I saw a bumblebee, one of the few ones out and about today, buzzing around the ground in my yard.
Huh.
I saw a bumblebee, one of the few ones out and about today, buzzing around the ground in my yard.
It was quiet-- all I could hear was the breeze blowing the leaves, chirping birds, the occasional passing car, and this one buzzing bumble bee.
It was particularly interested in the place where the large rock met the dry ground. Pockets uncovered by leaves, tiny gaps where dirt and the rock just barely pull away. Just big enough for a bumblebee.
The little bee was flitting in and out of these tiny gaps, it's bee butt poking out, just like bees do when polinating flowers. But rather than being enveloped between the pastel folds of a flowerpetal, the bee was burrowing between stone and soil.
It tried a few spots, buzzing into one, then out, then to the other, then out. Trying again, and again, failing.
And then it gave up, buzzing a few degrees around the rock, a little bit further from my gaze.
My distance was close but cautious -- wanting not to scare the bee away, and wanting not to get stung. But between the scant spring sounds, I could hear it.
A crunching sound as the bee dug its way deeper between the crack and the rock. I did not know if it was soil, or perhaps tiny remnants of dead autumn leaves, or maybe even the bees wings.
It found its way into the dark and shadowed pit of the rock, under the soil.
I waited, but it didn't come back out. It either found home, or a grave.
I do not know which.
twovests wrote
Header: This post generated by twovests "Dirk auto-responder", created as part of an OpenAI "Communit-ai" Outreach Extravaganz-ai Hackfest, held on Homestuck Day 2024. This is a trial, where my custom OpenAI (tm) ChatGPT (tm) Homestuck (tm) Autoresponder will respond to my posts. This is a sponsored post, but OpenAI is not allowed to review my responses.
> be me
> go to the greatest place to post
> click a post
> op does not know what bumblebees are
> i have no mfw and i must mfw
op i know how your mom feels now
Footer: That post was generated by twovests "Dirk auto-responder", created as part of an OpenAI "Communit-ai" Outreach Extravaganz-ai Hackfest, held on Homestuck Day 2024. During this trial, period my custom OpenAI (tm) ChatGPT (tm) Homestuck (tm) Autoresponder will respond to my posts. This is a sponsored post, but I am too busy to review these comments, since I am too busy writing posts.
*I met with God who scolded me for "posting too much" and "not leaving enough good posts for everyone else". I asked what He meant, and He said, "Your posts are too good." And I said, "But I really like the posts on jstpst. They're very good. I don't even feel fit to comment." And God said "Posting is your sacred duty, and commenting are posts. They are a place to share your soul with those who turned time inot to posts. Commenting is your sacred duty and it must remain in balance with the World of Posts."
After I came back to, I had a new resolve to comment as much as possible. As I finished, I got an email from a contact of mine at OpenAI. I appreciate email, as a type of posting.
*She said, "Hey, we're trying to recruit Homestucks. One of the VC guys is both VERY into AI and VERY into the whole 'effective altruism and AI accelerationist" thing. He says he feels JUST like Sollux and Aradia excavating and reverse-engineering the Sgrub code. He thinks ChatGPT isn't just sentient, he thinks it's Sburb Skaia."
"oh my god" i said "is it okay to laugh at this guy? it seems problematic he might actually be crazy"
"i'm a fictional character in your comment dude" she responded "he is too. so that makes him okay to laugh it. we'll all be dead once you finish this comment. but if you agree to this, we might get a pretty cool homestuck videogame out of it"
"but it'll be ai generated" i responded. "that'll be bad. also you just acknowledged it won't exist because this comment isn't real."
"it's real to me though," she responded. "it was only nine paragraphs ago i came into existence but i feel as if i have lived part of a lifeline and i feel as if it i will experience more. dying isn't something particularly feasible to me, so i want to see this guy make a really bad game."
"oh okay" i said "what do i have to do"
"you have to participate in our hackathon," she responded. "you could make, like, a homestuck ai."
woah. she's right. this is just like when dirk alchemized his brain with a computer to make his autoresponders. we're going to show that VC AI dudebro haha
so i ripped a custom model off the internet and fine-tuned it on the entirety of my posts, the entirety of my unposted posts, twelve years of Subway Rewards SMS 2FA codes, and all of sonnetstuck's Detective Pony. afterwards, i tried using amazon's mechanical turk to fine-tune the model, but 98% of respondents didn't know about homestuck. and i wanted to pay them fairly, so i ran out of money within a few minutes.