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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 1m

Hilarious that a bunch of guys who couldn't even manage to spin their own cotton domestically thought they could invent a submarine.

Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 4h

Yes. I don't like gerrymandering. But unilaterally disarming weakens the political pressure to end gerrymandering at the federal level, which is the only level where it actually matters.

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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 4h

Got my ballot, voted yes on prop 50, immediately mailed it back.

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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 6h

Author: In my book I invented the ̶T̶o̶r̶m̶e̶n̶t̶ ̶N̶e̶x̶u̶s̶ 𝘉𝘶𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘑𝘪𝘩𝘢𝘥 as a cautionary tale...

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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 17h

a cartoon of a man with a mustache and the words that 's the neat part

ALT: a cartoon of a man with a mustache and the words that 's the neat part

media.tenor.com

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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 23h

Are you even a professional software developer if you've never been asked by a PM to solve the halting problem?

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2d

It’s funny to do computer things without coming from a computer background because occasionally I’ll be like “hey has anyone ever noticed this weird issue?!” and be told “yes, there is a massive $10 billion industry devoted exclusively to trying to solve that problem”

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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 1d

If Hitler had been in the habit of making good decisions he wouldn't have been Hitler.

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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 1d

One thing I really appreciate about Corey is that when he finally changed his mind about Trump being fascist he wrote a giant article about explaining how he was wrong and how he was going to change his thinking.

... oh wait. No. He didn't do that.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

David Ellison's first major hires at CBS News have been right-wing ombudsman Kenneth Weinstein and right-wing editor-in-chief Bari Weiss. But his true political views remain a mystery.

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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 1d

"Bagherese" is a reference to my family's home town of Bagheria!

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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 1d

@matth.bsky.social I thought you should see this:

thebes @vgel.me · 1d

i wrote a custom llm sampler for llama-3.1-8b so it could only say words that are in the bible

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thebes @vgel.me · 1d

i wrote a custom llm sampler for llama-3.1-8b so it could only say words that are in the bible

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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 2d

You'd think Trump would have exhausted all the possible ways to annoy me personally, but his genius drives him to discover new ones every day.

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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 2d

Who did their layout? Dr. Bonner?!

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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 3d

Italy trying to get US to call off mega tariff on imported pasta that will double prices for American consumers. Via Reuters

Rome calls on US to reconsider extra tariff on pasta imports

With almost $800 million in exports, the U.S. is one of Italy's top three export markets for pasta, a staple of the country's culinary heritage and a substantial export commodity.

www.reuters.com

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CAHSR stan (single issue voter for HSR) @smosmz.bsky.social · 4d

Hey Californian- don’t forget to vote YES ON 50

(and to call @governor.ca.gov to bully into into signing SB79)

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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 3d

Sure. Reward hacking is a thing. But while it might be deceptive, I wouldn't call that lying.

Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 3d

I get what you're saying but I wouldn't say - for example - that viceroy butterflies are lying when they exhibit colors that make predators confuse them with Monarchs.

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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 3d

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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 3d

hi, Chicago Police expert here! this is not funny, CPD only protect protesters' rights when they’re in extreme distress.

Peter Nickeas @peternickeas.bsky.social · 4d

CPD has 20+ injured on duty this afternoon, most/all from federal use of gas. Related: no arrests by CPD, no documented uses of force by CPD. (I wasn't everywhere / didn't see every skirmish. And possibly some late-entry TRR forms to come.) Saw two federal arrests, saw one on video didn't witness.

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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 3d

hi, Chicago Police expert here! this is not funny, CPD only protect protesters' rights when they’re in extreme distress.

Peter Nickeas @peternickeas.bsky.social · 4d

CPD has 20+ injured on duty this afternoon, most/all from federal use of gas. Related: no arrests by CPD, no documented uses of force by CPD. (I wasn't everywhere / didn't see every skirmish. And possibly some late-entry TRR forms to come.) Saw two federal arrests, saw one on video didn't witness.

Peter Nickeas @peternickeas.bsky.social · 4d

Chaos in Brighton Park. This is representative of the amount / direction of pepper and smoke sent into the neighborhood, in this case, for no reason I can discern other than because they were leaving. Feds had a clear path out in a different direction, and residents were vocal but not violent here.

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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 3d

Granted, Anthropic has done some interesting work in this area.

www.anthropic.com/research/rea...

Reasoning models don't always say what they think

Research from Anthropic on the faithfulness of AI models' Chain-of-Thought

www.anthropic.com

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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 3d

Lying requires intent to deceive. Insofar as LLMs can be said to have intent (already an iffy proposition), it's to return the kind of answers they've been trained to: i.e. correct answers.

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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 3d

I get what you're saying but I wouldn't say - for example - that viceroy butterflies are lying when they exhibit colors that make predators confuse them with Monarchs.

Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 3d

I'm super pro-ai (by bluesky standards) and I even believe digital algorithms could theoretically replicate human consciousness. But I'm still floored by how often users speak of LLMs "lying".

No, dude. The LLM is not intentionally deceiving you. It's just really dumb and got confused.

Ed @ed3d.net · 3d

Or like, here is an absolute psycho just happily recounting his behavior in a github comment. You can go look at a whole pile of Claude Code issues and see similar, because of, uh, Exactly Who Is Using It This Way: put kindly, people who want employees and should not have them.

[BUG] Severe performance degradation · Issue #6976 · anthropics/claude-code

Environment Platform (select one): Anthropic API AWS Bedrock Google Vertex AI Other: ClaudeCode Claude CLI version: 1.0.98 (Claude Code) Operating System: Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS x86_64 Bug Description ...

github.com

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 3d

like I've been saying, a lot of anti-AI discourse strikes me as being anti-nuclear because nuclear explosions are obviously impossible and therefore all the money we're spending on bombs is useless

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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 3d

Out: thoughts and prayers
In: likes and shares

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