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@CEOLandshark Dudes will climb mountains just so not to feel the thing.

Reader: Hehe.. It's really THAT simple..heh Reader when faced with THAT emotion: I'll do literally ANYTHING else but feel it. I'm willing to go at ANY length but to feel THAT

LoveFrom literally sounds like the name of a Chinese sex toy company or something.

@mahlenr Globo Homo wants you to think all signs point to the Singularity, but Chesterton's fence cautions against this. Barriers and frictions serve a purpose as well.

One time I asked a friend who was working on an AI search platform why he found search so interesting that he wanted to focus specifically on it. He said it’s not that he found it especially interesting, but that everywhere he looked the problems eventually reduced to search problems. He had a belief that everything in Life, at every layer of complexity, was ultimately a search problem. If there is something you want to achieve, there exists a series of actions that will get you there. Search is the process of finding it. Google became arguably the most important company in the world by being the first to make search work really well at the layer of human knowledge. There are so many layers of reality still waiting for their search solution.

@FeralPHunter It's worth it, you just gotta make it past the initial hurdle of the Footnotes and the establishment of the different settings. You have to read it physically, bring 2 bookmarks.

should i read Infinite Jest

If you understand that music is a ritual, then the natural next step is asking what exactly your intention may be, subjecting yourself to any particular piece of music.

@MastarMedia Any 'fandom' in the modern age has the potential to turn toxic and become a threat to the artist. Do what you gotta do brother.

In my career, I've spent over $100,000 commissioning artists and animators. I held a fundraiser for animators in Japan. I've given graphic tablets to artists in need. I promote young animators that I think are talented without asking for anything in return. I created an original series (Demon Rush), with 15 manga chapters and 2 animated promo episodes- all original art and animation. Spent 4 years on it, but was not recognized for doing it the true hard way. In my latest video, I hired 3 animators and paid them well for their cuts. People on X are upset that I used AI to speed up the process in the fan animation, even though in the 4 update videos leading up to it, I was completely open about how I was using it. The same people who complained about Saitama vs Cosmic Garou having too many impact frames for their liking. I don't care about these people. They complain about literally everything. I make these for fun, not to impress anyone. Even if I spent 10 years making the best episode possible, 100% hand done, these guys would still complain. I did that before with Demon Rush. In any case, this was my last animated video. I am retiring from anime and moving onto other things, so you won't have to worry about me.

@signulll The Olympics already is the Enhanced Games.

the most interesting outcome of these games is if the enhanced athletes don’t perform at even olympic level. everything else seems pretty priced in. this would effectively mean elite performance is mostly genetic ceiling + decade of matching brain to muscles + recovery infrastructure, & the chemistry itself is a 3-5% if at all. peds might give you more raw material (muscle, recovery, red blood cells, etc) but maybe the software matters way more.

@JamrockHobo I'm going through it objectively as possible, and it's a decent attempt to recreate the magic of the original's style, but the writing just falls short without a strong vision or coherence in its writing.

Currently playing through Zero Parades. I still have mixed feelings about it and will articulate them in a review when I'm finished. My favourite moments however are the ones (there are many) when NPCs greet you, the top-secret spy, with "Operant" in public. Because why not

@balajis Publishers pivot to becoming Monasteries as Proof of Humanity

Future books will be written monk-mode, by hand, completely offline, in digital monasteries purpose-built for focus.

Ms Takaichi, tear down that wall!

@Tigger0000 @philipwalford @jmrphy No its not, but the medium of language is.

@waysofbeing1 @philipwalford @jmrphy neurotransmitter receptor fizzies aren't abstract

The overwhelming majority of all human words written or spoken have no truth value or meaning. LLMs are apocalyptic for high-cultural pretensions because they prove that language is the theatre of an infinitely narcissistic mirage (even if it is also, rarely, something else).

@philipwalford @jmrphy A labyrinth of abstractions and figurative thinking is a derivative of a derivative.

@jmrphy In what sense would an infinitely narcissistic mirage be bereft of meaning?

@jmrphy It's sad that so many supposedly intelligent people are not able to recognise this failure mode.

@Narukahana The vibe of a Live House is something very special indeed .

oh btw if anyone visiting Japan, I recommend a lot going to music space/gigs, the one that exactly like in Bocchi the Rock it's not rare to find hidden gems there and people there are very friendly even to foreigners

@foldandrhizome THE 🐐 HIMSELF

#throwbackto me at Tsai’s House

@cookiecarver you were just looking into his aura and chi bro

met a guy at a bar that looks very like my singaporean cousin. the guy was singaporean too. i haven't seen my cousin in a long time. i asked to take a pic to send to my cousin. my cousin was kinda confused. i asked him for a recent pic. they look nothing alike. guys am i racist??

@teo_kai_xiang Psyops for all those with the eyes to see.

Every day is the end of an era in Singapore. I write about how Singapore's nostalgia media is really disempowerment media here: singapore-samizdat.com/p/every-day-is…

Sama buddhamaxxing

@tszzl they just love figurative abstract language.

on the granta story. it’s clearly written by gpt. you can see all the motifs it loves and overuses like rain, weather, teeth, spine, memory. extreme overuse of figurative language and contrastive negation. it has the level of over-baking of probably GPT-5-thinking or 5.2-thinking the story is … something ? I don’t think it has no value. the model develops an indo-Caribbean world register, man tries to murder his wife and chickens out. there’s some reasonable religious imagery where he combining three mythologies there with the names and whatnot all of that is obviously overshadowed by the GPT prose style, and it’s hard for your eyes to not glaze over. there are various metaphors in there that boggle the mind. stuff like “the girl smiled like sunrise over a sink”. what’s interesting is I went through the story and asked Claude Opus - a different model than the author model - and it seemed to find each and every one of the metaphors I hated brilliant. it finds a just so explanation for each of them when you press it which makes you think, do these models have a shared internal vocabulary or compress various ideas in ways we don’t? the failures are quite interesting in that they reveal some different, and maybe bad, understanding of the human sensorium than a human has. why is pretraining knowledge compressed this way across all models? idk