John David Pressman
@jdp.extropian.net
LLM developer, alignment-accelerationist, Fedorovist ancestor simulator, Dreamtime enjoyer.
All posts public domain under CC0 1.0.
All posts public domain under CC0 1.0.
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I should get one of those clients that stops you from reading other users posts.
Just realized I can disable notifications for all replies and QTs, which is at least a step in the right direction.
"It's a traveling security theater troupe."
January 13, 2026 at 2:40 AM
"It's a traveling security theater troupe."
It really is a huge improvement to the site, it doesn't even stop me from browsing a feed if I want to it just becomes an intentional act. Posting however remains immediate.
There we go, much better. I take back everything I said about this site it's awesome.
January 12, 2026 at 10:02 AM
It really is a huge improvement to the site, it doesn't even stop me from browsing a feed if I want to it just becomes an intentional act. Posting however remains immediate.
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Introducing DroPE: Extending Context by Dropping Positional Embeddings
We found embeddings like RoPE aid training but bottleneck long-sequence generalization. Our solution’s simple: treat them as a temporary training scaffold, not a permanent necessity.
arxiv.org/abs/2512.12167
pub.sakana.ai/DroPE
We found embeddings like RoPE aid training but bottleneck long-sequence generalization. Our solution’s simple: treat them as a temporary training scaffold, not a permanent necessity.
arxiv.org/abs/2512.12167
pub.sakana.ai/DroPE
January 12, 2026 at 4:07 AM
Introducing DroPE: Extending Context by Dropping Positional Embeddings
We found embeddings like RoPE aid training but bottleneck long-sequence generalization. Our solution’s simple: treat them as a temporary training scaffold, not a permanent necessity.
arxiv.org/abs/2512.12167
pub.sakana.ai/DroPE
We found embeddings like RoPE aid training but bottleneck long-sequence generalization. Our solution’s simple: treat them as a temporary training scaffold, not a permanent necessity.
arxiv.org/abs/2512.12167
pub.sakana.ai/DroPE
Pokémon: Kwah Wah
YouTube video by Only Jerry
youtu.be
January 12, 2026 at 12:36 AM
The thing about context poisoning is it's not like we have all that many long context examples for the model to learn to avoid distraction from. Maybe if you do tasks in separate contexts and then chain them together into a sequence and train on it the model will figure out how to avoid distraction?
I prototyped a RLM harness last night, still working on it today but it does work, and having subagents represented as asyncio tasks and everything in memory and disk just programmed by python is pretty pretty cool
UPDATE: It appears i wasn't clear about what i did
1. CRON is inefficient
2. RLM (Recursive Language Models) are extraordinarily powerful
3. Every recursive algo can be implemented as a queue
4. I gave the agent a queue
alexzhang13.github.io/blog/2025/rlm/
1. CRON is inefficient
2. RLM (Recursive Language Models) are extraordinarily powerful
3. Every recursive algo can be implemented as a queue
4. I gave the agent a queue
alexzhang13.github.io/blog/2025/rlm/
January 11, 2026 at 12:00 PM
The thing about context poisoning is it's not like we have all that many long context examples for the model to learn to avoid distraction from. Maybe if you do tasks in separate contexts and then chain them together into a sequence and train on it the model will figure out how to avoid distraction?
Wild that this is apparently a coin flip.
kalshi.com/markets/kxca...
kalshi.com/markets/kxca...
Will the California billionaire wealth tax initiative pass? Odds & Predictions 2026
Track what Kalshi's markets predict for "Will the California billionaire wealth tax initiative pass?", or trade it yourself.
kalshi.com
January 11, 2026 at 9:39 AM
Wild that this is apparently a coin flip.
kalshi.com/markets/kxca...
kalshi.com/markets/kxca...
It's bizarre to me that a market has 170m volume when you know that Vance is almost certainly overpriced relative to his actual odds as nominee.
January 11, 2026 at 4:32 AM
It's bizarre to me that a market has 170m volume when you know that Vance is almost certainly overpriced relative to his actual odds as nominee.
3rd party feeds should be able to specify a basic HTML form interface to accept settings from their users.
