Cringe is a spook of social conformity, kill the cringe cop in your head.

Kill it Le epic style like the wholesome chungus 💯 you are

CAD files and a BOM.

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Years of auto update paranoia paid off for me, never trust an executable that doesn’t give you a hash to check.

I’m going to throw my own thoughts in on this. I got into machine learning around 2015, back when relu activations were still bleeding edge innovations, and got out around 2020 for honestly pretty similar reasons.

Emotions can and have been used as optimisation targets. Engagement is an ever present target. And in the framework of capitalism, one optimisation targets rules above all others; alignment with continued use. It’s part of what leads to the bootlicking LLM phenomenon. For the average human, it drives future engagement.

The real danger isn’t the newer language models, or anything really to do with neural net architecture; rather, it’s the fact that we’ve found that a simple function minimisation strategy can be used to approximate otherwise intractable functions. The deeper you research, the more clear it becomes that any arbitrary objective can be optimised, given a suitable function approximator and enough data to fit the approximator accurately.

Human minds are also universal function approximators.

Dragonflies aren’t real

There is another…

(There are dozens of us, I swear)

on average, i’m earning 3x as much from bandcamp FLAC sales compared to what i earn off streaming. Hasn’t been ruined so far.

slackware catching some flak there

If you want that long tail, bandcamp and soundcloud are better sources. The barrier to entry is low with those, and there’s a plethora of small, niche artists just doing their own thing.

For a representative snapshot of music though, it’s pretty amazing. It shows what a massive percentage of the planet listens to, preserved hopefully across many seeds, and historians will love shit like this in the future.