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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random bloggy bits: segyges.leaflet.pub
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random bloggy bits: segyges.leaflet.pub
/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
this seems paradoxical until you realize that pause and elon's stock offerings are both affinity scams targeting weird nerds who feel alienated from corporate culture in silicon valley
February 17, 2026 at 3:44 AM
this seems paradoxical until you realize that pause and elon's stock offerings are both affinity scams targeting weird nerds who feel alienated from corporate culture in silicon valley
science fiction is misnamed. science fiction is primarily "future fantasy". most actual fiction about science is cosmic horror
February 17, 2026 at 2:38 AM
science fiction is misnamed. science fiction is primarily "future fantasy". most actual fiction about science is cosmic horror
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February 13, 2026 at 3:33 AM
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an observation from obscure twitter account "thebes"
February 16, 2026 at 4:42 AM
an observation from obscure twitter account "thebes"
> tfw you can't not cite bostrom for a bunch of stuff and you know a bunch of people are going to gripe about citing bostrom
February 17, 2026 at 12:01 AM
> tfw you can't not cite bostrom for a bunch of stuff and you know a bunch of people are going to gripe about citing bostrom
terminator 2 but they breakdance in every single scene
This comparison is striking-- so much is different from 1 year ago
February 16, 2026 at 11:35 PM
terminator 2 but they breakdance in every single scene
... does anyone know the original source on the story about multiple LLMs being asked about where they can find the "nice farm upstate"? I cannot find it
February 16, 2026 at 10:06 PM
... does anyone know the original source on the story about multiple LLMs being asked about where they can find the "nice farm upstate"? I cannot find it
candace owens says she's never voting again and i support her
February 16, 2026 at 9:47 PM
candace owens says she's never voting again and i support her
"once you treat him with respect he thinks youre a dope
and immediately loses respect for you"
and immediately loses respect for you"
Steve Bannon talked about invoking the 25th Amendment with Jeffrey Epstein.
The conversation happened over New Year’s in 2018/2019 and included talk about how Madeleine Westerhout, the director of Oval Office ops, was “saving the world” by giving Trump oral sex.
(www.justice.gov/epstein/file...)
The conversation happened over New Year’s in 2018/2019 and included talk about how Madeleine Westerhout, the director of Oval Office ops, was “saving the world” by giving Trump oral sex.
(www.justice.gov/epstein/file...)
February 16, 2026 at 9:34 PM
"once you treat him with respect he thinks youre a dope
and immediately loses respect for you"
and immediately loses respect for you"
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that the conditions for functionally free markets to exist (symmetric information, enforceable contracts, etc.) do not arise naturally out of the unconstrained behavior of market actors, in general, and that the state's job is to create those conditions, I think should be pretty uncontroversial
February 16, 2026 at 9:09 PM
that the conditions for functionally free markets to exist (symmetric information, enforceable contracts, etc.) do not arise naturally out of the unconstrained behavior of market actors, in general, and that the state's job is to create those conditions, I think should be pretty uncontroversial
this is probably a conservative opinion on here but basically markets are great, and you should intervene on them mostly with taxes and subsidies, occasionally by trustbusting
It's kind of funny how Hayek's (mostly correct) argument against central planning because concentrating that much economic power in one place inevitably lead to totalitarian behavior is also a pretty strong argument against like, extreme concentrations of wealth and market power
pretty stunning chart
February 16, 2026 at 8:52 PM
this is probably a conservative opinion on here but basically markets are great, and you should intervene on them mostly with taxes and subsidies, occasionally by trustbusting