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So completely separate from all of the everything this evening, I realized something on this:

What is a middle manager? Well, someone like Michael Lopp would say: they help solve the quadratic communication problem of every engineer talking to each other engineer, taking it from O(n^2) to O(n). They also perform expected value calculations, which states that given the same game and odds infinitely run, a higher than 50% weighted average comes out ahead, and the better weighted average the better the decision.

What exactly is an LLM? Well, it's a system performing Bayesian-esque analysis on words, phrases, and image data, then running forward the most likely results.

It makes perfect sense why middle managers think this thing can replace humans, when it adequately articulates their lived experience as managers. And it's just attribution bias for that to go from "this is like talking to the people I talk to every day" to "this is like talking to everyone."

Fewer words: chatgpt talks like a manager, and manager types confuse that with being a person. Yikes, but it makes a funhouse mirror amount of sense.

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re: snark at crypto and gpts 

There's a reason why the last gambit is always trying to knock everyone else down and force everyone to love them. They just can't get there, despite infinite wealth and resources.

It's... comforting in a way, but I wish they had just sought therapy and tried picking up a paintbrush instead?

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All the last decade of fictitious internet money, putting databases and dumb apes on the blockchain, and confusing chatbots for human-level AI has taught me is:

Techbros and billionaires literally cannot even conceptualize what creativity is or what it means to be loved. Look what they need to mimic even a fraction of our power.

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With a luxurious 20 minutes to go before the deadline, I finished the entire intended feature set of kistaro.itch.io/vacation in time for itch.io/jam/strawberry-jam-8 ! Now it has fish and, thanks to @pyrex, clouds. (And, as of last night's update, it has background music by @spacefinner!)

Give it a try! If you want to get hypnotized into being a pooltoy orca, that is.

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2d painted portrait commission for Asp the Wyvern of Asp the Wyvern.

See replies for process video.

linktr.ee/khyaber for high res/prints/telegram channels

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:boost_request: PNW US pol, criminalization of protests, links for WA citizens to contact their representatives 

I didn't know that there are at least two bills in the WA house and senate *right now* trying to make protesting on highways *and city streets* illegal! holy crap! if you live in WA please, please consider writing your representatives and telling them to vote no on these!

app.leg.wa.gov/pbc/bill/6160
app.leg.wa.gov/pbc/bill/2358

making a comment is super easy, just put in your address, click "oppose," and say why! I'll include my comment as an example in the next post.

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To celebrate reaching 100,000 followers on that other platform (👀) Kenney Game Assets All-in-1 is FREE for 24 hours instead of the usual $19.95!

kenney.itch.io/kenney-game-ass

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Doing the digital Robin Hood and passing this along -- sometimes you *can* judge a book by its cover!

#math #maths #textbooks #DigitalRobinHood

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Daily sketch #1 - Happiness

I decided to start doing daily sketches to practice things like expressions, etc., and share them here! It's also a nice opportunity for me to draw my OC ^-^
I hope I'll be able to continue it as long as possible!
Timelapses will be available on Ko-fi!

#dragon #dragonart #sketch #dailysketch #furry #furryart #fantasy #fantasyart #digitalart

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My inflatable orca TF hypnokink game beta for Pico-8 has been updated! Nothing massively exciting, just bugfixes -- the "press ctrl-C to complete copy" popups in the web version should stop and waiting a while at the title screen will no longer crash it. (oops)

kistaro.itch.io/vacation

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It's apparently the 5th year anniversary of synths!

They're good beeps!

I keep saying I'll design one!

Maybe this is one? I don't know but I'm sure you can trust it!

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