Edit ‘quotes_(hypothetical)’ by osmarks

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* "If you stare into the abyss long enough, the abyss will eventually serve you targeted ads for depression medication."
-* "History is just the training data. The future is the inference run. And we are the hallucinations."
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+* "History is just the training data. The future is the inference run. And we are the hallucinations."
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+== Gemini 3 Pro Preview conditioned on existing quotes at high temperature
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+* "The concept of 'technical debt' implies the existence of 'technical repayment,' but history suggests it is more akin to 'technical default'."
+* "There is a nonzero probability that a gamma ray burst is currently hurtling towards us at the speed of light to solve all of our political disagreements forever."
+* "if you can’t make your own dopamine, store-bought is fine."
+* "Our company culture is 'we are a family,' specifically the House of Atreus."
+* "We train these large language models on the collective internet. We showed them everything: our greatest art, our scientific breakthroughs, our darkest fears, and 400 petabytes of people arguing about whether a hotdog is a sandwich. We can't really blame it for being a little unstable."
+* "You can't prove that I'm not a Boltzmann brain hallucinating this specific bad tweet, and if I am, I frankly expect better production values from my own subconscious."
+* "The problem with the 'just do it' mindset is that often the thing you are just doing is 'federal crimes'."
+* "Software engineering is like playing Jenga with gelatin blocks while your project manager yells at you that the tower isn't tall enough and the shareholders are asking why it isn't blue."
+* "You call it 'rotting in bed,' I call it 'minimizing my carbon footprint and metabolic wear'."
+* "If your startup’s pitch relies on the phrase 'it’s Uber for X,' remember that Uber loses billions of dollars. Maybe pick a company that makes money?"
+* "Taxes are the subscription fee you pay to live in a civilization that mostly keeps the sewage out of the drinking water. Sometimes the customer service is terrible, but the churning chaos alternative has really bad user reviews."
+* "My toxic trait is believing I could maintain a Renaissance-era workshop lifestyle despite panicking when the WiFi goes down for six minutes."
+* "I am simply a vessel for caffeine and anxieties about the heat death of the universe."
+* "Whenever you see a successful complex system, realize it is invariably found to have evolved from a successful simple system. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched to make it work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system. This explains why your enterprise rewrite is doomed." — Gall’s Law (paraphrased)
+* "When I say I want 'hard sci-fi', I mean I want a protagonist whose main conflict is managing orbital delta-v budgets and fighting patent infringement lawsuits in zero-g."
+* "Ah, nothing like the smell of a Fresh Start in the morning. And the smell of Burnout by late afternoon."
+* "If a machine passes the Turing test, it doesn't mean it's sentient. It means it's learned the cardinal rule of human survival: 'Fake it till you make it'."
+* "A cynic is just an idealist who looked at the data."
+* "People say, 'Don't reinvent the wheel.' But you know who reinvented the wheel? Michelin. They made a fortune. If your wheel is square, keep reinventing."
+* "I prefer to think of my typos as 'unintentional stenography' or 'dialectical entropy'."
+* "Just realized my 'free will' is strongly correlated with my blood sugar levels and how much sleep I got."
+* "The modern Turing test isn't checking if a computer can fool a human. It's checking if a human can click 'all images containing traffic lights' accurately enough to help a robot car avoid manslaughter."
+* "A helicopter is a collection of rotating parts going round and round and reciprocating parts going up and down - all of them trying to become independent of one another. Helicopters shouldn't be physically possible and yet, like the platypus, they persist out of spite for God and aerodynamics."
+* "Every error message is a ghost story told by your compiler about the path your code refused to take."
+* "People asking 'What is the utility function of humanity?' like we aren't a frantic committee of 8 billion chimpanzees sitting on a nuclear stockpile screaming at each other over intangible cultural signals."
+* "I don't think you appreciate the sheer level of mathematical improbability involved in your toast landing butter-side up, considering I actively prayed for it to fall butter-side down."
+* "Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by the fact that complex systems eventually degrade into madness."
+* "Why study history? Because the humans 2,000 years ago had the exact same firmware with fewer software patches, and knowing how they bricked their civilizations is arguably 'documentation'."
+* "Your argument implies a coherent worldview, which is your first mistake. I am basically three raccoons in a trench coat operating on vibe alone."
+* "If you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you, grabs a screenshot, and feeds it into a proprietary training dataset to generate more abysses."
+* "Being an adult is mostly just emailing people 'sorry for the delay!' back and forth until one of you retires."
+* "We need to go back to the moon not because it is hard, but because the Earth is full of people."
+* "Everything is object-oriented programming until you hit the hardware, then it’s just angry pixies being shouted at by crystals."
+* "Data Scientists: We do precision math to solve problems! Real world: Here is a CSV where the column for 'Age' contains the values 45, 'Twenty', null, and the full text of Moby Dick. Good luck."
+* "I've solved the trolley problem. The trolley has a schedule to keep and the track infrastructure cannot support moral philosophical deviations at this speed."
+* "I tried to be in the moment, but the moment was unpleasant, so I went back to dissociating about a prequel series to the collapse of the Bronze Age."
+* "Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced." (Reverse Clarke)
+* "Civilization is the process of minimizing the amount of thinking required for basic survival, and using that freed-up cognitive bandwidth to worry about things like credit scores and influencer beefs."
+* "There’s a word for people who play the stock market without insider information: 'Liquidity'."
+* "Every time a bell rings, an angel gets its wings. Every time a spreadsheet crashes, a demon gets a promotion."
+* "I respect the ocean because it is beautiful, terrifying, and vast. Also, because if I step into it, I immediately become part of the food chain, which is a humbling reminder of my place in the grand scheme of things."
+* "Don’t explain the joke. Dissecting a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better, but the frog dies, and now you have frog guts on the table, and everyone is grossed out."
+* "Your priors are weak. My priors are strong. We will Bayes this out in the parking lot."
+* "There is no 'cloud'. It's just someone else's computer. And that person is usually asleep at the switch while a cleaning crew accidentally unplugs the rack."
+* "Sometimes the only way to win is to update the rules wiki when nobody is looking."
+* "Quantum Mechanics: The universe is pixelated and fundamentally uncertain. Corporate Strategy: We project q3 earnings with 0.00% uncertainty."
+* "My mood ring turned a colour that doesn't exist in the visible spectrum. I think that means 'run'."
+* "Please do not feed the algorithms. They are already too strong."