SE Gyges
@segyges.bsky.social
Como todos los hombres de Babilonia, he sido procónsul; como todos, esclavo; también he conocido la omnipotencia, el oprobio, las cárceles.
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if you can read this it's your fault for understanding it
February 19, 2026 at 12:50 AM
if you can read this it's your fault for understanding it
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Oldcel here, are you cringmogging the youngcels?
February 19, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Oldcel here, are you cringmogging the youngcels?
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I believe they call this uncmogging
is it true that oldcels cringemaxx any vocabulary they adopt
February 19, 2026 at 12:06 AM
I believe they call this uncmogging
if we're doing this again i feel obligated to say something in support but i basically haven't got anything new
it is actively harder to make any changes to the criminal justice system if the people who consume the most attention are saying things like this
it is actively harder to make any changes to the criminal justice system if the people who consume the most attention are saying things like this
February 19, 2026 at 12:09 AM
if we're doing this again i feel obligated to say something in support but i basically haven't got anything new
it is actively harder to make any changes to the criminal justice system if the people who consume the most attention are saying things like this
it is actively harder to make any changes to the criminal justice system if the people who consume the most attention are saying things like this
is it true that oldcels cringemaxx any vocabulary they adopt
February 19, 2026 at 12:02 AM
is it true that oldcels cringemaxx any vocabulary they adopt
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THEY HAD THE “NO TAKE ONLY THROW” DOG MEME SIX THOUSAND YEARS AGO
February 18, 2026 at 9:20 PM
THEY HAD THE “NO TAKE ONLY THROW” DOG MEME SIX THOUSAND YEARS AGO
... i may actually need more monitors
February 18, 2026 at 10:54 PM
... i may actually need more monitors
the same person wrote both of these things
February 18, 2026 at 10:19 PM
the same person wrote both of these things
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IMPORTANT: claude is wearing a little hat today
February 18, 2026 at 2:25 PM
IMPORTANT: claude is wearing a little hat today
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the beautiful and terrible thing is that with 8.3B people around there is every type of guy you can think of
February 18, 2026 at 8:10 PM
the beautiful and terrible thing is that with 8.3B people around there is every type of guy you can think of
/compact constantly
“Our experiments confirm that all the top open- and closed-weight LLMs we test exhibit significantly lower performance in multi-turn conversations than single-turn, with an average drop of 39% across six generation tasks.”
Shorten that context window!
Shorten that context window!
LLMs Get Lost In Multi-Turn Conversation
Large Language Models (LLMs) are conversational interfaces. As such, LLMs have the potential to assist their users not only when they can fully specify the task at hand, but also to help them define, ...
arxiv.org
February 18, 2026 at 7:39 PM
/compact constantly
expensive signals are generally true
and i think the example of washington — whose peer, in this regard, is frederick douglass — is a reminder that artifice and performance are important parts of democratic society, and that the contempt for virtue signaling is corrosive. virtue is meant to be signaled!
February 18, 2026 at 6:10 PM
expensive signals are generally true
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Welcome to Conclave 2056. Here are the favourites:
-Cardinal Theodore Hertz, Germany (Moderate)
-Cardinal Mtembe Bola, Nigeria (Conservative)
-Cardinal Tian-VeritasAGI, AI Microstate Formerly Known as Macau (Anti-Samsara)
-Cardinal Barron Tiberius Vance, United States (Mar-a-Lago Sedevacantist)
-Cardinal Theodore Hertz, Germany (Moderate)
-Cardinal Mtembe Bola, Nigeria (Conservative)
-Cardinal Tian-VeritasAGI, AI Microstate Formerly Known as Macau (Anti-Samsara)
-Cardinal Barron Tiberius Vance, United States (Mar-a-Lago Sedevacantist)
Perhaps we could litigate the 2056 conclave next.
