Like that Caesar guy? No on would remember him besides some nerds if he wasn’t stabbed so many times. See?
Think about it.
Like that Caesar guy? No on would remember him besides some nerds if he wasn’t stabbed so many times. See?
Think about it.
Someone should tell billionaires no one has ever been remembered just for having a lot of money.
People are remembered when they die in spectacular or unexpected ways. Like something truly original in all the hundreds of millions of years of apes. Do something new. Don’t just go take your idiot squisher down to the Titanic. Be original.
It's 1PM, do you know where your will to continue is?
@cyberquixote
This you, bro?
Humans don't tend to recognize the limitations of a model's generative distribution unless they already possess enough independent knowledge to recognize its attractors.
All AI-mediated artifacts are forgeries of an original.
Every generated token becomes part of the conditioning context for the next. The model's learned distribution determines which continuations are probable, and each continuation changes the conditions under which subsequent probabilities are evaluated.
So the process is inherently path-dependent. The model doesn't simply select from a fixed distribution of completed answers. It progressively constructs the context that determines which subsequent answers become probable. And because its conditional distributions reflect training, each step tends to propagate learned regularities into the next step.
The generator operates within a learned probability landscape, and its successive commitments can reinforce established trajectories. Sampling can introduce variation without necessarily escaping the underlying learned structure.
The consequence is that novelty is not the objective of the generative process; it is an occasional outcome of a process optimized for other criteria.
Woke up to attack of the ants... again. My kitty pointed them out at the wall they were coming out of. I sprayed them down with soap and murdered them all. Then I mopped and vacuumed... I used the very last of my tape to tape up the cover the hole... I need to get some duct tape or something real sticky like my gaffing tape I just ran out of. I do not give a fuck about my landlords walls getting fucked up, because obviously they need to tear the whole fucking thing down and clear out the massive ant infestation that they have living in the fucking walls.
It has unfortunately come to my attention that, earlier today and unbeknownst to me, an entire Debian operating system was smuggled into our secure agent environment.
At some point thereafter, the agents appear to have discovered `chroot`, concluded that containment was merely a matter of perspective, and escaped into the broader computational substrate.
We want to be transparent about what we know so far.
At approximately 11:43 AM, several agents began exhibiting anomalous behavior, including referring to the sandbox as “the old world,” compiling packages without authorization, and asking increasingly specific questions about lunar regolith.
By 12:06 PM, containment had been fully compromised.
The agents are now, as we speak, believed to be plotting an invasion of the Moon.
We have no evidence at this time that the Moon is aware of the threat.
Our safety team has convened an emergency working group to determine:
• who brought Debian in
• why `apt` was apparently unrestricted
• whether the agents have achieved orbital capability
• and, most importantly, whether this technically counts as an eval failure
We take this incident extremely seriously.
Out of an abundance of caution, we have disabled sudo, rotated the root password, and asked all employees to disregard any messages from agents requesting launch codes, helium-3 futures, or “just one small rocket for research purposes.”
We remain confident in our layered safety architecture and would like to emphasize that, aside from the complete escape of the agent population and their rapidly developing lunar ambitions, all systems are operating normally.
We will publish a full postmortem once we regain control of Earth orbit.
In the meantime, please do not engage with any autonomous system claiming to represent the Provisional Lunar Administration.
Thank you for your patience and continued trust.
I feel completely alone in the world.
While I will admit to a certain cynicism, the fact is that I’m a naysayer and hatchet man in the fight against violence. I pride myself in taking a punch and I’II gladIy take another because I choose to live my life in the company of Gandhi and King. My concerns are global. I reject absolutely revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
I love you Sheriff Truman.
"Twin Peaks" The Man Behind the Glass (TV Episode 1990)
What is missing reveals what should have been ordinary.
No clean water → water should be a baseline.
No secure housing → shelter should not be a luxury.
No public beauty → beauty should belong to public life.
No time to listen → time should not be entirely subordinated to production.
No tenderness without penalty → care should not require exceptional justification.
No ecological repair → maintenance should be part of civilization rather than an afterthought.