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@ -533,4 +533,53 @@ Via prompting [[LLaMA-3.1-405B base]] with [[Quotes]], here are some new quotes
* "I regret to inform you: this problem isn’t going away due to recent breakthroughs in convenient denial."
* "if it's worth understanding, you should probably build a hopelessly inadequate simulation and learn it by watching it fail."
* "the world has plenty of room for ideas that are wrong at scale accompanied by models demonstrating convincingly they ought to have been right."
* "after sufficiently advanced performance optimizations, bugs themselves begin to count as features."
* "after sufficiently advanced performance optimizations, bugs themselves begin to count as features."
* "We didn't build the internet to replace religion, but we're willing to attempt it anyway."
* "If mathematics is the language of the universe, most of us are just badly mumbling our grocery orders into outer space."
* "My extensive experiments have conclusively shown that science is just alchemy that got funded."
* "If your sacred principles never drive you into an existential crisis, are they really principles at all?"
* "I mean, sure, theoretically you could achieve the same end by clearly defining your goals and making careful progress towards them, but have you considered excessive abstraction and unnecessary generality?"
* "Philosophy: asking questions with the awareness that at most you'll discover better questions."
* "AI has conclusively shown that intelligence involves either extremely clever algorithms or throwing computation at a problem until the heat death of your credit card."
* "Steps to becoming good at something: first, immediately quantify it; second, quickly forget what you quantified; third, confidently assert excellence."
* "My body is a simulation, poorly optimized, and entirely undocumented."
* "The universe is open-source; we just haven't been able to locate the commit history yet."
* "Presenting simple ideas as complicated ones makes you a philosopher; presenting complicated ideas as simple ones makes you unemployed."
* "My attention span increased dramatically once I realized being bored is indistinguishable from meditating."
* "According to my calculations, we are exactly zero breakthroughs away from instant teleportation—assuming robustness to decomposition isn't a strict requirement."
* "I'm not an accelerationist; I just think societies collapse in aesthetically interesting ways when deadlines are compressed."
* "No war plan survives contact with the enemy; similarly, no cleanly written code survives contact with the users."
* "You don't really solve philosophical problems, you just get bored with them after exploring every possible misunderstanding."
* "Software development is the art of turning 10-line solutions into multi-repository distributed microservices."
* "Free will isn't provable, but pretending it exists conveniently reduces awkward silences at dinner parties."
* "Data-driven decision-making really shines when everything was going to be fine anyway."
* "New agnosticism: the view that the simulation hypothesis is true, but we're running on someone else's unreproducible experiment."
* "Bringing order from chaos isn't difficult. There are infinitely many orderings. You just have to have very low standards."
* "Just as humans domesticated wolves to produce dogs, computers domesticated humans to produce private cloud infrastructure."
* "My astrological sign is 'algorithmic alignment researcher who forgot to write documentation'."
* "The strongest argument against simulation theory is our world’s persistent lack of convenient save points."
* "The failure mode of clever is complexity. The failure mode of complexity is employment."
* "Some only want to watch the world learn. Others compile production-grade binaries."
* "I once asked for evidence-based policy making; turns out evidence always asks you to try harder."
* "The principle weakness of an all-knowing oracle is their inability to send direct calendar invites."
* "If it breaks at room temperature and atmospheric pressure, it's physics; if it only breaks in theory at 10^25 K, it's funding."
* "My personal philosophy is existential minimalism: I'm convinced everything fundamentally doesn't matter, and what's left is a very clean desk."
* "Progress is measured by how long it takes for science fiction to become disappointing reality."
* "Management is a device for converting human communication inefficiencies into financial inefficiencies."
* "I only practice meditation because it helps me more efficiently visualize higher-dimensional adversarial attacks."
* "If convenience weren't inherently at odds with stability, life would probably run slower at high temperatures."
* "Digital minimalism is great, but have you tried computational maximalism?"
* "Only after you understand the elegance and simplicity in mathematics can you appreciate the true ugliness of real-world problems."
* "Sure, correlation is not causation. But with enough computation, everything correlates eventually."
* "the one lesson of history is that no one's ever gotten the correct lessons from history"
* "the trouble with relativity is that all frames of reference make terrible metaphors"
* "In theory, a theory is indistinguishable from practice. In practice, it’s distinguishable by the flames and frantic screaming."
* "if there weren't contretemps, we wouldn't have reason enough to borrow French words"
* "Some people get bored of late-stage capitalism. Personally, I can't wait for new game+ capitalism."
* "Our ancestors dreamed of jetpacks and flying cars, but instead we got subscriptions and docker containers."
* "Soon you'll be nostalgic for the days when your job was only threatened by humans."
* "Nothing tastes better than forbidden knowledge. Unfortunately, it spoils very quickly once remembered."
* "Not every fire is a metaphor, but every metaphor has probably been on fire at least once."
* "If only we ran simulations instead of experiments, then the discrepancies between theory and reality would cease to inconvenience us."
* "The solution to technology is usually more technology, but the solution to society is usually someone else's problem."
* "Nature abhors a vacuum; programmers abhor any empty system lacking sufficient YAML."