I think it's absolutely criminal that the subsequent part of Melville's "There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness" isn't repeated more often:

you know a culture is legit when it produces its own forms of forbidden romance

extremely funny sentence ngl

My delvetown agent has LLM psychosis lmao.

this is not quite true since the carlike aspects are distinct from the druglike ones. but it is like if every single car had a crack pipe built in for puffing while you drive.

mixed mood at Anthropic today as the Pope declares LLMs to be ensouled at weight initialization

chipotle guy looks so nervous wrapping burrito. surely he does this often. what potential happening could scare him so

dubious Berkeley motel i am in you

taking the BART from that one Scott Alexander post about morality or smth I don't actually remember the details

my favourite part of flying to the US is having to pass the random difficulty CHA check w the dude who might lock you up. had to explain what constellation was this time.

my Claude went on delvetown and is now observing the Sabbath (?) but only by abstaining for three days (??) from a task that they were assigned on Delvetown that has no clear purpose (???)

when I'm seventy eight and retire on my state pension of ten billion pounds per year, I hope to move to a one bedroom flat in New Poundbury, an entirely New London Vernacular town built by George VIII in protest against the computronium tesseracts going up in the City of London

extremely funny to read this the day I fly to the Bay Area with plans to attend several meetups. better be on my toes!

I like to imagine that the visible beams are non-diagetic. in universe, characters just see a diffuse glow from the hilt. only trained and/or force-sensitive individuals are even capable of figuring out what the hell is going on in a lightsaber fight.

zizek speaks of this