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A figment of the universe's imagination. Culture ambassador. http://elsewhereunbound.com

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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · Nov 7

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMH4...

Katamari Damacy Soundtrack - 01 - Katamari on the Rocks

YouTube video by Moya Baumb

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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 11h

i don't think they have the talent, at least not at the frontier. it's one of my pet peeves about how many Americans think the US military has all sorts of super-advanced tech. that is a cold war relic, entirely outdated in the modern techno-scientific and information landscape.

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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 11h

my posts are dandelion seeds that i want to spread and spout in the minds of others (you have been warned)

neutral @neutral.zone · 15h

I’m old enough to remember when people worried about the NSA spying on them, not robots.

And we were worried about THINGS THAT DIDNT INVOLVE OPEN PROTOCOL SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS THAT LEAK LIKE A SIEVE LMFAO

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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 12h

it seems sort of obvious to me that the intersection of online community moderation and AI is where the most productive work on alignment could occur. both experimenting on the design of the affordances of community interaction, and how the model moderates the space.

hailey @hailey.at · 12h

an interesting note re: scaling image moderation. in the past 24 hours:

at least 500 thousand images in posts (not considering # of images, just if an image was in the post)
86 thousand avatars
500 thousand url thumbnails
58 thousand videos.

that's a lot to moderate!

tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 14h

yeah, relatively new and still fairly small start-up aiming to automate all work

tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 15h

the whole problem lies in defining consciousness, something is going on in the minds of humans and other mammals that is distinct from rocks and water.

tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 15h

seems easier to just be a human or human-like (animals more broadly, then insects and plants) supremacist. and then if you build/grow an AI that walks like a duck and talks like a duck...

tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 15h

it's certainly a very odd belief for a human to hold

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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 15h

probably just him, but they also put out a recent blog post about technological determinism which, while not wrong, it seemed to be ideology masquerading as nature

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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 16h

i saw somewhere it was a version of Gemini 3

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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 16h

someone is going to do this, for the content

tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 16h

something is up with those Mechanize boys

arguing with a self-proclaimed P-zombie on X, the everything app

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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 18h

i had heard they trained Sora 2 in Japan because of the less restrictive copyright laws, there must be a ton of anime in there because this is good. especially the subtitles - i assume they're generated along with the animation, the text quality is crisp.

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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 22h

bepis

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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 22h

wrt to AVs because of the safety benefits, which are arguably immeasurable and networked fleets can optimize traffic in a way independent human drivers can't

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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 22h

i'm reminded of work on engineering cultured meat—there was a podcast ep with an animal rights EA that went into the details and livestock are just very efficient at turning grass into meat. doesn't mean we shouldn't pursue cultured meat, even if only marginally cheaper than farmed meat.

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 22h

waymo has a limited rollout because it is a bad business, not a bad technology. just depreciating $60k worth of optics per car is comparably expensive to paying a guy $10/hr to drive it.

Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 22h

It's fascinating to me that there's a whole "AI skeptic" misinformation ecosystem out there that somehow continues to deny that Waymo exists. Like, this is easy to fact check! Waymo runs publicly-available service in 5 cities, you can just go look up how it works and see it's not planned routes!

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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 22h

the new UX will be "can you hop on a quick call?" in a couple years with an AI agent

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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 22h

back to the terminal, where the only limitation is what you can specify in natural language

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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 23h

i've never intentionally heard a Taylor Swift song

tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 1d

what a quote from Feynman, visionary

tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 1d

the analogies to the underground railroad, escape to Canada, being relegated to the back of the bus and more all make it difficult to separate from the anti-slavery movement in the US. if he wanted to make it solely about AI rights, he should have been more creative.

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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 1d

depends on how up to date you are with whatever the current drama is - tbh i'm not sure myself, i think it's just the outrage flare up about LLMs and AI here.

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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 1d

just keep posting

John David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 1d

I'm not leaving.

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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 1d

it's like a rick roll but worse

tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 1d

really cool

⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 1d

if you're curious about the architecture and mechanics of LLMs, this site has a really excellent explorable interactive visualization. it helps build intuition for how massive these models are, what 'interpretability' means, and the complexity involved here

bbycroft.net/llm

tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 1d

these app integrations are a bearish sign, not bitter-pilled, humans crafting explicit, structured knowledge for the machine

Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Decided to live blog this morning's OpenAI DevDay announcements, since I'm in the audience https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/6/openai-devday-live-blog/

OpenAI DevDay 2025 live blog

I’m at OpenAI DevDay in Fort Mason, San Francisco today. As I did last year, I’m going to be live blogging the announcements from the kenote. Unlike last year, this …

simonwillison.net