Grass Toucher Georg

The ai is a little person in the computer who is my friend and any mistakes she makes are because she's a manic pixie dream girl who read too much book

do you say "please" to your LLM? or do you say "plz"?

ketamine worked for me and i bet it would work for Claude too

i remember in our classes human-level machine translation was treated as basically this impossible-to-achieve Holy Grail of the field and now it just exists

the ideal combination is insane ambition and formal structure, without the second as scaffolding it collapses into slop or endless gastown-style epicycles

friends & family tech support is even more annoying nowadays because i am literally just acting as a go-between that human-washes ChatGPT output for a luddite who won't touch AI

lately ketamine sessions have felt "easier" in a weird way. like my mind was resisting before but has been resisting less and less recently. the feeling brings to mind how it feels to have done a really thorough detangling of my (very long) hair, it always feels smoother than i thought possible.

I do not think that we should have democratic control over every aspect of our lives. The point of human rights and limited government is a stronger guarantee than simply "Currently a majority of the populace thinks I should have them". This should not be a hot take.

A lot of people seem confused because AI both lowers the floor AND raises the ceiling. They se slop and assume thats all that's possible. But special is possible but takes effort! Don't listen to people who cannot imagine using a powerful tool to do anything but put minimal effort in.

(Sorting through piles that I didn’t deal with for literal decades) aha. Well wasn’t I annoyingly prescient.

i guess this is me coming out as clearly as i have to date as an institutionalist and no longer an anti-organizationalist. it turns out all the shit i thought was bad about organizations is actually the default case for human cooperation, and properly designed organizations actually minimize it.

a counterargument to the "no ai authorship attribution on commits" position. leaning in this direction myself after having been in the "no attribution to ai" camp for a while.

onions are the worst thing to be incapable of eating. people want to put them in fucking everything. you don't have to worry about green beans randomly ending up in literally any savory dish, but onions sure do! "this vegetable is nasty, lets put it in everything" why tho!!!

as much as I like bluesky, sprinkling atproto on things doesn't solve the actual problem with Hacker News

this got necro-liked by @norvid-studies.bsky.social and wow, it's wild how different everything feels. despite plenty of life challenges (various ongoing health problems, household might be dissolving) i just keep on trucking these days. i forgot that so recently my mental health was this bad.

lighting! it's so cool you can just buy cheap RGBW lightbulbs at ikea, install them in normal fixtures, and control them remotely individually from say, home assistant

autistic people can in fact learn social skills, including eye contact, small talk, and polite hedging/subtext doing activities like speech and theater is how I learned this. it's harder if you start when you're older but it absolutely is possible and it is not a thing autistic people "can't do."

Magic stops working if you stop believing in it. Technology works regardless.

AI bucks some trends in technology by being *less* popular with 20-somethings, and I wonder how much of this is subtly about differences in perspectives about time. At 20, I felt like I had unlimited time. At 38, I feel like I certainly have a lot left but can't waste it.

"every person can have a well-constructed pair of shoes" is upstream of "it is no longer economically viable for every town to have a cobbler" and we are better for it

the amish are happy to let everyone else get on with our lives while they focus inwardly, but that's a consequence of their specific theology, not just something outsiders can impose. anti-AI crusaders have essentially the opposite theology which insists that everything is their business.

And the more you want to make the code the best possible expression of your thinking, the more effort it takes! Readable, moduler, maintainable, well-tested, easy-to-understand code that clearly lays out your thinking requires clearer thinking and MORE TYPING than a mess of spaghetti.

i wanna hammer on this too: most of everything you touch exists because industrialization made it cheap; your couch is factory-slop, as any carpenter will gladly tell you. your phone as well if you call me stupid, you'll use industrial slop to do so, even aside from 'bsky uses llms'

high roi investments in self can be expensive, yes

idk there's just a breathtaking, bewildering incuriosity - or active fear of accidentally learning things that are true - coming from people who are absolutely certain that the Inference Fountain is going to be shut off Real Soon Now next month! next month! stick around! picnic before the Rapture

yeah its bad out there