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Patrick Skeels

@bas_logic

philosopher | linguist | winsome rogue | fgc wannabe | i teach philosophy at the university of kentucky | alt: @bas_logic_fgc

参加日 Eylül 2023
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Patrick Skeels
Patrick Skeels@bas_logic·
There's been a lot of talk about "getting one-shotted" over the past few years, but this concern fundamentally misunderstands the nature of the threat in the current environment. Your mind has an obscene number of attack surfaces and the information ecosystem you inhabit has been designed to take advantage of each an all of these. Anyone who knows anything about propaganda or advertising knows that these battles aren't won with individual pieces of information, but rather with a large volume over time. People often mistake the straw that broke the camel's back as some sort of magic information bullet that nets a cougar magnum style kill when placed correctly. People then strive to seek revelation and avoid info hazards as if certain pieces of information hold special power, intrinsically. This is like worrying about which drop of water will break the damn. The worry is ill-posed, and worries like it are, at least in part, why people seek wisdom in pithy quotes and doses of ayahuasca. I suppose then that it's no surprise that "getting one-shotted" became such a successful meme. It shifts attention directly away form the actual memetic threat which is more of a death from a thousand Shannon cuts than a single deadly shot.
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Ibrahim Dagher
Ibrahim Dagher@IbrahimDagher20·
Extending the legislative vision.
Brendan Hogan@brendanh0gan

introducing: Loophole - an agentic system that translates your natural language moral beliefs into codified laws, and then runs adversarial agents that try to come up with legal scenarios that break your laws - either a scenario that is immoral and legal, or vice versa - a judge agent fixes the law if it can do so consistently, but if there is an inconsistency you as the user must decide what is best. you can work with the system until your legal framework can't be broken by the agents - and you get as output a legal system that is aligned with your moral code more details and code below

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47fucb4r8curb4fc8f8r4bfic8r@47fucb4r8c69323·
@pmarca Fuck you you fucking retarded piece of shit. do you know how I came up with the Silly Business Theory? by introspection. You're a piece of shit.
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Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸
Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸@pmarca·
Silly Business Theory is right: in the future the best work, greatest progress, most valuable innovations won't come from laboring under the false consciousness that work must be hard and serious to produce value. The best work is going to come from people playing and having fun.
47fucb4r8curb4fc8f8r4bfic8r@47fucb4r8c69323

The more I look at this the more impressed I am and the more I realize how grateful we should be to Tao. 1. He acknowledges ignorance: this is something academics almost never do since their cultural capital is tied up in them knowing things. But he can since, well, he's Terence Tao. 2. He is explicitly acknowledging his use of GenAI to fight the stigma of using AI. If the child prodigy turned UCLA prof who studied with Erdos uses AI, it is legitimate technology. (please start using this sentence with AI skeptics btw) 3. He is also showing how AI is best used: as a kind of syntactic tool that finds connections in possibility space and has access to a larger library of information than our brains can. There's more here but the cool internet thing is a list of three. I often lament Tao has too playful of a mode of operating, feeling like he plays with linear algebra when he should be doing foundations of mathematics. But not only does this moment prove my view wrong, it also proves just how much Silly Business Theory #SBT is right: in the future the best work, the greatest progress, and the most valuable innovations won't come from people laboring under the false consciousness of Protestantism and Marxism that asserts work must be hard and serious to produce value. The best work is going to come from people playing and having fun. We're on the cusp of a near utopian explosion in human potential and quality of life. And you're bearish?!?!?!?!??????!?

