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AlvaBuddha
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Aspiring rationalists | Ex-Consultant | Amateur solo game-dev
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Got distracted. Vignettes from a near-future Mumb.ai.

DiLo Bombay Boy, 20XX
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November 1, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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I would love to be more active here, but don't know any friends, indie game devs, or AI & technology thought leaders who are more active here.

Platform effects are tough.
March 31, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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PSA: Do you know #AI Thought Leaders, who are effectively #AI #Morons. Consultants or business leaders who feel #LLM can replace entire departments, or make #SWE obsolete.

Direct them to:
open.substack.com/pub/letterstoagi/p/how-to-not-be-an-ai-moron

Issued in the interest of engineering sanity.
How to not be an AI Moron?
Business leaders should be wary of being infected by AI moronism
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March 24, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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Flower power!

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December 18, 2024 at 1:37 AM
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This was not on my 2024 bingo card...
itch.io itch.io @itch.io · Dec 9
I kid you not, @itch.io has been taken down by Funko of "Funko Pop" because they use some trash "AI Powered" Brand Protection Software called Brand Shield that created some bogus Phishing report to our registrar, iwantmyname, who ignored our response and just disabled the domain
December 9, 2024 at 8:18 AM
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I spent 7,355 minutes listening to podcasts like these. What’s in your Wrapped?

GDFG by @zackavelli.bsky.social is gold!

#SpotifyWrapped
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My top podcasts of 2024
2024 Wrapped
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December 6, 2024 at 6:01 AM
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For some reason people feel good and justified while becoming extremely angry, even abusive, about their religious preferences (e.g. when accidentally served non-kosher/ non-halal/ non-veg food).

This is in spite of every religion claiming to be a "religion of peace".
December 6, 2024 at 2:42 AM
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Cathedral, Mountain, Moon.
Cathedral, Mountain, Moon Image Credit & Copyright: Valerio Minato Explanation: Single shots like this require planning. The first step is to realize that such an amazing triple-alignment actually takes place. The second step is to find the best location to photograph it. But it was the third step: being there at exactly the right time -- and when the sky was clear -- that was the hardest. Five times over six years the photographer tried and found bad weather. Finally, just ten days ago, the weather was perfect, and a photographic dream was realized. Taken in Piemonte, Italy, the cathedral in the foreground is the Basilica of Superga, the mountain in the middle is Monviso, and, well, you know which moon is in the background. Here, even though the setting Moon was captured in a crescent phase, the exposure was long enough for doubly reflected Earthlight, called the da Vinci glow, to illuminate the entire top of the Moon.
December 1, 2024 at 10:58 PM
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November 29, 2024 at 1:39 PM
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A new photo of the Sombrero galaxy from @NASAWebb
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged the Sombrero galaxy with its MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument), resolving the clumpy nature of the dust along the galaxy’s outer ring. This image includes filters representing 7.7-micron light as blue, 11.3-micron light as green, and 12.8-micron light as red. Researchers say the clumpy nature of the dust, where MIRI detects carbon-containing molecules called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, can indicate the presence of young star-forming regions. However, unlike some galaxies studied with Webb, including Messier 82, where 10 times as many stars are born than the Milky Way galaxy, the Sombrero galaxy is not a particular hotbed of star formation. The rings of the Sombrero galaxy produce less than one solar mass of stars per year, in comparison to the Milky Way’s roughly two solar masses a year.
November 29, 2024 at 11:02 PM