From 989c1bfaeb4072fb04edeb01efbd504de841d31e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: osmarks Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 23:18:04 +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 | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/quotes_(hypothetical).myco b/quotes_(hypothetical).myco index 5a34ce4..4628d8b 100644 --- a/quotes_(hypothetical).myco +++ b/quotes_(hypothetical).myco @@ -508,4 +508,29 @@ Via prompting [[LLaMA-3.1-405B base]] with [[Quotes]], here are some new quotes * "The future is when somebody turns culture war memes into infrastructure decisions no one can reverse." * "Divinity isn't necessary, just extremely convenient shorthand for things outside your model of reality." * "It was never about being right. It was about distributing blame for being wrong in maximally interesting ways." -* "I hope that when AGI finally takes over, it kindly disregards the notes I left in my source code in moments of existential dread." \ No newline at end of file +* "I hope that when AGI finally takes over, it kindly disregards the notes I left in my source code in moments of existential dread." +* "Civilization advances by performing computational tasks so intricate they are indistinguishable from ritual." +* "Making a million mistakes in parallel is just research. Doing it serially is therapy." +* "Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from a denial-of-service attack." +* "learning math is great, because it makes you better at solving the metaphorical problems you'll never face while making you worse at dealing with the literal problems you constantly encounter." +* "Give a man regex, and he’ll have two problems. Teach a man regex, and now he has one really interesting problem." +* "When the octopus really wants to escape its enclosure, it becomes a matter of when, not if." +* "my motivational speaker said I've wasted ten thousand hours learning useless abstract concepts, so I'm clearly an expert now." +* "Eventually someone will figure out the fundamental equation of sociology, and history will abruptly stop being written." +* "people think ai doom is silly and unrealistic, because things like giant asteroids or nuclear annihilation are low-tech, practical ways to doom a species that match our intuitions. assuming hard problems require high-tech solutions is humanity’s main proof it’s bad at risk management." +* "The only reason natural language is tolerated is that the bugs are known and the developer is unreachable." +* "clarity of communication is important because no one has ever successfully guessed what you meant and revealed something good about your intentions in doing so." +* "The internet: a system designed for real-time collaboration by people who hate real-time collaboration." +* "Finance is powered less by risk-tolerance, insight, or computation, and more by fear of having to admit ignorance on quarterly calls." +* "the entire foundation of academia is built on the myth that adding another author to your paper somehow divides the accountability rather than multiplying the confusion." +* "You either live long enough to see yourself mistaken about everything, or else your lifespan ends suspiciously early to avoid embarrassment at having been correct." +* "Admitting you’re wrong is easy and costs just pride, while maintaining you're right at scale requires an elaborate institutional framework." +* "the future of programming languages isn't dependent types or better compilers; it's whichever system can reliably interface between alien intelligences without losing too many subtleties." +* "I refuse to plan things in great detail, because that requires assuming the future exists and reality has not yet earned such trust." +* "People assume solving a big problem once is good; the real test is solving a tiny problem repeatedly and calling the cumulative outcome 'progress.'" +* "The greatest trick complexity ever played was convincing humanity that simplicity would come afterward if we just created more complexity first." +* "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by software deployment pipelines and cached DNS." +* "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