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@ -435,3 +435,47 @@ Via prompting [[LLaMA-3.1-405B base]] with [[Quotes]], here are some new quotes
* "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."
* "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."