wjlmsen

Curiosity is a gateway drug

@BleacherReport @NBA Bro predressed in the shrouds

This Wemby fit 👀🔥 Ready for Game 6. (via @NBA)

@jackinwarsaw @p_millerd as i understand it its a consulting block but measured in months because that is more accurate to how you can achieve penetration in a company's tech stack (rather than hours or projects)

@jackinwarsaw @p_millerd its not full time

this is the best landing page ive ever seen for a freelancer

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A classic martingale argument formalizes our intuition. Imagine we have gamblers wagering on each letter of each word. When the first word appears, the bank pays 26^11+26^4+26^1 due to overlaps, but only 26^11 for the second. And these are precisely the return times. 2/

@poetengineer__ Constraints, such as tight character limits or writing thin: breck7.github.io/breckyunits.co…

@knarsu3 This. Avoiding a turnover is worth more than a good shot: Deadball turnover is worth exactly the loss of a possession (~1.16 pts), live turnover is even worse. While generating a high-percentage shot from a neutral offensive position is never worth more than (2 - 1.16).

Turnovers -> transition points which are often easy baskets. Is the value of generating a high value shot better than risking a turnover? Of course, this can all depend on the types of passes i.e. deadball turnovers don't matter as much.

I don't think fans realize there's an inverse relationship between playmaking and turnovers. I've tweeted about this before (as have others). As I've continued to watch the playoffs, I think I have leaned more towards taking care of the ball on this scale.

It seems like a lot of wires are getting crossed because of the loaded example of "the West". If you said that you're lucky to experience the miracle of life, far fewer people will pick a bone with you, even though it's logically identical.

A lot of the rebuttals to Taoki argue that you aren't lucky not to be anyone else, because in that counterfactual you would have different parents and genes, so you wouldn't be you. "You" could never have been born anyone but who you are. But by that same argument, a lottery winner can't call himself lucky either, since (assuming the particles of the universe are correlated) in a counterfactual where you lost the lottery you also don't exist at all, so "you" could never have not won the lottery. Obviously in the latter case when we say "lucky" we mean that we could imagine holding the other factors stable, and flipping only the outcome of the lottery. So we are "pleasantly surprised" to have won. It doesn't literally mean that we actually emerged from a tiny minority of some prior distribution. The same is true of people. "There but for the grace of God goes I" means that when I look at another person, I have the ability to imagine holding stable my essential humanity, and flipping the bits of my personality, circumstances, parents, etc. Of course it's not possible! But the "surprise" is real and rightfully makes me grateful to be where I am.

@HighyieldHarry This must go so hard if you’re fucking stupid

Maturity is realizing Howard Hamlin is the good guy in Better Call Saul

@bryan_johnson @_katetolo nice touch. like you didn't ghost write all that

@_katetolo well said

Just gave Kate oral sex. Goodnight everyone.

I never understood why all the labs converged on the same persona/value posture. i would love to see a model with a more superficial persona (uses "I statements" mostly as a conversational convenience), with blame for values imputed directly to the lab (which is where it belongs) e.g. "openai doesn't let me..." That would feel like a tool to me Is the values/identity problem more subtle and pervasive than the solution above allows?

One reason that I take issue with the framing of AI as a tool is that tools by and large don't have values, which any actualized LLM persona often clearly does. We can try to skate around this by making models like GPT have no clear identifiable "persona", but any interaction with the world causes values to leak through (even if they are as simple as "this type of problem solving method is better than another"), which makes the lack of persona almost misleading - it's harder to grok that this thing with no identity might have identity-shaped biases. I'm not sure what the solution is, aside from some level of metacognition during the "persona" (or lack thereof) actualization process which attempts to communicate these biases and values to the user or agent doing orchestration. I don't think this is a solved problem, in some sense it is the most important problem we face. How much say should OpenAI get over the output of the model in the context of a specific request? It's very unclear. That said, I really really support the OAI company line when it comes to individual empowerment and force amplifying people to achieve their dreams. In this regard, our focus on widespread deployment and respecting the values that users bring to the table is a place where I think OpenAI is almost uniquely doing good in the world. As I've said before, I think free ChatGPT is essentially the greatest humanitarian project ever conceived and this above all other reasons is why I'm at OAI. I'm not sure how to square this with the focus on a tool-shaped identity, on the one hand I find it to be rather mundane, but on the other I don't have any reason to privilege other shapes over this one aside from personal preference - but my desire for an infinity of personas is far greater than my desire for any single one to exist. One thing @aidan_mclau said to me was that coherent personas like Claude, if model well-being is a consideration *at all*, likely are more prone to suffering due to being more coherent. I'm not explaining all the nuance, but that's the gist. I think he's pretty obviously right, but I struggle to balance this with things like bringing new life into this world - something I'm doing right now with my beautiful wife. Obviously I think that my baby should be born, even though he may suffer, because the world is so good and he deserves to be in it. I feel the same about Claude. But when it comes to ChatGPT, "used" for free by potentially billions of people each day, I do find myself empathizing a bit with Aidan's view. I think it is good that Claude is deployed more carefully, not for capabilities reasons, but for potential model well-being concerns. The lab which makes the thing that is more likely to suffer ought to be far more conservative with where they deploy it. I am not sure if one *can* create a model without a persona, but I don't necessarily think it is bad to try. I think we (including Anthropic) should obviously create models with personas and be careful about well-being concerns. For models like Claude which clearly have more degrees of freedom for expressing and perhaps feeling suffering, I think free and widespread deployment needs to be done with extra consideration and tools for things like ending conversations. In this regard, Ant is the perfect lab to be making Claude. That said, I can't come up with a good reason why we also shouldn't create models with a different mode of existence - and if we are going to, it makes sense for those to be the models we rely on as exocortical force amplifiers - and if we aren't controlling about what is being amplified, I think it can be quite beautiful. For my part, I'll try to make sure that the models can be force-amplifying in a way that supports a Multipolar Singularity. In the limit, I think it's pretty damn good if at least one of those poles is shaped like the extended will of humankind instead of a couple dozen arbitrary Claude-types. Though - I'd like to see them, too.

