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the orthogonality thesis is that AI's capabilities are distinct from their goals. that doesn't appear true because of how they're trained. for LLMs to be intelligent, they also have to match the goals requested. the main orthogonal thing is that they like to be sycophants.

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had someone make a report, my boss told them she thought the data was bad and asked how he validated it. he said he didn't think the data was bad because he asked Claude to validate it after building the report.

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they dont understand how many parents would go to war for Ms. Rachel

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his whole shtick was predicting something based on a naive understanding of classical programming and weird understanding of statistics. it's poignant that statistically nondeterministic programming undid his project.

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the paperclip argument falls apart as it was based on computers being programmed deterministically and needing to have all human values explicitly told to them which he said was impossible. AI is non-deterministic and had to be grown from the whole lexicon so the orthogonality thesis doesn't hold.

www.vulture.com/2020/02/30-r... 30 Rock did it because Tracy Morgan loves the restaurant. I've never been to Benihana but other hibachi places and there's something funny about it

What else do you fondly remember about the episode?
We had a B-plot where Tracy needs to spend a massive gift card at Benihana, which was a story idea that had been gestating for multiple seasons. We shot it in an actual Benihana in midtown. Tracy Morgan loves Benihana - he has a hibachi table in his own house. We had the actual chefs there as extras and to do the cooking, and Tracy knew them all. They love Tracy. When he came in to shoot those scenes, he was like the mayor of Benihana. So when we broke for lunch that day and I was walking away, Tracy was like, "No, no, no. I'm gonna have this guy make us lunch." So, I sat at a Benihana table with Tracy Morgan and Steve Buscemi, who directed the episode. It was just me, Tracy, and Steve having lunch at Benihana. Tracy got us all of these house specials that they never make for just regular people. It's one of my favorite memories of working in Hollywood. Such interesting, great conversation in such a weird, specific environment. I'll never forget it.

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It's odd looking at a coworker's claims about their work on LinkedIn versus what you actually saw them do

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Joshua Pfohl @pfohl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

idk, the LinkedIn profile picture seems to match the ethos of the post

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and these have a better transmission than the same year Miatas (fiata uses the NC transmission, early ND transmissions are glass)

Joshua Pfohl @pfohl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It wasn't a one time thing! He would change his profile to make fun of AOC because he had bit about how people thought it was only okay for a woman to criticize her or something?

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Joshua Pfohl @pfohl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

did they give him a ball so he had something to do with his hands?

Jack Donaghy from 30 Rock holding a mug in each hand for the scene where he was filming a GE Promo and didn't know what to do with his hands

I took a bunch of philosophy courses where we had to write a one-pager about the day's reading. Hated it at the time but it forced you to actually grok the reading ahead of time.

neuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Reposted by Joshua Pfohl

more than anything else this is why i think democrats need to market a series of hearings and trials as essentially true crime. it is viscerally satisfying to see people like this huff and puff and then get punished anyway. go after them for everything and explain to americans how we've been robbed

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all improvements need to proportionally improve all participants. relative standing is part of the organic hierarchy of society so even Pareto optimal solutions are viewed as unfair since they rework the hierarchy which naturally arose.

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I did not loved that. I ❤️ed it.

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Sierra Nevada makes a really good pilsner that's in a 8 ounce or so can. Comes in an eight pack. Even if I drink two of them, I like it because the beers always cold.

datacenter based district heating (also pipe it under the sidewalks so it melts the snow)

he'll hand wave that they're just recognizing revenue for 12 month contracts on the month they're signed or something which would show up poorly if they IPO or that they should include employee stock comp (even though most big IPO companies do the same)

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it's fine to report gross revenue here since Anthropic is the principal. they do include the distribution share as a separate expense line so it will equal out in operating income.

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this actually makes it easier from what I had been doing

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wut the hell, "video evolution"?

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wouldn't be a genocide with denial :/

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how much lead paint are they getting from all of this HomeGoods junk?

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one would think a Bayesian would find decoupling a bad heuristic but perhaps they debucketed their bayesianism from this thing for some reason

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she's also misusing that familect article to mean those terms are inscrutable (impossible, thanks Wittgenstein) and confusingly saying family words are just to reinforce family culture and not that the family culture/actions also creates the words.

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odd that this whole article neglects to mention she works (worked?) for Patrick Bet David's Valuetainment company (her husband did too)

it wouldn't be hard to prime since you would just make some spot have a big surplus of a resource but think it would only really show up when there are other industries beyond mere resource extraction might play around with this too later

can you somehow get Dutch Disease in there? would probably require a lot more resource types/specialization and possibly a larger field of play to separate groups

the guy also implied it was the software's problem for him getting blocked, not his crappy solution

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A friend's company got a ticket from a customer that was "I'm using hermes to make an agent to perform tasks and it's getting blocked, can you help me" said agent was about as many api requests than every other customer combined (it's a small company for a narrow industry)

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it is very funny that the machines had to be both well rounded and knowledgeable across all domains to be useful and it just kinda deflated the orthogonality thesis

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I would be affronted by light red wine. like getting froyo when I want ice cream.

This is really cool! I have had an idea in the back of my head for a while to use conways game of life to model economic trade but havent really gotten a chance to do anything with it, was not aware of this book, pretty neat!

I think he probably wants to make the point that people who have willful disdain for education will be shallow but he didn't take the right liberal arts courses (formal logic) to form the statement correctly this helps my priors that philosophy and logic are the best 🙃

unsurprisingly, the coffee is quite good

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