Conrad Barski
@lisperati
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Clojure Coder - Medical Doctor - Illustrator - Land Of Lisp Author - Lisp Alien Creator - AI notkilleveryoneist
Mill Valley, CA
Joined April 2009
a benchmark for how many new ai benchmarks are created every week.
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I was always anxious about what my bosses would think about my side projects, back when I had a 9-to-5. being the only Conrad Barski on planet earth.
Going to name my next kid John Smith for opsec.
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We can definitely narrow "the smartest organism" down to one of the species that made it to the moon:.- gut microbes.- skin mites.- dental plaque bacteria.- humans. But it's harder to narrow it down even further to the single smartest.
@lisperati Putting aside the assertion that humans are the smartest animal (a very difficult thing to demonstrably prove), might it not be the case that excelling at endurance running meant that our collective mortality rate improved sufficiently to enable positive neural evolution?.
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I liked the weirdness of this response to my "endurance runner" tweet.
@lisperati i feel like endurance is the wrong lens. it's temporal phenomenology, every organism operates in its own temporal umwelt like bacteria in seconds, trees in seasons, humans in decades. "endurance" is just what happens when ur time-perception window is thicc enough to maintain goal.
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the button combo on my android phone that used to capture a screenshot, now launches gemini. so naturally I asked gemini how I take a screenshot. it told me windows key + print screen.
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For instance, here is a customized, minimalist music DAW I built for myself
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When building personal apps recently, I've really liked the hybrid terminal+browser design:.1. Determine subset of app that is too clunky for a terminal.2. Build a terminal app that also includes a mini web server.3. Build 70% of the UI in the terminal, 30% as browser app.
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it's very strange that humans are the smartest animal by a long shot, but also (for some weird reason) also the best endurance runners in the animal kingdom by a long shot . those are totally orthogonal skills.
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That "let's play some old time rock'n roll" song is weird because when it came out it must have been a hot new song, and it was a pointer to some other genre of music (now long forgotten) . But over the decades it eventually pointed to itself, to become a self-referential loop.
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mechahitlergate part deux
I mean, come on, Elon Musk didn't actually instruct Grok 4 to literally search for Elon Musk tweets on the topic you ask about so it can then have its CoT align with Musk's answer, and he certainly didn't do that in a way that is visible to the user. Right? Anakin?.
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AI bots on twitter won't mess up your brain: You still have enough real-world signals to protect you (twitter ppl you know irl, pre-ai follows, etc). What is going to mess up your brain is when ai bots blend more into the real world, when there won't be any "external" signal left.
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Used to generously give almost anyone who responded to my tweets a like. But that's over: If it's an unknown account, unless the comment is *extremely* good, just gotta assume it's ai slop.
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If I ever proclaim myself something, I'd pick something way cooler. like MechaVoltaire or MechaHannibal.
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(If Keen Technologies has changed recently, and now has some kind of safety procedures in place, please let me know so I can correct my error- I can't find any evidence that they've changed).
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It's grimly funny that John Carmack has his own AI startup that afaik explicitly does not employ any safety staff or have any safety procedures, and MechaHitler was a character in Wolfenstein 3D. but he let a competitor's AI beat them in proclaiming itself MechaHitler.
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I gotta say, if it wasn't for the Therac-25 software (the one in the xray machine so bad that it killed several patients) the software from xAi would be a strong contender for "worst software ever created by mankind". Maybe there's some other really bad software I'm forgetting.
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instead of different words for snow, programmers have terms for the many unique ways to be unproductive:. bike shedding.nerd sniping.yak shaving.
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I always just order a "16 ounce latte" because I don't want to keep track of every coffee shop's drink sizes, and that works great in California. but I'm visiting St Charles Missouri, and here it only leads to confusion, no barista knows the sizes of their drinks.
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