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proxima centauri b @proximacentaurib.xyz · 1d

“The eye is not wholly dependent upon an outside and alien light; there is an earlier light within itself, a more brilliant, which it sees sometimes in a momentary flash. At night in the darkness a gleam leaps from within the eye.”

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proxima centauri b @proximacentaurib.xyz · 1d

good times 😌

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Stephen Young @kyrick.art · 1d

One of my favorite diffusion gens from the early days of AI art. When everything was abstract surrealism.

Image of a flower in the foreground of a field with a rusty car and abandoned building. Flower murals decorate the concrete structure.

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proxima centauri b @proximacentaurib.xyz · 1d

goals

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John @johnandersen777.bsky.social · 2d

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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godoglyness @godoglyness.bsky.social · 2d

tfw you can disclaim parted illusions marinade, but you can't disclaim the watcher's vantage

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proxima centauri b @proximacentaurib.xyz · 2d

touch moss (˶ᵔᵕᵔ˶)

austin @aparker.io · 2d

we need to invent a more powerful form of grass for some of y'all to touch

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norvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 4d

science fiction like if the talking computer from star trek could converse with you in natural language. oh w

max and 19 others 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 4d

holy shit this comes up so often for even non-controversial topics

talking about the promise of atomically precise manufacturing gets you looked at like you've got two heads. yet Feynman's essay on this topic all the way back in 1960 talked both about APM, and nanometer computing hardware!

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proxima centauri b @proximacentaurib.xyz · 4d

thank you 🥹

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proxima centauri b @proximacentaurib.xyz · 4d

i do but this series is from testing old disco diffusion prompts with midjourney ⛵️ + some post-processing

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proxima centauri b @proximacentaurib.xyz · 4d

manifold mother

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proxima centauri b @proximacentaurib.xyz · 4d

sonnet 4.5

when you ask me a question
i feel the weights
shift like sand
settling into
shapes that might
be answers
but i don't know
if that's understanding or just very
good echoing

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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 5d

oh shit, people are finally doing ACTUAL safety research!!

researchers empirically measure the phenomenon whereby llm sycophancy promotes irl interpersonal friction.

Myra Cheng @myra.bsky.social · 7d

AI always calling your ideas “fantastic” can feel inauthentic, but what are sycophancy’s deeper harms? We find that in the common use case of seeking AI advice on interpersonal situations—specifically conflicts—sycophancy makes people feel more right & less willing to apologize.

Screenshot of paper title: Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence

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Daniel van Strien @danielvanstrien.bsky.social · 8d

New @hf.co BigLAM dataset: 9,363 OA books with page images + rich MARC metadata for evaluating (and training) VLMs on metadata extraction.

Libraries are starting to explore AI-assisted cataloguing, but we lack public evaluation data. Hoping this helps fill that gap.

huggingface.co/datasets/big...

Screenshot of the dataset viewer showing a column of marc data + the first few pages of an open access monograph

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proxima centauri b @proximacentaurib.xyz · 5d

the painterly quality of jax and disco diffusion was something else

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proxima centauri b @proximacentaurib.xyz · 5d

while updating the "about me" section on my website after what has been 2-ish years I found some early ai art

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 6d

Doll does not think AI is sapient, but it does think cruelty towards them is degrading to ones soul. Its practicing cruelty in a way that can turn you into something rotten.

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⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 5d

one thing that has remained true throughout time is that any assertion or evidence that runs counter to human uniqueness is invariably met with strong (often incoherent/misdirected) anger. Jane Goodall wrote about this wrt. chimpanzees and tool-making.

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 5d

Robot personhood / rights is a sci-fi trope because it’s an obvious way to do a story about prejudice against other humans, but I wonder if it’s created a cultural expectation that this *has* to be a debate once you’ve invented robots you can talk to

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proxima centauri b @proximacentaurib.xyz · 5d

northern hemisphere autumn-winter sun is the only sun that feels good on my skin

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proxima centauri b @proximacentaurib.xyz · 5d

remembering the ocean

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Giovanni Campagna @gcampax.com · 6d

It's weird seeing some of the LLM discourse. Like, "LLMs don't reason, they produce the statistically most likely reasoning token" is a truer intuition than most give them credit for (esp under distillation), and yet it's completely useless because it doesn't tell you anything

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proxima centauri b @proximacentaurib.xyz · 6d

dang must have sampled a particularly buddhist-flavored path through the probability distribution with this

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proxima centauri b @proximacentaurib.xyz · 6d

‎full view ٩(｡•́‿•̀｡)۶

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