People keep asking me, and I haven’t really had an answer, but now yeah, I’m thinking I’m back.

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Cake day: March 18th, 2025

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  • The only things that really impress me are the things I have zero ability in at all: drawing character sketches of my roleplaying characters, composing music…

    Do you suppose that is the result of Gell-Mann Amneisa?

    You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues… and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

    You know how to program, so you know the AI sucks at programming. You know it sucks at poetry, synthesis research, etc etc. You don’t know how to draw, but do you suppose the AI is good at drawing?






  • LibreOffice will function perfectly fine for a single user taking classroom notes, or making a presentation, or a spreadsheet, or what have you. You might notice it crash occasionally, but in the dozen or so times it crashed on me, it has a 100% success rate at recovering the file. It’s kind of remarkable.