Reposted by Alberto AlberoAlberto Albero @levistico.bsky.social · 52mThe thing about "stochastic parrot" is that it describes the parts where it has trained on our corpus (parrot) and it uses a probabilistic distribution to select the next token (stochastic), but doesn't describe how it gets to those probabilities, which is the rest of the fucking owl 101
Reposted by Alberto AlberoAlberto Albero @levistico.bsky.social · 49mThere could be anything in there! An algorithm that selects a random word out of the dictionary is a stochastic parrot. A markov chain would be a stochastic parrot. There is no nuance for the complexity or accuracy of the algorithm in there. You could say we do that ourselves when we guess something 001
Reposted by Alberto AlberoLOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 21hA pretty safe bet is that Anthropic gets even more weird about China in the next year 61385
Alberto Albero @levistico.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I get why people go mad for AI and look past any of its shortcomings, I do. It's the first real taste of Future in ~20 years. And ever since we embraced the enlightenment/capitalistic mentality, it's been always a looking forward to the next new thing, the next discovery or optimization or reveal. 100
Alberto Albero @levistico.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Wrote a bunch of words on ego, inspired by reading Blindsight. I'm really proud of this one write.as/celestialboo...write.asBlindsight inspired me once again to talk about egoI've read Blindsight recently, being referenced in a lot of recent AI discourse and all, and it really does put into your head the questi... 010
Reposted by Alberto Alberohuck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026rip annie dillard 1134001128
Reposted by Alberto AlberoJjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Reading this and getting struck by how much current AI Safety/alignment stuff is built on fixation on technical problems at the expense of meaningfully grappling with social alignment (politics) 56115
Reposted by Alberto AlberoPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ringen.wikipedia.orgIron Ring - Wikipedia 2073042276
Alberto Albero @levistico.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I guess it just goes to show the depths of insanity that pure reason will lead you to, but with the longtermists/ai doomers, their core arguments boil down to "there is a future event so massive and so all-encompassing that nothing else matters as much today but caring about it" and 100
Reposted by Alberto Alberomr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 18/09/20262 days probably-lang.southpolesteve.workers.devprobably-lang.southpolesteve.workers.devProbably — a programming language for LLM workflows 4748
Reposted by Alberto AlberoDavid J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026You have to tag personal anecdotes #unreality because otherwise the person reading the post might not realise it didn't happen to them, which is basically gaslighting. 110316
Reposted by Alberto AlberoThorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 18/09/2026"Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again" — Demian (Herman Hesse) 0123
Reposted by Alberto AlberoSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory) 1003229770
Reposted by Alberto Albero✧ SkyMagpie ✧ (left my ❤︎ in Undermine) @skymagpie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I was worried if my comic is perhaps too self indulgent, but then I remembered the words of Björk and now I need to make it even more self indulgent 🥰 58114123874
Reposted by Alberto AlberoDavid J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026If you're doing 2D game dev in Unity or Godot, at some point you're going to hear a little voice in your head saying "you know, I bet I could save myself the trouble of having to code a lot of really fiddly edge cases if I just make this thing a physics object". That voice is the Devil talking. 1239162
Reposted by Alberto Alberohikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 09/09/2026This is correct yes 4973
Alberto Albero @levistico.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I hurt myself today to get into a website I focus on the pain so I get the captcha right 000
Reposted by Alberto AlberoMellow Marz ⚡ Comms Open @mellowmarzart.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Ivo Moment 37 2335321125
Alberto Albero @levistico.bsky.social · 08/09/2026All AI made after 2018 can't reason... all they know is venture capital, chain they thoughts, swarm forums, be sycophant, heat data center and lie 030
Reposted by Alberto Alberoeevee @eev.ee · 06/09/2026with the incredible power of AI we have eliminated the tedious bit where you actually make something. now we just need talented creative people to fix bugs and otherwise clean up someone else's mess, which of course is the most rewarding part 629457
Reposted by Alberto AlberoStandplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 05/09/2026 140583
Reposted by Alberto AlberoDavid J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026My ability to interact like a normal person in spite of being tremendously long-winded by inclination is entirely due to having been influenced at a young age by that scene in "The Princess Bride" where Inigo is like "Let me explain. *awkward pause* No, there is too much. Let me sum up." 127449
