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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · Jun 4

This, to me, is what artists owe to the world in an indoor, screen-saturated age. If people are going to experience the world second hand, fair enough. Let it not be third hand or fourth hand.

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Minor Mobius @minormobius.bsky.social · 7h

I am duty bound to post each cell diagram I find in the wild

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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 22h

Nordstrom Rack at the mountains of madness

A gently glowing blue sign on the wall of a department store reads “prices below reason”

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 9h

Steals their soul.

Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 10h

How do screenshots of posts interact with vampire rules?

Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 9h

One thing I miss about being a much smaller account on Twitter is that I used to be able to disagree with someone in a quote without it feeling inherently rude. Now there's always the chance I direct a million people at them.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 10h

PSA: if you quote post me first, you have formally invited me in

i abide by poster’s vampire rules

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 1d

Afaict, the distinction is that Jake Gyllenhaal smiles and Jared Leto doesn't.

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 1d

That took me a while to untangle too.

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 1d

I would have thought you'd restrict by date speculatively and push back the date only if you don't have enough to fill a few pages.

Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 1d

What makes it harder than Discover?

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 1d

Seems like it would just need a weight glued in the bottom right?

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 1d

People must be 3D printing spectacular chess sets now right?

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 2d

All of the things that we struggle at and train for years to do are actually easy. Humans are just bad at them, so we have to work hard. All the things that we do without thinking are what we are actually good at.

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 2d

the basic problem is that it is easier to reproduce an artist's style in almost every detail or answer most questions with like 88% accuracy than to walk up four steps

Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 2d

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."

ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 2d

The nice thing about capital gains taxes is that they make you feel okay about any drop smaller than 15% because there was nothing you could do.

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 2d

Man it sure would be nice if we could get the labor costs down far enough that rooftop/parking lot solar made financial sense, because it's the one place to put them that everybody loves.

Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 2d

Just in time for them to go extinct, we can mirror the tolkeinization of other fantasy creature plurals like elves and dwarves.

Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 2d

When facts on the ground force people to do some bullet biting, then that should make people unhappy, and not be something that they eagerly and speculatively do in advance.

Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 2d

... there will be many entities that are obviously unambiguously not us, and I expect loyalty to us.

You don't have to resolve all or really any hard questions about consciousness and patienthood to prefer today's actually existing humans to LLM++.

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 2d

I expect that we will Theseus ship ourselves into something else in a continuous "transhuman since habilis" sense, and present day me with present day sensibilities would probably find that end result queasy, but whatever ambiguity that introduces along the way ...

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 2d

Someone asked what kind of transhumanist I am (since you gotta be one) on twitter so I'm going to port my response ↓

Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 5d

I don't think you should be involved in AI if you don't prefer humans to other minds, and if society was paying attention and had the tools to they wouldn't let you be.

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 2d

Also, it's high time that we changed the plural of reef from reefs to reeves

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 2d

We long for tree roots that look like coral reefs.

Conor Nolan @nolanillustration.bsky.social · 2d

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 2d

Nope!

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 2d

Wrens have the best hops of any hopping thing.

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 2d

How

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 2d

We have a wren who spends most of his time in our backyard, and it's such a delight whenever I see him hopping around.

Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 3d

I would have liked to have filmed the inking of this tiny wren and the shrub's very fine branches with this brush, but I needed to get especially close to the piece for this and it would have been too awkward.

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Detail from a silhouette drawing in black ink of a tiny bird perched on a small, leafless shrub. The head of a hen just makes it into the crop, opposite the bird. The drawing is very fine and intricate. The detail shown is roughly comparable in size to two postage stamps, and is photographed with a penny and the traditional Chinese brush the piece was drawn with.

Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 2d

Two things I firmly believe that I'm not sure how to reconcile:
1. You have to look at your data record by record to understand it at all.
2. P-hacking is bad.

Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 2d

I am open to the idea that there are people who don't have and don't want to gain the skills to engage directly with their data but every single day that I do I learn the answer to a question you'd never even think to ask unless you were personally staring into the abyss of an uncleaned dataset.

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