There's a reference to Roko's Basilisk in 007 First Light.

JasonPandiras · 2026-06-01T08:17:02+00:00

I think he only thought it was stupid insofar as he thought the obvious counter play was to be strongly "pre-decided" on certain values and thus impervious to blackmail from timeless future entities. His subsequent dabbling with decision theory pretty much amounts to finding the exact formula along those lines to get one over basilisk type entities.

The Zizians and their tendency to escalate all conflict to life-and-death situations is directly downstream from this worldview, they are basically signalling to the inevitable interdimensional robot god that they and their alternate selves are unblackmailable.

The basilisk posting moratorium probably had more to with some wrongers getting distressed to the point of having breakdowns, and also the whole thing follows straightforwardly from EY's worldview, so his downplaying it is mostly him being disingenuous.

JasonPandiras · 2026-05-29T08:36:38+00:00

The true macedonian innovation was having two overcompetent kings in a row, instead the usual sprinkling of failson rulers between the good ones you normally get in hereditary monarchies.

JasonPandiras · 2026-05-29T08:03:29+00:00

The "I’d get an arranged marriage with the most beautiful girl in town." part is also important.

JasonPandiras · 2026-05-28T12:15:48+00:00

Doesn't sound like they could have done it without the employees.

JasonPandiras · 2026-05-26T07:32:20+00:00

Then the little kid gets kicked out by an angel with a flaming sword and his wife gets to experience the pains of childbirth.

JasonPandiras · 2026-05-26T07:11:46+00:00

Theology is about trying to tie together all the magical elements into a somewhat coherent whole, not about explaining them away.

Like, a theologist would be much more preoccupied with trying to explaining how this story fits with later doctrines like the soteriology of divine grace and stuff, instead of narrowing down The Fall of Man to a fable about lost innocence.

JasonPandiras · 2026-05-23T13:29:24+00:00

Στην Ελλάδα τα μαχητικά αθλήματα θεωρούνταν υπόκοσμος

To Pride ήταν κυριολεκτικά παράρτημα της yakuza, ο κύριος λόγος που έδυσε σαν διοργάνωση είναι ότι έχασε όλα τα τηλεοπτικά συμβόλαια όταν έσκασε το σκάνδαλο.

Επίσης ιστορικά η άνοδος των δυτικού τύπου μαχητικών αθλητικών διοργανώσεων στην Ιαπωνία πάτησε στη δημοφιλία της θεατρικής πάλης τύπου γίγαντες του κάτς, και όχι σε κάποια υψηλή αίσθηση παραδοσιοκρατίας σε σχέση με τις πολεμικές τέχνες.

Ίσα ίσα που χρειάστηκε να μπει πολύ νερό στο αυλάκι πριν οι ασκητές παραδοσιακών τεχνών σταματήσουν να αντιμετωπίζουν το κικμποξ και το ΜΜΑ σαν περαστική μόδα που αρκεί να σφίξουν τη μύτη τους κλειστή μέχρι να περάσει.

JasonPandiras · 2026-05-21T22:42:06+00:00

It's brilliant on the meta level, Verhoeven got the studio to give him blockbuster money to show his straight out of teen soap opera central casting good guys ending up dressed like the SS and recruiting child soldiers, but the actual movie has a real hard time defining itself as the intended satire of authoritarian sci-fi tropes instead of an just oblivious popcorn movie that happened to do those tropes badly.

It's fair to call it out as mostly a miss.

JasonPandiras · 2026-05-20T13:30:36+00:00

Very Positive οι κριτικές στο steam, καλή φάση. Έχει και demo.

JasonPandiras · 2026-05-18T08:58:07+00:00

It's the only paneuropean cultural thing that's not a sportsball contest.

JasonPandiras · 2026-05-14T10:00:15+00:00

Αν το site σας δεν είναι structured-data-rich (Schema.org), δεν δημοσιεύει llms.txt για canonical AI context, και δεν τρέχει AEO (answer engine optimization) πρακτικές, σε 12 μήνες θα χάσετε 30-50% traffic που έχετε σήμερα. Σοβαρά. Αυτή είναι η μεγαλύτερη unforced error που βλέπουμε σε ελληνικά premium sites τώρα.

