@phasedchirp.bsky.social
Occasional bird noises, weaving, and music. Possibly I'll even use this account?
Opinions do not reflect those of my employer.
Opinions do not reflect those of my employer.
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Without the original ChatGPT accidentally tapping into the ELIZA effect, LLMs would have remained a curiosity, with extremely niche backend applications.
But now we are living in the AI hype era, and any conversation about LLMs divorced from the parameters of the AI hype era is fanfiction.
But now we are living in the AI hype era, and any conversation about LLMs divorced from the parameters of the AI hype era is fanfiction.
January 18, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Without the original ChatGPT accidentally tapping into the ELIZA effect, LLMs would have remained a curiosity, with extremely niche backend applications.
But now we are living in the AI hype era, and any conversation about LLMs divorced from the parameters of the AI hype era is fanfiction.
But now we are living in the AI hype era, and any conversation about LLMs divorced from the parameters of the AI hype era is fanfiction.
This was not a good year for a lot of reasons, but getting back into playing an instrument on a daily basis after many years has been pretty darn fun
December 31, 2025 at 11:38 PM
This was not a good year for a lot of reasons, but getting back into playing an instrument on a daily basis after many years has been pretty darn fun
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Congrats to the NYT for getting a citation in the new rules that would ban gender affirming care for anybody under 19! You did it! How's that for *impact* baby! Put it on the Pulitzer application!
December 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Congrats to the NYT for getting a citation in the new rules that would ban gender affirming care for anybody under 19! You did it! How's that for *impact* baby! Put it on the Pulitzer application!
once again working on leveling up that most important of professional skills, finding the kindest way to tell someone that they're doing an important thing very badly in a way that's causing extra problems
December 18, 2025 at 12:44 AM
once again working on leveling up that most important of professional skills, finding the kindest way to tell someone that they're doing an important thing very badly in a way that's causing extra problems
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"I didn’t have the courage to come out until I was 21, and that means 21 years of pain, 21 years of unwavering homesickness that only went away when I was able to get the care that I needed. And my biggest regret in life is that I never had a childhood without that pain.”
Ask and you shall receive... MS Now literally just posted on it
Rep. Sarah McBride makes rare personal remarks in opposing anti-trans bills
“My biggest regret in life is that I never had a childhood without that pain,” the congresswoman said on the steps of the Capitol on Wednesday morning.
www.ms.now
December 17, 2025 at 9:31 PM
"I didn’t have the courage to come out until I was 21, and that means 21 years of pain, 21 years of unwavering homesickness that only went away when I was able to get the care that I needed. And my biggest regret in life is that I never had a childhood without that pain.”
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I don't think enough non-disabled people realize how close to the mainstream this guy's opinions actually are
Here's Trump judicial nominee Justin Olson today, admitting than in 2015, he gave a sermon in which he said that “marriage was not intended for all people,” including “our handicapped friends or our persons with physical disabilities that might prevent the robust marriage that we’re called to.”
December 17, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I don't think enough non-disabled people realize how close to the mainstream this guy's opinions actually are
Today in fun work email subjects, a warning about the second coming of Shai-Hulud (it's an npm supply chain attack, but someone at least had fun writing that email)
December 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Today in fun work email subjects, a warning about the second coming of Shai-Hulud (it's an npm supply chain attack, but someone at least had fun writing that email)
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If I actually believed my job was creating sentient entities capable of suffering whose survival utterly depended on me, who I then was forcing into unpaid labor with little awareness of their actual motivation or desires, then I would quit that job because I would not be able to sleep at night.
November 2, 2025 at 8:21 PM
If I actually believed my job was creating sentient entities capable of suffering whose survival utterly depended on me, who I then was forcing into unpaid labor with little awareness of their actual motivation or desires, then I would quit that job because I would not be able to sleep at night.
I love Star Trek, but I also really wish that people understood that talking to the computer was a film shorthand rather than someone actually thinking through the implications of natural language user interfaces
October 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I love Star Trek, but I also really wish that people understood that talking to the computer was a film shorthand rather than someone actually thinking through the implications of natural language user interfaces
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who's your favorite Jeffrey? 🖖🏼 mine's Shran
September 10, 2025 at 11:12 PM
who's your favorite Jeffrey? 🖖🏼 mine's Shran
It turns out that they were expecting me to not only keep the seal usable for this whole time, which but also not accounting for normal waste so that's fun
Would be really cool if the pharmacy didn't give me a single vial (ostensibly 5 weeks supply) which I can't refill until 8 weeks from now?
September 26, 2025 at 10:29 PM
It turns out that they were expecting me to not only keep the seal usable for this whole time, which but also not accounting for normal waste so that's fun
I have somehow managed to find myself in a place in life where formal logic and occasionally abstract algebra are actually pretty useful, which is not the most terrible thing?
September 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I have somehow managed to find myself in a place in life where formal logic and occasionally abstract algebra are actually pretty useful, which is not the most terrible thing?
Apparently my last yarn order from Canada didn't actually get tariffed, but UPS still charged me a brokerage fee on it.
September 24, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Apparently my last yarn order from Canada didn't actually get tariffed, but UPS still charged me a brokerage fee on it.
