Reposted by johnny, uplifted octopusP(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 17/09/2026Software dev is all the 2nd 80% now 1624831
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 13/09/2026a month ago, I used gpt/opus to clean up a 1905 Edison-Bell cylinder recording. doing so was less sexy than what people are getting with fable/astra rn, but it was an interesting experience because my HITL role was basically reduced to “ears” spurgeon.computationaltheology.com/thomas-spurg...spurgeon.computationaltheology.comThomas Spurgeon at the PhonographThe nearest thing to the voice of Charles Spurgeon: his son reading his father's last printed words into an Edison-Bell phonograph in 1905, restored and playable beside the original transfer. 030
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 05/09/2026progressives relinquishing positive technological visions of the future did not work out for them 020
Reposted by johnny, uplifted octopusDavid Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Astonishing image of scorpionfish devouring prey whole among Ocean Photographer of the Year 2026 finalists | Discover Wildlifediscoverwildlife.comAstonishing image of scorpionfish devouring prey whole among Ocean Photographer of the Year 2026 finalists | Discover WildlifeDelve into the hidden worlds of our oceans with the 2026 finalists. 34215
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 03/09/2026if your "social" activities are like 90% dunking on people venomously — and if you disguise that as politics — you're just deliberately eating shit all day long. and shit is no nutritious 040
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 03/09/2026sure, sampling problems rule everything around me. but, social amplification dynamics produce something like mercury bioaccumulation and a lot of minds are fully rotted out 150
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 03/09/2026founder effects and continuing social network balkanization have turned this place into a breeder reactor for terrible brain worms in the same way that parler did for its particular anti-social cohort 270
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 24/08/2026yea plausible i guess. although the sheer scale of uptake is truly mind boggling to me 020
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 24/08/2026uh oh i didn't know about this one. what's the anti-argument? 130
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 24/08/2026there is going to be an impressive improvement in americans' health coincident roughly with kennedy being at hhs but attributable like 100% to glp-1s. it’s best to start coping with the painful inferences that will be drawn, asserted and accepted ahead of time 4374
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 24/08/2026last night at 2am during insomnia, i made a gaussian splat subtle 3d effect for photos (of iphone fame) for my linux machine; turned it into a screensaver; and populated it with baby's pictures. that's indistinguishable from magic 030
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 24/08/2026which is fine, of course — you don't have to be one! but its a useful means of calibrating your identity to reality 120
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 24/08/2026if you had not had the equivalent of a giant irresistible smile taking over your face accompanied by an internal monolog that roughly translates to "wheeeeeee!" over the last few years, you are not a technologist 131
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 05/08/2026we are living through the most interesting moment in human history. what an absolute privilege 060
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 31/07/2026our collective neocortex is the bow shock in front of culture traversing time 010
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 27/07/2026being able to prompt my way to a better tutorial on text book on any subject i want on demand is truly liberating 072
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 21/07/2026lines get blurred when you have to defend what is and is not science, and the infallibility of their respective clergy. but yea that’s patent anti-intellectualism animating a diseased host. not hard to spot or diagnose 010
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 21/07/2026(i have no answer here. not one thing i can point to) 121
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 21/07/2026what is your vision for a political movement that you would want to be part of; that doesn’t demand authoritarian measures to induce and maintain; and is realizable in the united states given our institutional structures? 210
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 20/07/2026big deal! anyone could have solved jacob’s conjugate !! 020
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 07/07/2026incredible stuff transformer-circuits.pub/2026/workspa...transformer-circuits.pubVerbalizable Representations Form a Global Workspace in Language Models 000
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 05/07/2026disagree with the quoted but can’t argue with the results 020
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 12/06/2026i have one left on trilogy but uplift/toying with alt intelligence is my favorite these days. (just finished blindsight which is similar vein and was really interesting but didn’t finish strong imo) 010
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 12/06/2026btw since i dont share as much on here: my fav first time for me reads the last two years: children of ruin & fire upon the deep. the later i wish i could read again for the first time 220
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 12/06/2026i still recommend this to people thanks to you! it was such a delightful surprise 101
Reposted by johnny, uplifted octopusAndrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 12/06/2026Hey @generativist.com it’s A Short Stay in Hell! 121
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 04/06/2026tulsi gabbard's husband has the extremely rare cancer i had and my mind refuses to accept the premise 000
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 04/06/2026the person who can't detect that lacks the understanding of a domain necessary to exercise discernment. it really does collapse towards something like aesthetics born of exposure to *a lot* of good and bad patterns. most people don't and *can't* have that unconditionally 010
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 04/06/2026that's why people (in tech/engineering/vc) keep droning about "taste" lately. when you say someone lacks taste, your gesturing at a bad smell -- the gap between what they understand and the output of what they forced into production 110
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 04/06/2026sycophancy is a problem. but even if you use discipline to explicitly ask, - is this a good idea? - does it make sense strategically? - does it make sense technically? the conversation quickly turns to finding ways to route around the criticisms. and it will do that for you 120
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 04/06/2026it is extraordinarily difficult for someone who doesn't have any intuition about a particular domain to pressure test their ideas using llms. 121
Reposted by johnny, uplifted octopusPeter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Today: the North Shore Half-Marathon. I run it every year to mark my decline. This year: 1:47:30. 21 seconds slower than last year. Time marches on, but I'm making it drag its heels. 96265865
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 28/05/2026scottaaronson.blog?p=9782scottaaronson.blogDispatches from the possibly last days of human relevanceAs most readers have presumably heard by now, Paul Erdös’s Unit Distance Problem from 1946—one of the central open problems from the field of discrete geometry—has been solved by … 000
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 23/05/2026the tpot like-as-acknowledgement norm here makes it funnier 1220
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 21/05/2026periodic reminder that the stochastic parrots frame is epistemic poison and you should actively and almost desperately try to rid yourself of it. things are...moving faster now 070
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 15/05/2026“it doesn’t matter it’s inevitable” retorts re:ai are bad not because they are fatalistic, but because they promulgate this frame that obscures how fucking fun it all is 190
Reposted by johnny, uplifted octopusae @aelkus.bsky.social · 11/05/2026this is what i meant by “social media is dying” 27011
