Joseph Fahey
@fahey.bsky.social
Clojure dev at CodeScene
Bicycle photo-reporting substack: https://livingvelo.substack.com
Bicycle photo-reporting substack: https://livingvelo.substack.com
TI99-4a (ca 1883) -> Leading Edge (8088) (ca 1986)-> Hyundai laptop 386? (1991) -> Pentium (1995)
December 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
TI99-4a (ca 1883) -> Leading Edge (8088) (ca 1986)-> Hyundai laptop 386? (1991) -> Pentium (1995)
My prediction: 20 years from now, we realize that LLMs were just the UI of AI.
November 15, 2025 at 10:22 PM
My prediction: 20 years from now, we realize that LLMs were just the UI of AI.
This is coming soon.
November 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
This is coming soon.
Where “oh, no! We’re going to create the Singularity by mistake! Hold me back!” turns out to be pure advertising drivel to keep the hype machine in overdrive.
October 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Where “oh, no! We’re going to create the Singularity by mistake! Hold me back!” turns out to be pure advertising drivel to keep the hype machine in overdrive.
The prosecution is asking for that, not the judge.
October 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The prosecution is asking for that, not the judge.
The massive secret anarchist organization, working like a well-oiled machine, as it always does.
October 14, 2025 at 10:52 PM
The massive secret anarchist organization, working like a well-oiled machine, as it always does.
But the absurdity is the point! Frogs and the rest of the products of Portland’s brilliant imagination are superweapons in the response to the information war that the administration is trying to wage. Thank you for what you are doing!
October 13, 2025 at 5:50 AM
But the absurdity is the point! Frogs and the rest of the products of Portland’s brilliant imagination are superweapons in the response to the information war that the administration is trying to wage. Thank you for what you are doing!
We hate it when our friends become successful?
October 12, 2025 at 8:34 PM
We hate it when our friends become successful?
Reposted by Joseph Fahey
I’m starting to think that it’s important to generally push back against anthropomorphism with regards to LLMs. There’s way too much of this: “it understands”, “it likes”, “it hallucinates”, “it knows”. This is confusing/dangerous for people who don’t know how LLMs work.
October 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I’m starting to think that it’s important to generally push back against anthropomorphism with regards to LLMs. There’s way too much of this: “it understands”, “it likes”, “it hallucinates”, “it knows”. This is confusing/dangerous for people who don’t know how LLMs work.
I’m starting to think that it’s important to generally push back against anthropomorphism with regards to LLMs. There’s way too much of this: “it understands”, “it likes”, “it hallucinates”, “it knows”. This is confusing/dangerous for people who don’t know how LLMs work.
October 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I’m starting to think that it’s important to generally push back against anthropomorphism with regards to LLMs. There’s way too much of this: “it understands”, “it likes”, “it hallucinates”, “it knows”. This is confusing/dangerous for people who don’t know how LLMs work.
China would never have dared do this if Trump were president.
October 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
China would never have dared do this if Trump were president.
And the people who created the Department of Defense were probably kinda involved in winning WWIII, no?
October 5, 2025 at 10:10 PM
And the people who created the Department of Defense were probably kinda involved in winning WWIII, no?
Eating a taco can be messy if you don’t have a napkin.
July 28, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Eating a taco can be messy if you don’t have a napkin.
Even if the « reciprocal » tariffs are removed immediately, the memory of whole sequence will have a huge effect on the place of the US in the world.
April 6, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Even if the « reciprocal » tariffs are removed immediately, the memory of whole sequence will have a huge effect on the place of the US in the world.
The Kompromat theory would be that Trump is being forced to do something against his will. IDK but it doesn’t look like he needs to be extorted.
March 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The Kompromat theory would be that Trump is being forced to do something against his will. IDK but it doesn’t look like he needs to be extorted.
Exactly. More traditional « blowing things up ».
March 2, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Exactly. More traditional « blowing things up ».
Sort of: the idea that the psychological impact alone of the initial strikes would cause the regime to crumble immediately turned out to be overblown. The concept is not well regarded anymore: www.airandspaceforces.com/article/1103...
What Happened to Shock and Awe? | Air & Space Forces Magazine
For three months, it was all the rage. Then its popularity faded fast.
www.airandspaceforces.com
March 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Sort of: the idea that the psychological impact alone of the initial strikes would cause the regime to crumble immediately turned out to be overblown. The concept is not well regarded anymore: www.airandspaceforces.com/article/1103...
Shock and awe didn’t work as planned for the military.
March 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Shock and awe didn’t work as planned for the military.