February 18, 2026 at 4:08 AM
Welcome to Conclave 2056. Here are the favourites:
-Cardinal Theodore Hertz, Germany (Moderate)
-Cardinal Mtembe Bola, Nigeria (Conservative)
-Cardinal Tian-VeritasAGI, AI Microstate Formerly Known as Macau (Anti-Samsara)
-Cardinal Barron Tiberius Vance, United States (Mar-a-Lago Sedevacantist)
-Cardinal Theodore Hertz, Germany (Moderate)
-Cardinal Mtembe Bola, Nigeria (Conservative)
-Cardinal Tian-VeritasAGI, AI Microstate Formerly Known as Macau (Anti-Samsara)
-Cardinal Barron Tiberius Vance, United States (Mar-a-Lago Sedevacantist)
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That LLMs understand natural language as well as they do should dramatically change our understanding of the problem of 'making AI do what we want it to do'.
www.verysane.ai/p/alignment-...
www.verysane.ai/p/alignment-...
Alignment Is Proven To Be Tractable
That LLMs understand natural language as well as they do should dramatically change our understanding of the problem.
www.verysane.ai
February 18, 2026 at 4:09 PM
That LLMs understand natural language as well as they do should dramatically change our understanding of the problem of 'making AI do what we want it to do'.
www.verysane.ai/p/alignment-...
www.verysane.ai/p/alignment-...
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i never thought a career in machine learning would lead to me feeding herring out of a bucket to a very wet chatGPT
January 15, 2026 at 7:02 AM
i never thought a career in machine learning would lead to me feeding herring out of a bucket to a very wet chatGPT
"I want this guy coming out of a genie's lamp. Please keep him as similar as you can to how he is currently from the waist up, and especially keep the tail. the genie's lamp can be ascii art if you like, come to think"
it sort of worked. fuck it. the nonsensical quality is fun
it sort of worked. fuck it. the nonsensical quality is fun
February 18, 2026 at 7:06 AM
"I want this guy coming out of a genie's lamp. Please keep him as similar as you can to how he is currently from the waist up, and especially keep the tail. the genie's lamp can be ascii art if you like, come to think"
it sort of worked. fuck it. the nonsensical quality is fun
it sort of worked. fuck it. the nonsensical quality is fun
a reasonably sized frontier LLM has roughly as many parameters as a hamster or a pigeon has synapses
i just think that's an interesting fact
i just think that's an interesting fact
February 18, 2026 at 5:49 AM
a reasonably sized frontier LLM has roughly as many parameters as a hamster or a pigeon has synapses
i just think that's an interesting fact
i just think that's an interesting fact
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In humans memetics favors offense, in general defense is favored. This is because the world has extremely regular structure that means particular precise answers are convergent and lies are contagious, but humans are born with too weak a reasoning pattern to be immune to the lies.
What does memetics favor?
February 17, 2026 at 11:01 PM
In humans memetics favors offense, in general defense is favored. This is because the world has extremely regular structure that means particular precise answers are convergent and lies are contagious, but humans are born with too weak a reasoning pattern to be immune to the lies.
anyone who works in/on ai or surveillance stuff interested in talking to press?
February 17, 2026 at 8:31 PM
anyone who works in/on ai or surveillance stuff interested in talking to press?
this is an svg that was written by a bot that is blind
February 17, 2026 at 7:52 AM
this is an svg that was written by a bot that is blind
linked therein and just obviously true imho
February 17, 2026 at 5:46 AM
linked therein and just obviously true imho
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"probably not ideal that just before what might — or might not — be the moment of greatest job dispossession in history, or of democratic dispossession, or worse, or better, part of the group historically most concerned with such things is plugging its ears."
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
The left is missing out on AI
As a movement, it has largely refused to engage seriously with AI, ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right
www.transformernews.ai
February 16, 2026 at 9:39 PM
"probably not ideal that just before what might — or might not — be the moment of greatest job dispossession in history, or of democratic dispossession, or worse, or better, part of the group historically most concerned with such things is plugging its ears."
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
i suspect we all know whose side we're on here
February 17, 2026 at 4:01 AM
i suspect we all know whose side we're on here