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this reminds me of something that comes up in discussions about AI and art: an essential or defining characteristic of art is decision-making; the more decisions there are to be made, the more opportunity there is to create art. the devil is in the details, and art has much more depth when...

realization: one reason i don’t like contemporary AI: i’ve seen people describe agents as “like having a junior dev at your beck and call”. but i don’t want a junior dev! i don’t want anyone else to write any part of my program – i want to write all of it myself!

Very excited to open day two with @affinelytyped.bsky.social!

Von Neumann said, per Fermi’s word, that “four params can fit an elephant,” elephant! How absurd, and there he didn’t quit: “with five I’ll make them wiggle their trunk,” which shows to great effect: with skill, an appendage is easy to rouse and even make erect.

Phrases like “biological male who identifies as a woman” drive me up a wall. If by “biological male” you mean “assigned male at birth”, say that instead of pretending to be objective. Biology is not uniaxial, not discrete, and not immutable, and in most or all aspects a transfemme person may be...

“Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, [icons, races, ...], armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.”