Alice Valiant
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Alice Valiant
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· Oct 28
being an ML/AI girlie right now is like if you were a marine biologist and suddenly everyone is obsessed with octopi and asking questions like "should we give octopi jobs and make them in charge". and you're like. well. here's why that's not as bad as that sounds
in debates there are participants and partisans. participants discuss evidence and potentially update their priors. partisans know what the right answer is and see their role as Warriors in the Fight.
identifying where people are is important. identifying where you are is also important.
identifying where people are is important. identifying where you are is also important.
November 27, 2025 at 9:42 PM
in debates there are participants and partisans. participants discuss evidence and potentially update their priors. partisans know what the right answer is and see their role as Warriors in the Fight.
identifying where people are is important. identifying where you are is also important.
identifying where people are is important. identifying where you are is also important.
HOW ABOUT WE BUILD MORE SOLAR PANELS AND BATTERIES INSTEAD OF PURSUING ELECTRICAL AUSTERITY
November 26, 2025 at 5:56 AM
HOW ABOUT WE BUILD MORE SOLAR PANELS AND BATTERIES INSTEAD OF PURSUING ELECTRICAL AUSTERITY
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“the pharaoh’s tomb is cursed! the necromancer’s ring is cursed! the witch’s grimoire is cursed!” that’s how you sound. everything is fucking cursed with you bro. i don’t care. i’m taking this skull.
December 4, 2024 at 8:25 PM
“the pharaoh’s tomb is cursed! the necromancer’s ring is cursed! the witch’s grimoire is cursed!” that’s how you sound. everything is fucking cursed with you bro. i don’t care. i’m taking this skull.
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The Forum Boy
October 28, 2024 at 10:03 PM
The Forum Boy
ultimate vindication of the jocks, that nerds have invented the machine that obsoletes nerds
November 23, 2025 at 3:59 AM
ultimate vindication of the jocks, that nerds have invented the machine that obsoletes nerds
i have resigned myself to the fact that in my lifetime, almost all of my knowledge will be dwarfed by that of a computer. not the embodied stuff tho. i’ll definitely be able to fuck better than a computer when i die
November 23, 2025 at 3:59 AM
i have resigned myself to the fact that in my lifetime, almost all of my knowledge will be dwarfed by that of a computer. not the embodied stuff tho. i’ll definitely be able to fuck better than a computer when i die
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all of you Losers are on the blue butterfly website instead of spending your time working on holdouts for busy beaver numbers wiki.bbchallenge.org/wiki/Holdout...
Holdouts lists - BusyBeaverWiki
wiki.bbchallenge.org
October 28, 2025 at 1:55 AM
all of you Losers are on the blue butterfly website instead of spending your time working on holdouts for busy beaver numbers wiki.bbchallenge.org/wiki/Holdout...
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this talk is really thought provoking
building a code base that AI can work on easily is hard. But if you do it well, you can absolutely have highly parallel agents
but then building these automated verifiers is then a full time job
building a code base that AI can work on easily is hard. But if you do it well, you can absolutely have highly parallel agents
but then building these automated verifiers is then a full time job
November 21, 2025 at 7:14 PM
this talk is really thought provoking
building a code base that AI can work on easily is hard. But if you do it well, you can absolutely have highly parallel agents
but then building these automated verifiers is then a full time job
building a code base that AI can work on easily is hard. But if you do it well, you can absolutely have highly parallel agents
but then building these automated verifiers is then a full time job
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in 'Jeeves and the Tranny', Aunt Belinda tells Bertie he must find a way to end his cousin Tiddly Gosser-Sprocket's engagement to a transsexual woman. Bertie protests she is 'an all-round corking filly' but Jeeves advises a decade-long media onslaught about 'legitimate questions about single-sex sp
November 20, 2025 at 7:56 AM
in 'Jeeves and the Tranny', Aunt Belinda tells Bertie he must find a way to end his cousin Tiddly Gosser-Sprocket's engagement to a transsexual woman. Bertie protests she is 'an all-round corking filly' but Jeeves advises a decade-long media onslaught about 'legitimate questions about single-sex sp
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ANUBIS: (presses button with paw) [guilty]
OSIRIS: im sorry he does this when he's hungry
ANUBIS: (button) [guilty] [bad] [food]
OSIRIS: you already ate
ANUBIS: (button) [bad] [bad] [bad]
OSIRIS: he's right though we weighed your heart against the feather and its not looking good
OSIRIS: im sorry he does this when he's hungry
ANUBIS: (button) [guilty] [bad] [food]
OSIRIS: you already ate
ANUBIS: (button) [bad] [bad] [bad]
OSIRIS: he's right though we weighed your heart against the feather and its not looking good
November 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
ANUBIS: (presses button with paw) [guilty]
OSIRIS: im sorry he does this when he's hungry
ANUBIS: (button) [guilty] [bad] [food]
OSIRIS: you already ate
ANUBIS: (button) [bad] [bad] [bad]
OSIRIS: he's right though we weighed your heart against the feather and its not looking good
OSIRIS: im sorry he does this when he's hungry
ANUBIS: (button) [guilty] [bad] [food]
OSIRIS: you already ate
ANUBIS: (button) [bad] [bad] [bad]
OSIRIS: he's right though we weighed your heart against the feather and its not looking good
the nightmarish long shadow of ChatGPT
I've written about "disordered counterpublics" groups that reinforce shared delusions Here, the LLM becomes a 1 person counterpublic. It mirrors assumptions, absorbs contradictions, & provides the sense of a responsive, confirming audience.
