sleepmonkey @sleepmonkey.bsky.social · 28/07/2026The McConnell situation is actually a very serious and sad problem whereby they wash up on shore on their backs and can't recover. It's the reason that Charles Darwin lost his faith in God. 110
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sleepmonkey @sleepmonkey.bsky.social · 21/06/2026He doesn't seem well read to me. Everyone knows it is DOGtanian. 010
sleepmonkey @sleepmonkey.bsky.social · 07/06/2026That's the most weird ass looking Highland Cow I've ever seen. 000
sleepmonkey @sleepmonkey.bsky.social · 07/05/2026The craziest thing is...self-driving trains already exist. 000
sleepmonkey @sleepmonkey.bsky.social · 03/05/2026I believe that he's weak to ice attacks. But beware he will cast magic barrier when his health reaches fifty percent. 020
sleepmonkey @sleepmonkey.bsky.social · 02/05/2026The only interactions people like Dawkins have with others are reflecting his own solipsism back at him. It is not surprising therefore that LLMs serve to find the optimal solution to that equation. 000
sleepmonkey @sleepmonkey.bsky.social · 01/05/2026I do think there is a kind of survivorship bias here as well, by which people don't account for the inconveniences they already have, that are looked past as normal. 010
sleepmonkey @sleepmonkey.bsky.social · 30/04/2026It's weird that he's weirded out. It's much too dangerous to jump through fire with your clothes on. 110
sleepmonkey @sleepmonkey.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Can you plug in headphones to the ps5? I don't stream so I don't know if that cuts the audio to the AV out, but it should stop the ps5 from trying to produce controller audio. 000
sleepmonkey @sleepmonkey.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Plato wasn't being a dickhead when he said that anyone who would be actually good at leading has to be forced to do it against their will. 000
sleepmonkey @sleepmonkey.bsky.social · 23/04/2026To be fair, I think a lot of these problems are exacerbated by the way people across the board, pro and anti, insist upon using the phrase AI as if it actually means something. 150
sleepmonkey @sleepmonkey.bsky.social · 14/04/2026In the sense of whatever the opposite of avant le lettre is. 000
sleepmonkey @sleepmonkey.bsky.social · 13/04/2026The problem with BotW isn't degradation so much as the enemies are tanky and the combat is boring. Fighting enemies feels like a chore so you're already pissed off before your weapon breaks and it feels like an F U from the game. 000
sleepmonkey @sleepmonkey.bsky.social · 12/04/2026There's nothing crazy about that. The existence of presidential pardons is, by definition, an admission that the US justice system is fundamentally corrupt. 000
sleepmonkey @sleepmonkey.bsky.social · 18/03/2026It is easier to believe that there is a malicious cabal making things shit than face the reality that human society has outgrown its collective capacity for intelligence. 030
sleepmonkey @sleepmonkey.bsky.social · 01/03/2026This is where we situate the problem with American politics. The argument is immediately pivoted to "but people weren't made to feel that it's about them". That isn't democracy that's narcissism. Clearly a lot of American voters (left and right) don't understand the difference. 000
sleepmonkey @sleepmonkey.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Why does American drug vernacular sound like it was lifted from West Side Story? 130
sleepmonkey @sleepmonkey.bsky.social · 26/01/2026When ICE said they were targeting "the worst of the worst" they were talking about their recruitment strategy. /s 091
sleepmonkey @sleepmonkey.bsky.social · 16/01/2026I don't see why someone can't be both a middle schooler and a Kierkegaard scholar. It shouldn't be an Either/Or situation. 010
sleepmonkey @sleepmonkey.bsky.social · 13/01/2026The thing is that it is a biased set, because programmers are far more likely than the average Joe to understand LLMs and their limitations, and therefore far more likely to be ready to go at using them productively. I've only just started messing around with Claude and find it a mixed bag. 150
sleepmonkey @sleepmonkey.bsky.social · 11/01/2026I tired to get to the Kingdom Level above human but I suck at parrying, so I couldn't defeat the final boss. 020
sleepmonkey @sleepmonkey.bsky.social · 10/01/2026It's the same as any other addiction. It creates the conditions that allow a person to think something about themselves that isn't true. What that something is and why they need to think it varies from person to person. 010
sleepmonkey @sleepmonkey.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Save yourself a world of hurt and just use Rust. 000
sleepmonkey @sleepmonkey.bsky.social · 13/11/2025A morality that does not have contempt doesn't have a distinction between good and bad. The idea that it is moral to valorize a race to the bottom is what created this state of affairs in the first place. All of the content of a moral system exists in who is considered deserving of contempt.bottom.is 010
