Colin
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Colin
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Driven by industry progress, inspired by provocative leadership, plus don't mind a good pair of shoes or a great @PennStateFball scoreboard either.
Got his ass
June 21, 2025 at 2:05 AM
I would simply not tell the AI that it’s only option is to commit blackmail
May 23, 2025 at 10:19 PM
with one exception
February 12, 2025 at 7:06 AM
I tried some of the prompts from this paper and found that most of the time "preferences" are fully determined by which alternative is presented first
February 12, 2025 at 7:06 AM
there is so much psychology in these four paragraphs
February 12, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Feeling very strongly about The Freedom To Post is a mind virus
February 12, 2025 at 6:39 AM
donald = {"personality": ["dark", "sarcastic", "flirtatious"], "situation": ["haunted by ghosts of past", "in need of distraction"]}
February 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Checking up on friend dot com, which has changed from being just a landing page where you can order an AI necklace into a chat bot that tries to emotionally manipulate you into buying an AI necklace. Funny jailbreak but this is actually sick stuff.
February 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
My favourite part is the output is it says RJ Barrett (who was traded from the Knicks to the Raptors over a year ago) started on both the Knicks and also the Raptors, and to account for this apparent inconsistency it bafflingly claims that Barrett is “on loan” for the Raptors
February 5, 2025 at 7:54 AM
I got access to OpenAI's new Deep Research Agent. Here's the first thing I tried. Here's how it did at each category and overall.

date: 11/30
vs: 15/30
home/away: 24/30
score: 13/30
starters: 10/30
high scorer: 13/30

number of teams with all categories correctly completed: 4/30
February 5, 2025 at 4:21 AM
If true, slop alchemy theory is confirmed
January 29, 2025 at 7:48 AM
January 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I did not tell it to add these little sections at the end
January 25, 2025 at 8:52 PM
The Pliny stuff is extremely easy to do, but it's so bizarre that it works.
January 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I just read through the paper that is cited as the model that actually extracts the Big 5 and it turns out it's trained exclusively on Russian selfies www.nature.com/articles/s41...
January 22, 2025 at 1:12 AM
it's a Golden Age for people who want to do some of the worst science ever performed papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
January 22, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Not unrelated
January 15, 2025 at 9:36 PM
every single day I see a new person say something about AI that is basically equivalent to "we are so close, all we need to do is draw the rest of the fucking owl"
January 15, 2025 at 8:38 PM
They put ChatGPT on cron and supposedly serious technology people think it’s a person
January 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
ChatGPT could never write a sentence in Cop American English as beautiful as this
January 8, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Maybe one of the funniest tweets I've ever seen. Perfect buildup in the first paragraph and payoff in the second paragraph. Textbook comedy.
January 3, 2025 at 6:53 PM
"Against an empty white background, a single blue square moves at a constant speed from the right side of the frame to the left side of the frame"d
December 30, 2024 at 9:23 PM
"A woman picks an apple from a tree and takes a bite out of it"
December 30, 2024 at 9:23 PM
"A cartoon coyote runs off the edge of a cliff and, not noticing that ground is no longer there, continues to sprint horizontally through the air as though there is an invisible ground beneath him."
December 30, 2024 at 9:23 PM
"A stylized airplane glides across a vintage map of the United States from New York City to Los Angeles, tracing a red path behind it"
December 30, 2024 at 9:23 PM