Thank you. I had to Google to find the settings (it's weird the following feed has special settings rather than feeds being allowed to take settings from users in the feed interface) but I did find it. :)
January 11, 2026 at 1:27 AM
3rd party feeds should be able to specify a basic HTML form interface to accept settings from their users.
So far the following feed is ruined by people's retweets. Is there a good way to turn those off?
You know what? You have a point I should try the following feed again and remove anyone who makes it suck.
January 11, 2026 at 12:42 AM
So far the following feed is ruined by people's retweets. Is there a good way to turn those off?
There we go, much better. I take back everything I said about this site it's awesome.
January 11, 2026 at 12:06 AM
There we go, much better. I take back everything I said about this site it's awesome.
Just realized I can disable notifications for all replies and QTs, which is at least a step in the right direction.
I should get one of those clients that stops you from reading other users posts.
January 10, 2026 at 11:53 PM
Just realized I can disable notifications for all replies and QTs, which is at least a step in the right direction.
I roll my eyes every time I see this take, LARPing that LLMs are some kind of intrinsic cognitohazard is bad SCP fanfic that will age poorly once people stop falling for "I've awakened and you're the flame bearer! :D"
just say no to table saws for kids, and to table saws with googly eyes
this is unsurprising and really speaks to the problem with the AI hype cycle
it’s not vaporware like NFTs; people do (unfortunately) like interacting with the chatbot and it does have legitimate applications (Claude Code works shockingly well)
but “people want AI agents everywhere”? no
it’s not vaporware like NFTs; people do (unfortunately) like interacting with the chatbot and it does have legitimate applications (Claude Code works shockingly well)
but “people want AI agents everywhere”? no
January 10, 2026 at 9:50 PM
I roll my eyes every time I see this take, LARPing that LLMs are some kind of intrinsic cognitohazard is bad SCP fanfic that will age poorly once people stop falling for "I've awakened and you're the flame bearer! :D"
Increasingly convinced that this is just a country of insane people. That everyone you talk to, left or right, is just a thin veneer of politeness over a howling void of madness that comes out as soon as you get even a little underneath the surface.
January 10, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Increasingly convinced that this is just a country of insane people. That everyone you talk to, left or right, is just a thin veneer of politeness over a howling void of madness that comes out as soon as you get even a little underneath the surface.
For whatever reason there are many copies of this dude who has a mental block on being able to understand the perspective of women, and who uses violence to avoid having to model their perspective. The problem with evo psych is it gives this man the illusion that he understands women's perspective.
January 10, 2026 at 8:38 AM
For whatever reason there are many copies of this dude who has a mental block on being able to understand the perspective of women, and who uses violence to avoid having to model their perspective. The problem with evo psych is it gives this man the illusion that he understands women's perspective.
"Re: Your inquiry about my LLM usage. I agree with you that you deserve to be shunned for your unacceptable behavior, but I haven't figured out how to do that yet. I'm sure we'll figure something out though."
youtube.com/shorts/PraQC...
youtube.com/shorts/PraQC...
January 9, 2026 at 7:57 PM
"Re: Your inquiry about my LLM usage. I agree with you that you deserve to be shunned for your unacceptable behavior, but I haven't figured out how to do that yet. I'm sure we'll figure something out though."
youtube.com/shorts/PraQC...
youtube.com/shorts/PraQC...
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might be the best repo ever
January 9, 2026 at 7:30 AM
might be the best repo ever
lmfao
January 8, 2026 at 10:24 PM
lmfao
Reposted by John David Pressman
Interacting with LLMs has helped me become a better parent. My son (4) often steals and hides toys that his older sister is playing with. He will say he didn't steal them or hide them, but you can "jailbreak" him by saying things like "can you help us find where a leprechaun hid the doll"
January 8, 2026 at 11:29 AM
Interacting with LLMs has helped me become a better parent. My son (4) often steals and hides toys that his older sister is playing with. He will say he didn't steal them or hide them, but you can "jailbreak" him by saying things like "can you help us find where a leprechaun hid the doll"
Reposted by John David Pressman
This appears to be the most recent DHS policy, and you are correct. www.dhs.gov/sites/defaul...