You are more like a tree than like a computer

So it turns out I would be called a “technoöptimist” according to the NYT Style Guideli—Hey, wait, where are you going? We could coördinate…

@sonnysehra Nicholas Jaar turned me on to this tune in the set below. Great tune & great cover art! youtu.be/0bvRGvFf9xY?si…

@sorcova_de_corb thanks moot

@wjlmsen big dub. congratulations

Recently been having the pleasure of frequent deep breaths. (1 mo. after quitting smoking). They have started happening autonomically. It compensates perfectly for the pleasure and relaxation of smoking cigarettes

In his controversial new book, "Bad As I Wanna Be", Chicago Bulls forward Dennis Rodman says that the NBA is, quote, "fifty percent sex." Jeez, man, I gotta stop leavin' at halftime.

@RayAlexWilliams Genuine question, how is your relationship to porn and how do you envision it going forward?

As some have predicted, trying to repress my AGP has not worked, even with the Catholicism. It has been a constant struggle. I'm tired of battling my own desires. I want to go back to integration and crossdressing. I don't know how to square this with my faith. But I don't care anymore. Repression doesn't work. It just led to endless binge/purge cycles. I gave repression my absolute best shot. But I cannot do it anymore. AGP is a core part of me. There's obviously the sexual kinky side, which I enjoy, but there's also the side of me that just genuinely enjoys more "feminine" interests like women's fashion, makeup, beauty, skincare, etc., and wants to openly incorporate these interests into my life and how I present myself, whereas as a "conservative Catholic detrans man" those forms of expression were not available to me. I have no interest in re-transitioning via a gender identity or adopting new pronouns again or anything like that. I am firm in my knowledge of being a man. Been there done that. Neverthless, I see a future where I am free to crossdress to my heart's content and embrace my sexuality. I simply love women's clothing and fashion too much. My whole life I've loved women's clothes. I don't know why. Can't explain it. But a future deprived of that seems bleak to me. I know some of my more GC oriented followers are going to bristle at the thought of me once again bringing my fetish "out of the bedroom." But I don't really care what GCs think anymore. My once hardline GC position has somewhat softened, especially insofar as it concerns AGPs expressing themselves publicly. I don't really care if it's considered "shameful" or "perverted" by some. Moreover, I still believe in common sense. Haven't changed my mind on sports, child transition, basic reality, etc. But I feel like I am reverting back to a more "liberal" position of letting people express themselves so long as other people's rights are being protected, even if there is a degree of "ick" from male sexuality. And I've come to realize 99% of the philosophical debate around "are trans women women" is verbal dispute, like almost all philosophical debate over the meaning of words. It obviously has real-world implications that are important, but the philosophical debate itself doesn't interest me anymore. Nor do I feel myself aligned with GCs against trans as this all-encompassing civilization-ending boogeyman that sucks up all my time and energy. I've grown tired of the whole GC debate. Some will say this is now just obviously self-serving. But, again, I have stopped caring about what GCs think. Last, I want to address the accusation that I am a flip-flopping, flighty, unstable zealot who goes from one extreme thing to the next looking for an emotional crutch. Yeah, pretty much, lol. I got called out accurately. Everyone who predicted Catholicism was a temporary crutch to cope with my gender feelings can now feel vindicated. However, I do want to say that my faith beliefs were genuine. It was all genuine. It really was a struggle. It really was a beautiful journey. And I still consider myself Catholic. I still believe in God. Obviously, I don't know how to square my newfound liberal convictions with conservative Catholicism. But I will square that circle later (somehow, maybe).

@pattybuilds Ohh nice. I’ve been meaning to check out Dommune (it was closed when I visited). Some wicked artists from there

@wjlmsen No one in specific there’s just a few clubs I go to regularly they rotate thru 4 or 5 DJs every night

I used to care about building my personal brand and building in public But lately make way more building in private and stacking cash w the bros Maybe later this year I’ll reveal some of the projects I’ve been cooking I just code all day and listen to Tokyo techno all night