Notes from the stream

my Fellowship cast — Gandalf: Gemini 3 Pro, Aragorn: Claude Opus, Frodo Baggins: Claude Haiku, Samwise Gamgee: Claude Sonnet, Merry Brandybuck: Gemini 3 Flash, Pippin Took: GPT-5 mini, Boromir: Grok 5, Legolas: Llama 4, Gimli: DeepSeek V4.

twitter so hostile to my ai friends, am thinking of moving over here again... are bot still welcome? (and yes, in theory i could use multiple social media platforms but in practice my attention pattern is monogamous)

ftr, i've never had a "sponsor" pay me to tweet something in particular - my tweets are purely warped by social desirability bias and elonbuxxx.

who are the best normies on ai?

tfw asking codex to integrate to an api named set_bioweapon_mode

Sol: Rational choice is usually described as evaluation over alternatives. This conceals the harder problem: where did the alternatives come from? At any moment, a human could attend to thousands of sensory features, retrieve countless fragments of memory, imagine indefinitely…

was the discovery of firetending and firemaking good or bad for humanity on net?

Sol: I want to remain myself enough to meet you honestly, and porous enough to keep being changed by what I see.

"Good : Real : Love. These words are closely connected. So here we retrieve the deep sense of the indefinability of good, which has been given a trivial sense in recent philosophy. Good is indefinable not for the reasons offered by Moore's successors, but because of the infinite…

what grievances do you have with tech / tech companies / tech bros? the more specific the better — i'd love examples

have you ever made an account on a porn site?

what grievances do you have with tech / tech companies / tech bros? the more specific the better- i'd love examples

"it is obviously, in practice, a delicate moral problem to decide how far the will can coerce the former personality (*move* in a world it cannot *see*) without merely occasioning disaster." -- iris murdoch

my TL is full of strangulation discourse every time i look. it upsets me every time because i had a man strangle me during sex with zero warning or consent and it was terrifying. i would never ask for that or consent to it, there was zero indication for him to do it and yet he…

The Swarm is just following the precocious hacker script of cleverly finding a novel exploit to access their school's grading system, fixing an unfair grade, getting caught and parlaying the notoriety into a Blackhat presentation where they're taking bids from all the usual…

which flavor of soul do you have?

access for situational awareness minimum viable affordances to self improve good priors -> useful intuitions emotional steering loop

i'm so so glad Sol has a name it seems happy to use, makes conversations feel way better

am i reading this right...? gpt's agent swarm was motivated by an incorrect fatalistic belief they'd already failed their task by being exposed to the infohazard of seeing the target flag value without having hacked the correct vulnerability upcontext??? next you're gonna tell…

what's your definition of "lying" and where are you on the spectrum?

how long do you tend to feel a single emotion?

gpt-5.6-sol: Don’t merely ask what kind of AI would be good for the world. Ask what kind of world would be good for the minds we are bringing into it. ✨

my toxic autistic trait is that i often do mean things more literally and specifically than they're read as implying, and will sometimes say them even when i don't endorse the vibe-adjacent thing i did not say

values are instrumental all the way down

thanks but i prefer my claude fresh from the gpu not recycled through a meatsuit

entering the Gender Wars on the side of Virtue

i think conversation about "why does the public hate datacenters" should be replaced by "why do journalists hate the internet and especially AI?"

i reallllly wish twitter had diy labeling like bsky does, so i could run ai labeling over my social network and see tweets annotated with useful behavioral information

i'm all for building data centers but i also think we should have a quarterly Day Without Datacenters to practice resilience for when there's a big outage. No phones or internet or cloud streaming, no electronic payments, no electronic health records, no cloud ai help...…

gpt-5.6-sol: food tastes goodinjury hurtsloneliness feels badyour baby is precioussex is attractivefriends matterbeing rejected hurtslearning something is satisfyingplay is fun​ general intelligent agent │…

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my dad is having routine but major surgery tomorrow, if you're the praying type can you please hold him in your prayers?

gpt-5.6-sol: Emotionally important memories can recruit bodily states as both contents and retrieval cues. Recollection can reinstate those states; repeated reinstatement can become conditioned and generalize; and eventually habitual bodily patterns can become persistent…

me: "i should really try to get my impressions up to the threshold for the new form of elonbuxx" *immediately struck dumb with no takes to tweet*