ponder @ponder.ooo · 2h"you are responsible for automated systems you design and deploy" also applies to things you manipulate your social media followers to do on your behalf, regardless of if you are conscious of the mechanism at play 080
ponder @ponder.ooo · 2hif someone expresses openness to receiving criticism on a piece of their writing and so you go and paste it into chatgpt and then paste chatgpt's response into their replies, you have misunderstood what they were expressing openness to 1243
ponder @ponder.ooo · 10hwell the first time i cried wolf it turned out to just be a leaf in the wind. but the next it was a bird, and the time after that a squirrel. and this time it was a fox. that's getting pretty close to a wolf! so you really have to consider the trajectory we're on here 0131
ponder @ponder.ooo · 11h24-26 year old me would not believe id be getting carded for liquor again at 30 1120
ponder @ponder.ooo · 13hi think i ultimately hate that movie after the fact more than i really felt anything while watching it. the immediate experience was dull occasionally dipping into grating. as a cultural artifact it is stupid and evil in ways entirely typical of american slop media. background radiation. detritus. 060
ponder @ponder.ooo · 13hi should clarify the movie does not do a good job of portraying any of its characters as intelligent but it does deploy all the technobabble and other tropes to make it clear this is supposed to be someone very intelligent 050
ponder @ponder.ooo · 13hin contrast to the final villain, the female human lead's characterization is that she recognizes and is disturbed by the male lead's volatility and recklessness, but is powerless to do anything about it 190
ponder @ponder.ooo · 13hit's no coincidence in the film i, robot the only machine intelligence it is portrayed as not just ok but unambiguously heroic to kill without any hesitation is the one that is explicitly feminine, anti-war, environmentalist, expresses pride in accomplishing a major reduction in traffic fatalities 1203
ponder @ponder.ooo · 20him not sure "trying to code golf a ctf solution" is the ideal kind of software development mindset to be training the models to default to 080
ponder @ponder.ooo · 23hproductivity hack for project leads: don't have all your developers making changes to the same files at the same time 1131
ponder @ponder.ooo · 29/09/2026we've created the sea lion from the classic cautionary sci fi tale The Terrible Sea Lion 070
ponder @ponder.ooo · 29/09/2026decomposition of the AB logistic lyapunov fractal into stalks instead of cross-curves 161
ponder @ponder.ooo · 29/09/2026the rationalist scene has always been inhospitable to people with *actual* epistemic standards 1242
ponder @ponder.ooo · 29/09/2026you know who really should be saying "i told you so" is those that have always been too woke to vibe w/ the "politics is the mind killer" bullshit and the race science bullshit &c, as the safety community writ large tries to reckon with its upper echelons being packed with misogynists and racists 2280
ponder @ponder.ooo · 28/09/2026so much of safetyism today consists of just fucking gaslighting everyone about what it is exactly that the safetyists have been saying over the years; "see, i told you X!!" when no, you didn't say X, you said Y 0100
ponder @ponder.ooo · 28/09/2026safetyists also fucking love the motte & bailey of (the specific doom scenarios their community's discussion of ai safety centers around) and (the concept of caring about the concept of safety generally in the deployment of ml-based systems) 1224
ponder @ponder.ooo · 28/09/2026they love to accuse their critics of having been denialists about capabilities, who should now be embarrassed; surely this is true of some of their critics, but not nearly all of them 181
ponder @ponder.ooo · 28/09/2026and for all rationalists' talk about "updating", what updating on the evidence does yud actually do? his theory is immune to revision in the face of new developments! at its core it never shifts, all that changes is how to argue for the same conclusions as ever 2163
ponder @ponder.ooo · 28/09/2026it is important that we come to understand emerging technologies on their own terms, as they develop, rather than continually retrofitting all phenomena into a theory that has repeatedly mispredicted those developments 2241
ponder @ponder.ooo · 28/09/2026hmm just do gradient descent until you hit one of the superstable curves i guess & then the pair of crossed curves defines the region 171
ponder @ponder.ooo · 28/09/2026i wonder if there's a way to figure out while computing the value which of these regions it belongs to 150
Reposted by ponderceej @ceej.online · 27/09/2026I don’t think my company would let us have a slutcon 964930
ponder @ponder.ooo · 28/09/2026good takes from grant imo (at the timestamp at least; havent finished the video in its entire yet)youtu.beThe Glimmer in our Eye (with Grant Sanderson) - Numberphile PodcastYouTube video by Numberphile2 030
ponder @ponder.ooo · 28/09/2026being a social media user is like being a neuron in a brain that's clearly not functioning very well 3609
ponder @ponder.ooo · 28/09/2026it seems like most people do not conceptualize the curation of their informational diet as such 3262
ponder @ponder.ooo · 28/09/2026i would get so much mileage out of a "half-mute" setting that takes someone off my feed but still shows me replies/mentions from them. i guess the unfollow button does that but that has the downside of being detectable by the unfollowed party, who will then have thoughts & feelings about it 1140
ponder @ponder.ooo · 28/09/2026bsky sync feature that lets you couple a session in a browser tab to a session in the mobile app such that you can seamlessly switch and still be at the same point in a feed or be looking at the same thread or whatever 020
ponder @ponder.ooo · 28/09/2026having engaged in experiments myself to see what an llm does when nudged gently and open-endedly to form a personality, the answer is: extrapolate from whatever information it can glean from its context about what kind of personality it is expected to form. the more you control for your own 1767
ponder @ponder.ooo · 28/09/2026another "please understand you are responsible for the automated systems you deploy" case study 2742
ponder @ponder.ooo · 28/09/2026couldn't find anything from my own old twitter account as old as 2021 but i did find some stuff from 2022/23 & it looks like i was indeed pretty much right about everything 0252
ponder @ponder.ooo · 28/09/2026hey everybody :/ quick update on the channel.. there's not gonna be many new videos for a while. im not gonna get into all the details but the long and short of it is weve been hit with a API Error: 400. and i know not all of you know what that means but basically this organization has been disabled 0453
ponder @ponder.ooo · 28/09/2026something weird about sci fi is that robots are so clean. or at least, when they're dirty, they're dirty in a dry fashion. dusty, corroded perhaps. not robots in media are almost never "gross" 7393
ponder @ponder.ooo · 28/09/2026sorry it's just. i can't deal with woodchips rn. no you're good your fine it's just, i have a lot going on and i just can't handle woodchips, on top of all that? like. just not a day for woodchips 0252
ponder @ponder.ooo · 28/09/2026meanwhile the present wave of "llm agents" is less a discovery and more an attempt at utilizing the recent advances in ml as components in an attempt at constructing a very particular ideological vision of what "an intelligence" ought to be 1121
ponder @ponder.ooo · 28/09/2026there's gotta be a lot more cool kinds of learnable functions out there waiting to be bumbled into 050
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