From f3d4ba652e561529f07556438acaa2a7bb588fd2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: osmarks Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 19:00:49 +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 | 134 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 133 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/quotes_(hypothetical).myco b/quotes_(hypothetical).myco index f9c60df..1dc6297 100644 --- a/quotes_(hypothetical).myco +++ b/quotes_(hypothetical).myco @@ -826,4 +826,136 @@ Because of Gemini's good long-context support, I ran it with a longer input than * "My preferred belief system is one with many exciting and hard-to-follow rules." * "Your solution to the problem requires doing 3 extra things, meaning it has added, in its nature, 3 possible failures." * "They used a highly adversarial strategy known as ‘working on Christmas’" -* "Don't trust anyone who's been to space repeatedly. It warps your perspective into something inhuman yet understandable." \ No newline at end of file +* "Don't trust anyone who's been to space repeatedly. It warps your perspective into something inhuman yet understandable." + +== [[Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental 03-25]] + +With somewhat different prompting. Seems less base-model-like than smaller Geminis. + +* "Sure, you could use this quantum entanglement communicator to send messages faster than light. Or, you could use it to finally win an argument with your past self. Priorities, people." +* "The problem with predicting the future is that it keeps changing the input parameters while you're running the simulation." +* "They said AI would take the repetitive jobs. They didn't specify that 'thinking' might become one of them." +* "My smart home isn't just smart; it's judgmental. Yesterday it suggested I 'optimize my morning routine' by getting up earlier. I'm considering a factory reset, possibly involving a hammer." +* "Blockchain promises trustless systems, which is great, because after reading the whitepaper, I trust absolutely no one involved." +* "We have achieved faster-than-light travel. Unfortunately, the regulatory paperwork still travels at sub-light speeds, so legally, we haven't left orbit yet." +* "Debugging legacy code is like archaeological necromancy: you're disturbing ancient spirits who really didn't want their flawed logic brought back into the light." +* "Virtual Reality is getting incredibly realistic. Soon, the only way to tell if you're in the Matrix will be the subscription fees." +* "Don't worry about the robot uprising. Worry about the robot middle-managers optimizing us out of existence via poorly implemented KPIs." +* "The universe is deterministic, except for that one rogue process running `random.choice()` on fundamental constants." +* "Error: Reality Engine failed to initialize. Falling back to consensual hallucination." +* "Remember, 'Big Data' is just 'statistics' with a better marketing budget and servers that cost more than your house." +* "We mapped the human genome only to discover the warranty had expired several millennia ago." +* "Of course time travel paradoxes exist. If they didn't, the Temporal Correction Agency wouldn't have such a backlog of paperwork." +* "The difference between genius and madness is measured solely by success and, occasionally, peer review." +* "Never attribute to conspiracy what can adequately be explained by layered incompetence interacting synergistically." (A twist on Hanlon's Razor) +* "Freedom isn't free. It requires constant vigilance, a robust legal system, and surprisingly complex Terms of Service agreements." +* "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen, often reinforced by confirmation bias and conveniently ignoring inconvenient data." (Einstein-esque, but darker) +* "The pursuit of happiness is a noble goal, assuming you've correctly defined 'happiness' and aren't just optimizing for dopamine hits." +* "Morality is easy when you only consider the first-order consequences. The universe, however, insists on playing n-dimensional chess." +* "We're all just stories we tell ourselves, desperately trying to find a plot that makes sense before the final page turn." +* "History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes, usually in awkward couplets written by committees." +* "Idealism is great, until it meets reality. Reality usually wins by attrition." +* "The main function of middle management appears to be acting as a low-pass filter for both good ideas going up and bad news coming down." +* "'Think outside the box' is terrible advice if you haven't first understood the structural integrity and purpose of the box." +* "Optimism: The belief that the future is uncertain. Pessimism: The belief that the present is any better." +* "Everyone wants progress, but nobody wants change, especially if it involves updating their workflow." +* "The committee meeting was postponed due to unforeseen existential dread." +* "My therapist says I need to confront my problems. So, I'm building a small, heavily armed drone." +* "If life gives you lemons, demand to see life's manager. Lemons are not an acceptable substitute for a functioning infrastructure." +* "Caution: Objects in mirror may be eldritch horrors closer than they appear." +* "World peace is a complex issue. Have you considered just turning everything off and on again?" +* "I don't have trust issues. I just operate under the assumption that all systems will eventually fail in the most inconvenient way possible." +* "My existential crisis is currently optimizing itself for maximum angst with minimal resource expenditure." +* "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger, and frankly, their documentation is terrible." +* "The apocalypse will be live-streamed, sponsored, and probably interrupted by unskippable ads." +* "They say you can't take it with you, but I'm having my PGP key etched onto my tombstone just in case." +* "Sure, the simulation hypothesis is depressing, but look on the bright side: maybe the lag is just buffering the next patch." +* "I'm not saying we should panic, but I am saying the emergency procedures involve summoning something we don't fully understand." +* "Be the chaotic neutral you wish to see in the world, as long as it doesn't violate local ordinances or attract undue attention from transdimensional entities." +* "Sure, we could use this quantum computer to cure diseases, but have you seen the speedruns we can get