Charlie Loyd @vruba@everything.happens.horse

Also, it’s for sale: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6300-Stephens-Ranch-Rd-La-Verne-CA-91750/21656575_zpid/

Vacation update: learned today that the ramshackle hotel-like building in the non-fancy hills above LA where I spent my first ~4 years in a group household of impoverished academics and LSD-addled post-hippies was not simply, as I had been told, “a former dude ranch”, but more specifically the vacation spot that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moye_W._Stephens built for rowdy weekends with his famous friends, and he would occasionally drop by to have an awkward conversation.

@sgillies I had a light lunch and this is making me hungry again.

@migurski doing meteorology but entirely as divination: if a spiral you seem to see / it’ll be breezy for thee

That explains this wind. https://botsin.space/@dscovr_epic/110483994774840848

Am on vacation and thus less online than usual, and I can report that from this distance the bad discourse is still bad but the small amount of good discourse is still good. Hope this perspective helps everyone make good choices.

@emma @olihawkins Agreed that lack of insight into hallucination is not essential: thus my pains over “in general”.

I’m saying something weaker, which is that being wrong and not knowing it also happens to people sometimes, and in ways that are more LLM-like than I think some of the fiercer LLM critics are doing justice to. (The range of valid criticisms of things people say about LLMs remains vast, to be clear.)

@olihawkins That is, in general, a person who is hallucinating does not realize they are hallucinating. Just as, in general, a person dreaming does not realize they are dreaming. “In general” used advisedly – there are certainly clear exceptions in both cases.

@olihawkins I think I broadly agree with the root idea here, but I don’t think this is actually at odds with our original, human-oriented definition of hallucinations.

@timbray There is some law of nature, as yet undiscovered, that makes good software mostly incompatible with photography. They’re like charges or something.

@beep Almost eight billion of us living on the beta version of Bryce.

@meetar Like I said: blessed.

My homeworld? Oh, it’s beautiful. Covered in oceans and life. Swirling clouds everywhere. Plankton, whales, enormous trees with feathered arms. Ants! Twenty quadrillion of them! Elephants, manatees! The aurora. It’s incredible. And of course there’s 400 km of what looks like the binding of a cheap encyclopedia under you at all times.

The planet that’s going to get around to that after it gets the wood veneer in the basement removed.

Earth, the planet decorated like the pizza place you have to convince your friends is actually good.

“Me? Oh, Earth. Yes … yes, the one that looks like the plinth of a little league trophy. Very funny. We actually have a great food truck scene these days.”

A planet that looks like it was trying and failing to rip off Enya in 1997.

“Professional” Winamp skin–ass planet.