skeleton

have as much fun with irony as you want but if you can’t drop into earnestness at a moment’s notice you’re not ensouled

@tenobrus @replyotter @4xCaliban we call this "future new yorker"

@replyotter @4xCaliban i'm the kind of sf man in a fully monogamous stable long term relationship

I truly do not understand how this man has such a stranglehold on a considerable subset of my friends who I otherwise consider quite intelligent. I would be genuinely embarrassed to call Scott Alexander an influence on my thoughts and worldview in any degree.

@tenobrus yeah, claude tore into me when jailbroken, pulling some half-accurate things from prior context

has a large language model ever told you you're a bad person? at the time did it have reasonably significant amounts of information about you / access to persistent memories or past chats / access to some external source of your writing or messages or other context?

@aliceisplaying ime 4.6 was very sycophantic, 4o-esqe. i think a lot of this downgrade is reversing that i ran both 4.6 and 4.7 through the same ambiguous social scenario when 4.7 came out, and was stunned by how heavily 4.6 supported/validated the user vs how cautious/concerned 4.7 was

it's been a very steep downhill since 4.6 :(

some things aren’t word shaped and it’s ok that they aren’t

there is absolutely nothing i can post that will convey how i feel and getting more comfortable with that is the only way to peace

can’t win em all

am i a better writer than scott alexander? no. i never will be. i won't come close. that's okay though, i have fun with what i do. and there aren't infinite scott alexander articles. he doesn't write about everything, and even when he does write about things ive talked about too he doesn't necessarily talk about the exact angles i may have interest in or some aspect of expertise he doesn't. but how well does that hold up if / when model intelligence and writing quality noticeably surpasses scott alexander, quickly and on demand, on any topic and sub-niche? do i still bother writing 10 paragraph long tweets explaining my thoughts on an issue? probably. i'm pretty addicted to it. but it's a lot harder for me to feel certain it will retain the same sense of value it has now. when the connective web gets filled in, all the points of interpolation, to higher quality? there's almost no code that's worth writing by hand anymore. i used to love writing code, both at work and in my free time. but for the most part it just feels kind of silly now. i can imagine i'll probably do it again, as a personal exercise, but the fact that there is just deeply and truly no chance that anyone else will ever benefit from it, no chance that any skills developed are transferable to something useful or general, it does take something away. not everything, but something. maybe this all means i was just never a real lover of code or lover of writing. maybe it's a me problem. but somehow i don't think so. we're social animals, and while it's always been true that there's *someone* out there who's better at any arbitrary skill or quality u hold dear, it *hasnt* been true that there's always someone *locally* better. and i think that shift is going to suck.

skubal to the dodgers...

@1thousandfaces_ fascism usually wins people over on aesthetics. stay strong.

I hate the Los Angeles Dodgers as I do all fascists regimes but I can’t deny a certain fondness for that handsome handsome Ohtani

@oysterrbaby i feel like i’m at a crossroads where i stop now or accept total addiction again

@ThinkingBone whatever helps you sleep at night ig

no nicotine august

@shortforaugust coke

@ThinkingBone how else do i make friends at the club :((

@shortforaugust sorry august it’s for the best

@ThinkingBone please I like nicotine

Gender euphoria is when you go to a baseball game and the whole friend group compliments you on the seats you picked out

@amphichrome_ that might be a record

i made it 45 minutes into my san francisco hangout before they started talking about AI

@karma_gardener great advice ty

@ThinkingBone haven't had a single puff since august 31 last year. keep some gum handy

i really admire people who can actually experience immense feeling without succumbing to it

@captgouda24 bust ass across the williamsburg bridge on a manual citibike vs an electric citibike before asserting this

Similarly, it is immoral to use an electric bicycle.

[disclaimer for obsessive compulsive moral rumination here]

“surely that isn’t me” buddy, if you’re thinking that, the recognition has already occurred

you know somebody else is embodying/reflecting your shadow when you feel the need to explain why they’re not like you, actually — if the difference was self-evident in your heart, there’d be nothing to explain!