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Ashley Ha
Ashley Ha@ashleybchae·
there are two types of founders:
Karun Kaushik@karunkaushik_

There’s been a lot of allegations against Delve. But we haven’t been able to share our side of the story until today due to ongoing cybersecurity and forensics investigations. Maintaining customer trust is central to everything we do. That said, we grew too fast and fell short of our own standard. To our customers, we deeply apologize for the inconveniences caused. We take these allegations seriously and have made changes: a new auditor network, free re-audits and pentests for all customers, enhanced transparency in audit communications, and more. However, we also want to set the record straight on the anonymous attacks. The evidence we have points to a targeted cyberattack from a malicious actor, not a “whistleblower.” We believe the attacker purchased Delve under false pretenses, exfiltrated internal company data, and used it to launch a coordinated smear campaign. The posts rely on a mix of fabricated claims, cherry-picked screenshots, and stolen data taken out of context. See the link in the comments for more details. Delve was built to modernize compliance. We are not going anywhere and are committed to building what's next.

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Patrick Skeels
Patrick Skeels@bas_logic·
My wife’s aunt was a storyteller so we have several cassette tapes of stories from my wife’s childhood. My daughter listens to them on a cassette player. I was getting a little tired of frozen and K-pop demon hunters so I got her a new tape. Now she runs around the house going ah-ah-aaaaaahh-ahh.
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Alex Thompson
Alex Thompson@AlexThomp·
There are corrections and there are CORRECTIONS.
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Bentham's Bulldog
Bentham's Bulldog@Benthamsbulldog·
Anyone have a cool philosophy puzzle that I could spend some time thinking about?
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Patrick Skeels
Patrick Skeels@bas_logic·
I can't speak for the creator, but minimally Refine's stated purpose is different. AI tools may be useful for catching bugs, but it doesn't mean that it would be good for the independent production of new research. Refine is deliberately marketed differently, and I think for good reason. When I put one of my papers through it, it caught a typo in one of my proofs. Useful, but I did not produce any novel research itself, but that's okay since that's not the purpose of the tool.
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andrea m0r0
andrea m0r0@andreamoro·
@ben_golub @bas_logic @littmath @Tomodovodoo @RefineDotInk What makes refine different? That it only needs to verify each step in its narrow context? Would it have worked if they had sent their proof to refine for verification? Trying to understand if this is a battle against different sets of agents or if there's sthg more fundamental
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Ben Golub
Ben Golub@ben_golub·
If you're interested in math and AI, you may have come across this extraordinary slop explosion @littmath and @Tomodovodoo have identified serious errors @RefineDotInk just found a middle school error in Prop 12.43 - subtracting inequalities doesn't work like that!
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Przemek Chojecki | PC@prz_chojecki

My multi-agent harness powered by GPT-5.4 settled a FrontierMath Open Problem. The result of 2 weeks of 5-10 agents working 24/7: there are no char 3 rank 1 del Pezzo surfaces with more than 7 singularities. This settles the problem to the negative. Details below.

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Patrick Skeels
Patrick Skeels@bas_logic·
Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?
Patrick Brooks@pnbphilosophy

@bas_logic I applaud Red Lobster for trying once again to grasp the infinite even despite what it cost them the last time.

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Patrick Skeels
Patrick Skeels@bas_logic·
@gcmn3 I’ve played a decent amount of RB2, but not RB1. Would you recommend 1 over 2?
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gc_mini@gcmn3·
やっぱり良いなあリアルバウト餓狼伝説は コンボの爽快感と打撃の重さが堪らない そしてテリーが最高にカッコいい いつ遊んでも面白い不朽の名作だ またやろう
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Patrick Skeels
Patrick Skeels@bas_logic·
@Criminalsimpson That was very good… for a first try… I have a ball. Perhaps you’d like to bounce it.
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Patrick Skeels
Patrick Skeels@bas_logic·
@Vedankt @MegaBasedChad I believe the gum is actually less bad on your gums. I don’t know exactly what’s in the pouches but when they dry out there is this cement like residue that ain’t good.
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L3 Tweet Engineer
L3 Tweet Engineer@MegaBasedChad·
I started vaping again and I'm so productive, able to work 10+ hours again Last time I quit I was thinking bout smoking for like 3 months. how to not get addicted?
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