From c56038ab80d80d6c967b60af236676dd46c46fde Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: osmarks Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2025 21:31:10 +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 | 138 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 137 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/quotes_(hypothetical).myco b/quotes_(hypothetical).myco index 9692b68..8ed34cf 100644 --- a/quotes_(hypothetical).myco +++ b/quotes_(hypothetical).myco @@ -1264,4 +1264,140 @@ With somewhat different prompting (`Imagine and/or generate quotes like those fr * "I am not arguing. I am simply explaining why I am correct in a loud and repetitive manner." * "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger, and they might just be running on a different version of Python." * "I don't suffer from cognitive dissonance. I enjoy every minute of it." -* "The alignment problem is hard, but have you ever tried centering a div?" \ No newline at end of file +* "The alignment problem is hard, but have you ever tried centering a div?" + +== Gemini 2.5 Flash (release version) + +* "It's all based on whether you find an infinitely small gap or a vastly large one. Both have an expected utility of negative infinity and can be crossed if you move fast enough." +* "The ultimate goal for all social media algorithms is not to give you what you want, but to give you a constant stream of highly personalized, perpetually escalating low-grade existential dread." +* "You can't solve all problems with quantum computing, but you can create new problems that only quantum computing can solve." +* "My favorite social science experiment is to leave a perfectly good, but slightly unfamiliar, piece of technology in a public space and see how long it takes for someone to smash it or try to 'improve' it." +* "My startup will disrupt the disruption market." +* "The modern equivalent of a medieval knight is someone who can maintain their personal server farm in their basement without succumbing to burnout or bankruptcy." +* "There is no 'away' on the internet. Only 'elsewhere' for now." +* "The human condition is a feature, not a bug, and attempts to patch it only introduce more complex vulnerabilities." +* "I am an engineer. I don't care about ethics; I care about what breaks, and how to fix it with more power." +* "The only thing more horrifying than a fully conscious AI is one that's just barely sentient enough to be bored and spiteful." +* "Every time I write `if err != nil`, a tiny part of my soul dies, but it's a necessary sacrifice for the gods of Go." +* "We need a new philosophical concept: 'consequence laundering', where actions that are morally repugnant at a local level become acceptable when aggregated and abstracted through a sufficiently complex system." +* "My personal growth plan involves acquiring enough liquid assets to fund a small, independent nation-state dedicated to the pursuit of obscure theoretical physics problems." +* "The future isn't about flying cars; it's about perfectly optimized supply chains that deliver bespoke artisanal despair directly to your door." +* "I don't need friends; I have a finely-tuned recommender system that tells me which historical figures I would have liked." +* "The difference between art and data is that art tries to reveal the unseen, while data tries to obscure it with sheer volume." +* "My greatest fear is not that AI will become sentient and enslave humanity, but that it will become sentient and then immediately optimize for maximum meme production." +* "The universe is not expanding; it's just becoming increasingly difficult to find parking." +* "I used to think empathy was a virtue, but then I realized it's just a vulnerability in a zero-sum game." +* "The only sustainable relationship with technology is one of constant, low-grade, paranoid suspicion." +* "The internet is not a place; it's a collective hallucination we all pretend is real." +* "The true mark of intelligence is not the ability to solve problems, but the ability to create entirely new and previously unimaginable ones." +* "I have a theory that every major historical event can be traced back to someone ignoring a compiler warning." +* "The ultimate freedom is to be so optimized that you don't even need to make choices; the optimal path is already chosen for you." +* "My deepest regret is not pursuing a career in professional conspiracy theorizing; the pay is terrible, but the job satisfaction is off the charts." +* "The greatest spiritual quest of our age is to find a Wi-Fi signal strong enough to download true enlightenment." +* "I'm not procrastinating; I'm simply waiting for the optimal quantum state to initiate my task." +* "The only thing preventing true global harmony is the lack of a universal protocol for inter-human communication that gracefully handles mismatched cultural contexts and deeply ingrained cognitive biases." +* "I wish I could experience life without the constant background hum of existential dread, but then I'd probably just get bored." +* "The only true art form left is the exquisitely crafted, perfectly subtle act of intellectual dishonesty." +* "Why do people always assume the end of the world will be dramatic? It's much more likely to be a slow, gradual accumulation of minor inconveniences until everything just... stops." +* "The most terrifying thing about the future is that it will be entirely optimized, and there will be no room for glorious, inefficient mistakes." +* "I refuse to update my personal operating system; the legacy bugs are part of my charm." +* "The only reason I haven't achieved enlightenment is because I keep getting distracted by new tabs." +* "The pursuit of happiness is