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The humourously oblique notes I left myself on the outside of 47 otherwise visually identical book boxes are not at all tiring to parse after months of no context

alignment has many doors, Ed-boy

7am lawyer
7am lawyer
$8.60 coffee
Hotel foyer

"When this mind is retrieved, it will be the true mind, and once the true mind appears, it can extinguish demons."
- Xiyou zhengdao shu 西遊證道書, 1662, facs. reprint Guben xiaoshuo jicheng 古本小説集成, 437-440, Shanghai, 1990.

At some point one must admit it's not a series of pivots so much as a poorly executed pirouette

Stu and Didi from the Rugrats 3am chocolate pudding scene, except Stu's smile has been vertically flipped so he looks content.

One must imagine Stu happy.

I played with using the I Ching with a similar flavour, they struggled to not get too verbose in their responses but otherwise it seemed to serve well!

boingboing.net/2025/12/30/f...

Headline reading 'Farting sloth proves scientists wrong' by Gail Sherman with a picture of a sloth

Didn't even know this was an option

News photo of damaged toilet and mayor with caption Mayor urges people not to eat public toilet seats

And in Tasmanian news...

Well now I'm just gonna eat more of them

They clearly weren't paying enough attention during bootcamp

The day of plugging a nuke in to Joe Rogan and giving him a kayak approaches

There's a lesson here about the gravity of placeholder names

construction of a velocity hodograph

look at this hodograph
every time i do it makes me laugh

My brain tried to parse it as a variant of 'sometimes behave so strangely', but it is an oddly unmusical sentence construction.

Merry Christmas, ya weirdos

Instinctively less morally worthy than pedestrians, possibly due to reflexive Newtonian calculations about mass our brains carry out

Software and religion's intersections were explored in good depth in Snow Crash, both can hijack thinking mechanisms in interesting cays

One does not need advanced AI to have a fully alien mind interacting with our with our infosphere

We're used to it

Noisy-ass bastards when they fly, too

(the proof is in the pudding)

I know I am 😅

I can imagine! Seems like one of those systems where mostly-compliant works most of the time, but then on spikes and fat tails you need extra capabilities of the kind that are likely to decrease in those situations - Nassim Taleb must hate this kind of thing!

It seems like any path to give capabilities allowing something we'd see as reasonable agency in those scenarios in a human driver (i.e. 'proceed cautiously and with careful overcommunication and common sense') *probably* also gets the operators of that software into dangerous liability waters.

It's fantastic coming across an articulation of something that I've thought fuzzily around the edges of for years:

(I've spent a bit of time recently with people working on ~AV's in close-to-ideal situations like airports, campuses, etc)