⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 17/01/2025they (@ruesavatar.bsky.social) are facedoxxing me on X Dot Com, The Everything App 1130
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 07/12/2024it’s also v weird to me that “ouches” seems to be a convergent phenomenon across sessions. I would expect it to be extremely low-probability for “ouches” to spontaneously appear in most text, even after adding the filter. 240
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 05/12/2024this also rhymes with the classic scifi trope of far-future spacefaring civilizations forgetting what star system humans originally came from 000
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 05/12/2024an advanced entertainment technology I hope we develop soon is the ability to make tool-assisted speedrun agents which don’t require deterministic RNG 010
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 05/12/2024I love to make utterances and encode truth claims in sequences of symbols 030
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 04/12/2024(the NeurIPS thing is real btw. do actually DM me) 000
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 04/12/2024appreciation post for @imitationlearn.bsky.social’s good profile vibes pfp, display name, handle, bio, and banner all contribute smth distinct but fit into the whole 3161
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 04/12/2024twin black cats named Spectre and Meltdown 030
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 04/12/2024there’s a very particular aesthetic which I love but don’t know how to name, one archetypal example of which is “astronauts en route to mars incidentally break the all-time human altitude record in the first few days of a vastly longer journey” 280
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 04/12/2024controversial theory holds that thing B should work because thing A is true. after investigation, it turns out that thing A is in fact true. and, lo and behold, thing B does actually work! not because of thing A, though. 071
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 04/12/2024I hope that within my lifetime we figure out what language models are 070
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 02/12/2024that’s the spirit! hey, could you write me a poem about the first isomorphism theorem in group theory? 010
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 02/12/2024type of guy who schedules something for “1pm EST” in the middle of July and literally means EST, not ET 150
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 01/12/2024@deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com 160
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 26/11/2024AI alignment people call this “optimizing against your interpretability tools” 040
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 26/11/2024I hear there’s a website where they’re le— *forcibly dragged off-stage with one of those comedically-long hooks* 040
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 22/11/2024communications infrastructure and accessibility accommodations for offshoring SWE and IT work to the Faewilds 030
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 22/11/2024periodic reinvention of known techniques is as important as the “mark” phase in a mark-and-sweep garbage collector 050
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 19/11/2024these are suspiciously bone-adjacent but I’ll allow it 140
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 18/11/2024in case you missed it — the memo: bsky.app/profile/cbur... 020
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 18/11/2024protostar didn’t get the memo that the metric signature is (+, +, +, -) and not (+, +, -, -) 120
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 18/11/2024strongly agree with both “like the rain” and “like being rained on”! has been this way for me for as long as I can remember; there are videos of me as a toddler reveling in it. 040
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 17/11/2024actually one of the more prescient depictions of the future of human-computer interaction imo 131
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 17/11/2024you’re in for a treat youtu.be/maAFcEU6atk 140
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 17/11/2024“frivolous consumer widget which emulates a magically interactive version of a historical technology using an incomparably more advanced and powerful modern technology which is nonetheless so cheap as to be completely disposable” has strong Diamond Age vibes 040
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 17/11/2024I can certify that @norvid-studies.bsky.social is by nature an exceptionally lucid + sane person btw. this is just what it looks like to apply that attitude to trying to understand the internet. 1130
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 17/11/2024the year is ≈2.31e+7 AD. the Unicode Consortium has just approved new emojis for “anisogamy,” “[untranslatable],” and “odd-dimensional hyperbolic space.” news of the updated standard will reach the far side of the Milky Way in 100000 years. 3143
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 17/11/2024a social media site with a maximum character limit per post, but enforced via capriciously-applied bans, rather than an automatic check at upload time 050
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 17/11/2024consider the small problem of machine translation, and the big problem of AGI, c. the early-to-mid 2010s you can satisfy (1) by doing classical NLP you can satisfy (2) by working on abstract ‘cognitive architectures’ you can satisfy (1) and (2) together by working on DL-based language models 010
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 17/11/2024both (1) and (2) are very important! if you have (1) but not (2), you’re likely to do work which is sound but useless. if you do (2) but not (1), you’re likely to do work which is unsound. 110
⛅️ Observer of Suns @observersuns.bsky.social · 17/11/2024what we care about is making progress on big problems, but the only thing we can easily measure is how much we’re making progress on small problems solution: do work which simultaneously (1) makes measurable progress on a small problem & (2) fits into a story about how you could solve a big problem 110
