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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Fundamentally due to it’s design, LLMs are digital duct tape.

    The entire history of computer science has been making compromises between efficient machine code and human readable language. LLM’s solve this in a beautifully janky way, like duct tape.

    But it’s ultimately still a compromise, you’ll never get machine accuracy from an LLM because it’s sole purpose is to fulfill the “human readable” part of that deal. So it’s applications are revolutionary in the same way as “how did you put together this car engine with only duct tape?” kind of way.






  • I’m still young at 25, but I can see the hallmarks of aging. I’ve moved to a new state for 5 years now and when I visited my old home it felt half foreign, half familiar. I’m the youngest so my mom’s age is starting to show.

    Things I consider recent are now described as “years ago”. I’m seeing things evolve through life. Things that felt like they had a beginning, middle, end now are starting up again. Almost like a ride that’s resetting for the next ones in line.


  • I’m surprised Harkon didn’t try to take Blackreach for himself. They’re immune to Falmer poison, they can use their full power without sunlight, they’re smarter and have access to invisibility, illusions, and charms.

    In return he could have a country sized cavern, with at least two points of contact to Skyrim one either end, all the dwemer tech to hoard and use with their ancient knowledge. He could subjugate the falmer to be blood livestock, they’re already crafted to be good slaves by the dwemer.

    He could slowly build up a vampire/thrall/dwemer machine army right under Skyrim then wage war overnight. Could even use dwemer machines by day to maintain territory until you complete this master prophecy you have.



  • I stayed up to date on ai and machine learning, including language models. I remember hearing that one learned math from language and wondering where things will go. I watched ai safety videos before they felt relevant. Then I heard Openai, which had a good rep at the time, is releasing their new model online, called ChatGPT. Having played with DungeonAI and NovelAI before I was gonna fiddle with this as well.

    Then headlines broke, it became a phenomenon. Even then I figured this would be this week’s Thing before getting bored, as was common with these ai.

    Down the line I remembered hearing ChatGPT on a gas station ad for some travel app. That was when I realized this is permanent. People who aren’t even online are likely hearing about this. Suddenly my niche hobby and hopeful dreams of the future became an actual enshittified crisis.

    I don’t think I need to explain how everyone using language models now is just god awful for everyone. And the attention hasn’t gotten us closer to answering long standing questions of ethics, economic change, what is intelligence or consciousness. We’ve just got a bunch of the lowest common denominator shouting their answers now.