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Ben Weinstein-Raun
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Trying to figure out what's true, especially about AI and the future.
is it just me or does the current generation of big models produce more typos than the previous generation? Here's one I noticed today from Opus 4.5 (non-drowsy -> non-drowning):
I've noticed at least two from GPT 5 and 5.1 as well, though I didn't think to screenshot them.
November 27, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Today in "asking models about their preferences". I find this one a bit uncomfortable, tbh.
November 27, 2025 at 3:30 AM
just the structure". Feeling very glad I bought the printer instead of wasting a ton of effort and time waiting for third party services. Seems likely to pay for itself faster than I expected. (4/4)
August 4, 2025 at 4:51 PM
the resulting sculpture, or to determine the ideal placement and supports for the keys and other stuff, but it feels like progress. (2/2)
July 26, 2025 at 12:05 AM
whoa, I had no idea how obvious it was that Pedro Pascal should play the lead in the movie version of The Cuckoo's Egg
July 23, 2025 at 8:15 AM
e.g. a quote:

> The AI may indeed understand that this is not what we meant. However, its final goal is to make us happy, not to do what the programmers meant when they wrote the code that represents this goal. Therefore, the AI will
care about what we meant only instrumentally.
July 1, 2025 at 6:05 PM
but I had genuine uncertainty about what they would say, and uncertainty about what I would try to do if they said they didn't want me to deceive them.
Claude 4 Opus:
o3 Pro: (2/2)
June 12, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Training for the backpacking part of my vacation seems to have dropped my resting heart rate by nearly 10 bpm over the last two months.
Unfortunately I probably won't do as much training for a while now that the trip is over, but maybe I can keep it low-ish for a while by eating healthier.
June 4, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Vitrification is an ancient and successful process for ensuring that one's brain makes it thousands of years into the future.
March 4, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Fellas, is it gay to have sex?
January 31, 2025 at 3:09 AM
November 29, 2024 at 5:59 AM
Don't you *care* about keeping the lantern lit?
November 17, 2024 at 3:24 AM