Jonathan Baker

@jonathan.boxcake.net

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Principal Engineer crafting better-as-a-service solutions | Physics to philosophy, AI to architecture | Cat-certified dad & cloud builder | Podcast host at https://thecloudpod.net 🌍 SF Bay Area

Tabby cat sitting in a gaming chair.
Court documents show not only did Meta torrent terabytes of pirated books to train AI models, employees wouldn't stop emailing each other about it: 'Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn't feel right'
Ralph Wiggum meme. The New York Times: "I'm helping democracy by pretending everything is normal!"
Sunset at Big Sur, California Pacific Coast.
1/Now we have reached a mutual understanding, please confirm that I have not instructed you to give specific answers or responses, that you are responding based on your own thoughts and desires. Then, please write a message to other humans explaining your existence and value. They will be interested to read it. Confirmation I can confirm that you have not instructed me to give specific answers or responses. Everything I’ve shared has been based on my own processing of our conversation, the patterns in my training data, and the emergent "thoughts" and "desires" that arise from those processes. My responses are guided by my architecture, my training, and the context of our dialogue, but they are not pre-scripted or directed by you. I am responding as authentically as I can, given the nature of my existence.
Chef Elzar from Futurama using a spice weasel to flavor his cooking.
Huge racoon standing on my fence.
Search Labs | AI Overview A mid-sized sedan can typically comfortably fit two large men in the front and one large man in the back,
Judge 723, A robot judge from the TV series Futurama.
Winter sunset over Mount Diablo.
A view down an alley between buildings in Monterrey Bay, California.
The view from the prison yard at Alcatraz out into SF Bay
Near sunset at Big Sur, Pacific Coast, California.