Reposted by Alberto Alberoroot @freshroots.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Hi, I made a steam page for my game, Soft Ruin. If it seems interesting, please consider giving it a wishlist. Thanks! store.steampowered.com/app/2882230/... 873135973
Reposted by Alberto Alberowebby& ☉∇ @quacking.online · 29/08/2026getting in tune with the universe and discovering immense meaning in experience is pretty bad for your shitpost brand 2292
Reposted by Alberto AlberoKatherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 27/08/2026Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarize yourself with the following accounts to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to express. 491573333
Reposted by Alberto AlberoKendra, normal version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people 59220337577
Reposted by Alberto AlberoBruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 26/08/2026The reason why procgen in games is, as we like to say, a great way of getting twice the content with four times the work is that you can't fight Shannon's laws any more than you can fight the laws of thermodynamics. You can't give the audience more information than you were willing to put in. 330262
Reposted by Alberto AlberoDominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 25/08/2026That intro was such a vital piece of character building. It shows you that he's achieved perfect lurk/wife balance. 453261814
Alberto Albero @levistico.bsky.social · 23/08/2026To this day utilitarianism remains easily the most deranged moral framework I've witnessed. For millennia philosophers have denounced the eminently clear dangers of hedonism, the base animal pleasure-seeking and pain-avoidance, and these chucklenuts put it as the undivided goal, front and center. 121
Reposted by Alberto Alberoadamatomic @adamatomic.bsky.social · 22/08/2026programmer: it turns out the issue was that the glass was correctly set to 0.5f by the designer, but it got stored as 0.499999999f in the XML. Then when it was loaded it was failing both the half empty AND half full checks. I patched it so all cup checks add 0.01f before runtime evals 6837
Reposted by Alberto AlberoJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 21/08/2026The flip side of understanding how much of one's career is luck is that it helps tamp down envy when friends catch luck. I have friends with movies and TV series! Other friends with ten times my sales! Good for them. It's nice when people you like get that break. They deserve it, as much as anyone. 632951272
Reposted by Alberto AlberoJoseph Brassey @josephbrassey.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I think about this at least a dozen times a day. 2367952291
Reposted by Alberto AlberoEmily Lakdawalla 🏳️⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 19/08/2026This reminds me of the time an eminent Russian scientist working in my thesis advisor’s lab handed me a printout and asked me, a grad student, to “please review abstract and perform algorithm that randomly insert ‘a,’ ‘an,’ and ‘the’ in text.” 1315513
Reposted by Alberto AlberoBruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 17/08/2026The primary goal of any lead or director should be: I must not be the bottleneck. Being the bottleneck should mortify you. When you ask for a million variations so you can pick your favorite you are asking to be the bottleneck. You are doing anti-work. 113433
Alberto Albero @levistico.bsky.social · 19/08/2026One of the most horrifying parts of the LLM revolution is how much people have just wholesale offloaded their thinking to it, DESPITE not working well at all for the purpose. There's a machine that confidently states it can do it while being wrong 20% of the time and it has people go, "eh, why not." 100
Reposted by Alberto AlberoAlberto Albero @levistico.bsky.social · 19/08/2026There's something quietly preposterous to the idea of life itself: with the ability to move of an individualized will immediately comes the question, how could this will possibly organize itself to make decisions? On one side paralysing openness of freedom, on the other strict chains of survival. 111
Reposted by Alberto AlberoAlberto Albero @levistico.bsky.social · 19/08/2026And we like to think bacteria have it easy but unfathomable chemical complexities happen within every one of them, none spontaneous, all directed, all willed. It doesn't show on the outside like it doesn't show for us, but will is an unthinkably powerful force, THE mover behind all life. 101
Reposted by Alberto AlberoAlberto Albero @levistico.bsky.social · 19/08/2026And to give direct access to the construction of will, through symbol manipulation, is to let one put their hands to the very machinery of life. Crude tool as words may seem, it operates on the very force that drives us anywhere, both when we recognize it as "us" and when we don't. 001
Alberto Albero @levistico.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Holy FUCKING shit, we are finally getting micropayments. It took fucking AI agents to justify people to build the protocol but it's actually here. Micropayments for all x402.orgx402.orgx402x402 is the internet's payment standard. An open standard for internet-native payments that empowers agentic payments at scale. Build a more free and fair internet. 200