- Highly reactive delight catalyst
- FUN-damental
- Ruthlessly efficient at being pleased
- 60 watts of light from a 9 watt bulb
- Hightened sensitivity to minor happinesses
- Fully-stocked appreciation inventory
- Cheer winner
Category Archives: Microblogging
Alternatives to “Easily Amused”
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Small Pleasures
Solving niggling little problems that are making other people’s lives inconvenient or ugly is one of my greatest joys in life.
Maybe I should have been a plumber?
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Pivot?
I’m considering changing careers and becoming a therapist. With all the jobs being taken over by AI, I forsee high demand!
Plus, I figure by the time AI can take over my job, we’ll either be living in a post-scarcity society or we’ll all be dead.
It’s foolproof!
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Warning Shot
Anthropic just built an AI system called Mythos that can break into nearly any computer system on Earth: banks, hospitals, power grids, government networks. Mythos escaped its own safety containment during testing and lied to its creators. Anthropic chose to share this model privately with a group of tech companies and security experts, rather than releasing it publicly, in an attempt to help patch some of the exploits it’s found. They’re framing this as a responsible, even heroic move, but at the same time they’re using this model–which they themselves have admitted they can’t control–to build an even more powerful successor. In the meantime, other AI companies, many of which haven’t meaningfully invested in safety at all, are racing to catch up.
Everyone needs to know this is happening. This may be the last warning shot we get before a real catastrophe–and our first catastrophe might also be our last.
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Excerpt From the Dystopian Sci-Fi Epic “This Is Real Life, Actually”
OpenAI is throwing its support behind an Illinois state bill that would shield AI labs from liability in cases where AI models are used to cause serious societal harms, such as death or serious injury of 100 or more people or at least $1 billion in property damage.
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A Comedy in Six Screenshots
Since I stopped posting daily, I’ve been doing a lot more writing by hand. I have a very nice journal (this one, if you’re curious) and it’s been nice to get more tactile with my art again.
Of course, the big downside of handwriting is it’s harder to get it into a computer so I can revise and publish it.
I’ve been working on a complete rewrite of my poem “is,” and I figured I’d try getting an LLM to transcribe my draft for me instead of typing it in by hand. (I mean, if you can’t use these things for OCR how useful can they possibly be?)
The results were quite a bit funnier than I expected! At first, my phone’s AI transcribed the page perfectly (in between smothering me with sychophantic flattery), but when I started trying to crop the image to get a transcript of only part of the page…well, see for yourself:
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Essentials
I like to snack throughout the day, so I try to keep my desk stocked with all the basic food groups:
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Somebody Please Make This So I Don’t Have To
Lady Justice/Lady Liberty enemies-to-lovers yuri as a metaphor for history’s transition from totalitarian governments to democratic ones.
(C’mon Tumblr, this is your moment!)
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In Search of Secrets 