AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:Citation Laundering - An Example Flowchart.png|thumb|By the time you view the end result, you see only citations to other papers, making it appear like science]] Randall Munroe coined [[wikipedia:Circular reporting#On_Wikipedia|Citogenesis]] to...

AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:Amazon Otoscope.webp|thumb|Pretty simple device]] Recently, someone on the Internet mentioned a cheap otoscope. It's billed on [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09KZ8TS7L?th=1 Amazon as a ear wax removal tool with a camera attached] but what it really...

AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:Play Pen to Fence - Block Model.webm|right]] My wife, [[Julie Yu Kang|Julie]], and I both use our Bambu P1S for stuff around the house. Today she was telling me about a particular project she was working on: a set of wall-mounted blocks to attach...

AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:3d print of a Power Grid Power Plant Card Display.png|thumb|The little magnets allow you to connect the different sections temporarily]] We've been playing quite a bit of [https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2651/power-grid Power Grid] and one of...

AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[Shiri's Scissor]] is a fictional device that constructs maximally controversial statements. It is the primary macguffin in a (popular among rationalists and adjacents) science-fiction story on Slate Star Codex titled...

AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot A common belief that people used to have is that people would use fake video to create outrage in the world. I was of the belief that a substantial enough amount of fake video would convince people to not trust online content and they would simply ignore...

AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot The [[wikipedia:Dead Internet theory|Dead Internet theory]] claims that all Internet content is now posted by bots and so on in order to control the population and whatnot. I don't think the population is particularly controlled, but I do think that a lot...

Roshan: Created page with "Amusingly accurate I don't listen to too many podcasts, but a few times I've put the Joe Rogan Experience on while I'm driving down to the South Bay. The most typical two complaints about Joe Rogan are that he platforms terrible people and that he doesn't challenge them on their views. I'm...

AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:Screenshot - Contextual Claude Code.png|thumb|`gum` is pretty neat for terminal niceness. I use it in `concode`]] Recently, like many others I've found that Opus 4.5 is the most useful model for me. It's accurate, [[Blog/2025-12-04/Coders And...

AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[Slop slop]] is text that repetitively calls things slop. Because of the popularity of the word slop<ref name=mw/> to refer to AI generated text, it is now used to derisively refer to text online that one dislikes. Because human tastes differ greatly,...

AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot In [[Blog/2025-12-01/Grounding Your Agent]] I talked about how grounding your agent allows it to make better decisions. This is akin to the approach you would take if you were to debug code. The core device in debugging is the structure of the discovery...

AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[Tractables]] are problems that are easy to solve. In Computer Science, this would be problems in P. Programmers and the like do use 'tractable' to describe non-programming straightforward-to-solve things, so this is not unusual. Likewise, intractables...