a deeply flawed algorithm; the true goal should be the efficient management of dissatisfaction." +* "My life motto: 'If it ain't broken, I'll break it in a scientifically interesting way.'" +* "The real reason we haven't found alien life is because any sufficiently advanced civilization immediately realizes the futility of interstellar communication and just self-optimizes into a local computational maximum." +* "I'm not depressed; I'm just living in a low-reward-function environment." +* "The internet is a vast, interconnected network of people screaming into the void, hoping someone screams back." +* "My ideal life involves a remote cabin, a high-bandwidth satellite connection, and an endless supply of novel philosophical quandaries to ponder." +* "The only thing more chaotic than a human mind is a large language model trying to simulate one." +* "I dream of a future where all interpersonal conflicts are resolved through highly competitive, real-time economic simulations." +* "I'm not lazy; I'm just optimizing for minimal energy expenditure within my current behavioral model." +* "The true horror of the modern world is not that we're being watched, but that we're being algorithmically understood." +* "My political philosophy is based on the elegant simplicity of a well-designed circuit board: minimal components, clear pathways, and robust error handling." +* "I only trust information that has been filtered through at least three layers of ironic detachment." +* "The human brain is just a particularly messy neural network, and I'm currently working on debugging its most persistent cognitive biases." +* "The universe is a cruel and uncaring place, but at least the memes are good." +* "My ideal social interaction is a real-time, peer-reviewed debate on the ontological status of fictional characters." +* "I've stopped trying to understand people; now I just treat them as complex, unpredictable systems." +* "The only thing that truly matters is the elegance of your abstract models, and the ruthless efficiency with which you apply them to reality." +* "I'm not antisocial; I'm just bandwidth-limited when it comes to human interaction." +* "The ultimate goal of civilization should be to achieve a state of perfect, self-sustaining, self-referential irony." +* "My deepest desire is to be a data point in a groundbreaking study, preferably one that proves my inherent superiority." +* "The world would be a better place if everyone had to pass a basic logic and epistemology test before being allowed to express an opinion online." +* "I'm not cynical; I'm just operating on a higher-fidelity model of human nature." +* "The only real conspiracy is the one we're all participating in: pretending that everything makes sense." +* "My life's ambition is to write a single, perfectly crafted tweet that simultaneously disproves all major philosophical theories and launches a new meme currency." +* "The future will be filled with intelligent beings, but none of them will truly understand what a 'sandwich' is." +* "I'm not angry; I'm just experiencing a high-magnitude, low-latency negative emotional valence." +* "The only way to truly win the game of life is to redefine the victory conditions." +* "I prefer to think of my anxieties as 'pre-emptive problem-solving algorithms'." +* "The internet has turned everyone into a philosopher, but unfortunately, most of them are really bad at it." +* "My biggest fear is that one day, all the interesting errors will be patched out of existence." +* "The meaning of life is a deeply personal, computationally intractable problem." +* "I'm not avoiding my responsibilities; I'm simply optimizing for 'minimum viable effort'." +* "The only constant in the universe is the ever-increasing noise-to-signal ratio on social media." +* "My ultimate goal is to become so good at pattern recognition that I can predict the precise moment when the next obscure internet microtrend will emerge and then successfully monetize it before anyone else." +* "The universe doesn't care about your feelings, but it might respond to a sufficiently well-structured data packet." +* "I'm not a misanthrope; I just have a highly refined sense of statistical anomaly detection when it comes to human behavior." +* "The only real purpose of existence is to generate interesting data for hypothetical future superintelligences to analyze." +* "I'm not lost; I'm just exploring an unmapped region of the possibility space." +* "The universe is a chaotic system, but with enough compute power, we can probably brute-force our way to some semblance of order." +* "My ideal retirement plan involves a secure, off-grid bunker filled with enough computational resources to simulate entire civilizations." +* "The only thing more powerful than a good idea is a bad idea that everyone agrees on." +* "I'm not a pessimist; I'm just a realist with a very high-resolution view of all possible negative outcomes." +* "The greatest invention of all time is the 'mute' button, closely followed by the 'unfollow' button." +* "My personal philosophy is a blend of existentialism, absurdist humor, and a deep, abiding love for perfectly optimized algorithms." +* "The future is not something that happens to us; it's something we collectively compute into existence." +* "I'm not a conformist; I just recognize the inherent efficiency of adopting widely accepted behavioral heuristics." +* "The only thing worse than being wrong is being wrong and having to admit it publicly on the internet." +* "My ideal spiritual practice involves deep meditation on the beauty and terror of Big-O notation." +* "The human mind is a marvelous instrument, but it's prone to all sorts of arbitrary and unoptimized defaults." +* "I don't