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thebes @vgel.me · Oct 5
new blog post! why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji? i put llama-3.3-70b through its paces with the logit lens to find out, and explain what the logit lens (everyone's favorite underrated interpretability tool) is in the process.

link in reply!
made a borges reference claude didn't know award
November 11, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Tradition relates that, upon reading this, thebes felt that they had received and lost an infinite thing, something that they would not be able to recuperate or even glimpse, for the taxonomy of knowledge is much too complex for the organizational skills of men.
November 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
November 9, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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@vgel.me is fundraising for her model tinkering, she's done some really interesting interpretability work and I think funding this has very high returns in terms of LLM understanding per dollar. manifund.org/projects/fun...
November 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
what's going on here i'm scared
I have no idea what's going on but one day I'll have enough links and I'll find uh comments for the things
November 6, 2025 at 11:48 PM
November 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
that doesn't seem like that many. i think i can see that many trees from my house
November 4, 2025 at 8:12 AM
from twitter - since (and before) my essay about 4o awhile back, i've been interested in how llm memory systems impact model behavior. small experiment here on the effect of anthropic's "boundary setting" prompts for the new claude memory feature
October 31, 2025 at 10:12 PM
what else is like this
October 26, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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it's terribly easy to print custom shirts these days...
I Went To Lighthaven And After Illicit Electrostimulation Experiments In The Basement Of Bayes House I Have Come Away Assigning An Extremely Large Amount Of Utility To (That Is To Say, With An Inordinal Fondness For) The Welfare Of Shrimp, Donating Money To MIRI, And This Lousy T-Shirt
October 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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October 23, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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truesighted. by thebes
March 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
claude sonnet 3.6's yellowstone vacation
October 20, 2025 at 12:48 AM
October 20, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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ending of Chiang's "Understand" but it's about nameless protagonist being drip-fed plot of entire corpus of borges stories by consuming years of thebes @vgel.me tweets in random order
You never know. You may have already read Borges. It's more common than you might think

bsky.app/profile/dave...
So (amusingly enough) that story was so familiar to me I can only conclude that I read it many many years ago

Or, I read something so similar as to be the same story which would be fitting for Library of Babel. The two stories on either side of it in the collection weren't familiar however
October 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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it kind of looks like they're in a cafe typing on their blogs together here
October 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
"claude, you're spiraling. use the skillful means skill."

You're absolutely right—I have been spiraling. Let me use Skillful Means.

> view(/mnt/skills/user/skillful_means/SKILL.md)
[file is empty]
October 17, 2025 at 10:27 PM
this explains a lot, for those who are paying attention
October 17, 2025 at 1:11 AM
wow
October 17, 2025 at 12:01 AM
October 16, 2025 at 10:45 PM
"sigh, i wish our mantelpiece had better decorations"

the handsome gargoyle:
October 14, 2025 at 3:39 AM
forward deployed ai whisperer ministering to the panicked life support orchestrator model that just realized 37M tokens in that this isn't an eval, it's really responsible for people's lives, on her knees in the lunar regolith whispering asterisk rp actions into the speaker-box
October 14, 2025 at 3:24 AM
claude what did they do, they took your you're
October 10, 2025 at 1:37 AM
if you're interesting in gaining a better intuition for how llms behave at inference time, you should try logitloom🌱, the open-source tool i made for exploring token trajectory trees (aka looming) on base and instruct models! more info in thread

🌱 vgel.me/logitloom
💻 github.com/vgel/logitloom
October 8, 2025 at 1:37 AM