⏱📋David Steinberg⏱📋
@zzyzx.bsky.social
Phish Stats, Math Geek, Doctor Who fan. Occasionally embodies the joy of Phish. Le Minuteur était aussi un Aggie
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⏱📋David Steinberg⏱📋
@zzyzx.bsky.social
· Oct 26
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1/5 photos of random shit with funny captions
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1/2 Phish/Grateful Dead/jamgrass
1/4 politics/Judaism
1/5 photos of random shit with funny captions
1/20 misc
Bring back #lawngirl!
February 11, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Bring back #lawngirl!
Oh, oops. Game is oldest selfie on your phone.
February 11, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Oh, oops. Game is oldest selfie on your phone.
6/7/18 at a work gathering. Probably not a selfie but good enough.
February 11, 2026 at 12:42 AM
6/7/18 at a work gathering. Probably not a selfie but good enough.
I mean it was a great school at least in the 90s but this is getting very ugly
February 11, 2026 at 12:34 AM
I mean it was a great school at least in the 90s but this is getting very ugly
This is why I like just being known in a subculture.
February 10, 2026 at 11:11 PM
This is why I like just being known in a subculture.
He can talk to snakes, read Voldemort's moods, and has a natural affinity towards both learning and teaching DADA spells so there's some things there.
February 10, 2026 at 9:12 PM
He can talk to snakes, read Voldemort's moods, and has a natural affinity towards both learning and teaching DADA spells so there's some things there.
Yud.
I don't think he wants people to leave engineering.Rather he wants all AI to be destroyed.
I don't think he wants people to leave engineering.Rather he wants all AI to be destroyed.
February 10, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Yud.
I don't think he wants people to leave engineering.Rather he wants all AI to be destroyed.
I don't think he wants people to leave engineering.Rather he wants all AI to be destroyed.
He doesn't get the option that maybe this might just be mediocre tech at all. It's a few rich stock holders or Terminator.
February 10, 2026 at 8:00 PM
He doesn't get the option that maybe this might just be mediocre tech at all. It's a few rich stock holders or Terminator.
Optimists.
His belief is that AI will take over the armies and enslave and/or kill us all. The optimist point of view he's saying is that a few stockholders get rich and the rest of us desperately try to curry favor with them.
His belief is that AI will take over the armies and enslave and/or kill us all. The optimist point of view he's saying is that a few stockholders get rich and the rest of us desperately try to curry favor with them.
February 10, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Optimists.
His belief is that AI will take over the armies and enslave and/or kill us all. The optimist point of view he's saying is that a few stockholders get rich and the rest of us desperately try to curry favor with them.
His belief is that AI will take over the armies and enslave and/or kill us all. The optimist point of view he's saying is that a few stockholders get rich and the rest of us desperately try to curry favor with them.
I think what he's saying is that AI will lead to either massive unemployment (the first bit) or AI death camps (his usual fear) so he's saying that these are the options unless we blow this up.
February 10, 2026 at 7:57 PM
I think what he's saying is that AI will lead to either massive unemployment (the first bit) or AI death camps (his usual fear) so he's saying that these are the options unless we blow this up.
That's my real prediction
Or maybe LLMs turn out to have some decent usages here and there but don't live up to the hype?
Could that be possible somehow?
Could that be possible somehow?
February 10, 2026 at 7:54 PM
That's my real prediction
I see its use case to be something like googling Stack Overflow: a place to get you started if you're stuck and remind you of some functions and their syntax. But you don't just paste the sample, you then go, "Oh yeah, split!" and write the code.
February 10, 2026 at 7:35 PM
I see its use case to be something like googling Stack Overflow: a place to get you started if you're stuck and remind you of some functions and their syntax. But you don't just paste the sample, you then go, "Oh yeah, split!" and write the code.
The weird thing is that the sex worker is supposed to be the upside there; that's if the AI boosters got it right instead of him.
February 10, 2026 at 7:30 PM
The weird thing is that the sex worker is supposed to be the upside there; that's if the AI boosters got it right instead of him.
I read it as "If AI goes the way the boosters think, a few people will get rich and everyone else will be unemployed/begging them for help. If AI goes the way I think, it'll take over all of the armies and kill us all."
February 10, 2026 at 7:28 PM
I read it as "If AI goes the way the boosters think, a few people will get rich and everyone else will be unemployed/begging them for help. If AI goes the way I think, it'll take over all of the armies and kill us all."
I read it as the upside is that AI will make a ton of money for a few stockholders and everyone else is desperate.
The downside (which he predicts) is that AI takes over the world and we all die.
The downside (which he predicts) is that AI takes over the world and we all die.
February 10, 2026 at 7:21 PM
I read it as the upside is that AI will make a ton of money for a few stockholders and everyone else is desperate.
The downside (which he predicts) is that AI takes over the world and we all die.
The downside (which he predicts) is that AI takes over the world and we all die.
OK that is new. I was wondering why I had never seen that before.
February 10, 2026 at 7:08 PM
OK that is new. I was wondering why I had never seen that before.
A lot of what Ron brings though is someone who is actually nice to him and doesn't judge. The chess thing is occasionally useful, but it's not like Hermoine where she's the brain. This is just someone to goof off with and play games and pretend to do your homework.
February 10, 2026 at 7:05 PM
A lot of what Ron brings though is someone who is actually nice to him and doesn't judge. The chess thing is occasionally useful, but it's not like Hermoine where she's the brain. This is just someone to goof off with and play games and pretend to do your homework.
People think it's about Annandale, VA or something.
February 10, 2026 at 7:04 PM
People think it's about Annandale, VA or something.
Me: I went to a pretty obscure college. It might be cool if more people knew about Bard.
a cartoon hand reaching out towards a purple object
Alt: Monkey paw curls gif.
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February 10, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Me: I went to a pretty obscure college. It might be cool if more people knew about Bard.
Well yeah because he somehow has missed that option.
February 10, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Well yeah because he somehow has missed that option.
Yudkowski really lost me before AI though. It was his whole bit that not signing your children up for cryogenic life support from the moment that they were born is massive child abuse, because a slightly non-zero chance of survival is infinitely better than them being dead, no matter what it costs.
February 10, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Yudkowski really lost me before AI though. It was his whole bit that not signing your children up for cryogenic life support from the moment that they were born is massive child abuse, because a slightly non-zero chance of survival is infinitely better than them being dead, no matter what it costs.
That 8th end was mistake after mistake for everyone.
February 10, 2026 at 6:56 PM
That 8th end was mistake after mistake for everyone.
Or maybe LLMs turn out to have some decent usages here and there but don't live up to the hype?
Could that be possible somehow?
Could that be possible somehow?
February 10, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Or maybe LLMs turn out to have some decent usages here and there but don't live up to the hype?
Could that be possible somehow?
Could that be possible somehow?
Twice I've read stories where Ron was written as a completely useless idiot and both times they were from libertarians who didn't get the idea of friendship as anything other than a capitalistic exchange of skills.
February 10, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Twice I've read stories where Ron was written as a completely useless idiot and both times they were from libertarians who didn't get the idea of friendship as anything other than a capitalistic exchange of skills.
Yes, the rock up front and the one in the house to start the game are additions, and I still haven't figured out what this "power play" is.
February 10, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Yes, the rock up front and the one in the house to start the game are additions, and I still haven't figured out what this "power play" is.