charles @libraryofbabel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Linux is fundamentally for people who like the experience of configuring and using a computer. If you don't want to use a computer, fine, but why are you running linux? 120
charles @libraryofbabel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This is exactly correct - people "discover" evidence of awareness of LLMs in their output because they are presupposing that awareness exists, so it becomes their interpretive frame for looking at how they behave. 110
Reposted by charlesAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 16/09/2026every single republican president of my lifetime has started a war in the middle east and destroyed the economy 543792895
charles @libraryofbabel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026For math, specifically, Terence Tao makes a very good case that the proof is only a small point of the whole undertaking, and skipping straight to the proof is salting the earth: mathandai.orgmathandai.orgDeclaration — Math and AIRead the declaration and add your name. 010
charles @libraryofbabel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Welcome to the Age of AI, where everything gets more annoying 000
charles @libraryofbabel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I think the correct framing here is about how many of our cognitive processes are encoded in language itself - i have started to think LLMs are primarily sophisticated representations of language itself, and what they are good at is the parts of our cognition proper to language 110
charles @libraryofbabel.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I have always referred to earwigs as "dinguses" and as a result my wife has only a mild aversion to them instead of being disgusted 6343
charles @libraryofbabel.bsky.social · 21/08/2026ChatGPT is also appealing to users because it is good enough and they are lazy 000
charles @libraryofbabel.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I used to work with Computer Touchers and now I work with high schoolers, and a high schooler on a bad day is easier to deal with than a Computer Toucher on an average day 000
Reposted by charlesCooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 31/07/2026Let's remember some Baseball Injuries! I'll go first: Glenallen Hill having a nightmare about spiders that was so bad he fell out of bed and through a glass table 1041176199
charles @libraryofbabel.bsky.social · 29/07/2026The more they bluster like this the more dire the strategic situation is for the US 000
charles @libraryofbabel.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Any adaptation of A Christmas Carol is doomed to failure because the perfect adaptation (the muppets one) has already been made 010
charles @libraryofbabel.bsky.social · 23/07/2026We really gotta put a stop to college football coaching in this country until we can figure out why it's giving us guys like this 000
charles @libraryofbabel.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Well, unless you’re trying to run linux on a laptop 000
Reposted by charlesceej @ceej.online · 23/07/2026say what you will about the internet, but it’s undeniably the best way to find new stupid stuff to be insane about every day 323219569
charles @libraryofbabel.bsky.social · 22/07/2026The one property that couldn't be made worse with AI 010
charles @libraryofbabel.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Good LLMs often give correct answers to questions that are posed correctly - but the LLM that most people interact with, the AI results in google search - is dogshit. 010
charles @libraryofbabel.bsky.social · 17/07/2026The language in the 10-K strikes me as borderline boilerplate: of course contamination in the food chain is a huge risk to restaurants like this, and they were right to acknowledge it as such. Any reasonable person could have come up with the same guess, especially in the era of diarrhea-by-policy! 000
charles @libraryofbabel.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Sitting down in front of my TV with my big warm glass of raw milk and my bowl of unwashed lettuce, ready to watch trumps speech 010
charles @libraryofbabel.bsky.social · 16/07/2026I was an exchange student in Germany in the early 2000s, and my host mother - who worked for the city! - smoked in her office 000
Reposted by charlesPatrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 16/07/2026every time trump is president you gotta wash your groceries 4375851723
charles @libraryofbabel.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Getting students interested in the material I'm teaching has been more effective at preventing AI cheating than any other approach I've tried so far 111
Reposted by charlesCooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 14/07/2026This is a great insight about biohacking and an endless heath optimization culture 017725
Reposted by charlesSubscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 14/07/2026This was an incredibly helpful primer on what's going on with China www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/o...nytimes.comOpinion | What Americans Need to Understand About China (Gift Article)Kevin Rudd, a former prime minister of Australia, went back to school to try to understand how the Chinese president thinks. 23210
charles @libraryofbabel.bsky.social · 13/07/2026LLMs don't threaten my sense of identity at all - they would never be able to spend ten years getting a PhD. They'd probably finish it much quicker 110
Reposted by charlesBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences 114208745340
Reposted by charlesvortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 09/07/2026I think this is the clearest signal that the era of the ‘modern web’, which started with the indexing of its disparate contents, has finally come to a close 7328141
charles @libraryofbabel.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Not surprising, but nonetheless disappointing. US bills are some of the worst designed in the world (so bad that the BEP lost a lawsuit to the American Council of the BIind requiring them to redesign the bills, which they haven't yet done), and have only ever featured men. 101
charles @libraryofbabel.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Summarizing is really important to building expertise, too - there's a reason that, e.g., humanities PhDs make their canditates read over a hundred books and write notes over them in preparation for qualifying exams. You can't be an expert without having done hundreds of little tasks like that. 210
charles @libraryofbabel.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Hacking and sawing at the cables on the bridge because standing on it makes me think i can't possibly fall into the chasm 000
charles @libraryofbabel.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Managing my risk by betting half on black and half on red 010
Reposted by charleswalking mirage @wolf.observer · 07/07/2026AI is great. It's allowed software developers to build their towers taller and taller. Soon they will reach Heaven and greet God 9604100
charles @libraryofbabel.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Looking and sounding extremely normal, Mr. Thiel, sir 000
charles @libraryofbabel.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Emacs is “what if house of leaves was a text editor” 010
charles @libraryofbabel.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Very ironic that he has helped to create material conditions that should massively improve his business but has created even stronger cultural headwinds against himself. Total Max Weber vindication 000
charles @libraryofbabel.bsky.social · 13/05/2026This is pretty concerning, and worth pointing out that the really grim scenarios with AI have more to do with it enabling bad actors (malware groups, lazy or malicious management, anti democratic ideologues) than they do with the various speculative basilisks and grey goos 010
Reposted by charlesryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 13/05/2026John Kenneth Galbraith on conservatism. funny dude wist.info/galbraith-jo... 923788
charles @libraryofbabel.bsky.social · 12/05/2026I remember hearing that Obama had gotten elected in the middle of the night in Berlin; I ran out of the bar I was in and there were people (Americans and Germans) out in the streets cheering and drinking in little clumps. That was less than twenty years ago, but it feels like another world. 100
