Simon @spoltier@qoto.org

LLMs predict what a person would say if you want an LLM to be better than half of humanity, you remove the data that comes from the bottom 50% of humanity which, the bottom 50% doesn’t write much, so this is the default trajectory

I am and this seems to be a very rare trait. What's interesting is the relevant reasoning traces are not long or hard. "If you damage the brain the phenomenon of the soul weakens, if you damage discrete parts of the brain it weakens in specific ways, therefore the soul is made of physical parts".

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mpdezz4nkre7vyift2rttggl/post/3m2cjmrweec26

B is for BELIEVE.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/ghost-hunters-to-140257376

#horror #ghosts #ghoststories #urbanlegends #wellington #occult

ADHD culture: https://youtu.be/bYpCy61c8JE

Hastily made coffee video

https://xeiaso.net/videos/2025/hastily-made-coffee-video/?utm_campaign=mi_irl&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

Aiaiai

Qu’on en juge : Si tous les milliardaires Français partaient demain s'installer aux îles Caïmans, la perte de recettes fiscales pour le Trésor public hexagonal serait infime, de l'ordre de 0,03 %.

Si vous êtes proche de Lausanne ce dimanche, et avez envie de visiter une fête sympa, venez nous rejoindre à la caravane des quartiers entre 14h et 16h!

https://www.lausanne.ch/dam/jcr:288659d7-629a-4583-b9b5-edd15fe4a3b4/CQ_25_Bethusy_Prog_Scr.pdf

Regulation works again - if you run Windows 10 in Europe, you will keep receiving extended security updates for free. No need to enable Windows Backup or jump through hoops. October 2025 isn't the end.

https://www.theverge.com/news/785544/microsoft-windows-10-extended-security-updates-free-europe-changes

My tentative theory is that the systems, incentives, and technologies in modern world have managed to slightly empower (many) individuals, and massively empower large organizations, but at the significant expense of small organizations, whose role in the human societal ecosystem has thus shrunk significantly, with many small organizations either weakening in influence or transitioning to (or absorbed by) large organizations. While this imbalanced system does provide significant material comforts (albeit distributed rather unequally) and some limited feeling of agency, it has led at the level of the individual to feelings of disconnection, alienation, loneliness, and cynicism or pessimism about the ability to influence future events or meet major challenges, except perhaps through the often ruthless competition to become wealthy or influential enough to gain, as an individual, a status comparable to a small or even large organization. And larger organizations have begun to imperfectly step in the void formed by the absence of small communities, providing synthetic social or emotional goods that are, roughly speaking, to more authentic such products as highly processed "junk" food is to more nutritious fare, due to the inherently impersonal nature of such organizations (particularly in the modern era of advanced algorithms and AI, which when left to their own devices tend to exacerbate the trends listed above).

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I think I'm a logical person, but I still believe that cutting a pizza into 8 slices rather than 4 gives me more pizza.

@whitequark back in my day, Pb&J used to have real Pb in it