diff --git a/quotes_(hypothetical).myco b/quotes_(hypothetical).myco index 4628d8b..1f4741e 100644 --- a/quotes_(hypothetical).myco +++ b/quotes_(hypothetical).myco @@ -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." \ No newline at end of file +* "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." \ No newline at end of file