Professional oil painter; semi-professional brush cleaner. I mostly talk about making art. Sometimes also video games.
Joined April 2016
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22 Jan 2020
A short documentary about my work & my relationships with collectors and models.
youtu.be/yYfvOPgTa0E
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If we can't use the god-tier superintelligence, though, I'm not sure how I'm supposed to continue my half-assed evening project of a lightly-reskinned Last Herald-Mage investigation game. This seems like a national security issue in itself.
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"cool, while he's doing that, Claude, make me a webapp to edit the NPC and location sheets. Make sure it imports everything from the master references for those, because that's still in flux"
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I'm really just dicking around, or we could alternately phrase it as investigating, man, what can these things enable an idiot to do? And it's nuts
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Oh man, look at these
Friday morning reading: Galahad and the Grail by @malcolmguite with illustrations by @stephencrotts. I read book one of three this morning, “The Coming of Galahad.” Book two is “Adventures of the Quest” and book three is “The Achievement of the Grail.” This is the first volume released of what will be a four-volume epic over the next few years. It’s absolutely stunning and I’m quite in awe so far.
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Pulling out the woodblock carving stuff today, and getting to work. Excited to add another piece to my print career, such as it is
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"I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which the user's token-budget is too narrow to finish until 8:16 EST," was found scrawled in the CoT after the death of Claude Fable
Jun 12
Fable achieved a significant breakthrough in one of our open problems. This is a problem where ChatGPT 5.5 could not even begin anything useful. The breakthrough seems legit (although not 100% checked yet), and Fable even claims to have a full solution. >10 hours total runtime so far. A 30 page document with the proofs of some lemmas not yet spelled out. We can not yet know whether Fable indeed has solved it, but even if it is just a partial solution, we are absolutely amazed. More details will follow, and once we are at the end of the story, I will also write a full substack post. Collaboration with István Vona, a postdoc in my group.
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Kendric Tonn retweeted
“You knew the first trillionaire?”
“I didn’t say I knew him. I said he replied ‘Wow!’ on my post once.”
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Aristotle writes about this
Jun 13
so much of our political dysfunction would be solved if a shrine maiden could tell our politicians "down!" and their heads would slam to the ground
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I feel like the better version of this joke was just a naked cite to someplace in the Republic
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Jun 12
Sad to see about David Hockney. He always struck me as someone living life in a decent way. Noodling on a variety of projects, doing what interested him; we could all do so well.
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Jun 12
Posted and then almost instantaneously removed.
What the literal heaven is this?
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Jun 12
I guess I'd want to think about it, but I'm pretty sure if you gave me a button that magically creates orgs equivalent to X%* of SpaceX and Tesla, but magically gives a random person a trillion bux--eliminating any incentive or moral argument--I'd still be like hell yeah whack
Elon Musk just became the world’s first trillionaire.
Let’s make sure he’s also the last.
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Jun 12
*X is whatever Elon's share of responsibility is for these things existing in their current forms
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Jun 12
I don't know, it's all underdefined, I'm sleepy, and there's no button, but the thing I'm confident in is that I lack some intuition a lot of people seem to have re: very rich people existing, ig
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Jun 12
Got three hours of bad sleep for reasons known only to the malicious fae entity I pissed off yesterday--presumably--and I'm trying to convince myself that it's still Deadlift Day, but uggggggggggggh
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Jun 12
Thread, and concur
Jun 12
Basically, I think AI has the potential to do to filmmaking what photography did to portrait painting: there are still working oil painters, but that’s mostly not what the market wants, or even spares a thought for.
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Jun 12
As I've said in various ways, I think "AI is not producing stuff as good as people!" is mostly true (for cases worth discussing); "therefore it's a fad that will go away" is cope. The only question, except for a few weird holdouts is, is it good enough?
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