Arthur B.

@IKEAUK @IKEA As predicted, totally useless

@ArthurB @IKEA Hi there, Sorry to hear this, DM us with your order number, full name and address including postcode. We can then look into this further for you. Thanks, Jemma x.com/messages/compo…

@IKEAUK, @IKEA, my order has looked like this for a week. Hilariously, I still get text messages saying it's about to be delivered, even though it was a few days ago. Clearly, your ordering system is broken. Called customer support three times; the only fix they could offer was to issue a refund and have me buy from one of your competitors. They apparently can't even escalate the fact that the ordering system is broken. I've tried every avenue to contact you, including emailing your executive directly, but it seems to be no one's problem. I understand the need to streamline and automate customer support, but you need to keep some avenues open for escalation. Right now, you have none, so you can't know about your broken system, let alone fix it. I'm giving it a good 80% chance you'll reply to this asking me to contact support, proving my point. (screenshot taken today)

@perrymetzger You cared enough to comment. The video is here youtube.com/watch?v=9Zz2Kr…, and no such claim is made.

@ArthurB He made that claim in a panel at the world economic forum, but I haven’t been able to find a video online. Anyway, I don’t care.

Ahah I won, he was totally off by a few months.

@eigenrobot The ghost of James Randi will torture you for that.

@ArthurB just the opposite the reasons were invented to rationalize its persistence

this is a fun thing to consider but the actual answer is that speaking ill of the dead was tabooed by the deep western religion because the living feared the wrath of dis manes, the shades of the passed the rites of death are the most highly conserved of all cultural elements

@DanielJHannan The law in 1880 was left deliberately ambiguous so that those who do not wish to celebrate the bloodbath of 1789 can interpret the holiday as a celebration of the first Fête de la Fédération on July 14th, 1790 (which did commemorate the storming of the Bastille).

I have come to understand that a conditional and guarded Francophilia is the proper attitude for a Brit. We are the only countries that can properly insult or compliment one another. I baulk at celebrating the bloodbath that began on 14 July 1789; but I wish our neighbours well.

@Patriotshield @michaelmalice Big mouthful of iodine with a hint of ammonia.

@michaelmalice I've never tried a sea squirt do they taste like sea urchins or more like mussels?

The Korean lady at the fish market was laughing her ass off that all I ordered was a pin shell and two types of sea squirts

@perrymetzger The video makes no such claim, if the claim was made in another part of the speech, please highlight that.

@ArthurB The interesting part of his claim was that there would be no programmers left in a year. That part completely failed to be true.

@tszzl @beffjezos It's mostly moronic downstream vibes from Thermodynamic Dissipation Theory for the Origin of Life, Statistical Physics of Self-Replication, and Causal Entropic Forces, which do contain some neat observations, but are repeatedly elevated into an entirely unsubstantiated teleology.

@beffjezos physics doesn’t tell us this at all if there’s one pattern that’s better at replicating than others it may end up consuming vast majorities of energy and be >99% of the lightcone

So turns out OpenAI is open because they keep their best model open access. Anthropic is misanthropic as they treat users as a necessary inconvenience to allow them to birth their AI God.

Interestingly, in litigation, under a retention order it's not clear if the written communications to the local AI would have to be retained as "documents" being created. It's less likely to request that voice chats with the AI be recorded. It's weird but US law around discovery and document retention fundamentally discriminates against the deaf.

True but in practice they will never grant this. The entire financial surveillance apparatus rests on the third party doctrine. Local models, or models running in trusted enclaves will be the way.

@eigenrobot Even if it started as superstition, it survived because it had a deeper reason to persist as a norm.

@ArthurB this is a post hoc rationalization, see notes on next tweet

Places in NY named after places in Classical civilization and literature: - Rome - Troy - Albany - Ithaca - Utica - Syracuse ???

@libertez_baker @tezos @etherlink Current plan is to vertically integrate a solver underneath and plug it to a few aggregators. There's operational complexity around that.

Any news on this? 👀 @tezos @etherlink

The Tezos Art Vending Machine is back in action with its first artist takeover in a long spell featuring @nefetesudaca and there's only 115 pieces left! A journey through this prodigious collectors career, get in there and VEND! vendingnfts.com

@cremieuxrecueil It's very comforting to believe her goal was to piss off Bezos.

People have finally quantified how bad a donor Mackenzie Scott has been since her divorce with Bezos If she had given effectively, to charities known to deliver larger returns, she could've been 50 to 100 or perhaps even 1,500-times more effective! She's an Ineffective Altruist

@libertez_baker Yes but I need it to do a bunch of stuff on large repos, sets of documents. I also need it to call APIs giving it access via a local gateway, etc. See also: github.com/trilitech/Sieve

@ArthurB It seems you can run it now from the Browser in the 'Work' tab, still limited to certain things, but interesting alternative to the CLI.

This is why I run my agents in containers. github.com/murbard/sandca…

@moultano There may be other differences but digital cameras particularly struggle to capture violet.

Today I sat and stared at this peacock eyespot, with this photo next to it, and marveled at how the photo just doesn't "work." It doesn't look like that.