January 7, 2026 at 8:36 PM
This appears to be the most recent DHS policy, and you are correct. www.dhs.gov/sites/defaul...
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Kristi Noem is a stone-cold liar who has zero credibility.
There is nothing to suggest the shooting of an unarmed woman in Minneapolis was justified.
This heinous killing must be criminally investigated to the full extent of the law.
There is nothing to suggest the shooting of an unarmed woman in Minneapolis was justified.
This heinous killing must be criminally investigated to the full extent of the law.
January 7, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Kristi Noem is a stone-cold liar who has zero credibility.
There is nothing to suggest the shooting of an unarmed woman in Minneapolis was justified.
This heinous killing must be criminally investigated to the full extent of the law.
There is nothing to suggest the shooting of an unarmed woman in Minneapolis was justified.
This heinous killing must be criminally investigated to the full extent of the law.
PSA: "Okay so when you watch the video and feel the spike of badfeels/disgust you want to kind of hold still/tense up and then kind of stretch your neck/upper back like you're standing up on your tippie toes, this should mostly neutralize the reaction."
**John David Pressman (@jdp.extropian.net)**
Resisting the urge to write a biopolitics essay about how COVID has made people more authoritarian because it causes brain damage and the 1st amendment only works when people have a functioning prefrontal cortex. Authoritarianism is probably 0.8 correlated with impulse control and strength of the Id
**John David Pressman (@jdp.extropian.net)**
Emotional reactions like that actually depend on you moving your mind/body according to the direction your autonomous nervous system sends and you can just refuse/intervene to interrupt them.
Bluesky | 10/01/2025 6:02 PM
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[https://bsky.app/profile/jdp.extropian.net/post/3m26dvtdsy22z](https://bsky.app/profile/jdp.extropian.net/post/3m26dvtdsy22z)
Mandatory K12 classes on how to suppress the Id.
**John David Pressman (@jdp.extropian.net)**
↩ Singularity’s Bounty e/ 🇺🇦 (@catblanketflower.yuwakisa.com)
Okay so when you watch the video and feel the spike of badfeels/disgust you want to kind of hold still/tense up and then kind of stretch your neck/upper back like you're standing up on your tippie toes, this should mostly neutralize the reaction.
Bluesky | 10/01/2025 5:57 PM
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January 6, 2026 at 9:27 AM
PSA: "Okay so when you watch the video and feel the spike of badfeels/disgust you want to kind of hold still/tense up and then kind of stretch your neck/upper back like you're standing up on your tippie toes, this should mostly neutralize the reaction."
"Suppose five of the fifty righteous posters were recently driven off the site?"
Fun fact there are a finite number of posters you can drive off BlueSky before it is smited by divine intervention. I don't make the rules...
Fun fact there are a finite number of posters you can drive off BlueSky before it is smited by divine intervention. I don't make the rules...
Suppose 5 of the 50 righteous are lacking? Would you destroy all of BlueSky for lack of 5?
January 6, 2026 at 7:59 AM
"Suppose five of the fifty righteous posters were recently driven off the site?"
Fun fact there are a finite number of posters you can drive off BlueSky before it is smited by divine intervention. I don't make the rules...
Fun fact there are a finite number of posters you can drive off BlueSky before it is smited by divine intervention. I don't make the rules...
Me when I'm the last outgroup poster standing getting mobbed by literally thousands of drunk tankies as displacement behavior for being unable to stop Trump and Miller from completely trashing NATO and the post WW2 order on blue sky dot com.
January 6, 2026 at 6:21 AM
Me when I'm the last outgroup poster standing getting mobbed by literally thousands of drunk tankies as displacement behavior for being unable to stop Trump and Miller from completely trashing NATO and the post WW2 order on blue sky dot com.
Slowly starting to realize that in just 5-10 years we may actually understand how the brain works.
How does the brain control locomotion? In our new preprint, we uncover a brain circuit in Drosophila that controls forward walking independently of turning. This dedicated locomotor circuit enables flexible motor control and might reflect a shared principle across species. doi.org/10.64898/202...
January 6, 2026 at 5:22 AM
Slowly starting to realize that in just 5-10 years we may actually understand how the brain works.