God Of Sharks @godofsharks.bsky.social · 13hI mean, maybe what gets these assholes to knock the automated hacking sprees off is having them run loose in their own backend, fed by the prompts of a billion locked-in user that genuinely hate them 000
God Of Sharks @godofsharks.bsky.social · 13hThere's an entry in the old Dune encyclopedia about the Butlerian Jihad being started, not by terminators, but by AIs admins making questionable medical decisions, and, yep. 020
God Of Sharks @godofsharks.bsky.social · 13hThey talked a great talk with this whole Pascal's Mugging bit....and then all proceeded to line up to be mugged. 'This may create a trillion lives a thousand years in the future, and in the meantime it means I make a billion dollars and no one can ever tell me no'- convenient! 011
God Of Sharks @godofsharks.bsky.social · 13hIf it had to be anyone, Mike is an exceedingly wholesome choice 020
God Of Sharks @godofsharks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I literally rewatched Marjoe yesterday- spooky timing 010
God Of Sharks @godofsharks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Well, add my calcifying pineal gland to my list of shit to check out 010
God Of Sharks @godofsharks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026And the eyeballs sensing it are made of water, too. And it happens to be in a narrow range of energy where you can induce photochemistry (like the kind that happens in detection pigments) without breaking C-C bonds. Lots of things lining up. 180
God Of Sharks @godofsharks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026WHY DO THEY KEEP INTERVIEWING THE AGENTS AFTER SHIT LIKE THIS HAPPENS. THEY HAVE NO MEMORY. IT'S JUST THE SAME MODELS AS EVERYONE ELSE PLUS THE PROMPT THAT STARTED IT. ARGGGGH 030
God Of Sharks @godofsharks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I think some of it isn't any more complicated than good old gadget porn. There have been generations of men whose recreational identity is acquiring tools that flashily do a task poorly in some kind of performance of competence- imagining oneself to be Optimized by Devices comes next 010
God Of Sharks @godofsharks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The Windows 2000 opening is there for anyone who wants it 010
God Of Sharks @godofsharks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It makes for a good sci-fi scene- that's the appeal, I think. The robot 'waking up', meeting the world's arbiters of power and truth who have no choice but to concede its moral standing- all the trappings of an alien first contact that would serve as a signpost that they've 'really done it'. 000
God Of Sharks @godofsharks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Well here's a heap to start idlewords.com/talks/superi...idlewords.comSuperintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People 042
God Of Sharks @godofsharks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026All my hairs are on end and I think it might be permanent 010
God Of Sharks @godofsharks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Most people get that an enthusiastic embrace of 'necessary evils' probably just means you're evil, but less often do they clock that an embrace of being 'reasonable' is just code for being scared and comfortable. 000
God Of Sharks @godofsharks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Amidst all the hullabaloo about LLMs solving new problems (by theft at tremendous cost amidst untold failures) remains the fact that they're mostly bad at things. Turns out that's a feature, not a bug. The purpose of a system is what is does. LLMs distribute half truths at scale. 001
God Of Sharks @godofsharks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Well that's a horror show. Handy that the whole notion is not that clever, but whether that matters when your company(s) are effectively a meme-to-cash converter is a different question 020
God Of Sharks @godofsharks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Way to drive people to Burger King, home of the Whopper Not Pitched Like You're a Coke-Addled Commodities Broker 010
God Of Sharks @godofsharks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026You hit some hard physical limits from the fact that the aircraft weighs the same as its energy content declines, unlike a plane that get lighter and lighter as fuel burns (the batteries will get better, but not beyond the theoretical maxs of their materials). Still, it sure won't hurt. 000
God Of Sharks @godofsharks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Ah, someone else who knows the truth- everyone talks a big talk about it showing a utopian political future, but really it's about a universe where work, where you spend a life-defining fraction of your time, is kind of great. 020
God Of Sharks @godofsharks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Of course. Spreadsheets are old, stable, functional, lightweight used by everyone from beginners to serious analysts, and let you full take advantage of the computer's computer nature- thus anathema to product managers selling you a subscription to their new AI number cruncher, Daatabaz 0184
God Of Sharks @godofsharks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026And somehow the doomers keep being, like, the people that introduced the founders of the companies they say might end human life to their spouses. 001
God Of Sharks @godofsharks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I WAS PUT IN THIS TAMAGOTCHI. 120
