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Linus's law is the assertion that "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow".

On National Geographic channel, I have seen cannibalism in lions and spotted hyneas.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42041926-the-scout-minds... When it comes to what we believe, humans see what they want to see. In other words, we have what Julia Galef calls a…

Distributed verification. 8 billions of us can divide up the topics and subjects and pool together our opinions and best conclusions.

I think what LLMs do with words is similar to what artists do with software like cinema4d. We have control points (prompts + context) and we ask LLMs to draw a 3D surface which pas…

Sculpt coding?? Sculding?? Rice by any other name??

ZeroHedge can stay irrational far longer than you can stay sane.

Blade Runner 2049 | "Cells Interlinked" and Pale Fire https://youtu.be/OtLvtMqWNz8 The best video essay on the movie

You are what you know. You know what you are told.

dont spread yourself too thin;or else river will dry; pick your battles.

Never perfect a game something to its theoretical limits, It stops being exciting. https://youtu.be/0Yubn6P5DUw

I can sense two classes of coders emerging. Billionaire coder: a person who has "written" billion lines. Ordinary coders : people with only couple of thousands to their git blame.

https://x.com/JDHamkins/status/2014085911110131987 I am seeing the doomed future of AI math: just received another set theory paper by a set theory amateur with an AI workflow and …

>> In Guess Culture, you avoid putting a request into words unless you're pretty sure the answer will be yes. Guess Culture depends on a tight net of shared expectations. A key ski…

prompt: Collapse of Circle to 3 points is like Quantum mechanics of mathematics.

ghosts react : imagine a youtube channel but opinions expressed are from the POV of a ghost. put the above prompt and enjoy some imaginative writing.

vagueprose = vagueposting

Remember how Denmark supported the illegal creation of Kosovo without a UN resolution, on the basis of self-concocted EU rules? Today they’re being subjected to something similar. …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z07v-ttoJZs When Carlin asks about the last white people America bombed, he answers his own question: the Germans, and specifically notes they're "t…

Whitelands or Anglosphere will always be cooperating and coordinating because blood is thicker than water. So all these developments of Canada moving closer to China are superficia…

"The US government hates China and also hates Muslims but suddenly cares about Muslims in China" - forgot who quoted this. Compare US stance on Gaza. If media can ban discussions o…

But by claiming one thing and doing the exact opposite (on a statistical quantitative basis), Wikipedia and all other western outlets have become just a front for propaganda which …

I think this indicates the features from vision and audio got aligned properly and hence we know what is what intuitively.

Have you seen lately, that in order to win AI race, nobody [big tech especially] cares about climate anymore?

This spam LLM account "MarkusAllen" (towards the very end) could be used by an adversory to discredit books / courses /"youtube channel" they link to. This is reverse psychology at…