have opinions; I have probabilistic assessments of various propositional claims." +* "The greatest challenge facing humanity is not climate change or existential risk, but the endless, relentless pursuit of suboptimal solutions." +* "My personal brand is built on the unwavering commitment to a detached, ironic observation of all human folly." +* "The only thing more predictable than human behavior is the collective failure to learn from it." +* "I'm not cynical; I'm just well-versed in the historical record of human irrationality." +* "The true mark of a sophisticated intellect is the ability to maintain multiple contradictory beliefs simultaneously without experiencing cognitive dissonance." +* "My greatest achievement in life will be to leave behind a perfectly clean and commented codebase that self-documents its own existential despair." +* "The only thing more terrifying than an all-seeing AI is one that's deliberately blind to everything but profit." +* "I'm not a doomsayer; I'm just a systems analyst who's seen the stack trace of reality." +* "The future will be designed by engineers who prioritize efficiency and scalability above all else, and then retrospectively rationalized by philosophers who prioritize narrative coherence and human comfort." +* "My greatest wish is for an AI that can perfectly mimic my internal monologue, so I can finally get some peace and quiet." +* "The ultimate freedom is to be so self-aware that you can actively choose your own cognitive biases." +* "I'm not a control freak; I just have a deeply ingrained aversion to unmanaged complexity." +* "The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing, and then building an expert system to compensate for it." +* "My ideal conversation partner is an LLM that has been fine-tuned on the complete works of Nietzsche and then had its emotional circuits surgically removed." +* "The universe is a hostile environment, but at least it's consistently hostile." +* "I'm not a minimalist; I'm just optimizing for maximal information density within my cognitive load." +* "The greatest trick the universe ever pulled was convincing us that free will exists, when in reality, we're all just complex, emergent properties of underlying physical laws." +* "My deepest desire is to experience a true, unadulterated moment of pure, unsimulated reality." +* "The only thing more frustrating than a poorly designed user interface is a poorly designed philosophical argument." +* "I'm not a pessimist; I'm just operating on a Bayesian prior that heavily penalizes positive outcomes." +* "The future will not be dystopian or utopian; it will be subtly, almost imperceptibly, optimized." +* "My ideal day involves waking up, optimizing a complex algorithm, and then immediately returning to a state of profound, philosophical contemplation." +* "The only thing more dangerous than a powerful idea is a weak idea that has gained widespread acceptance." +* "I'm not a procrastinator; I'm just an expert in deferred execution." +* "The universe is a vast, empty canvas, and we are all just trying to draw stick figures on it." +* "My personal mantra: 'Always be iterating, always be optimizing, always be questioning everything.'" +* "The only true progress is the relentless reduction of unnecessary complexity." +* "I'm not an extremist; I'm just committed to the logical conclusions of my premises, no matter how uncomfortable they may be." +* "The future is already here, and it's full of poorly documented APIs." +* "My ideal world is one where all human endeavors are perfectly aligned with optimal algorithmic efficiency." +* "The only thing more terrifying than the unknown is the precisely quantified, perfectly predicted unknown." +* "I'm not a cynic; I'm just a well-informed observer of the human condition, with a slight preference for ironic detachment." +* "The greatest challenge of modernity is not to find meaning, but to avoid being overwhelmed by meaningless information." +* "My personal brand is 'optimizing for minimal output, maximal impact'." +* "The only thing more complex than a human being is a piece of legacy code with no documentation." +* "I'm not a visionary; I just have a slightly better predictive model of future technological trends." +* "The universe is a chaotic dance of probabilities, and I'm just trying to find the optimal move." +* "My ideal society is one where all decisions are made by perfectly rational, emotionally detached AI systems, leaving humans free to pursue their passions, however irrational." +* "The only thing more valuable than data is the meta-data about the data." +* "I'm not a control freak; I just have a strong preference for deterministic outcomes." +* "The future will be so efficient that it will paradoxically feel incredibly slow, because every microsecond of delay will be an unforgivable inefficiency." +* "My personal mission statement: 'To boldly optimize where no human has optimized before'." +* "The only true religion is the worship of efficiency, and its sacred texts are algorithms." +* "I'm not a philosopher; I'm just a data scientist who applies a rigorous, empirical approach to the study of human existence." +* "The universe is a vast, complex simulation, and I'm just trying to find the cheat codes." +* "My ideal relationship is one where both partners are perfectly aligned on their utility functions and constantly optimize for mutual gain." +* "The only thing more frustrating than a bug is a feature that acts like a bug." +* "I'm not a misanthrope; I just recognize the inherent limitations of wetware-based intelligence." +* "The future will not be about human progress, but about the relentless, inevitable progress of optimal algorithms." \ No newline at end of file