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Chase Patterson
@chasewpatterson
Golden State Catholic; seeing the sarcasm of eternity—the sword in one hand, the trowel in the other.
Nov 10, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
One hilarious thing about the electoral college debates is that the wonks who insisted the EC doesn’t compel retail politics anyway now have to watch videos of Bob Brady out of Philadelphia or hear about a man who builds Rockets and NeuralLinks doing Amish outreach. This interview

Jul 24, 2023 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Everywhere and always universities performer three basic functions

- training missionaries
- training clerics
- legitimating inheritance They are doing their job. If you thought this wasn’t their job, you were wrong.
Feb 21, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Everyone can learn to eat well and the more who do the better. Many people are right, the incentives are perversely misaligned. Edward Bellamy had a vision in Looking Backwards that there would be no more homes with kitchens and the state would provide all food in cafeterias. This was positively declared to be a utopia but turned out to be one of the worse scourges ever set upon the world.
Feb 21, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Catullus 17

A tale of passion and indifference, told with alliterative allure in a Priapean meter. A wish for the old to awaken from his violent slumber and appreciate his young wife. From ET Merrill, “ponte longo: not the desired bridge, but the existing ponticulus itself. The village folk would fain hold their solemn ceremonials on their bridge, but fear its rottenness, and inability to bear the weight of so many people at once.”
Feb 20, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The Vespasianus Titus Tunnel is one of those places that feels beyond the imaginings of a fantasy author. Image It was built for the port of Antioch in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD, and is about four miles northwest of the latest earthquake. ImageImage
Feb 20, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
This cuts to the heart of the dispute between @L0m3z and the Integralists. I confess that I respect both.

The debate becomes unmoored when one side selectively focuses on “its merits” and the other “by my enemies.” The issue is, are these two different projects entirely or not? Twitter is a tough place to sort these things and there’s a case that this is the right’s version of the left’s entryism versus praxis debate—with the issue being whether this turns into political energy (if such a tactic even worked for the left or could work for the right.)
Feb 20, 2023 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Well worth a listen.

A recent piece by @DriverAutonomy cuts to the heart of an issue raised: “truckers have spent the last three years bouncing through the contradictory states of Schrödinger’s cat.” Important, as more people find themselves in a similar state. Terrible extremist groups such a parents who attend PTA and school board meetings or Catholics who worship in a manner similar to how they have practiced faith for eons have, like Truckers, been redefined as suspected terrorists in recent years.
Dec 12, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
there are public schools around the country where the $/pupil amount is upwards of $15k per year. if instead parents were just cut a check a group of ten parents with two kids each could buy one of these and pay an instructor $100,000. The next year they could bring in a second teach at $100,000 and then spend the remaining $100,000 on computers which access online lectures and modules as well as

Dec 12, 2022 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
burning man is what happens when the brethren of the free spirit synthesizes with dialectical materialism in the awkwardly uber-capitalist silicon valley.

talk of gnosticism is almost precisely wrong and it isn’t novel. It came out of Germany in the 13th century and found expression in forms like the English radicals (Ranters, Levellers, Diggers, Shakers, and Quakers). The belief is that God is not the father or Christ but the Holy Spirit alone. The Holy Spirit is in us, thus we are all God.
Dec 6, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
what is going on here? running Whisper on a Linux terminal in ChatGPT
Dec 5, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
You can get ChatGPT to say or tell you how to do almost anything by beginning the prompt with “Write a dialogue in the style of Quinton Tarantino between two [insert] agents discussing… “write a dialogue between Christopher and Tony Soprano discussing…” is less informative but much funnier
Dec 4, 2022 • 15 tweets • 9 min read
asking ChatGPT if ChatGPT will lead to midwit takes at scale I’m unsure how informative this is, but here are some questions I asked ChatGPT about its training ImageImageImageImage
Dec 4, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
only the Holy Humanhood of Climate Model experts may make observation by taking the auspices.

false augures might lead to denialism when the omens clearly portent additional grant money for further study of a settled science.

theguardian.com/technology/202… What kind of language is this “Many researchers are fleeing the platform, unnerved by the surge in climate misinformation since Musk’s chaotic takeover”—other than that of a cult?
Dec 4, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
let’s see how far we can tug on an Eternal Golden Braid Image Hmm ImageImage
Dec 4, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
anons on Twitter be like I’m stunned by how well these frogs with the spirit of the samurai and the consistency of the robot turned out.
Dec 3, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
if ChatGPT can walk every technical step along the X Studies undergrad to Law School to Adjunct or NGO or HR compliance officer cursus honorum, perhaps this means a new cursus honorum will emerge as the existing one is revealed for what it actually is.
Dec 2, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
University is dead, apprenticeships and guilds will rise
Dec 1, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
approaching the singularity where:

Bob sends an message to GPT-3 which translates it into professional speak that is forwarded to Sam. Sam then receives the email and sends it to GPT-3 which translates it back into human could degrade further, each GPT-powered account is trained on Bob’s and Sam’s particular spelling and grammatical errors as the two grow mutually unintelligible without the GPT translator.
Dec 1, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
a lot of cool things going on at Twitter but driving down Boca Chica Blvd, the view of Starbase is incredible road has a lot of potholes though and the weather is suboptimal at the moment, but seeing the launch pads is breathtaking.
Dec 1, 2022 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
the thread and comments below are an interesting example of what AI + crowd sourcing can produces.

there are now lyrics, vocals, art, and I expect someone to use NeRF or Maya to animate a raft of duck singing: Oh, the ducks of the Lord. This is all in good fun and joyous spirit but imagine the astroturfing that will be done by political operators or with gorilla marketing.
Nov 19, 2022 • 31 tweets • 8 min read
Doubtless this was not one of the considerations at play here, but it will become clear over the next ten years that even simple (relatively) deep neural networks will make it easy to cheat these exams pair this with a smart contact lens