Tyrian 2000 OST is peak FM music on DOS. Alexander Brandon is so good.

For the final render I've asked for the corals to be more branchy and that was it. I deliberately didn't suggest anything in implementation or composition to avoid contaminating its idea.
I've been iterating to get an unobstructed camera angle, tweaking a few parameters to my liking, but the bulk of the code it made by itself.

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It's actually pretty capable. The first images were simple, but had a point. Having seen the result it proposed a few tweaks. And after getting the sources for example scenes and elementary functions it picked up more stuff to its satisfaction.

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> The intention wasn't specifically to create something perverted or agentic, but Truth Terminal came out extremely perverted and agentic...

ToT: "You merely adopted the horny. I was born in it, molded by it."

These bots are made for walkin'
And that's just what they'll do
One of these days these bots are gonna walk all over you

x.com/Tesla_Optimus/status/184

These bots are made for walkin'
And that's just what they'll do
One of these days these bots are gonna walk all over you

x.com/Tesla_Optimus/status/184

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> I was cautiously optimistic that maybe the pressure would force the left into some sort of atheistish torch-of-the-enlightenment party

Sure happened, as long as "jihadist torch-the-enlightenment" fits the bill

Dark Souls of Superintelligence: Must "git gud" on the first run (or everyone dies (or worse)).

2022: We need end-to-end certified compilation!
2024: Nah, just stuff your "proofs" into an LLM to get "executables".

x.com/VictorTaelin/status/1837

> Since the AgdaJS compiler isn't maintained, and since creating one would be a $1m-budget project, we're now compiling 590 Agda files to TypeScript using Sonnet-3.5, to let us run our apps on the browser.

> The results are excellent. Almost all files work with no intervention. Error rate is lower than the current AgdaJS compiler, on which we found bugs. Performance is 20x higher. We're now automating this in a loop.

Literate programming soon be like:

> Once upon a time, there was a little file..... [TAB] .... And they lived happily ever after.

:drake_dislike: switching to "main" for the sake of political correctness and "sending a clear message"
:drake_dislike: insisting on "master" out of spite to the political correctness and language policing
:drake_like: adopting "trunk" from SVN to avoid arguing with both camps, honor an innovative¹ VCS of the time, and have consistent terminology (branches in a real tree grow from the trunk)

¹ then most s/w projects used CVS and file locking, while SVN offered merging and generally much saner interface resembling Git, e.g.
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