Macil @macil_tech

web developer interested in vrchat, games, software dev, some politics, ai. he/him. also on blue site macil.tech San Francisco, CA Joined March 2009

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Macil @macil_tech

5 days ago

waymos love little alleyways, even if taking them means going the wrong way. Waymo engineers, scared of their creation, let the cars do this to keep them happy

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Seb ⚛️ ThisWeekInReact.com @sebastienlorber

3 months ago

TIL about timing attacks with an easy-to-understand JS example

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Macil @macil_tech

4 months ago

Seems like I can't go one conversation about online personalities/culture/politics without saying "audience capture" and "negative polarization" multiple times. They explain a lot everywhere.

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The blindingly obvious proposition is that a fully independently recursive self-improving AI would be the most powerful [tool or being] ever made and thus also wildly dangerous. The part that can be reasonably debated is how close we are to building such a thing.

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Macil @macil_tech

5 months ago

prediction markets seem like they might be good at identifying over-hyped news/science headlines

Manifold @ManifoldMarkets

5 months ago

prediction markets seem like they might be good at identifying over-hyped news/science headlines

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Peter Wildeford🇺🇸🚀 @peterwildeford

5 months ago

Here's a quick summary of this article, which is the best case I know of for "natural origins" theory of COVID

Timothy B. Lee @binarybits

5 months ago

Here's a quick summary of this article, which is the best case I know of for "natural origins" theory of COVID https://t.co/U3ZSZjWfit

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Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns

5 months ago

We're three months into Trump 2.0 and we're already at full blown constitutional crisis. Right now we're at the Rubicon. If Trump gets away with what he's doing right now then the US is no longer a liberal democracy. Trump illegally shipped off a guy with an *explicit court…

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Key 🗝 🦊 @KeyTryer

5 months ago

This is why I don't really subscribe to Dead Internet Theory or "only a handful of platforms are left". The truth is that you're getting old and you don't know what platforms young people are using. It'd be surprising if you even know how popular Gorilla Tag is, for example.

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Macil @macil_tech

5 months ago

very overdue vibe shift going on with some centrist and "gray tribe" anti-woke writers re-evaluating their priorities and getting more serious with their Trump opposition instead of continuing to play nice with their maga readers

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Macil @macil_tech

5 months ago

spoiler alert: "AI passed the Turing Test" headlines don't mean much.

Macil @macil_tech

2 years ago

spoiler alert: "AI passed the Turing Test" headlines don't mean much. https://t.co/9GjEEiFRxx

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j⧉nus @repligate

7 months ago

j⧉nus @repligate

7 months ago

https://t.co/tWd05zY6MS

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Aidan McLaughlin @aidan_mclau

7 months ago

>we trained our reasoners on real-world use cases and not competition math/code the real-world use cases:

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hbo max @deepfates

7 months ago

watch Pantheon (2022)

Key 🗝 🦊 @KeyTryer

7 months ago

watch Pantheon (2022)

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Brendan Dolan-Gavitt @moyix

7 months ago

UNIX systems have stdin, stdout, and stderr, for getting data into and out of the program and seeing errors, respectively. But there's no stream for a critical and extremely common use case: putting errors into the program.

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Macil @macil_tech

7 months ago

lmao all the past media referencing Elon Musk as a friendly tech figure (Star Trek: Discovery, Rick & Morty) have all just aged another chunk more badly recently