Richard McDaniel

15 years ago today, I joined a tiny forum of Bitcoin enthusiasts. User ID 369, just a few hundred registrations away from Satoshi Nakamoto himself.

For more reading see #DNMode" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">plato.stanford.edu/entries/scient… and #SH2a" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">iep.utm.edu/lawofnat/#SH2a and philpapers.org/rec/MCDSTH

The brain has real perceptual, affective, bodily, attentional, and self-modeling processes. But because those processes do not represent their own construction, they present themselves as primitive phenomenal givens.

"We have explained metabolism, reproduction, cellular organization, and biological regulation. But where is life itself? We have explained attention, report, memory, pain behavior, discrimination, aversion, and self-modeling. But where is the feeling itself?"

@MR9734127939 @codetaur

@codetaur bro getting bullied by a computer just turn that shit off and use your brain lil bro 😭😭😭

ok fuck you claude

@jxmnop Ah yes, a common task in white collar work...

imagine reading this and still thinking we’re months away from automating all white collar work

@fleshycurse @AmiriKing @melonneet40 "smoking is allowed on sidewalks"

@AmiriKing @melonneet40 okay so i said on the street and the only actual example you provided is NYC which is mostly still only private places. a “club/lounge” is not on the street.

マリファナ拾ったから歌舞伎町交番に届けた 取調べ受けて現場検証もして パケの届出協力して下さいとのことで 新宿警察署に連れてかれます パトカーに乗せられて連れてかれます ｢何でマリファナってわかったの？｣って聞かれて死にそうです

@Oreocide @TemuAlbania I left my LLM running and when I came back to my computer it was building something. I did not ask it to do this.

@TemuAlbania i can't believe it, claude perfectly replicated an app that's hosted on a public github repo onto my computer using something called "git clone" you have no idea what's coming

these retards genuinely think their robot invented wine

@philthatremains You can’t remember to treat your barista differently than a coffee pot without practice?

the reason to be polite to AI is because it keeps you in the habit of being polite.

@mikko x.com/rmcdaniel_/sta…

One million BTC left to be mined.

Over the last 17 years, 19,999,609 million bitcoins have been mined. We will cross the 20 million threshold within 24 hours.

@DarlingtonDev @shadcn Skill issue.

@shadcn Yeah this is dumb af, the cost of opening a PR just went to zero but the cost of reviewing one hasn’t.

Mass-generating PRs with your agents and clawbots isn't helping open source. It's quietly burning out the people who actually maintain it. Please stop.

@filosofiadoalto @miniapeur Just to clarify the logic point: if there are no unicorns, then both “all unicorns fly” and “no unicorns fly” come out true in classical formal logic. That’s because both statements are universal conditionals, and without any unicorns there’s no counterexample either way.

For those who did not immediately grasp the joke, in formal logic, especially in classical logic, a universal statement such as “all unicorns learn to fly” is considered true if no unicorns exist. This is called a vacuously true statement. If there are no unicorns, then there is no counterexample to the claim “all unicorns fly.” Therefore, within the formal system, the condition is regarded as true. If the condition is true, then the conditional structure “If P, then Q” may be treated as having its antecedent satisfied, depending on how the analysis is framed. That is where the logician’s discomfort arises: a sentence that seemed harmless in everyday language can, under formal analysis, be interpreted as logically committing the speaker to the consequence.

@htmx_org Nah, keep business logic separate from transport layer.

daily reminder that HTML should support DELETE (and PATCH & PUT) would help w/things like this by making the semantic HTTP request obvious triptychproject.org

@scoremore405 @realAdaemon @UndeadLightGame @AmericaPapaBear Guys, this is how fights start.

@realAdaemon @UndeadLightGame @AmericaPapaBear A cafeteria? Navigating through tables and people? Yeah very likely you fucking retard.

@newstart_2024 Did a physicist discover antibiotics?

Jimmy Carr echoing Peter Thiel with a line that lands hard: “Minus the screens from any room, we’re still living in the 1970s. Nothing’s happened in physics since 1972. String theory has not got us anywhere.” But the real shift? “Take the compute power of AI and point it at physics… everything else in science is stamp collecting. Physics is the real thing. That gave us every bit of technology we have. What happens when you point AI at that?” He sees two roads ahead: a world of plenty with 50× productivity and human flourishing… or something that goes “another way.” If AI finally cracks physics in the next decade — what single breakthrough do you hope comes first: limitless energy, gravity control, new materials… or something we haven’t even named yet?

@Boban905ish @Ragna_Wok @amuse If your first reaction to new technology is “oh fuck the government is going to get their hands on this” then maybe it’s the government that’s the problem and not the technology.

@Ragna_Wok @amuse Clearly you don’t see the overreach of someone’s personal privacy and are ok with it is the problem. Must be a generational thing.

EXPENSIVE MISTAKE: Ring spent $10M on an Orwellian Super Bowl ad that threatened to destroy its business. To save itself it is terminating its contract with Flock Safety.

@LynAldenContact That is an incredibly reductionist take that treats government size like a direct vote tally when game theory suggests it often emerges from strategic behavior, incentive structures, and coordination problems.

The reason big government exists is because most people are in favor of big government.

@atlanticesque @terschellinger "boosts engagement"

@terschellinger Prevents bad cropping, cleanly distinguishes from the surrounding UI, boosts engagement by getting people like you to ask, and at this point it’s a brand thing

A website full of geniuses

@TheKingOfStank @0x45o Only if you’re using Tailwind.

not a color expert here but how can you not have the capacity to support more than two colors?