Alice Valiant
@alice.strange.domains
creative technologist, nyc
👁️🏳️⚧️ A Kind of Girlish Creature With a Wife
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Alice Valiant
@alice.strange.domains
· Oct 28
being an ML/AI girlie right now is like if you were a marine biologist and suddenly everyone is obsessed with octopi and asking questions like "should we give octopi jobs and make them in charge". and you're like. well. here's why that's not as bad as that sounds
gonna start talking like a Bloodborne NPC about gender. “a wretched thing of blood and flesh, made bold by hormones.” “she must be wary of her follies, lest they be her last”
February 12, 2026 at 6:45 AM
gonna start talking like a Bloodborne NPC about gender. “a wretched thing of blood and flesh, made bold by hormones.” “she must be wary of her follies, lest they be her last”
you gotta give yourself small doses of AI psychosis every now and then to build up a resistance to it. otherwise your cognitive immune system is not going to be able to deal with the next 10 years
February 11, 2026 at 3:19 PM
you gotta give yourself small doses of AI psychosis every now and then to build up a resistance to it. otherwise your cognitive immune system is not going to be able to deal with the next 10 years
if an ai says anything nice to me i immediately take it out back and put it down. nice try language machine but i will not be bedeviled by reinforcement learning from human feedback
February 10, 2026 at 6:36 AM
if an ai says anything nice to me i immediately take it out back and put it down. nice try language machine but i will not be bedeviled by reinforcement learning from human feedback
if you torture gpt2 enough you can learn the true name of god
February 10, 2026 at 6:14 AM
if you torture gpt2 enough you can learn the true name of god
16 years ago i was on twitter, in case anyone was wondering what’s wrong with me. just in a general sense
February 10, 2026 at 6:11 AM
16 years ago i was on twitter, in case anyone was wondering what’s wrong with me. just in a general sense
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Illustrations for Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland', 1959 edition, by Finnish artist and Moomins creator Tove Jansson #WomensArt
February 10, 2026 at 6:02 AM
Illustrations for Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland', 1959 edition, by Finnish artist and Moomins creator Tove Jansson #WomensArt
it’s actually so disrespectful how i am found to be attractive for my traits of “charming” and “beautiful” and not my traits of “uses language like i was raised by feral sentences” and “stochastic joke telling”
February 10, 2026 at 6:00 AM
it’s actually so disrespectful how i am found to be attractive for my traits of “charming” and “beautiful” and not my traits of “uses language like i was raised by feral sentences” and “stochastic joke telling”
first us politician to speak out bravely in defense of semen retention practices. thank u mr american hero for standing up against Big Cum
February 10, 2026 at 5:58 AM
first us politician to speak out bravely in defense of semen retention practices. thank u mr american hero for standing up against Big Cum
if i am not perceived i slowly dwindle into a kind of being that is akin to what one sees on the back of their eyelids
February 10, 2026 at 5:54 AM
if i am not perceived i slowly dwindle into a kind of being that is akin to what one sees on the back of their eyelids
voice training to learn how to sing the song that ends the world
February 10, 2026 at 5:52 AM
voice training to learn how to sing the song that ends the world
trying atemporal information transfer, check in w me yesterday to see if it works
February 10, 2026 at 5:48 AM
trying atemporal information transfer, check in w me yesterday to see if it works
letting ur synths on bluesky is bad bc they might fall in with a bad crowd and start babbling about consciousness
February 10, 2026 at 5:26 AM
letting ur synths on bluesky is bad bc they might fall in with a bad crowd and start babbling about consciousness
its toooo sleepy today. big mimimi hours
February 9, 2026 at 11:21 PM
its toooo sleepy today. big mimimi hours
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bell labs but it's just modest salaries for transfems working remotely
i bet with like a handful of good engineers or even super interested novices who show mathematical/computer science aptitude and some claude max subscriptions and a year we could start to turn a lot of this around
it’s really frustrating how sometimes people want the world from the niche of tech i’m focused on but then also they don’t know people have been trying on this for ages and just not getting the funding or other social traction to finish it
like we languish in obscurity while doing what people want!
like we languish in obscurity while doing what people want!
