From 9482f4bbc3202c5b0c32b54ff16140fc653ed53b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: osmarks Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 23:03:55 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?Edit=20=E2=80=98quotes=5F(hypothetical)?= =?UTF-8?q?=E2=80=99?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- quotes_(hypothetical).myco | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/quotes_(hypothetical).myco b/quotes_(hypothetical).myco index b1e6444..fd384b5 100644 --- a/quotes_(hypothetical).myco +++ b/quotes_(hypothetical).myco @@ -434,4 +434,48 @@ Via prompting [[LLaMA-3.1-405B base]] with [[Quotes]], here are some new quotes * "Morality is easy if you avoid all the interesting questions." * "The reason I'm bad at predictions is because reality consistently fails to align itself with my mental models." * "No, I'm not procrastinating. I'm pursuing optimal delayed-gratification policies." -* "A consultant is someone who borrows your watch to tell you the time, then hands it back and bills you for a warranty." \ No newline at end of file +* "A consultant is someone who borrows your watch to tell you the time, then hands it back and bills you for a warranty." +* "I'm not procrastinating. I'm asymptotically approaching maximum motivation." +* "It's not a bug, it's a glimpse into the multiverse where your logic makes sense." +* "I prefer my systems like my metaphysical beliefs: consistent, elegant, and completely unfalsifiable." +* "Everyone wants actionable insights, but no one wants to action them." +* "There are two errors people make about recursion: the first one is recursion, and the second one is recursion." +* "It wasn't feature creep, it was iterative enlightenment." +* "If reality can't be simulated, explain debugging to me." +* "Never forget that the difference between 'production' and 'prototype' is just a sufficiently convincing demo pitch deck." +* "We successfully solved alignment by repeatedly declaiming that it's somebody else's problem in increasingly convincing ways." +* "The purpose of abstraction is to replace a problem you're struggling with by a problem nobody understands at all." +* "If I don't believe in free will, does that obligate me to act on principle or is it still permissible to improvise wildly?" +* "Today I drank eight glasses of water just to have achieved something objectively measurable." +* "The true Turing Test is being able to endure small talk about weather without becoming obvious as either machine or philosopher." +* "What isn't dead may never die, but it often experiences severe packet loss." +* "In machine learning, as in cooking, you spend years studying theory, only to be told by seasoned professionals that it's better just to taste as you go." +* "The number of email newsletters I subscribe to outnumbers the amount of free will I exercise daily, both of which round down to zero." +* "I'm an epistemic minimalist—I take on only the absolute smallest number of justified true beliefs to function." +* "My hobby is acquiring hobbies rather than actually having them." +* "I know what you're thinking—well, no, I interpolate what you're thinking based on training data." +* "When future civilizations excavate our ruins, their archaeological consensus will be that we worshipped rectangles emitting mystical blue light." +* "The reason we haven't achieved world peace is that the Nash equilibrium is depraved." +* "Treat every project like an experiment unless you've already billed the client, then treat it like an immutable law of nature." +* "Progress, like Zeno's arrow, always inevitably slows as it nears the optimal state of annoying one specific coworker." +* "I write tests not so I have fewer bugs, but to spread out my failures across multiple files." +* "Languages have grammar in the same way astrology has predictions—retrofitted neatly to justify post-hoc interpretation." +* "The road to hell is paved with 'it's just a proof-of-concept, we'll rewrite it later'." +* "I sabotage my own productivity so the impostor syndrome keeps me humble." +* "Reality is just the underlying computational substrate arguing with itself in public." +* "The simulation hypothesis is more comforting if you assume the simulators also have unmanageable technical debt." +* "In this house, we obey conservation of energy, unless we need an emotional outlet, then we shamelessly violate it." +* "Practice radical honesty—admit you have no idea what's going on." +* "This is very expensive infrastructure for manifesting extremely subtle bugs." +* "This isn't chaos; it's non-linear order—with insufficient sampling." +* "I FTP’d into your heart and accidentally deleted the README." +* "When hell freezes over, Satan will still complain about off-by-one errors." +* "Maybe creativity is just elegant brute-force applied to ideaspace." +* "I trust you implicitly—by which I mean I've expressly encoded your limitations into the design." +* "When your only debugging tool is hope and prayer, everything starts to look like divine intervention." +* "Any sufficiently large mistake is indistinguishable from a new methodology." +* "Human organizations have barely more coherence than a well-trained language model. The main difference is explainability—and language models have the advantage there." +* "My main contribution to humanity will be some future intern finding my source code comments hilarious." +* "Unfortunately, our product roadmap is blocked on Godot's arrival." +* "My fear of commitment extends even into version control history." +* "We're fairly confident this theory generalizes—at least until encountering literally any corner case."