270. B-Roll Of The Big Bang
Dec 23, 2024•1 hr 8 min
Episode description
Lords:
* Alexander
* Hallie
Topics:
* Making AI drunk
* Alexander's name generator, rehosted: http://twinbeard.com/names/
* How Star Wars being bought Disney is basically the same thing as the Roman Empire converting to Christianity
* Electromagnetism
* Super Bon Bon (according to Google search)
* https://www.google.com/search?q=super+bon+bon+lyrics
* Using flow theory and Kubler Ross grief to drive learning systems
* Animals you want to pet, but cannot.
Microtopics:
* A Game Called Anomaly.
* A tarot-based GM-less storytelling game about a sinister organization investigating a supernatural The KGB (not that one)
* Deliberately lo-fi neural nets.
* Real to less-real name sliders.
* What Jamden Ovenson is up to these days.
* Cranking the tipsy slider all way up.
* anomaly.
* Things humans can do with new tools.
* Setting desired and undesired objectives for your learning designers.
* Learning to speak as many languages as possible so that Godzilla does not rise from the briny deep.
* Refusing to let the AI drive the bus.
* A very big json dump.
* The Mac Mini in your closet that runs your witch's familiars.
* Things that are obvious to you but not to anyone else.
* Cool apocryphal acts, bro.
* Getting into Christ before it was cool.
* Decanonizing anything that doesn't serve your power interests.
* Bible/Star Wars crossover fan fiction.
* Once you eat the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, forever will it dominate your destiny.
* Metals that can be turned into a magnet.
* Where to even start with spin?
* Whether protons are physical objects.
* The language of perceiving the world.
* Reading a poem about quantum physics.
* Finally understanding the mathematics of love so you can ditch the love poetry and find the best lovers in the math department.
* Which types of quark are super effective against other types of quark.
* Why they call it electromagnetism.
* But what about the Bullet Galaxies?
* Weakly-interactive massive particles, or WIMPs.
* Another particle that we thought up.
* Microphones not picking up your tinnitus.
* Extremely slow and old neutrinos.
* Cosmic Microwave Background Average Frame of Reference.
* The Soul Coughing cadence.
* A poem, but it's performed in a certain rhythm. Some white guy should invent that and take credit for it.
* Song Meanings Blog Dot Com.
* Helping drive exploration of new ideas.
* Making a name generator so bad that nobody uses it more than once.
* Patterns and responses that characterize human behavior.
* Grief as a mechanism to address overfitting in the human learning model.
* The Parable of the Spandrel.
* Possibilities that are more probable than Godzilla having eaten your house.
* Depression as a way to just sit there.
* Automatons with anxiety.
* Entering random Game Genie codes into your neural net.
* Wanting to pet a service dog because he's the best boy.
* Service dogs having their own service dogs, recursively all the way down.
* A chicken named Regular Expressions, or Reggie for short.
* Digging in anything that looks diggable.
* Being desperately confused by objects that you can see through but not walk through.
* Ways to not get tricked by yourself or others.