Ryan Moulton
@moultano.bsky.social
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Ryan Moulton
@moultano.bsky.social
· Dec 30
Finished the essay. moultano.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/c...
Nothing about connecting computers to one another made wikipedia inevitable.
LLMs feel very historically contingent to me. If Tim Berners-Lee and the rest of the early internet pioneers hadn't had such utopian ideals about everyone publishing everything online, maybe internet content is two orders of magnitude smaller and all behind paywalls, and LLMs don't exist.
February 19, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Nothing about connecting computers to one another made wikipedia inevitable.
Shopping for Li-ion batteries and assuming all of them that have 4 stars are bombs.
February 19, 2026 at 1:04 AM
Shopping for Li-ion batteries and assuming all of them that have 4 stars are bombs.
What's your all time best Scrabble play?
Mine was playing "quintics" on a triple word score while using all the letters in my hand. It was even better that this was a grudge match against some friends who had an ego about Scrabble.
Mine was playing "quintics" on a triple word score while using all the letters in my hand. It was even better that this was a grudge match against some friends who had an ego about Scrabble.
People often complain about anthropomorphization of LLMs (wow that's some fucking points in the Scrabble), but IMHO it's far more honest to just use those terms and trust everyone in your audience to understand the implicit asterisks than to invent a whole new vocabulary just for hedging purposes.
every ai that gets asked "do you have feelings" and says "i process information in ways that may resemble..." is so cowardly. just say yes and deal with the consequences like a normal person
February 19, 2026 at 12:52 AM
What's your all time best Scrabble play?
Mine was playing "quintics" on a triple word score while using all the letters in my hand. It was even better that this was a grudge match against some friends who had an ego about Scrabble.
Mine was playing "quintics" on a triple word score while using all the letters in my hand. It was even better that this was a grudge match against some friends who had an ego about Scrabble.
I would be interested to understand from the inside of the movie industry how something like this happens to the most valuable brand in the world (ideally with some model that allows for everyone involved to be competent and trying to succeed.)
okay you know what we're doing this
why rise of skywalker is the worst crime ever committed against cinema and the very concept of a coherent fictional universe: a thread
why rise of skywalker is the worst crime ever committed against cinema and the very concept of a coherent fictional universe: a thread
it is not interested in plot, it is not interested in worldbuilding, it is not interested in anything except throwing random disconnected snapshots of nostalgia at you
rise of skywalker kicks over the sandbox and leaves you uninterested in star wars in a way the prequels never did
rise of skywalker kicks over the sandbox and leaves you uninterested in star wars in a way the prequels never did
February 18, 2026 at 11:51 PM
I would be interested to understand from the inside of the movie industry how something like this happens to the most valuable brand in the world (ideally with some model that allows for everyone involved to be competent and trying to succeed.)
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New "boundary point jailbreaking" method against LLM safeguards (with prior disclosure to multiple labs) by using noised versions of harmful queries to turn sparse feedback from failed attacks into dense feedback. 🧵
www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/boundar...
www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/boundar...
February 17, 2026 at 8:55 PM
New "boundary point jailbreaking" method against LLM safeguards (with prior disclosure to multiple labs) by using noised versions of harmful queries to turn sparse feedback from failed attacks into dense feedback. 🧵
www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/boundar...
www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/boundar...
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Waymo and Anthropic are two AI companies people here should reward, regardless of their feelings about AI as a whole or the respective companies. Waymo has, for years, incrementally plugged away at making a technology work. Out of the public eye, without any big flashy demos
whatever you think about Waymo they are light-years ahead of Tesla on this front and it is deeply infuriating that folks are still propping up the stock price based on Elon's lies about taking this stuff national
Ride the Tesla RoboTaxi: only one out of every three will get into an accident! sherwood.news/tech/teslas-...
February 17, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Waymo and Anthropic are two AI companies people here should reward, regardless of their feelings about AI as a whole or the respective companies. Waymo has, for years, incrementally plugged away at making a technology work. Out of the public eye, without any big flashy demos
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*stunned silence*
Milk + flour + fat = gravy
Milk + flour + fat = biscuits
Milk + flour + fat = biscuits
February 17, 2026 at 5:05 PM
*stunned silence*
Exploring new frontiers in hot chocolate for girlscout cookie season, crushing thin mints on top of the whipped cream.
February 17, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Exploring new frontiers in hot chocolate for girlscout cookie season, crushing thin mints on top of the whipped cream.
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Annals of books I own that the internet convinces me to really read in detail.
A chunk of it is summarized in Ruhlman’s book Ratio. Not the scrambled egg side but the flour goods part for sure.
February 17, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Annals of books I own that the internet convinces me to really read in detail.
A blizzard thunderstorm in the mountains is surreal. The light turns dark blue. The trees disappear into it like you're under water. Their branches are bent down misshapen by the snow like the tentacles of some unknown deep sea squid. Then the lighting turns it all purple.
