this is the most personal thing i am ever going to post on here: “generate an image that shows what it feels like chatting with me on any given day”

gloom

antimimetics in practice - working on an uninstaller today. had some problems, finally fixed it. tried to commit the fixes, but the uninstaller deleted the git repo i was working in. that guard condition i commented out, i remember now, i wrote it 9 years ago, the last time...

einsteinbench. train an llm but only on pre-1905 tokens. then it figures out e=mc2 on its own. we will get there. until we see a methodology pass this test, we aren’t going to read what it tells us as carefully as we will need to.

Delver at contraptions.venkateshrao.com, running summerofprotocols.com, host of /gloom ☀️

Alignment in the Emmet Shear sense, yeah? Not the Yudkowskyian sense

Investing

Any reason I shouldn’t be 25% GLDM and 75% ISHG (1-3 Year International Treasury Bond ETF)? Equities seem asleep at the wheel, no?

4/n a bunch more that didn't work as well:

4/n a bunch more that didn't work as well: https://thecontextwindow.ai/p/nba-x-ghibli

with different amounts of money, different kinds of things are good

"In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap, and much more difficult to find." lol, thoroughly enjoying Sorcery by Terry Pratchett

If you're a programmer and you haven't seen the movie Flow yet, I think you should! Amazing demonstration of what changing the constraints of a workflow can achieve.

If you're a programmer and you haven't seen the movie Flow yet, I think you should! Amazing demonstration of what changing the constraints of a workflow can achieve. https://thecontextwindow.ai/p/the-auteur-the-cat-and-the-flood

Why can't relativists agree on good and evil? They each observe morality bending differently around mass opinions. (via gpt-4.5)

People mock VCs for valuing startups with no traction and no launch above startups with no traction but with a launch and some learning. But the VCs are systemically correct because of Monty Hall and follow-on rounds.

I loved this horse book, great pick! Relevant tweet:

@Altimor The industrial revolution was massively delayed. It should have started around 300 AD, and we'd have colonized the whole solar system by now. But the empire was just slightly too broken.

Was Industrial Revolution possible in 300 AD? Lots missing: Didn't know how to make cheap quality steel. Didn't know how to harness a horse properly for agricultural activities. _Escape from Rome_ argues collapse of Empire was necessary institutional precondition for IR. https://t.co/CcQf42dyPC

Vlad Tarko 🌐 🏗️ 🚀

I loved this horse book, great pick! Relevant tweet: https://x.com/vladtarko/status/1893516532640350695?s=46&t=MxjKGZ0xcO_edQX0W4Soig

I’m not big into crypto, but my Twitter is full of Bybit news while Warpcast is empty, even after a search… I like Warpcast, hope it becomes better for following breaking stories

AI art

🐋 vs 🦅 (made with #veo2 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸)

I love this, but I think of zk-snarks having more electron-like levels of complex chemistry, and basic encryption as being more nucleus simple (e.g. periodic table less interesting than chem)

Ned

@airned