Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 28mIt's important to not always think about the most efficient way of doing things. Both in that the idea of "most efficient" contains an implict assertion about what you're optimizing for and in that it's a good way to suck all the joy out of life and make yourself crazy. 170
Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 5hIf you told me 5 years ago that SNL did an impression of a rationalist AI researcher explaining how the AI they're building would probably kill us all I'd look at you like you were high.youtu.beWeekend Update: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on AI’s Threat to Humanity - SNLYouTube video by Saturday Night Live 150
Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 6hWAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT if you get escalated privileges on the meta muse VM (which is intended behavior) you can just... hit a socket and get the raw inference API? I only read half the original thread and figured I'd seen it all. That's horrifying.static.klipy.comJK Simmons Laughs: You Serious?Alt: J. Jonah Jameson from Spiderman laughing and saying "you serious"? 020
Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 7honce again tumblr is humiliating us alltumblr.comReblog by @evilwizard💬 12 🔁 20045 ❤️ 23368 · STOP 010
Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 16hand now it's time to play "let's hope that I don't wake up to this program crashing because it filled up the SSD" 120
Reposted by ThothThoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 17hImagine the entire world became totally obsessed with the class in your major you took in college that you were least invested in taking. This is my life now. 1112
Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 18hY'know when you think about it the set of #tags on something are kind of like a sparse one-dimensional vector embedding of obscenely high dimensionality that we construct manually. 100
Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 21hThis improbable prediction is actuallu just wishcasting. (I've been experimenting with making Quake run over iroh natively. Maybe I will eventually finish that project? But a MASQUE-based system is the only thing practical for broad game support) 000
Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 23hI do think giving Facebook access to every aspect of your life is an extra bad idea but I'm not jazzed about doing it for OpenAI either. 172
Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 29/09/2026 I'm a lot more worried about opportunistic criminals running ablated qwen3.8-27b finetuned for hacking on purpose on equipment they previously used for bitcoin mining because semi-automated ransomware attacks have a higher payout than I am about autonomous swarms popping up on accident. 031
Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 29/09/2026back on vyvanse: wow okay the difference is noticeable. Still can't focus but I'm not totally depressed. 1110
Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 28/09/2026Hyperfixating on something you might maybe get paid for but you don't know how to reduce scope in a way that makes sense for the people giving you money yet and are trying to figure it out is streeeeeesssful. 010
Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 28/09/2026...Wait can stimulants help with depression in people with ADHD? (My stimulants aren't doing enough to help with focus, so the doctor wanted me to try not taking them to make sure they're having an effect. I don't really feel less focused but I DO feel more depressed!) 340
Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 28/09/2026You've heard of "Is It Cake?" now get ready for every computer scientist's least favorite game show, "Is it 3SAT?" 030
Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 28/09/2026Why are people so weird about Choosin' Texas all of a sudden? I only know this song exists because Todd in the Shadows put it on his year end list. It sounds, like. Fine? And very inoffensive? I get there's Discourse now, I just don't understand how this happened. 200
Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 25/09/2026When I think business success stories I think Netscape. The company that was never profitable, never had a plausible plan to become so, and suckered^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H convinced AOL to buy them, continued to not make money, and died. 270
Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 25/09/2026it'd be cool if the AI labs actually faced some consequences for their FelonyBench scores and also if them trying to get out of those consequences resulted in the CFAA getting amended to be slightly less draconian. I don't think either of these things will actually happen. 150
Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 24/09/2026@rahaeli.bsky.social were you the one who was talking about issues with generic Vyvanse from certain manufacturers not working right? (I'm currently taking it and it is not as effective as I'd like it to be so I'm trying to figure out if the problem is with me or with the drugs) 140
Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 24/09/2026Steve Jobs calling Larry Ellison his best friend in his (admittedly incredible) WWDC 97 Q&A session is such a red flag. 100
Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 23/09/2026Okay I read the paper and I'm pretty sure it's describing the prototype for what became `ve`, ECMS (the precursor to Sablime)'s versioning-aware editor.ix.cs.uoregon.eduThe Story of the Version Editor 010
Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 23/09/2026So uh.youtu.beTwitter Space 3/21/2022 -- Trolltron, Assemble!YouTube video by Oxide Computer Company 100
Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 23/09/2026When I was visiting the University of Pittsburgh while deciding where I wanted to go for undergrad the CS department was throwing away a ton of old books, including a ton of AT&T stuff, some Bell System Technical Journals... so I took a few. 160
Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 22/09/2026Genuinely think the best answer for this is 1) allow for struct literals without the typename in function calls for which that isn't ambiguous, and 2) introduce sugar for Default::default.tangled.orgexample.rs · by thoth.ptnote.dev 4100
Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 22/09/2026There is nothing OpenAI will not do for money and power. But we knew that already. 1343
Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 21/09/2026Hilarious to get blocked for saying that AI inference providers are a juicy target for hackers. Like, people definitely do send AI messages that it would be bad if a random third party read, and overprivilege agents. That's just a fact. 2230
Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 20/09/2026"Try the new AI agent from Meta." Ah cool now I can let the only company I trust less with my data than OpenAI read my emails. No way I'd regret that. 221317
Reposted by ThothThoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 19/09/2026*nods sagely.* The only thing that can stop a bad AI with bioweapons is a good AI with bioweapons. 031
Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 19/09/2026Okay if your whole thing is fears about AI bioweapons WHY ARE YOU DOING AI BIORESEARCH? Pick a position, assholes. 261
Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 19/09/2026I mean my personal take with AI is that we should do a lending right style system funded (at least in part—this won't do it on its own) by a wealth tax on the ultra-rich. 150
Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 18/09/2026I really have been seriously evaluating grad school, so haven't been actively looking to apply to jobs, but sometimes you see a thing and you go "actually I could write THE GREATEST COVER LETTER OF ALL FUCKING TIME for this." 090
Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 18/09/2026I've been using em-dashes more recently. I think because I keep seeing slop articlss USING IT WRONG and it makes me feel like I need to demonstrate how to do it correctly. 070
Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 18/09/2026on bluesky. straight up "kirking it". and by "it", haha, well. let's justr say. [USER WAS SUSPENDED FOR THIS POST] 081
Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 17/09/2026Probably very disappointed. Things have not been going well. Trying to find some momentum and keep moving forward again. 020
Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 17/09/2026I don't think people realize the degree to which the mainline EA movement was always about funding AI work. 140