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Charlie Loyd
@vruba.bsky.social
A pixel/geography/other person in Oakland. With @rahawahaile.bsky.social. Marginally more active at @vruba@everything.happens.horse on mastodon. He/him.
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Spent a minute eating a slice of cheese in the kitchen doorway and worrying that the ants may be eating the borax agar before they fall in the pitcher plant, poisoning it.

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If you post once a day about how bad NFTs or the Cybertruck or coal power are, I probably agree with you, but in functional terms what you’re doing to my feed is alllmost exactly the same as if you were posting that much about how great they are. Maybe just … don’t.

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I love working with a new dataset designed by meteorologists because the ways they’ve decided to organize it are always a series of wonderful surprises. Normally you have to buy a plane ticket to be immersed in an environment in which people’s choices and vocabularies make almost exactly zero sense.

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I keep listening to the radio out of Asheville and hearing a person calling in to locate folks and another calling back to say they just went and checked on them because they’re nearby and no they don’t know them but they’re okay—we do not need cops after disaster, we do need community radio

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here to help

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look not to be that guy but anyone writing about Spruce Pine, risk to quartz supply, and alternative sourcing: I wrote a deeply researched paper on the history of HPQ sourcing in the semiconductor industry and I've actually been to Spruce Pine unlike Conway doi.org/10.1109/MAHC...

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Okay, folks. I’ve been asked by a lot of friends who aren’t following the AI discourse to sort of clarify what the main camps are arguing, how they approach the issues, etc. As a thoughtful observer, I’m happy to provide this orienting service. No questions or comments, please. Hope it helps!

A sort of Venn-ish diagram with two overlapping circles, one for AI maximalists and the other for AI skeptics. These are presented as thesis and antithesis. Each contains various qualities attributed to the shallow booster or the shallow skeptic, such as “Considers bad arguments against AI maximalism equivalent to good arguments for it” and “Advocates an IP law framework so harsh and intrusive that it makes Metallica seem like Phish”. Then, off to the side, there’s a third bubble that clearly represents a self-regarding author, and lightly satirizes my own sort of annoying “enlightened centrist” views, with entries such as “Knows that AI is just fancy curve-fitting and also knows that curve-fitting is crucial to addressing certain problems”. The overall tone is a sort of overly sincere look at different views in such a way as to make everyone as angry as possible.
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Charlie Loyd
@vruba.bsky.social
A pixel/geography/other person in Oakland. With @rahawahaile.bsky.social. Marginally more active at @vruba@everything.happens.horse on mastodon. He/him.
305 followers248 following374 posts