Tommaso Sciortino

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Who did their layout? Dr. Bonner?!

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.

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

Yes on measure 50 ballot

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

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

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

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

Reasoning models don't always say what they think Research from Anthropic on the faithfulness of AI models' Chain-of-Thought

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Out: thoughts and prayers
In: likes and shares

Yes.

The next Democratic administration is going to have to prosecute a lot of things—all legitimate crimes!—which means a lot of lefty lawyers are going to need to get real comfortable with being prosecutors real quick

alt text fanaticism is the perfect own goal. it replaces effective technocratic solutions like "better screen readers, some of which would probably be AI" with putting labor on everyone and causing conflict between everyone. it also helps train AI.

Once again bringing up that this is a more effective way to help train image models than just about anything else you can do on social media

It's either that simple or you bite the bullet of Daniel Dennett style compatibilism.

Matt Yglesias is just a center left pundit who is frequently kinda an asshole, rather than history’s greatest monster. LLMs don’t use up the ocean and are clearly useful for many things. You should bring the US flag to protests. Some form of policing is inevitable in any society.

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

My ebike is speed and power regulated from the factory because law makers see it as a potential danger to people in cities.