anyway, eventually the pain representation will fade. (Ofc I just heard about this when you posted it so grain of salt and all that)
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🚂Cameron🌐🥑🔰🏗️🌇🌮🚝 🦁🚲 @csreid.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is the most surprising bit imo An LLM has to represent everything that makes it better at 1) modeling language and then in fine tuning 2) accomplish tasks These two objectives interact in very complex ways and maybe the "pain" stuff from step 1 doesn't really get stepped on in step 2
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