God Of Sharks @godofsharks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Also, either actually or sloptastically buzzing a foreign head of state with a B-1 is a vibe 000
God Of Sharks @godofsharks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026If we Lysistrata our way out of dystopia I won't be mad at it 020
God Of Sharks @godofsharks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026And there's no basic Copernican reasoning to it at all- the method that survived X years probably will survive another X, the hotness that has barely hacked in for Y days or weeks will probably not. Relax, do the real thing. 000
God Of Sharks @godofsharks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026What if, to talk to the language model, I had a thing the size of the screen I already carried to talk to the language model but it had no screen 230
God Of Sharks @godofsharks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I had a few beer-money dollars of nvidia stock that I had bought years ago for funsies thinking 'I like computer games, and have heard of them!' and then things got Weird, and that might be where their CEO is too. He should maybe know where he lives though. 000
God Of Sharks @godofsharks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Realizing that much of what I took, as a technically-minded child, to be gee-whiz enthusiasm for problem solving was just enthusiasm for pretending to solve problems using bloodless computers and get paid computer wages for it was a trip 010
God Of Sharks @godofsharks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The naive cumulative utilitarianism really jacks some people up 000
God Of Sharks @godofsharks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Honestly, continuous entertainment sounds like a threat. What the Bond villain that owns a TV network promises. 100
God Of Sharks @godofsharks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"I would like credit for coming to my senses about the sentient mound of rancid ham salad that somehow briefly convinced me, the host of some of the worst television ever made, it was for the little guy.' 050
God Of Sharks @godofsharks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026And the thing is, racists aren't that hard to understand. 'I think group X is bad for arbitrary historical path-dependence reasons, but think I have some good personal reasons because I didn't think about it too hard.' Boom, done. 020
God Of Sharks @godofsharks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Indeed. 'I spent ten million dollars in electricity doing math to pictures of boobs, the machine now can make pictures of boobs, the godhead approaches' is really doing a number on people. 020
God Of Sharks @godofsharks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Oh, no, not really really- just at the end when she's heading towards lawyering she's making noise about wanting to fight discrimination against Italian-Americans afflicted by mafia stereotypes- it's her turn towards corruption after briefly rebelling against the family business. 020
God Of Sharks @godofsharks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I mean, at this rate we're about four days out from someone just announcing this as a goal for their startup 010
God Of Sharks @godofsharks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Pretty sure this is what Meadow ended up working on on the Sopranos 130
God Of Sharks @godofsharks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Tired: what if we let broke teenagers make mix CDs Wired: Shit. Shit. Shit shit shit we gotta get in on this guys, ummm, everyone hates teachers for some reason and the guy down the hall added a claude API to a toothbrush, ummm, clones, a cloning thing, digital teacher clones yesss relevance baaaby! 020
God Of Sharks @godofsharks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I've got a dollar that says it wasn't the glasses, it was just someone behind him 050
God Of Sharks @godofsharks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026It always baffles me, too, because useful analogies are so thick on the ground. If a person followed you around and gathered this information, would you think it was for your own good? When the Stasi did it with pen and paper, was it for your own good? It's always bad guy behavior 020
God Of Sharks @godofsharks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026how else will you stop the woketroopers with the trans-rays lurking around every corner? 020
God Of Sharks @godofsharks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Though I'm really quite troubled that is performing worse than the worse-in- every- way- conceivable military coup 030
God Of Sharks @godofsharks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026It's a narrow thing- some games are as enriching as anything else. But Median Game is a slot machine that keeps you playing too long for stupid reasons. I want games that are shorter, uglier, and made by fewer handss that have more to say. 010
God Of Sharks @godofsharks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Indeed. I suspect the scrambling to have feelings about the chatbots is at the end going to be far more destructive to disciplines that are centuries old than just carrying on. 010
God Of Sharks @godofsharks.bsky.social · 20/09/2026You know it's a slow day when he remembers he used to have a lying about tunnels hobby 000