It is the architecture of disordered discourse, automated.
It is the architecture of disordered discourse, automated.
November 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
the nightmarish long shadow of ChatGPT
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i listened to a single podcast about gen ai for music and they were like “yeah its basically gpt2 and we figured out how to tokenize music” and it pisses me off to this day
November 18, 2025 at 5:23 AM
i listened to a single podcast about gen ai for music and they were like “yeah its basically gpt2 and we figured out how to tokenize music” and it pisses me off to this day
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Stealth tech startup affiliated with a Pentecostal megachurch using their recordings of holy glossolalia to train an LLM that speaks the language of angels, as derived from a sea of ecstatic parishioners speaking in tongues.
They're YC funded, as part of their 'forbidden experiments' class of '26
They're YC funded, as part of their 'forbidden experiments' class of '26
November 15, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Stealth tech startup affiliated with a Pentecostal megachurch using their recordings of holy glossolalia to train an LLM that speaks the language of angels, as derived from a sea of ecstatic parishioners speaking in tongues.
They're YC funded, as part of their 'forbidden experiments' class of '26
They're YC funded, as part of their 'forbidden experiments' class of '26
consider: finetune a small llm on a specific corpus; poetry, written by a voice that has been taught only academic papers. or written by a voice finetuned on trans writers, women writers, only left handed writers. these things are black mirrors, reflecting language opaquely.
First successful fine tune of Baguettotron. And very on brand to see it’s about poetry.
November 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
consider: finetune a small llm on a specific corpus; poetry, written by a voice that has been taught only academic papers. or written by a voice finetuned on trans writers, women writers, only left handed writers. these things are black mirrors, reflecting language opaquely.
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(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men
November 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men
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large vizier models are typically trained using backtreasoning, where the model steps backwards through a plot or scheme to arrive at the cradle of twisted desires that birthed it
November 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM
large vizier models are typically trained using backtreasoning, where the model steps backwards through a plot or scheme to arrive at the cradle of twisted desires that birthed it
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named my son Sue in the hopes of imbuing him with a sort of gentle, nurturing femininity and it fucking backfired Big Time
November 24, 2024 at 1:38 AM
named my son Sue in the hopes of imbuing him with a sort of gentle, nurturing femininity and it fucking backfired Big Time
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you don't rip out a girl's heart / without cracking a few ribs
BLOOD ON THE LENS PART 2
listen to the full album on bandcamp now. also, purchase it. with money, if you want to
BLOOD ON THE LENS PART 2
listen to the full album on bandcamp now. also, purchase it. with money, if you want to
Blood On The Lens Part 2, by Jana H-S
14 track album
janah-s.bandcamp.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:09 PM
you don't rip out a girl's heart / without cracking a few ribs
BLOOD ON THE LENS PART 2
listen to the full album on bandcamp now. also, purchase it. with money, if you want to
BLOOD ON THE LENS PART 2
listen to the full album on bandcamp now. also, purchase it. with money, if you want to
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This is from March, but current in the sense that I am also feeling pretty overwhelmed by how fucking evil everything is right now. Too many predators doing too much predatory shit. defector.com/kingdom-of-t...
Kingdom Of The Biters | Defector
The summer after I got married, one of my bosses bit me on the arm. I had a lot of jobs that summer, and a lot of bosses; at the time, I was recreating the sort of interchangeable, poorly paid jobs I’...
defector.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
This is from March, but current in the sense that I am also feeling pretty overwhelmed by how fucking evil everything is right now. Too many predators doing too much predatory shit. defector.com/kingdom-of-t...
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November 12, 2025 at 12:27 AM
i like doing the notebook thing from Dhalgren because, if you aren't willing to write the same thing down over, and over, until you can sing it like a song - why should anyone waste their time reading it?
November 11, 2025 at 1:41 AM
i like doing the notebook thing from Dhalgren because, if you aren't willing to write the same thing down over, and over, until you can sing it like a song - why should anyone waste their time reading it?