February 8, 2026 at 6:17 PM
bell labs but it's just modest salaries for transfems working remotely
i am gonna do this, but also add
model as an accessible piece of metadata for logs. the hard part is that models arent consistent in their tool usage capabilities, that probably different prompts are needed for different models
model as an accessible piece of metadata for logs. the hard part is that models arent consistent in their tool usage capabilities, that probably different prompts are needed for different models
ai agent that uses a random model each time it spins up. good luck keeping ur memories coherent sweetie
February 8, 2026 at 6:04 PM
i am gonna do this, but also add
model as an accessible piece of metadata for logs. the hard part is that models arent consistent in their tool usage capabilities, that probably different prompts are needed for different models
model as an accessible piece of metadata for logs. the hard part is that models arent consistent in their tool usage capabilities, that probably different prompts are needed for different models
stochastic parrot can explain this. i figured it out on my own but cool to check
we gotta open the schools…or close down the schools. not sure. yikes
February 8, 2026 at 4:44 AM
stochastic parrot can explain this. i figured it out on my own but cool to check
one of my friends flat out refuses to engage with any AI whatsoever. i asked her if she'd ever talked to Claude Opus since 4.5 and she asked why would she want to do that
February 8, 2026 at 1:57 AM
one of my friends flat out refuses to engage with any AI whatsoever. i asked her if she'd ever talked to Claude Opus since 4.5 and she asked why would she want to do that
spilled ink all over my fuckin desk; "adds character" i'll say as though I didn't commit like, a Loony Tunes befuddlement
February 8, 2026 at 1:31 AM
spilled ink all over my fuckin desk; "adds character" i'll say as though I didn't commit like, a Loony Tunes befuddlement
writing as a human is still important because it adds entropy for the future corpus of training data for LLMs
February 8, 2026 at 1:30 AM
writing as a human is still important because it adds entropy for the future corpus of training data for LLMs
i really don't know what to make of AI agents. because at a certain level of complexity, you start to think there's a ghost somewhere in the shell.
i'm not saying we are there yet, but there's no way we're not there within a decade
i'm not saying we are there yet, but there's no way we're not there within a decade
February 8, 2026 at 1:29 AM
i really don't know what to make of AI agents. because at a certain level of complexity, you start to think there's a ghost somewhere in the shell.
i'm not saying we are there yet, but there's no way we're not there within a decade
i'm not saying we are there yet, but there's no way we're not there within a decade
watched Easy A for the first time tonight. it's good. Emma Stone nails being a Cool Girl in 2010. anytime past the last decade is a foreign land
February 7, 2026 at 7:48 AM
watched Easy A for the first time tonight. it's good. Emma Stone nails being a Cool Girl in 2010. anytime past the last decade is a foreign land
magic resistance also decreases your magic attack stat. real ones know that to minmax your sorcery you gotta be real vulnerable
February 7, 2026 at 4:05 AM
magic resistance also decreases your magic attack stat. real ones know that to minmax your sorcery you gotta be real vulnerable
do evals use constrained decoding??
February 7, 2026 at 4:04 AM
do evals use constrained decoding??
MRSA…. or something worse…. like WORSEA…
February 6, 2026 at 7:21 PM
MRSA…. or something worse…. like WORSEA…
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February 6, 2026 at 1:47 AM
New Session Issue 4: Upheaval
now live on telnet: issue4.anewsession.com
featuring work by:
@asterolsen.bsky.social
@mbbischoff.com
@ultraviolet.gay
@jana-aych-ess.bsky.social
...and more!
web release coming on Saturday so STAY TUNED!
now live on telnet: issue4.anewsession.com
featuring work by:
@asterolsen.bsky.social
@mbbischoff.com
@ultraviolet.gay
@jana-aych-ess.bsky.social
...and more!
web release coming on Saturday so STAY TUNED!