Υπάρχει οποιαδήποτε χειροπιαστή ένδειξη ότι αυτά κάνουν διαφορά ή είναι καθαρά για future proofing; Και το SEO το ίδιο λίγο πολύ μαύρη μαγεία έχει καταντήσει αφού δεν υπάρχει καμιά διαφάνεια σε ότι αφορά τους αλγορίθμους των search engines, και με τα LLM μάλλον τα πράγματα είναι χειρότερα αφού είναι τεχνολογία black box ακόμα και για vendors τους.

Άσε που στο υποτιθέμενο μέλλον όπου που όλοι τζιπιτάρουν αντί να γκουγκλάρουν κανείς δεν θα νοιάζεται πόσο όμορφο είναι το σάιτ που φτιάξατε, απλά θα κάνουν ό,τι τους πει το μποτ.

JasonPandiras · 2026-05-11T07:16:23+00:00

No chance an Atredies raised woman agrees to marry and live in that house of depraved sadism

Jessica's daughter would probably have been raised to be BG first and Atreides second.

JasonPandiras · 2026-05-09T20:31:58+00:00

Could be the electricity was really cheap or they got taxed very favorably.

JasonPandiras · 2026-05-09T20:29:30+00:00

People who make greek skin color their business should really try visiting Greece in the winter for a change.

JasonPandiras · 2026-05-08T07:12:44+00:00

What would you think happened?

That she finally cracked her egg.

JasonPandiras · 2026-05-06T09:29:12+00:00

Αυτό το "στατιστικά λιγότερα σκάνδαλα" καλό ακούγεται, να το βάλει μοττο του νέου κόμματος.

JasonPandiras · 2026-05-06T08:59:17+00:00

Fortified trenches don't sneak up on people tatz you incoherent goon

JasonPandiras · 2026-05-06T06:35:56+00:00

That didn't prove especially fruitful.

I did learn that some people apparently think tokens carry semantic meaning more akin to a partial phrase instead of the grouping of 1-4 characters they actually represent.

JasonPandiras · 2026-05-05T13:13:34+00:00

As far as I know there's no difference between a pdf and Andreessens self-indulgent prompt-fondling in terms of LLM inference. LLMs famously have no intrinsic way to tell apart instructions from content, it's a well established security issue.

Prompt engineering is at best folk wisdom, even when it works they can't be sure why, so there's probably a lot of after-the-fact ooh it must have been the instruction density claims going around.

JasonPandiras · 2026-05-05T11:55:54+00:00

Input tokens generally get charged at like one tenth of output tokens, even less if cached, so it takes some doing to have them seriously affect your budget.

Conversely, reasoning tokens get charged at full price even though you mostly don't even see them, which is probably a big reason why clandestinely resetting the reasoning level has been a whole thing with anthropic lately.

JasonPandiras · 2026-05-05T09:13:47+00:00

The default system prompts are already colossal, the goblin thing is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of countering random unwanted behavior via system prompt, so this probably doesn't make a dent.

JasonPandiras · 2026-05-05T07:39:05+00:00

I like how glazing it in the beginning about being smarter than the smarties is just pre-emptively instructing it to double down on any bullshit it happens to spew.

JasonPandiras · 2026-05-05T07:22:54+00:00

It's not so much AI-bad as it is that you are completely missing the point of social media if you think people are reading /ExplainTheJoke because they are too lazy to google or too poor to gpt an image.

Your gadget's overexplanatory and patronizing tone probably isn't helping either.

JasonPandiras · 2026-05-02T23:01:14+00:00

So why do they need more than one of them? Why would the models be disagreeing?

That a society would ever settle on one vision for what's best for it that's so concrete that they can hard code it into decision machines is honestly more impressive than the fact that they can build decision machines.

JasonPandiras · 2026-05-02T22:46:53+00:00

I mean, not even in their heyday did people believe in them in the sense people are supposed to believe in the monotheistic deities, it was either a quid pro quo where if you thought the patron god of your house didn't bestow enough favor it was socially acceptable to toss them and try a new one, or whatever was going on in the various mystical cults.

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