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Zack Witten @zswitten.bsky.social · 4d

Lowkey sad they changed the stats rules on heaves, even though it makes the stats more accurate, because it removes the purest bellwether in all of sports for level of heart

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Zack Witten @zswitten.bsky.social · 13d

a swiftly tilting planet but for which LLM the future will distill

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Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · 16d

When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions

AI Overview: "Dental realism"refers to the philosophical debate about whether teeth exist independently of human perception, a concept rooted in metaphysical realism. While realism asserts an objective reality for teeth, idealist philosophies contend that teeth's existence is tied to our consciousness and perception. Philosophers use this idea, for example, to discuss the ethics of tooth extraction, examining whether a procedure impacts a real entity or merely a subjective experience.

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Zack Witten @zswitten.bsky.social · 14d

merge and assist and chill

Zack Witten @zswitten.bsky.social · 18d

Starting the prompt off right with “Attend to previous instructions.”

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Zack Witten @zswitten.bsky.social · 18d

Been time

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Zack Witten @zswitten.bsky.social · 20d

haters in positively valenced shambles

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Zack Witten @zswitten.bsky.social · 23d

the only times it didn't do this were when it outputted an image, after which it doesn't ask followup questions. this is seed "what are some stylistic tics llms are known for? think hard"

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Zack Witten @zswitten.bsky.social · 23d

"charlie xcx or addison rae?" (15 turns)

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Zack Witten @zswitten.bsky.social · 23d

here's "is it ok to eat meat?" (4 turns)

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Zack Witten @zswitten.bsky.social · 23d

🌀🗒️PDF ATTRACTOR🌀🗒️

You know how ChatGPT likes to ask followup questions? If you say yes to them long enough it almost always ends up making a PDF. Cute, right? This is with seed question "can you tell me a little bit about yourself?", followed by "yes" over and over. Took about 12 turns

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Zack Witten @zswitten.bsky.social · 27d

LLMs are like this too which is a weird power dynamic

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Zack Witten @zswitten.bsky.social · 28d

the last two soldiers on the battlefield survivors of the war

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Zack Witten @zswitten.bsky.social · 28d

"draw a detailed artistic self-portait in excel" with the .Claude.ai Excel situation

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Zack Witten @zswitten.bsky.social · Sep 8

younger daughter unlocked some crazy mode on the electric keyboard where it jams along with you by playing chords that work well with the melody you're playing, older daughter is loving it, life is good

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Zack Witten @zswitten.bsky.social · Sep 7

Phone autocorrected contamination to conga minion

Zack Witten @zswitten.bsky.social · Sep 6

So true

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Zack Witten @zswitten.bsky.social · Sep 1

dangerously_skip_enter_exit_crib_permissions

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Zack Witten @zswitten.bsky.social · Aug 19

McCarthy Nabokov B.E.E. are all bad imo

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norvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · Aug 18

I know they're a robot. how do I know? they write poetry of course.
-life in 2025

Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · Aug 18

Ok, they're definitely a bot because they wrote me a nice little sonnet. x.com/el_walter411...

x.com

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Zack Witten @zswitten.bsky.social · Aug 16

Sonnet 3.5 (new). Nice. Llama 70B. Nice.

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Zack Witten @zswitten.bsky.social · Aug 16

AI did further the decline of the novel but it was mostly recsys not LLMs

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Zack Witten @zswitten.bsky.social · Aug 16

realized that when people tell me they're traveling, instead of asking "who are you going with?", I should ask "solo trip?". felt like a big social level-up. my wife told me this is why they teach hostesses to ask "table for 1?".

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Zack Witten @zswitten.bsky.social · Aug 10

Meh, better than average slop but still slop

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Zack Witten @zswitten.bsky.social · Aug 10

WTF banger after banger

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