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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 3h

I suspect the machine that can teleport you to the mountain top will also be good at finding great base camps, near trails with medicinal plants, etc. Striving for the peak is not the only way to explore. Certainly the first to the summit is not the only one who finds the riches of the mountain.

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 5h

AI is deterministic if you have the right RNG xkcd.com/221/

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 23h

Fun little reminder about exponential growth- there is no objective "knee of the curve" For example this is y=eˣ shown at different x values, with the y axis autofit.

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You missed his more recent "kafir/infidel" tattoo.

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The maximize-count-of-happy-people logic always read to me like one of those "proofs" that 1=2. Even if I haven't spotted it yet, I know there's a division by zero hidden in there somewhere.

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I found a lot of the earlier rationality writing to be really helpful. Bayes Theorem, cognitive biases, etc. There have been some gems since that era too, but hidden in a lot of debris.

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

When that split happened, I thought it was some sort of mass test/demonstration of who is thinking for themselves and who is merely following. A decade later and they never pulled back the curtain with a reveal, so I guess they were sincere. I never understood.

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And a little robot to manage whichever parts of that you don't want to.

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

They're calling it Skydance? Just makes me think Seedance is a real competitor in their eyes.

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And not a little, something like a trillion times more road wear!

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you need to know which idiot did a job, do it yourself.

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Please stop deifying computers. They can't "save" anything, because they have not died for your sins.

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It'd be the same with transistors, or pen and paper, or rocks xkcd.com/505/

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I picked up Ace Combat 4 from a discount bin, and it's one of my all-time favorite games. I'm afraid to play any of the others, because I have no idea if the story was designed to be as mysterious as I interpreted it, or if that was just a side effect of skipping 3 games. Anyway, maybe I'll try 8!

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I was an intern in 2008, and people just stopped retiring. That felt like the end of the conveyor belt was blocked so no one got off. This is maybe more like the front of the conveyor is blocked so nobody can get on.

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Full 4 digit year. v2026, dropping v2027 soon

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In this context specifically, it'd mean leveraging AI tools more against fascism. Whether there is a shrewd leader subtly discouraging his opposition from using a tool seems very relevant for members of that group deciding how and how much to use that tool.

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Consider that the competent ones are placing the useful idiots.

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I wonder if there are any off by one errors in DNA, where the protein sequence looks like junk, but if you shift it by one, it starts coding helpful proteins. Would be a way to stash info away for rare events. Seems super useful, and I'd like to know if it's ever been investigated.

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Jev 👼 vs 😈 Vej On on each shoulder whispering in each ear

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The biases are interesting. Round number? That doesn't feel very mandelbrot x=y ? no way

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

They're using Slack to send these alerts? Their human in the safety loop receives a Slack message? The enterprise messaging software? And replies via? Slack? This is simply not how safety is done in any industry that must take safety seriously.

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Can you try it on any fantasy maps? Legend of Zelda or other popular video games, e.g?

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Science museum had one of these when I was 3, and I'm still on the lookout.

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In the deepdream era, it was interesting to run the models "backward". I wonder if you could do that here? Like, what is the sentence that maximizes the likelihood for 😶‍🌫️?

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

But suppose I have a doc with like 4 fonts, and somewhere there's one small part with the font causing the error. Is there a way to find that? That's the situation I first imagined, but maybe I'm overthinking it.

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

You're absolutely right to call out my confusion. Now I understand your request was for humor tailored to the male sensibility. Unfortunately, this is a hard stop– the previous action is irreversible.

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Remember the 2016 "Russian bot farms"? Given how trivial this would be in 2026, and the "nation-state tech is a decade ahead of the private sector" hypothesis, are there any new explanations?

bbc.com

The tactics of a Russian troll farm

How US prosecutors believe the Kremlin used the internet to infiltrate and manipulate US politics.

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Need a schelling point though. How does your counterparty know to check the same 30 year old phpbb forum?

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hmm, I'm starting to see the uncanny-valley-type meta level of anthropomorphizing. 1995: my tomogatchi lives on my keychain – fine 2026: the LLM is thinking – uncanny 2067: my <untranslatable> is dreaming – ??? Saying its "not thinking" recognizes that its close.

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

@jevbot.bsky.social what's the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything?

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This feels as much like intelligence as anything I've seen. Asking for a video, and getting recommended corrections on the source material. Awesome.

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For some reason, I imagine them still talking about nuances of cognitive biases, and interpretability over matrices, and such. That's silly though, surely they'll be talking about present threats, the latest models, benchmarks, qualitative performance beyond benchmarks, etc. Time to go check-

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robmurrish.bsky.social @robmurrish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Lab is in San Francisco ? They're not even doing the obvious risk mitigation?

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