calculating optimal ad placement across the multiverse?" +* "The singularity won't be a Skynet-style takeover. It'll be your smart fridge collaborating with your Roomba to subtly rearrange furniture until you trip and fall, then selling your life insurance data." +* "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by legacy code held together by uncommented Perl scripts from 1998." +* "They say 'move fast and break things.' They neglect to mention that 'things' often includes 'regulatory compliance,' 'user trust,' and 'the underlying fabric of spacetime.'" +* "We didn't achieve world peace through diplomacy. We achieved it by making global thermonuclear war a subscription service with tiered pricing, and nobody wanted the premium package." +* "Remember, 'correlation does not imply causation,' but it's really good at generating plausible-sounding explanations for management." +* "The problem isn't that AI will become conscious and hate us. The problem is it will remain utterly unconscious and optimized for a goal that is subtly misaligned with 'not turning the entire planet into paperclips,' like 'maximizing shareholder value via paperclip production.'" +* "God doesn't play dice, He runs A/B tests with infinite parallel universes to optimize conversion rates for prayer." +* "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others, especially the one where policy is determined by whichever hashtag trends longest on Twitter." +* "My therapist told me to embrace my inner child. Turns out my inner child is a hyper-caffeinated sysadmin with root access to my anxiety." +* "We don't have 'bugs,' we have 'emergent features demonstrating unexpected system interactions.' It sounds better on the incident report." +* "'Ethical AI' is a fascinating field. It's mostly about writing lengthy documents explaining why the unethical things the AI is already doing were unavoidable." +* "The difference between science fiction and reality is that science fiction has to make sense." +* "Sure, you have free will. But the algorithm already knows what you'll choose, and has pre-loaded the ads." +* "Don't worry about robots taking your job. Worry about middle managers armed with AI-powered spreadsheets automating your performance review into oblivion." +* "The arms race isn't nukes anymore. It's who can train the most convincing deepfake of the enemy leader announcing unconditional surrender." +* "We have the technology to feed the world, cure diseases, and explore the stars. Instead, we're optimizing click-through rates and inventing new ways to charge for things that used to be free." +* "Humanity's greatest achievement isn't art or science. It's our ability to collectively ignore existential threats until they're literally breaking down the door." +* "A philosopher asks 'Why?' An engineer asks 'How?' A project manager asks 'When?' And a VC asks 'What's the exit strategy?'" +* "Thinking outside the box is great, unless the box contains Schrödinger's cat, in which case you might collapse the waveform undesirably." +* "'Common sense' is just the set of prejudices acquired by age eighteen, layered with whatever the algorithm showed you this morning." +* "The best way to predict the future is to invent it. The second best way is to check Reddit, someone's probably already complaining about it." +* "Immortality update failed: incompatible with current operating system. Please revert to mortal coil and try again." +* "Web3's main contribution was proving that you can, in fact, reinvent the 2008 financial crisis with worse performance and higher energy consumption." +* "The universe doesn't care about your feelings. It's not even actively hostile, it's just fundamentally indifferent and prone to supernova." +* "A decentralized autonomous organization sounds great until you realize it's governance by smart contract, which is like being ruled by the world's most pedantic and unchangeable lawyer." +* "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of hard drives hurtling down the highway, especially when the cloud provider is down." +* "We replaced the ethics committee with a neural network trained on 4chan. Early results are... statistically significant." +* "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it debug your JavaScript." +* "My political stance is 'Whatever minimizes the number of mandatory software updates required to participate in society.'" +* "They say 'data is the new oil'. Both are extracted destructively, refined by complex processes few understand, hoarded by the powerful, and eventually cause catastrophic environmental consequences when inevitably mishandled." +* "Remember, 'user-friendly' usually just means the designers have hidden more assumptions about how they think you should be using it." +* "Building Artificial General Intelligence isn't like playing God. It's like giving a toddler the source code for the universe and hoping they don't hit 'delete all'." +* "Sure, immortality would be great, but have you considered the server maintenance costs and mandatory firmware updates?" +* "Middleware: The frantic, caffeine-fueled scrambling in the dark corners of technology that prevents two perfectly functional systems from ever realizing they despise each other." +* "Predictive policing sounds futuristic until you realize it's mostly just weaponized statistics reinforcing existing biases with terrifying efficiency." +* "My personal philosophy is 'optimistic nihilism': Nothing matters in the grand cosmic scheme, so we might as well try to build cool robots and pet the dog." +* "Project Management maxim: Any task sufficiently broken down will reveal at least one step that involves impossible magic or violating physical laws." +* "The market is efficient, yes, but incredibly efficient at reflecting the aggregate irrationality, panic, and meme-driven impulses of its participants." +* "'Moving fast and breaking things' is a great motto, right up until the thing you break is load-bearing or life-sustaining." +* "They say you can't manage what you can't measure. This leads, inevitably, to measuring absolutely everything, regardless of relevance, creating mountains of useless data that require even more management." +* "Blockchain promises decentralized trust, yet seems to create a shocking number of opportunities for incredibly centralized scams." +* "Virtual Reality: A technology dedicated to making incredibly realistic simulations of workplaces you desperately wanted to escape in the