Mike Hearn
@mikehearn.bsky.social
I just want to note that you can give ChatGPT a prompt with literally any name -- real names, fake names, silly names, serious names -- and it will do the exact same thing. Here's an excerpt in the style of extremely not-real WaPo reporter Barnabas Flimflamington. This outrage over this is silly.
April 23, 2025 at 5:02 AM
I just want to note that you can give ChatGPT a prompt with literally any name -- real names, fake names, silly names, serious names -- and it will do the exact same thing. Here's an excerpt in the style of extremely not-real WaPo reporter Barnabas Flimflamington. This outrage over this is silly.
I asked ChatGPT to write a WaPo story in the style of Mike Hearn, and it did, with my name as the byline. I have never written for WaPo (or anywhere). This is what ChatGPT does, because it's essentially what I asked it to do. This whole thread and the various reactions are wild and kind of insane.
April 23, 2025 at 4:48 AM
I asked ChatGPT to write a WaPo story in the style of Mike Hearn, and it did, with my name as the byline. I have never written for WaPo (or anywhere). This is what ChatGPT does, because it's essentially what I asked it to do. This whole thread and the various reactions are wild and kind of insane.
It's awkward to find his third-person tweets because searching "Yglesias" brings up, you know, all his tweets. But if you search "yglesias third person" you can get a litany of people dragging him for using the third-person.
April 15, 2025 at 2:07 AM
It's awkward to find his third-person tweets because searching "Yglesias" brings up, you know, all his tweets. But if you search "yglesias third person" you can get a litany of people dragging him for using the third-person.
I was rewatching Frasier (peak 90s) and there's an exchange in the second episode where they highlight his elitism, in contrast to his father's working-class roots, by having him namedrop his preference for Starbucks coffee. Things have, uh, changed quite dramatically since then.
January 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I was rewatching Frasier (peak 90s) and there's an exchange in the second episode where they highlight his elitism, in contrast to his father's working-class roots, by having him namedrop his preference for Starbucks coffee. Things have, uh, changed quite dramatically since then.
OpenAI announced the $200 plan 12 days before announcing o3-mini, a model comparable to o1 at 1/10th of the cost. It's a foregone conclusion that the cost of intelligence is going to go down, so losing money in the very short term means nothing for their future profitability.
January 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
OpenAI announced the $200 plan 12 days before announcing o3-mini, a model comparable to o1 at 1/10th of the cost. It's a foregone conclusion that the cost of intelligence is going to go down, so losing money in the very short term means nothing for their future profitability.
No one cares, not even me, but I asked o1 Pro (currently the smartest — nay, wisest — LLM) to rule on the TikTok ban currently before the Supreme Court and it threw out the ban on 1A grounds.
December 30, 2024 at 9:55 PM
No one cares, not even me, but I asked o1 Pro (currently the smartest — nay, wisest — LLM) to rule on the TikTok ban currently before the Supreme Court and it threw out the ban on 1A grounds.
Pretty sure the script says, "Wide shot of President Bartlet in the Oval Office, watching snow fall outside, while O Holy Night absolutely slaps in the background"
December 23, 2024 at 4:19 AM
Pretty sure the script says, "Wide shot of President Bartlet in the Oval Office, watching snow fall outside, while O Holy Night absolutely slaps in the background"
I had to think for a minute about how to measure how things "seem". This is the best I can do.
December 20, 2024 at 7:17 PM
I had to think for a minute about how to measure how things "seem". This is the best I can do.
Open AI just announced their next model 26 minutes ago, and it moves the benchmarks forward again, specifically on a "reasoning" (take that to mean whatever you want) benchmark, i.e. a series of tests that are easy for humans but hard for computers. Scaling test-time compute seems to be working.
December 20, 2024 at 6:33 PM
Open AI just announced their next model 26 minutes ago, and it moves the benchmarks forward again, specifically on a "reasoning" (take that to mean whatever you want) benchmark, i.e. a series of tests that are easy for humans but hard for computers. Scaling test-time compute seems to be working.
Ok, that was fun while it lasted.
December 6, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Ok, that was fun while it lasted.
I think my new thing is going to be racing ChatGPT's o1 model in NYT Connections.
December 6, 2024 at 1:28 AM
I think my new thing is going to be racing ChatGPT's o1 model in NYT Connections.
Weird stat: Pippen somehow made more money, in raw NBA salary, in his career than Jordan. He did pretty well in his post-Bulls years (they did screw him, though).
December 1, 2024 at 5:30 AM
Weird stat: Pippen somehow made more money, in raw NBA salary, in his career than Jordan. He did pretty well in his post-Bulls years (they did screw him, though).
Like, you can see the difference between UT's flag planting, and whatever the heck this is, yes? And why one caused a brawl and the other did not?
December 1, 2024 at 12:50 AM
Like, you can see the difference between UT's flag planting, and whatever the heck this is, yes? And why one caused a brawl and the other did not?
Zero reaction from UM because there were zero UM players in the vicinity. Today UM planted it while OSU was still on the field. They wanted the fight. When it initially fizzled, UM's Moore ran the flag across the field in the OSU players' faces to further antagonize them, and that finally worked.
December 1, 2024 at 12:45 AM
Zero reaction from UM because there were zero UM players in the vicinity. Today UM planted it while OSU was still on the field. They wanted the fight. When it initially fizzled, UM's Moore ran the flag across the field in the OSU players' faces to further antagonize them, and that finally worked.
What exactly is Moore doing here
November 30, 2024 at 10:40 PM
What exactly is Moore doing here
Not exactly related to this graph, but it made me look up the best BPM seasons of all time only to realize that Jokic is currently sitting at #1 on that list for this current season. Uh, also this list makes Jokic look like Wilt Chamberlain.
November 14, 2024 at 3:30 PM
Not exactly related to this graph, but it made me look up the best BPM seasons of all time only to realize that Jokic is currently sitting at #1 on that list for this current season. Uh, also this list makes Jokic look like Wilt Chamberlain.
Is it even possible for these two refs to have a better angle on the play?
October 25, 2024 at 3:41 AM
Is it even possible for these two refs to have a better angle on the play?
Darnold looking back at the ref being like, are you seeing this shit
October 25, 2024 at 3:28 AM
Darnold looking back at the ref being like, are you seeing this shit