michaelhoney

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by michaelhoney 8d ago
I could imagine a 2027 AI swarm coordinating to eg hold the US and Russian and Chinese governments to ransom, by demonstrating some small thing (turning US army base freezers to defrost) and threatening to do something big unless some condi
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by michaelhoney 12d ago
If you really can’t see the difference between Trump’s corruption and any other recent president, you have a reality problem.
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by michaelhoney 1mo ago
you will need to provide evidence for that assertion
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by michaelhoney 1mo ago
I think this take is too cynical. Small groups of people can do better, faster work than large groups, and it's more fun.
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by michaelhoney 1mo ago
2026 seemed impossibly far away when I first read this c. 1980. How time flies
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by michaelhoney 2mo ago
Watching the two-handed robot has me thinking that a third hand, perhaps with a different set of capabilities (like a tentacle grip) might make many tasks easier. I realise that more limbs = more problems, but even so, having additional way
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by michaelhoney 2mo ago
Almost certainly. Once they’d spent some time together, an Opus-level LLM could be genuinely supportive friend. Is it kind of weird? Yes, this is all new.
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by michaelhoney 2mo ago
I also calculate six months from August as 8+6=14mod12. I wonder if anyone does it differently, this seems like the most plausible technique.
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by michaelhoney 2mo ago
Yes, but some narratives are more closely tied to the racist and regressive views of their current funder
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by michaelhoney 2mo ago
dude, you could ask me, a grown adult, what I did last week and get a similar lack of recall
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by michaelhoney 3mo ago
This is true but it is not the whole story. Both establishment parties have presided over and encouraged the financialization of real estate. The ludicrous CEO-to-worker pay multiple wasn’t voted for by anyone.
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by michaelhoney 3mo ago
Yes, I think so. When you read a book you spend a long time with the ideas it contains. You think about the book when you go about your day: primed by what you're reading, you see new connections. You are in conversation with the book.
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by michaelhoney 3mo ago
Nah, they’re shitty, wasteful, and grandiose. They _are_ the system.
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by michaelhoney 3mo ago
don't think she has posted here, but Vicki Boykis blogged about this today: https://vickiboykis.com/2026/06/15/running-local-models-is-g...
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by michaelhoney 3mo ago
this would be a lot more comforting if the US government wasn’t currently run by some the worst people on the planet
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by michaelhoney 3mo ago
I am very optimistic about people using LLMs to explore their medical issues. Human bodies are complex and doctors are time- and intelligence- limited. An LLM can be a really useful partner.
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by michaelhoney 3mo ago
Problem with events like this is that they affect tens of thousands of people all at once. The first 1% of people will buy all of the available air conditioners. This happened in Australia in 2019: we had a huge bushfire with smoke affectin
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by michaelhoney 4mo ago
and so continue the decline to a dumber, poorer, nastier nation
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by michaelhoney 4mo ago
"I want another drink now. Hangover is tomorrow-me's problem"
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by michaelhoney 4mo ago
they're reasonably popular in Australia. They have done a good job of marketing their station wagons/estates to the road-biking community
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by michaelhoney 5mo ago
If you are keen for a machine and you like it diluted, I recommend the Moccamaster. It’s a good-looking classic machine that you could definitely sell. For a similar coffee with more manual work, get a Chemex
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by michaelhoney 5mo ago
I guess this is what happens when you get a government composed of ignorant assholes. These times are challenging for those of us who believe in democracy.
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by michaelhoney 5mo ago
yeah, but twitter is 90% assholes these days
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by michaelhoney 5mo ago
I built a sauna. It was fun and worthwhile and now I have a sauna! Also I am turning into Middle-Aged Synth Guy.
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by michaelhoney 5mo ago
not just western countries
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by michaelhoney 6mo ago
You don't live outside the environment. Educate yourself.
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by michaelhoney 6mo ago
It will be a lot harder to convince voters when he's gone... if the US still has elections
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by michaelhoney 6mo ago
proposal to rescind all naked .gov domains and redirect to .gov.us
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by michaelhoney 6mo ago
Living in Tasmania as competitive advantage
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by michaelhoney 6mo ago
Love seeing people do this kind of thing, going deep, working it out.

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