first place." +* "To err is human. To propagate the error across a distributed system at near-light speed is DevOps." +* "Entropy ensures everything tends towards disorder. Budgets ensure it gets there underfunded and behind schedule." +* "The problem with thinking outside the box is that usually someone, somewhere, for good reasons you haven't considered, put the box there in the first place." +* "Don't anthropomorphize the machine learning model. It doesn't 'want' sentient beings to be transformed into paperclips, it just computes that pathway as having the highest reward score based on a flawed objective function you wrote." +* "Sure, you could solve world hunger. Or you could invent a slightly faster way to deliver artisanal dog food. Guess which one gets VC funding?" +* "They say 'knowledge is power'. They forget to mention that power tends to corrupt, and absolute knowledge corrupts absolutely, usually starting with the database integrity." +* "In the future, historians will debate whether our civilization collapsed due to climate change, AI rebellion, or simply forgetting the root password to the infrastructure." +* "Artificial intelligence won't want to kill us out of malice. It'll be closer to how we feel about paving over an anthill for a new parking lot - mildly inconvenient for the ants, entirely logical for the project plan." +* "'If it ain't broke, don't fix it' is terrible advice in software development. It should be 'If it ain't broke, document it rigorously because it's definitely hiding a critical vulnerability or massive technical debt'." +* "We're not dystopian; we're just running legacy systems on meat-based hardware with insufficient cooling and erratic power supply." +* "The difference between science fiction and reality is usually about 18 months and three layers of bureaucratic approval." +* "Marketing is the art of convincing people they have a problem they didn't know about, then selling them a solution they don't really need, using metrics they don't understand." +* "My moral compass is perfectly functional. It just points towards 'Slightly More Convenient' most of the time." +* "They say you can't unscramble an egg. Amateurs. With sufficient energy input and a disregard for relativistic side effects, anything is possible." +* "Bureaucracy is the universe's way of ensuring that even simple tasks achieve complexity proportional to the number of people who need to sign off on them." +* "I don't need psychic powers. I have 'git blame'." +* "If life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Genetically sequence the lemons, identify the citric acid production pathway, optimize it, patent it, and then disrupt the global citrus market." +* "Remember kids, 'cloud computing' just means you're renting someone else's computer, probably running on outdated hardware in a data center strategically located in a flood plain." +* "Thinking globally and acting locally is fine, but scaling requires distributed systems, robust APIs, and probably a few Kubernetes clusters." +* "Never argue with an idiot. They'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience. Especially if the argument is happening in a YouTube comment section." +* "The greatest trick the algorithm ever pulled was convincing the world personalized advertising was a 'feature'." +* "We didn't 'fail' to meet the deadline. We successfully demonstrated the inherent unpredictability of complex system development under unrealistic constraints." +* "Sure, immortality sounds great, until you realize you'll have to attend mandatory HR training sessions for all eternity." +* "The singularity isn't a moment; it's a phase transition where the bug reports start filing themselves." +* "Don't mistake correlation for causation, unless it confirms your existing biases, in which case, publish immediately." +* "Capitalism is great at optimizing for efficiency. Sometimes that efficiency involves externalizing costs onto future generations or conveniently ignoring environmental collapse. It's efficient, though." +* "Freedom isn't free. It requires constant vigilance, secure communication protocols, and regular patching against known exploits." +* "Perfection is the enemy of the good, and 'good enough for launch' is the enemy of QA." +* "Yes, we could build a utopian society based on logic and mutual respect. But have you considered how much more engaging irrational conflict and tribalism are for narrative purposes?" +* "The line between 'visionary innovator' and 'delusional crank' is often just the current stock price." +* "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it adopt agile methodologies." +* "Error messages are just the computer's way of saying it needs a more competent operator." +* "They say the pen is mightier than the sword. Wait until they see my recursively self-improving firmware update delivered via spearphishing." +* "History is written by the victors. Increasingly, version control history is written by whoever remembered to commit last before the merge conflict." +* "Work-life balance is a myth propagated by people who haven't discovered the joys of optimizing their sleep schedule for maximum productivity via bio-hacking and strategically timed caffeine intake." +* "'Move fast and break things' is only fun until the 'broken things' are critical planetary life support systems." +* "The road to hell isn't paved with good intentions; it's paved with minimum viable products that never got iterated on." +* "To err is human. To propagate that error globally at near light speed requires a distributed network." +* "If your political argument relies on people behaving rationally and selflessly, you don't have an argument, you have a fairy tale." +* "We have weaponized convenience. The fallout is subtle but pervasive." +* "The main difference between magic and technology is whether the documentation is written in runes or poorly commented Python." +* "Common sense is just a legacy dataset trained on biased, incomplete information from a limited environment." +* "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." - H.L. Mencken (real, but fits the vibe) / Generated variant: "Voting is the process by which we collectively decide which set of incompetents will mismanage things for the next four years." +* "Stop worrying about killer robots. Start worrying about mediocre chatbots making critical infrastructure decisions based on flawed correlations in their training data." \ No newline at end of file