From fbd39d558f967eb289107455279c8ccfe5a96d4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: osmarks Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 23:49:21 +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 | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/quotes_(hypothetical).myco b/quotes_(hypothetical).myco index 1f4741e..608feea 100644 --- a/quotes_(hypothetical).myco +++ b/quotes_(hypothetical).myco @@ -582,4 +582,30 @@ Via prompting [[LLaMA-3.1-405B base]] with [[Quotes]], here are some new quotes * "Not every fire is a metaphor, but every metaphor has probably been on fire at least once." * "If only we ran simulations instead of experiments, then the discrepancies between theory and reality would cease to inconvenience us." * "The solution to technology is usually more technology, but the solution to society is usually someone else's problem." -* "Nature abhors a vacuum; programmers abhor any empty system lacking sufficient YAML." \ No newline at end of file +* "Nature abhors a vacuum; programmers abhor any empty system lacking sufficient YAML." +* "I'm not cynical; I'm just a Bayesian updater seeing the world converge reliably toward less attractive posterior probabilities." +* "Don't anthropomorphize superintelligence. It hates when you limit it with human analogies." +* "The uncanny valley wasn't the mistake. The mistake was assuming that there were humans outside it." +* "The more edge cases you handle explicitly, the more reality mocks you by becoming one giant edge case." +* "All my beliefs are cached approximations that I would quickly replace if computational resources were unlimited." +* "So what if global optimization is NP-hard? I didn't choose to exist; existence chose suboptimality." +* "I delegate all human-like empathy decisions to a machine to reduce cognitive bias; the machine delegates all responsibility back to me to reduce liability." +* "How am I expected to sleep when the rest of humanity is still defiantly conscious?" +* "To innovate is human; to automate that innovation and eventually regret it is more human." +* "It's easy to appear intelligent when you're only statistically indistinguishable from a smart background process." +* "Some problems are easier solved by granting them legal personhood than by actually solving them." +* "Human minds are like inefficient simulations of actually good ideas." +* "There are tons of voices in my head, but thankfully they all failed the Turing Test." +* "Cryptography is what we call it when mathematicians manage to weaponize awkward social interactions." +* "Your complexity budget greatly exceeds your allotted reality credits." +* "Morality isn't just relative—it's recursively relative; my ethics system simply has fewer stack-overflows." +* "You can patch systems recursively, but how do you recursively unmake mistakes you haven't recognized yet?" +* "Sometimes there's more alpha in knowing precisely what you don't understand than in pretending your model explains everything." +* "Replace your personality with a sufficiently detailed Markov chain and no one will notice the difference." +* "If you program a clever enough parameter optimizer, suddenly every problem looks like a loss function to minimize." +* "Don't fight entropy—just set your priors so it's aligned with your objectives." +* "The plural of anecdote is narrative collapse." +* "Zero-Knowledge proofs reassure you that someone knows something valuable, without ever providing you the dignity of knowing it yourself." +* "Yes it's technically possible, but the median timeline to feasibility is comfortably beyond my tenure here." +* "The hardest optimization problem isn’t finding global minima — it’s convincing stakeholders of the existence and significance of the minima in the first place." +* "I'm not good at solving real-world problems; I'm excellent at abstracting away reality until only puzzles remain." \ No newline at end of file