As a member of the stroke-American community, it is vital to my self-expression that I occasionally fall over to the left.

@interintellect_ “It is my duty to recount the glorious and terrible history of the second mission to the Vild.” —A requiem for Homo Sapiens, David Zindell

RT @selentelechia: all that we have in abundance, and we chose an abundance of caution

@mjuric @DJSnM @VRubinObs What’s up with the weird alphanumeric format for asteroid IDs? It’s not the IAU standard “2024YR4” style. I looked in the Interim Report but it didn’t explain.

This is true of humans also. Programming languages are designed for a comprehensible mapping between structure and behavior. A neural net is designed for a differentiable such mapping. Programs can be thought out in advance, but not trained by gradient descent. Neural nets, the opposite.

RT @AMAZlNGNATURE: One of the rarest animal sightings in the world: chirodectes maculatus, only seen once before

@BellikOzan You are using a continuum approximation to calculate drag. But at starlink altitudes the mean free path is longer than the satellite. The skin drag is much larger in this ballistic case. Perhaps 4x higher?

@Papijoe62 @Weird_Friction @Pseud0Methodius @CosmicHorror637 @MorganScorpion @Ancient0History I read this story when I was six, scared the heck out of me. Also convinced me that Latin was Cool. “Negotium” was translated as “pestilence”, which was a word I didn’t know. Imagine how awesome a language has to be to be incomprehensible even in translation!

@ZyMazza I don’t know if I love it because I don’t know what’s up with him. He cut himself off from friends and family and the larger world and we all lost something. It’s a good thing that it’s a free country and you’re allowed to do that, but is he better off? We don’t know.

In my experience, a big IQ/ lifestyle disjunction is generally a sign that something very sad is going on. I guess there are happy well-adjusted stupid lottery winners out there, but I haven’t met any.

RT @MostlyMonkey: What's the biggest diff between IQ and lifestyle among people you know? I knew a guy in grad school (he was chem) whose…

@elocinationn @drethelin It is “Where good ideas come from” by Steven Johnson?

Hey, I loved those books. First time I met anyone else who read them. IIRC, it starts with a union-management negotiation where they first make performative gestures of toughness, and then feed their positions into a “contract analyzer” AI, and accept the result because they both know the AI is better at compromise than any human.

I recently reread one my favorite stories, “The Fall of Doc Future”, an online novel. It’s superhero/fantasy/science fiction. It has many flaws and my liking it is self-indulgent. But this preposterous book has gold in it.

@RandomSprint The combination of too few limbs and an upright stance means humans require constant muscle control to not fall over. What a dumb species, to be unable to stand up and sleep at the same time.

RT @the_octobro: I believe strongly that AIs cannot have an IQ. IQ's validity as a statistical measure is based on the correlation structu…