AI Engineer at the @USTreasury @gauntletai Cohort 2 (S25)
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Andrew Shindyapin retweeted
New METR report came out and found out that all the good weather is almost over. Winter is accelerating. Forecasts furthermore suggest we may cross some unprecedented critical thresholds whereby liquid water may become solid, introducing novel governance problems.
Andrew Shindyapin retweeted
imagine doing the safety review for cars before cars existed.
what are the operators doing at 70 mph?
texting. some are also eating McDonald’s.
and how much flammable liquid is on board?
25 gallons of gasoline.
how much training do they get?
enough to pass a short test at 16.
any more training after that?
no.
what separates them from oncoming traffic?
paint.
what if it snows?
they guess where the paint is.
anyway, it mostly works.
i guess the moral of the story is that hardly anything ends up being as bad as imagined? maybe the singularity won't be as bad as it *could be*?
Andrew Shindyapin retweeted
people are always trying to gaslamp me by using slightly wrong words and phrases
Andrew Shindyapin retweeted
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of recursive self-improvement, it was the age of data center bans, it was the epoch of intelligence explosions, it was the epoch of local backlash, it was the season of acceleration, it was the season of red tape, it was the spring of superintelligence, it was the winter of compute.
Andrew Shindyapin retweeted
I used to be a language lawyer. In the late 80s I _studied_ the ARM (Annotated Reference Manual for C++). I knew the language cold, inside and out. I could make it do backflips. I shipped a lot of code using it. A LOT.
I’ve attacked other languages with a similar intensity and depth. Until recently, that was simply the only way to become adept at building software systems.
I now consider the deep understanding of a language to be a supreme waste of time and effort. I don’t want to learn Rust, or Golang, or Typescript, or any of the thousands of other languages out there. I’ll leave that to my agents.
What I need now is to understand the high level gestalt of the system. I want to see the systems and subsystems. I don’t need to inspect the cogs. If I truly need to understand a detail at the cog level, I’ll interrogate my agents. I’m not going to pretend to be a language expert anymore.
Andrew Shindyapin retweeted
Atlas shrugged, the Elves sailed into the West, and the Orbital Data Centers launched to Sun-synchronous orbit.
Andrew Shindyapin retweeted
Yeah, we took a shellacking.
The blackpill cut-off is noon.
Get all your emo out, whine about how "it's never been so over", how "we're all doomed".
...but at 12:01 today, we put that aside & start building.
We have God and the Singularity on our side and we are going to win
Andrew Shindyapin retweeted
The supermarket chain thaw massacre
Cyberattack on fridges hits supermarkets across Europe reut.rs/3X1A0dF
Andrew Shindyapin retweeted
we live in a society of such absurd abundance that virtually all theft is just done recreationally by people who feel powerful when they're being dickheads
Andrew Shindyapin retweeted
Wife: “How many digits of pi do you know?”
Me: “I don’t know, like 10?”
Wife: “Pretty good memory. Now what would it take to get you to remember to pick your clothes up off the floor?”
Andrew Shindyapin retweeted
Joel Osteen Wears His Pastor Costume For Halloween Again buff.ly/LYGgfU1
