Steve Steiner
@stevejsteiner.bsky.social
Love learning new stuff. Exploring emerging AI dev practice and tools. Enthusiast of 4E Cog Sci, Story structure, process ontology.
Ah specific api! I’m highly skeptical of compact/summarize. However I’ve seen a couple of times already some hard fought insights age like milk in this space.
November 22, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Ah specific api! I’m highly skeptical of compact/summarize. However I’ve seen a couple of times already some hard fought insights age like milk in this space.
claude code did compaction before sonnet 4.5 … Is this something different?
November 22, 2025 at 10:04 PM
claude code did compaction before sonnet 4.5 … Is this something different?
Interesting datapoint for “LLM as judge” —
**A reasonable penalty for illegally destroying the East Wing is:
0.5% – 1.5% of U.S. GDP
≈ $140B – $420B
Below that range → society underprices constitutional symbolism.
Above it → penalty becomes politically performative rather than principled.
**A reasonable penalty for illegally destroying the East Wing is:
0.5% – 1.5% of U.S. GDP
≈ $140B – $420B
Below that range → society underprices constitutional symbolism.
Above it → penalty becomes politically performative rather than principled.
November 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Interesting datapoint for “LLM as judge” —
**A reasonable penalty for illegally destroying the East Wing is:
0.5% – 1.5% of U.S. GDP
≈ $140B – $420B
Below that range → society underprices constitutional symbolism.
Above it → penalty becomes politically performative rather than principled.
**A reasonable penalty for illegally destroying the East Wing is:
0.5% – 1.5% of U.S. GDP
≈ $140B – $420B
Below that range → society underprices constitutional symbolism.
Above it → penalty becomes politically performative rather than principled.
“If the East Wing really was pulled down overnight and reduced to rubble, the result would be public outcry and political fallout, rather than indifference.”
November 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
“If the East Wing really was pulled down overnight and reduced to rubble, the result would be public outcry and political fallout, rather than indifference.”
Do you mean Elon Musk the incredibly skilled Diablo 4 player? He is also building a propaganda machine? How does he find the time?
November 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Do you mean Elon Musk the incredibly skilled Diablo 4 player? He is also building a propaganda machine? How does he find the time?
This is like landing on the moon. Older generations were just better at technology. Kids these days just can’t make a simple human-robot hybrid.
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
This is like landing on the moon. Older generations were just better at technology. Kids these days just can’t make a simple human-robot hybrid.
Oddly enough human children imitate, chimpanzees will emulate. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15549502/
Causal knowledge and imitation/emulation switching in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and children (Homo sapiens) - PubMed
This study explored whether the tendency of chimpanzees and children to use emulation or imitation to solve a tool-using task was a response to the availability of causal information. Young wild-born chimpanzees from an African sanctuary and 3- to 4-year-old children observed a human demonstrator us …
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 19, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Oddly enough human children imitate, chimpanzees will emulate. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15549502/
Here is far more than you’d want to read on “over-imitation”, but it gives jumping off points:
research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk
November 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Here is far more than you’d want to read on “over-imitation”, but it gives jumping off points:
Humans imitate more than chimpanzees for example … Chimps are more ‘from first principles’ thinkers. :-)
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15549502/?ut...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15549502/?ut...
Causal knowledge and imitation/emulation switching in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and children (Homo sapiens) - PubMed
This study explored whether the tendency of chimpanzees and children to use emulation or imitation to solve a tool-using task was a response to the availability of causal information. Young wild-born chimpanzees from an African sanctuary and 3- to 4-year-old children observed a human demonstrator us …
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 16, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Humans imitate more than chimpanzees for example … Chimps are more ‘from first principles’ thinkers. :-)
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15549502/?ut...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15549502/?ut...
I have a horrifically bad habit of transforming questions so that either yes or no is indeterminate.
Do you think this is a good idea? Or should we consider other options?
Yes.
Doh!
Do you think this is a good idea? Or should we consider other options?
Yes.
Doh!
November 13, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I have a horrifically bad habit of transforming questions so that either yes or no is indeterminate.
Do you think this is a good idea? Or should we consider other options?
Yes.
Doh!
Do you think this is a good idea? Or should we consider other options?
Yes.
Doh!
You mean Currer Bell?
November 11, 2025 at 3:53 PM
You mean Currer Bell?
New ai coding innovation: “Tech credit default swaps”
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
New ai coding innovation: “Tech credit default swaps”
A friend who worked at GE couldn’t watch 30 rock. She said it hit too close to home.
November 8, 2025 at 7:31 PM
A friend who worked at GE couldn’t watch 30 rock. She said it hit too close to home.
I recall (in the 90’s) Hal Abelson, after teaching back propagation, then said the real training algorithm for neural networks is the Graduate Student algorithm.
November 8, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I recall (in the 90’s) Hal Abelson, after teaching back propagation, then said the real training algorithm for neural networks is the Graduate Student algorithm.
The original imitation game concerns performative identity within a social role, with a triangular competition structure.
The machine must model the other contestant’s signaling behavior.
It has second order signaling in a game about social norms -> a Nash Equilibrium.
Arguably a sentience test.
The machine must model the other contestant’s signaling behavior.
It has second order signaling in a game about social norms -> a Nash Equilibrium.
Arguably a sentience test.
November 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The original imitation game concerns performative identity within a social role, with a triangular competition structure.
The machine must model the other contestant’s signaling behavior.
It has second order signaling in a game about social norms -> a Nash Equilibrium.
Arguably a sentience test.
The machine must model the other contestant’s signaling behavior.
It has second order signaling in a game about social norms -> a Nash Equilibrium.
Arguably a sentience test.