sleepmonkey @sleepmonkey.bsky.social · 11/11/2025How many times, in any of the bond movies, have they even meaningfully, explicitly acknowledged the events of previous films anyway? 020
sleepmonkey @sleepmonkey.bsky.social · 22/09/2025The statistical nature of LLMs isn't the problem. The problem is the people who think they can order something else (be that LLM or other human) to do their thinking for them. 100
sleepmonkey @sleepmonkey.bsky.social · 22/09/2025And here was me thinking that the best state was mild depression. 010
sleepmonkey @sleepmonkey.bsky.social · 02/09/2025I think some people just don't like being made aware that Alex O'Connor is not the philosopher they think he is. Perfectly acceptable human being I'm sure, but not a philosopher by any objective standard, as far as I can tell. 030
sleepmonkey @sleepmonkey.bsky.social · 19/08/2025There are a lot of things that can be said about AI on a technical level. But on a social level it will never be anything more than projection of people's resentment at skill and intelligence. 010
sleepmonkey @sleepmonkey.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Sounds to me like they are finding a sneaky way to DEI that technically isn't DEI as the trump administration would define it. 000
sleepmonkey @sleepmonkey.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Yes but the supreme court just ruled that not applicable to public bathrooms. And yet people's focus is on the SC and the EHRC when the actual problem is that the Equality Act and the EU directive are not good enough. 300
sleepmonkey @sleepmonkey.bsky.social · 12/06/2025I'm familiar. That doesn't contradict anything I said. Higher courts making nuanced judgements on hard cases do more than read one paragraph from a quangos guidelines. People do not benefit themselves by having undue confidence in their poor understanding of complex legal decision making. 200
sleepmonkey @sleepmonkey.bsky.social · 11/06/2025I don't claim to be an expert on the jurisprudence of article 8 but the phrase "private life" in this context basically means "what you do in your own home." So it's not wrong for the ECHR to say that it would likely be found not relevant to the use of a public bathroom in a court of law. 1310
sleepmonkey @sleepmonkey.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Personally, I'm excited to learn what Warner and Bros Discovery will have to offer. I've been meaning to discover more about Bros. 000
sleepmonkey @sleepmonkey.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Trigger warnings are great and all, but the first thing a person should be asking themself, as a writer, is whether the potentially triggering material has any need or right to be there in the first place. 020
sleepmonkey @sleepmonkey.bsky.social · 01/05/2025The problem is the political ontology of journalists, who insist that every question has to come down to an arbitrary choice of binary "sides" so they can claim impartiality. That's not how reality works, most meaningful questions do not have an uncontroversially left Vs right stratification 000
sleepmonkey @sleepmonkey.bsky.social · 28/04/2025I've never heard the phrase ass detox before. In my day it was called colonic irrigation. 010
sleepmonkey @sleepmonkey.bsky.social · 27/04/2025For the record, I am always very respectful of the soybeans. No idea where they came from though. 000
sleepmonkey @sleepmonkey.bsky.social · 24/04/2025"You too can be an entrepreneur if you put your mind to it!" There's no better reading for our current time than Erich Fromm's analyses of how capitalism oppresses the people who seem most to benefit from it. 000
sleepmonkey @sleepmonkey.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Squeezing would require gravity powers, whereas telekinesis is clearly electromagnetic. 000
sleepmonkey @sleepmonkey.bsky.social · 17/04/2025It is normal to produce new or updated statutory guidance in response to a court judgement of this nature. SG isn't determining the rules, it's explaining to non lawyers what the current understanding of the judicially accepted correct interpretation of the *existing* legislation is. 020
sleepmonkey @sleepmonkey.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Because for a particular type of insecure woman, dog ownership is about power and control. 000
sleepmonkey @sleepmonkey.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Yes cultural change requires a lot of people to do a lot of work, and it doesn't centre you as the most important. Acknowledging that is not the mic drop that you seem to think it is. 100
sleepmonkey @sleepmonkey.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Well I clearly didn't put it all on you, so maybe parse sentences better? But thank you for giving a pocket example: everything is individualized and reduced to sentiment. America (the heterogenous aggregate) is perfectly capable of learning if it wants to. 200