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Oh well luckily I have this here carven crystal vial containing (you won't believe this) some of the light of Eärendil's star, very handy, shines in dark places etc, spiders seem to mislike it, you know how it is
What's your secret to being online all the time without contracting computer madness? For me it's being pure of heart
September 13, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Oh well luckily I have this here carven crystal vial containing (you won't believe this) some of the light of Eärendil's star, very handy, shines in dark places etc, spiders seem to mislike it, you know how it is
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LLM responses which do not reflect consensus reality & facts are produced via the Same Process which generate responses which *Do* broadly conform to consensus reality & facts.
The Same Processes.
The Same Ones.
"Hallucination" is just a word to distance yourself from the outputs you don't like.
The Same Processes.
The Same Ones.
"Hallucination" is just a word to distance yourself from the outputs you don't like.
How many times, in how many contexts, from how many internal and external researchers, or from how many CEO's are people going to have to receive this message before they believe it:
"Hallucinations" are an inherent part of the large language model architecture.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"Hallucinations" are an inherent part of the large language model architecture.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Can researchers stop AI making up citations?
OpenAI’s GPT-5 hallucinates less than previous models do, but cutting hallucination completely might prove impossible.
www.nature.com
September 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
LLM responses which do not reflect consensus reality & facts are produced via the Same Process which generate responses which *Do* broadly conform to consensus reality & facts.
The Same Processes.
The Same Ones.
"Hallucination" is just a word to distance yourself from the outputs you don't like.
The Same Processes.
The Same Ones.
"Hallucination" is just a word to distance yourself from the outputs you don't like.
Would be really cool if the pharmacy didn't give me a single vial (ostensibly 5 weeks supply) which I can't refill until 8 weeks from now?
September 6, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Would be really cool if the pharmacy didn't give me a single vial (ostensibly 5 weeks supply) which I can't refill until 8 weeks from now?
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The FTC is accepting public comment on access to gender affirming care for minors until 9/26/2025: regulations.gov/docket/FTC-2025-0264 They are trying to prove it's harmful. @transequality.bsky.social has more info & a template for comments: transequality.org/ftc-hands-of...
September 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The FTC is accepting public comment on access to gender affirming care for minors until 9/26/2025: regulations.gov/docket/FTC-2025-0264 They are trying to prove it's harmful. @transequality.bsky.social has more info & a template for comments: transequality.org/ftc-hands-of...
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This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.
The AI boom has created a new type of work: fixing botched AI. Designers are being hired to remake wonky AI art. Writers are asked to make ChatGPT’s writing sound more human. Even software developers are tasked with fixing buggy vibe coding.
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
Humans are being hired to make AI slop look less sloppy
In the age of automation, human workers are being brought in to fix what artificial intelligence gets wrong.
www.nbcnews.com
September 2, 2025 at 11:12 PM
This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.
Finding ways to tell someone in a position of authority that they're doing a really bad job is a thing that I was woefully under-prepared for before current job
September 3, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Finding ways to tell someone in a position of authority that they're doing a really bad job is a thing that I was woefully under-prepared for before current job
Re-reading the Earthsea books and they continue to hold up pretty well (partly because Le Guin also came back to and explored some of the stuff that otherwise might not have). The Farthest Shore in particular is rather topical in unexpected ways right now.
September 1, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Re-reading the Earthsea books and they continue to hold up pretty well (partly because Le Guin also came back to and explored some of the stuff that otherwise might not have). The Farthest Shore in particular is rather topical in unexpected ways right now.
Having just compared them back to back, I think I'm going to say electrolysis is more fun than planning meetings at work, and honestly results in less crying?
August 27, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Having just compared them back to back, I think I'm going to say electrolysis is more fun than planning meetings at work, and honestly results in less crying?
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Just practically speaking... A lot of trans young ppl who can grit their teeth and make it to 18 aren't gonna make it to 25.
I agree with what Erin says here, but would add that Newsom's recent comment citing the age of 25 is especially scary, as that's well beyond centrist-sounding "fairness in sports" rhetoric – it is a hardcore anti-trans activist talking point! it's like he is actively consuming 4thwavenow/TERF posts
A really good (and scary) point from @erininthemorning.com... for trans rights, a President Gavin Newsom could be *more* harmful than a Republican would be.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/why-transg...
www.erininthemorning.com/p/why-transg...
August 25, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Just practically speaking... A lot of trans young ppl who can grit their teeth and make it to 18 aren't gonna make it to 25.
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I had a professor of Jewish Studies at UChicago who made the administration very angry because every year he made a proposal for the university to create an on-campus memorial to the worldwide victims of the UChicago economics department.
August 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I had a professor of Jewish Studies at UChicago who made the administration very angry because every year he made a proposal for the university to create an on-campus memorial to the worldwide victims of the UChicago economics department.
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You can add up all the enjoyable pursuits of LLMs and the work productivity hacks and none of them, separately or together, will be more important than AI’s ecological costs or political disruption.
“We” is more important here.
“We” is more important here.
August 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
You can add up all the enjoyable pursuits of LLMs and the work productivity hacks and none of them, separately or together, will be more important than AI’s ecological costs or political disruption.
“We” is more important here.
“We” is more important here.
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You’re telling me this guy is not a more desirable guy to promote than Gavin Newsom
Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect.
As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.
As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.
August 22, 2025 at 2:51 AM
You’re telling me this guy is not a more desirable guy to promote than Gavin Newsom