Forward Deployed Engineer at Redacted. Betrothed. Cybernetics revivalist. Host of Dangerous Secret Science Club: @technosophists
The Cyburbs
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but never call them Cracked Sweeties; for the Cracked Sweeties shall rise up against legion and inherit the earth.
call it a posse, call it a merry band, call it a squad, call it a fellowship, call it a warband, call it little guys, call it a goblin committee, call it a digital chain gang, call it a computational boyband, call it task force autism, call it the fellowship of the ping, call it 12 guys sharing an API key, call it a LAN party with objectives, call it several instances of the same unemployed man, call it 8 processes in a trench coat, call it an adventuring party with sudo, call it 6 autists and a cron job, call it distributed schizophrenia with observability, call it the infinite monkey theorem with root access, call it the homunculus cluster, call it a cognitohazard with autoscaling, call it the machine elf scrum team, call it the API key drinking club, call it the boys down at the token factory, call it 30 Docker containers trying to remember whose turn it is, call it a Slack workspace where everyone is the same guy, call it a raid party against Jira, call it the forbidden group project, call it a small nation made entirely of context windows, call it a groupchat that costs $40 an hour, call it the fellas, call it a flock, call it a herd, call it a pack, call it a gaggle, call it a congregation, call it a caravan, call it a village with one API key, call it a travelling circus with tool permissions, call it the council, call it a homeowners association for thoughts, call it a bunch of guys who know a guy
I got freaking bamboozled about 5 times today! This information environment is like the wild west, sheesh!
Marianne retweeted
they can make datacenters in minecraft but instead they put them in my grandmas view because the goal isnt data, its EVIL
You can do it however you wanna do it. The method might just alter the difficulty or the time horizon.
I have to carry around false signifiers for reasons that are frankly tragic for me but ultimately for the best, and then also have to deal with all the baggage people project onto me about it.
I'm going to use Jev in lieu of a home-grown classifier in the language-learning app I've built for myself because I am lazy.
When you think of me, please think of me as "The C-word Girl."
Given all of the AI re-naming talk, including some bigger accounts floating the return of the C-word, I thought I would share this essay in thread form to provide some detail on the transition of Cybernetics to AI.
"Machine Intelligence is not Artificial - Part 6:
Dartmouth 1956, The Birth of AI and the Balkanization of Machine Intelligence" (a thread in 23 parts)
Love
is the answer
to a question that I
have forgotten
but I know I've been asked
and the answer has got to be
Love
Demon which will be mistaken for an angel, tale nearly as old as time. Angels are executable divine functions. Demons are information that want to use you as a transmission vehicle.
