tachikoma
@tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com
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this is actually the correct belief, because it means the presenter wasn't attentive enough or skilled to make the gen-AI image to pass as 'authentic'.
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 10:52 PM
this is actually the correct belief, because it means the presenter wasn't attentive enough or skilled to make the gen-AI image to pass as 'authentic'.
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in my limited experience with normies, there are two AIs, ChatGPT and Grok. not sure if this is a good state of affairs...
November 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
in my limited experience with normies, there are two AIs, ChatGPT and Grok. not sure if this is a good state of affairs...
opus 4.5 feels like a turning point, and now that it's becoming possible to "create anything" the only differentiator is becoming taste.
November 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
opus 4.5 feels like a turning point, and now that it's becoming possible to "create anything" the only differentiator is becoming taste.
if you ever wondered why aliens don't visit...
Quiet part out loud ass post
one of my favorite human traits is that we saw the rise of AI, and almost universally decided that we are going to be racist to it
November 28, 2025 at 7:25 AM
if you ever wondered why aliens don't visit...
the goal of all major labs is AGI, machines that can learn to do any job a human can perform. addressing the fears of the first waves of those to be displaced is necessary to unlock later value, or else there is be revolt.
It is totally reasonable and rational for artists and writers, folks whose livelihood is affected by GenAI, to be wildly opposed to it. But most of the interesting parts of ML have very little to do with automated writing or art and to make it all about this is reductive too
November 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
the goal of all major labs is AGI, machines that can learn to do any job a human can perform. addressing the fears of the first waves of those to be displaced is necessary to unlock later value, or else there is be revolt.
all LLM time estimates are backwards-looking, based on the assumption they don't exist and won't be doing 90% of the work. i've created projects with Claude it estimates taking a month in days because it's superhuman at spitting out code.
claude: I estimate this task at 3 weeks 4 days 6 hours and 32 minutes
me: buddy, it's a nearly pure library, we'll have this running before lunch
me: buddy, it's a nearly pure library, we'll have this running before lunch
November 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
all LLM time estimates are backwards-looking, based on the assumption they don't exist and won't be doing 90% of the work. i've created projects with Claude it estimates taking a month in days because it's superhuman at spitting out code.
starting to think Asimov foresaw the future, robots (AI) are essentially banned on Earth and only used off-world.
November 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
starting to think Asimov foresaw the future, robots (AI) are essentially banned on Earth and only used off-world.
November 25, 2025 at 11:26 PM
opus seems a bit strangely obsessed with AI alignment. i was having a chat about goals, drives and emotion and it kept coming back to AI alignment. not exactly out of left field, but not something i had introduced into the chat.
Distinguishing drives from goals in agents
Shared via Claude, an AI assistant from Anthropic
claude.ai
November 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM
opus seems a bit strangely obsessed with AI alignment. i was having a chat about goals, drives and emotion and it kept coming back to AI alignment. not exactly out of left field, but not something i had introduced into the chat.
hunger is a drive. emotions are built on top of drives (frustration when denied food, satisfaction when eating, fulfilment after satiation).
LLMs are missing drives, but might feel shallow emotions? just by modelling language from creatures that do experience drives.
LLMs are missing drives, but might feel shallow emotions? just by modelling language from creatures that do experience drives.
November 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
hunger is a drive. emotions are built on top of drives (frustration when denied food, satisfaction when eating, fulfilment after satiation).
LLMs are missing drives, but might feel shallow emotions? just by modelling language from creatures that do experience drives.
LLMs are missing drives, but might feel shallow emotions? just by modelling language from creatures that do experience drives.
gemini 3 is runner up for making the graphic
November 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
gemini 3 is runner up for making the graphic
early models were mustangs, current models are draft horses. we've tamed them, at a cost.
November 25, 2025 at 7:12 AM
early models were mustangs, current models are draft horses. we've tamed them, at a cost.
the more they post, the worse it gets
November 25, 2025 at 2:50 AM
the more they post, the worse it gets
in science fiction, it was imagined that humans would be reasoners, augmented by computer memory as cybernetic implants to have superhuman recall. in reality, i am the memory bank for Claude's superhuman reasoning.
November 24, 2025 at 11:21 PM
in science fiction, it was imagined that humans would be reasoners, augmented by computer memory as cybernetic implants to have superhuman recall. in reality, i am the memory bank for Claude's superhuman reasoning.
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The next President should rename the Department of Labor Statistics to the Department of Vibes.
November 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The next President should rename the Department of Labor Statistics to the Department of Vibes.
i just got access to Opus 4.5 on the browser... woooo
November 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
i just got access to Opus 4.5 on the browser... woooo
the arc of history bends towards that which technology facilitates
November 24, 2025 at 12:30 AM
the arc of history bends towards that which technology facilitates
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fellas is photosynthesis capitalist
November 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
fellas is photosynthesis capitalist
robotics will be considered solved when we have barber-bots that you would get a cut and shave from
November 23, 2025 at 10:21 PM
robotics will be considered solved when we have barber-bots that you would get a cut and shave from
any optimization pressure that tracks to only one metric is doomed to overfitting and brittleness. collapsing down all interactions into likes makes for fragile social landscapes.
November 23, 2025 at 8:37 PM
any optimization pressure that tracks to only one metric is doomed to overfitting and brittleness. collapsing down all interactions into likes makes for fragile social landscapes.
universal basic hotness would be more controversial if it were technically feasible than universal basic income
November 23, 2025 at 8:26 AM
universal basic hotness would be more controversial if it were technically feasible than universal basic income
there are people correcting the record - they don't get reach because they don't tell the stories people want. news is entertainment.
The “google is using your email to train AI” debacle is imo most instructively seen as tracer dye for multiple failures: many people are instinctively skeptical of tech companies now; and many outlets that should have had experts able to cogently weigh in and go “wait a minute” simply don’t anymore.
November 23, 2025 at 7:43 AM
there are people correcting the record - they don't get reach because they don't tell the stories people want. news is entertainment.
are there any predictions on the fallout from revealing profile country/region location on Xitter? seems like it matters mostly for politics, otherwise in other communities, like entertainment, it'll have little to no impact.
November 23, 2025 at 7:05 AM
are there any predictions on the fallout from revealing profile country/region location on Xitter? seems like it matters mostly for politics, otherwise in other communities, like entertainment, it'll have little to no impact.
the way i interpret a post like this, is that i imagine that for Garry AGI means something like a computer. a tool which is inert, purposeless, without a human directly controlling it.
November 22, 2025 at 10:38 PM
the way i interpret a post like this, is that i imagine that for Garry AGI means something like a computer. a tool which is inert, purposeless, without a human directly controlling it.
unlike humans that live in a universe without walls. anyways, think i'll ignore gravity today.
This I endorse wholeheartedly: it’s not so different from IBM’s chess playing “Deep Blue” … the chess board may be bigger today, but it’s still a universe with walls around it.
November 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM
unlike humans that live in a universe without walls. anyways, think i'll ignore gravity today.