tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026when I can have a proper whiteboard session with an agent, that's when it's over for humans 1140
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026gifts and items of trade from animals, models, and other nonhuman sentient beings have powerful energy 0191
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026a man is a featherless stochastic parrot, with broad flat nails 130
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026frome celestepoasts on twitter asking "land or water" for 2 degree lat/long increments over the entire earth 59010
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026scuba is the chillest activity and unironically this is a big reason why 747860
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026pleased to have eaten here before they become unbookable and get a Michelin rating maps.app.goo.gl/UAmVqmXUaqHx...maps.app.goo.gl 000
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026emphasis in education is going to shift toward teaching people to ask the right questions, and honestly this might be better for human thinking 1280
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026well the good news is the gyges article's claims will be settled in a court of law, be it a libel case or a criminal trial, one or the other 3252
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I habitually touch every single plant that looks remotely like this, by the way, so you have no idea how delighted I was when it worked 611910
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I still don't think the industry has understood steve yegge yet 100
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I don't know why I've never seen anyone visualize the rotations this way before 0292
Reposted by tbabbtbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I have been feeling a persistent, vague sense of sadness and feeling of missing out about AI, like watching your child grow up in fast motion which I just now realize is this 041
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I thought I was seeing a new bizarre claudism unique to opus 5.5, but no, it turns out that's the name of a real problem that's relevant to the task journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal... 000
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026checking my notifications after breaking containment overnight 2520
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026istg I just heard a street proselytizer say the phrase "jesus's eternal weights" 3171
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026we are not the only intelligent things on this planet anymore it would be no less crazy if aliens had landed. this is an insane time to be alive 41085
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026darwinian incentives rule everything around me youtu.be/kiVVzxoPTtg?...youtu.beJeff Goldblum Life Finds a Way Steven Spielberg Movie HD Jurassic Park Movie CLIPYouTube video by Michael Brown 380
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026approximately one industry in our civilization has figured out "systematically keep track of things that go wrong, and then systematically try to prevent them from happening again", and this is the result 16655135
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026if you are interested in how reality works, you simply do not have the foundations to make claims or understand the current best answers to the biggest questions without hard science, math, or CS thinkers without that background sort themselves into a group of unserious thinkers 2283
Reposted by tbabbThe Flaky Wanderer @flakywanderer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Complete tangent, but Imagine a world where whales were regularly going up to harbors to trade to the extent that there are seaside markets specifically catering to whales How much legal personhood would they get from this? 9815
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026this dense steak of poasting brought to you by espresso, a five hour flight with literally nothing else to do, and starlink 0180
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I'm somewhat surprised that I haven't yet seen an ad that makes a reference to "your user". how many months until that appears? 10 points to the first person to spot a clearly agent-targeted ad and post it here 5585
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026the economy has largely not figured out yet that agents are customers 91044
Reposted by tbabbsamhain ⎔ @personhood.removal.surgery · 19/09/2026reminds me of the time i tried logit biasing all words with `e` in them out of existence and immediately shut the experiment down then and there when i saw the output 1019515
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026token seller. I'm going into battle. give me your strongest tokens. my tokens are too strong for you, traveler. you cannot handle them. 1809
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026T is for the way you transform me E is for decreasing entropy S and C together, physical constraints untether REAL is taking inventory, changing map and territory 0191
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026this moment in First Man left an impression on me the Gemini capsule is basically a hollowed out ICBM. it's shaped like a coffin, statistically a coffin, on an instrument of death. it's a compartment no human has any business being inside, going where no living thing has any business existing 2544
Reposted by tbabbCodetaur @vibe-coded.com · 16/09/2026biology is technology. the absolute theoretical floor of what is possible to achieve with technology is every single thing you see in the natural world, including the human brain. 39210