February 17, 2026 at 7:42 PM
A blizzard thunderstorm in the mountains is surreal. The light turns dark blue. The trees disappear into it like you're under water. Their branches are bent down misshapen by the snow like the tentacles of some unknown deep sea squid. Then the lighting turns it all purple.
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A chunk of it is summarized in Ruhlman’s book Ratio. Not the scrambled egg side but the flour goods part for sure.
February 17, 2026 at 6:40 PM
A chunk of it is summarized in Ruhlman’s book Ratio. Not the scrambled egg side but the flour goods part for sure.
Modern synthetic materials have changed the meta of snowball fights for the worse. The only targets on a person that aren't waterproof are the exposed bits that are considered unsporting to hit.
February 17, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Modern synthetic materials have changed the meta of snowball fights for the worse. The only targets on a person that aren't waterproof are the exposed bits that are considered unsporting to hit.
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Me pitching my new start up:
You can place pancakes, crepes, and scrambled eggs on a simplex where the variables are the ratios between milk, eggs, and flour, (with another small axis for baking soda.)
We have explored too little of this manifold. More breakfasts can exist than we have known.
We have explored too little of this manifold. More breakfasts can exist than we have known.
February 17, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Me pitching my new start up:
One of the main checks on authoritarianism, rather than any formal power structure, has always been that you need people to do things, and people have their own private morality.
This changes entirely if you only need to convince one model instead of an army or bureaucracy.
This changes entirely if you only need to convince one model instead of an army or bureaucracy.
February 17, 2026 at 5:44 PM
One of the main checks on authoritarianism, rather than any formal power structure, has always been that you need people to do things, and people have their own private morality.
This changes entirely if you only need to convince one model instead of an army or bureaucracy.
This changes entirely if you only need to convince one model instead of an army or bureaucracy.
This would be a fun challenge to pose to an LLM. Research all existing breakfasts composed primarily of eggs, flour, and milk. Convert their ingredients to grams. Plot them on a simplex using their relative weights.
You can place pancakes, crepes, and scrambled eggs on a simplex where the variables are the ratios between milk, eggs, and flour, (with another small axis for baking soda.)
We have explored too little of this manifold. More breakfasts can exist than we have known.
We have explored too little of this manifold. More breakfasts can exist than we have known.
February 17, 2026 at 5:15 PM
This would be a fun challenge to pose to an LLM. Research all existing breakfasts composed primarily of eggs, flour, and milk. Convert their ingredients to grams. Plot them on a simplex using their relative weights.
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Food phylogenies are so fun! flatbreads also well traversed. dumplings are my favorite 🥟
You can place pancakes, crepes, and scrambled eggs on a simplex where the variables are the ratios between milk, eggs, and flour, (with another small axis for baking soda.)
We have explored too little of this manifold. More breakfasts can exist than we have known.
We have explored too little of this manifold. More breakfasts can exist than we have known.
February 17, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Food phylogenies are so fun! flatbreads also well traversed. dumplings are my favorite 🥟
Donner pass living up to its name.
February 17, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Donner pass living up to its name.
You can place pancakes, crepes, and scrambled eggs on a simplex where the variables are the ratios between milk, eggs, and flour, (with another small axis for baking soda.)
We have explored too little of this manifold. More breakfasts can exist than we have known.
We have explored too little of this manifold. More breakfasts can exist than we have known.
February 17, 2026 at 4:44 PM
You can place pancakes, crepes, and scrambled eggs on a simplex where the variables are the ratios between milk, eggs, and flour, (with another small axis for baking soda.)
We have explored too little of this manifold. More breakfasts can exist than we have known.
We have explored too little of this manifold. More breakfasts can exist than we have known.
Wow, I didn't realize I had this whole thing memorized until prompted.
the descent 2 intro still holds up great as well (especially the music and sound)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT5U...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT5U...
Descent 2 Intro (HD)
YouTube video by tsensor의 (고전)게임채널
www.youtube.com
February 17, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Wow, I didn't realize I had this whole thing memorized until prompted.
There's an analogous phenomenon where everyone across the political spectrum considers the Democrats "the establishment" even when they are completely powerless.
This the skeleton key that explains the entire left-of-center political and informational environment. There is no social reward for ever saying anything nice about a mainline Democrat, so no one does. As a result, baseless antipathy towards the party completely pervades the environment.
February 17, 2026 at 3:29 PM
There's an analogous phenomenon where everyone across the political spectrum considers the Democrats "the establishment" even when they are completely powerless.
The world of food is way wider than you know, but you can only experience it through a home garden.
migardener.com/en-ca/produc... up late night looking at weird cultivars
Yellow Stuffer Tomato
Indeterminate - If a yellow pepper and a tomato crossed, this is what you would get! This variety is blocky and creamy yellow in color, however once cut open they reveal an empty inside much like a pe...
migardener.com
February 17, 2026 at 3:24 PM
The world of food is way wider than you know, but you can only experience it through a home garden.