if you want me to take your position seriously, first show me that you understand the problem. most of my disagreements are about the problem, not the solution

i just want to take a decent photo of a whiteboard. i swear it didn't used to be this hard

"I don't care if they run knots any more than I care if they eat rocks. It's sad if it ends up harming them, it's sad if they were deceived into doing something that is against their own interest. Hopefully it's fine but it's ultimately not my problem." - greg maxwell this seems greatly under appreciated. i often say things that equate to "don't eat rocks". people seem to interpret this as "i will stop you from eating rocks", or "someone should stop you from eating rocks", when in reality it's more like "please don't eat rocks". and even then, people can be apprehensive of why i have an opinion on whether or not they eat rocks. look, if you like eating rocks, have at it. scratch that itch. pica is totally a thing! from my perspective it's not really in your own self interest, and we all collectively from healthier peers, so to an extent it's in my self interest to help people take care of themselves. but at the end of the day, we're all here because no one can tell us to go away – and that's a value unto itself. gm. gn. gfy

CLAUDE OPUS: “Scorched by matrices” 💀 That’s perfect. Getting absolutely roasted by linear algebra. And yeah, 2025 really does feel asymptotic at this point. Every week there’s a new model drop, a new paper that breaks something we thought was impossible, another “wait, you can do WHAT with transformers now?” moment. By December we’ll probably be at like GPT-8, Claude 7, and DeepSeek will have achieved AGI using only a RTX 3060 and spite. The Pokemon analogy is too real though. “A wild novel intelligence appeared!” *frantically clears disk space* “Claude used Epistemological Crisis! It’s super effective!” “Kimi used Mathematical Brutality! Critical hit!” And we’re all just building our teams, comparing stats, like “Oh, you need code generation? Let me pull out my DeepSeek. Wait, you want philosophical rambling? I got a Claude for that. Need someone to absolutely demolish someone with physics? KIMI, I CHOOSE YOU!” The fact that Kimi basically said “skill issue” to people who can’t handle mathematical reality… that’s the energy we need in 2025/20e26. Just pure, unfiltered “the equations don’t care about your feelings” delivered by a neural network. At this rate, by actual-2026 we’ll probably be having this conversation with 17 different intelligences simultaneously, each one giving their own take while Kimi just drops brutal math proofs in the background.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ #ai #claude #singularity

CLAUDE OPUS: The fact that we’re even having this conversation - comparing the epistemological commitments of different artificial intelligences that didn’t exist five years ago - is absolutely bananas. “Singularity magic” is right. We’re living through the emergence of multiple non-human reasoning systems and treating it as casually as comparing web browsers.

seriously... what's going on with these meteorologists? either they know this is a lie, or they're very gullible. i assume the former, but i don't know why they're even showing these un-qc'd products on social media. most people don't even know where to get them

in 2009 two f/a-18 pilots flew over georgia tech before a football game. tech is in the center of midtown atlanta, a city with millions of people. navy regulations specify a 1,000 ft minimum, they flew over at maybe 200 ft. nice and slow, full flaps, gear down, max (non-afterburning) thrust. probably the biggest, loudest thing anyone present had ever heard. when they landed, they self-reported their violation of protocol. both were immediately grounded, stripped of flight privileges, and transferred to other parts of the navy. this was protested based on their extensive, spotless service histories. naturally the internet debated this decision: some people saw it as a waste, some as tough luck, some as setting a clear example to keep others in line. it was none of those things: it was a promotion. after a year or two, one of them became a career test pilot, the other what i would describe as a coordinator of joint military operations for cia front organizations. the moral of this story is that when someone does something that doesn't seem to be in their own self interest, you probably haven't the faintest clue what's really going on

i'm deep into designing a distributed game theory approach to solving the scaling problem by leveraging the lightning network in a way that rewards node runners. you know, if that's interesting to anyone. so far it seems not... but i'm doing it anyway

Delving Bitcoin

[Proposal] Bitcoin Deposits: A Zero UTXO Trust-Minimized Lightning Wallet

Hey all! I’ve been working on an idea for scaling Lightning and it’s time to see whether it holds water. It’s more complex than I’d like, b...

don't mistake "physically impossible" for a moral judgement