Alton Ascends

Every time I read an empirical study on the actual performance of "agentic" AI, I can't help but think of that one experiment where they tried to get an AI to design a robot that can walk, but it never did because it figured out that just building a really tall robot that immediately falls over is a much cheaper way to maximise distance travelled.

Sometimes it feels like the entire business model for LLMs is built on convincing people that a really tall robot that immediately falls over is in fact the optimal solution to that problem.

He awoke the next morning to find his arm yellow

Caravel Navigator voice: "By 1585, it's likely that 80% of peasants will work on the treasure ships."

I enjoy how most sidequests in Silksong consist of Hornet being genuinely helpful while insisting she's doing it for self-interested reasons, and then the whole Plasmium/Lifeblood thing is just "okay, this guy is 100% going to die if I keep enabling him, but let's see where he's going with this."

If Hornet has one vaguely consistent moral principle, it's the staunch belief in every bug's right of self-determination, and that includes the right to blow yourself the fuck up.

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I love that a lion with an eagle's head and wings is such a well-known mythical beast but apparently the English language can only agree on a grand total of 3 out of 7 letters in its name.

Media from the early 2000s seem to conceptualize goths as some kind of disease that happens to sad people rather than a fashion and music subculture.

Like they clearly want goth makeup to flag that a character is disturbed and socially dangerous rather than like, a person that enjoys the music of The Cure.

reblog if you're an actual person IRL who gets genuinely upset if you catch someone using ChatGPT and view it as a serious moral failing

Wooohooo 14 CFR 91.205 baby! Give it up for 14 CFR 91.205!! The regulation that indicates that powered (including deer powered i presume) aircraft need to have red green position lights (at night)

There should be large predatory birds that prey on cars during traffic jams. They should live on mountains and manipulate dreams to cause DUIs and thus fecund hunting grounds.

Bored in traffic listening to a podcast. A sudden explosion of feathers and crunching of iron. The glint of a 2019 Toyota carolla and the distant screams of a software developer.