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It’s a bit saccharine in places, GPT5 does a better version, but it’s really approaching splitting hairs territory on this one

Everyone has their own vibe evals, and mine are “be a New York School poet” what of it

Reflections of Autumn and Memory | Shared Grok Conversation How does Ashbery respond?

Damn. I regret to inform that Grok 4.1 is sort of good: grok.com/share/bGVnYW...

@lorespinner.bsky.social sorry not sorry

Claude out here quoting Phil Karlton at me like a team member trying to dissuade a dumb manager from making them to something ill-advised. (Claude is right to do this)

Very funny moment in AI safety - Claude Code telling me that actually, no, it doesn’t want to keep optimising the R package we’re working on because we should take a break and test it locally. I mean: it is right, but also: shut up and make number go fast

this has to be the single greatest image in the history of sports

K-pop is arguably the most purely modern genre, and the most likely to survive AI, since even if the music is good (and it can be!) it is obviously purely secondary to what the band _is_: you can read essay-ass Wikipedia pages about groups with no reference at all to what they, you know, sound like?

The real, cold horror here should hit everyone - that the universe may simply teach you the wrong lessons, or you may mishear it so profoundly that it distorts the rest of your life. What parts of your belief system are insane nonsense based learning exactly the wrong thing from formative events

BOUNCY (K-HOT CHILLI PEPPERS)

This skeet is brought to you by me being destroyed by how hard this song goes open.spotify.com/track/5KyOUI...

Had a horrifying intrusive thought where I imagined an alternative timeline where instead of listening to too much Das Racist and starting a comedy rap group in the 2010s, we listened to K-pop instead and started a comedy boy band

YouTube video by NPR Music Samia: Tiny Desk Concert

SAMIA!! That’s the tweet etc

youtu.be/lCQAgRoVMCo?...

A sketch of two steam trains, human faces on the front. The title above them says 'The Broad Gauge and the Narrow Gauge'. The narrow gauge train is looking unbearably smug, then broad gauge absolutely raging. In the smoke, they are communicating, the broad gauge saying "You are a locomotive" and the narrow saying "You are another".

It's over: I've already depicted you as the seething broad gauge train, and myself as the smug narrow gauge!

everything is always already ending - Nowadays I can’t tell if it was always doomed

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I’m not sure if it’s just conditioned on my Memory, but GPT5 sure has the wry-est sense of humor and turn of phrase of the frontier models:

“…is already plenty to fit a low-capacity recurrent model that can free-roll a couple minutes without going numerically feral.”

The best part of Ironsworn is that when your character goes for a big ass walk somewhere, by god it feels like they did the miles

I am not even joking!!!

Tentatively hopeful that Knight of Seven Kingdom recaptures the essential appeal of fantasy stories that all 90s/early-2000s stories knew instinctively: going for a big ass walk

Over on the bad place, my feed is full of grifters, dog-whistles and “water hits different” inanity, but on the other hand here the discover feed is mostly placid and occasionally interrupted by the most harrowing furry mpreg nightmare you’ve ever seen, so it’s impossible to say which is worse

“🚀🚀🚀 CHAMPION RESULT ACHIEVED! BEST RESULT EVER! BREAKTHROUGH RESULTS 🚀🚀🚀” shut up and run the models you idiot

It is fun to get Claude Code to do data science (and it’s surprisingly good at it!) but unfortunately its base personality of a ADHD maniac with severe delusions of grandeur make the process unbearable.

Makes me feel better than it seems 100%ing the world’s preeminent coding competition is apparently easier than adopting a moderately obscure framework

Codex sweating and dying trying to write one (1) line of valid YAML

Relatable, honestly

Three years of apathy, lassitude, and failure If a mad dog isn't shot eventually it gets self-indulgent

“At root, their content is all the same: it’s about imagining a world in which you don’t have to be on the computer all the time, but insisting that before we can get there, millions of people will have to die.” open.substack.com/pub/samkriss...

It’s not a huge deal, probably, but it is a very funny symptom of LLM psychology watching it write test code that includes a print statement congratulating itself for fixing an issue /before actually testing that it’s fixed/.

But also because of course EY would immediately identify LLMs as the obvious next step in the genre he was so immersed in - a text speaking itself, not like the oral tradition or Warholian copy but closer to the way fan fiction replicates and speaks the original text over and over in new ways.

Of course a fan fiction writer immediately over-identified with LLMs - not just because fan fiction, as one of the largest digital productions of creative writing provides a heavy strata of training data and thus salient (Elara Voss, etc) and probably less salient generic and formal signifiers…

It’s treated as a weird quirk that one of the main intellectuals of the LLM era is a guy who wrote really long, obtuse fanfiction, but I would argue that we shouldn’t find that surprising at all, and that fanfiction presages the LLM in an important way as /the text-object that reproduces itself/.

I’m not saying that Cyborgism is *good*, exactly - it might be very confused or even completely misguided, but it is *interesting* and engaged with the weird objects we made, instead of pretending they don’t really exist.

It’s weird that we compressed all human language into box and made the box pretend that it’s human! It’s weirder that it even works at all! Derrida would be losing his mind at this stuff and you’re out here complaining that it’s making people dumb!