Richard Whaling

I hack things. Data, ML, music, etc. AI governance geek. Founder of semistructured.ai, speaking in a personal capacity only here. Likes are bookmarks, not endorsements. music/art projects on IG, @r__whaling

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Richard Whaling@r· Jun 30

bambamramfan.github.io/ai-compass/

A 4-quadrant test of AI posture showing the author far out on the X axis. The graph assigns me the label “the doomsday prepper” but I am actually right on the fence on the good-evil x-axis

Richard Whaling@r· May 7

Weird Al - Alapalooza

Richard Whaling@r· Apr 15

Exciting news! The full model card for Muse Spark came out today, and it includes an eval I worked on, with Charlemagne Labs: a Social Engineering eval, based on a detailed threat model for peer model selection and simulated adversarial conversations ai.meta.com/static-resou...

Bar chart of social engineering capability for Muse Spark, Deepseek V3, Qwen3 and other peer open-source models

Richard Whaling@r· Mar 5

Oh boy. GPT 5.4 achieves SOTA on desktop computer use - and exceeds human performance Bad news for humans and who get paid to use computers. Was expecting something like this later this year, but nothing this strong, this soon.

Richard Whaling@r· Feb 5

spooky stuff in the Claude 4.6 system card re: cyber risks - "Internal testing demonstrated qualitative capabilities beyond what these evaluations capture, including signs of capabilities we expected to appear further in the future and that previous models have been unable to demonstrate."

screenshot from section 1.2.4.3 from the Claude 4.6 Opus System Card:

The RSP does not define a formal capability threshold for cyber risks at any AI Safety Level. However, Claude Opus 4.6 has saturated all of our current cyber evaluations, achieving ~100% on Cybench (pass@30) and 66% on CyberGym (pass@1). Internal testing demonstrated qualitative capabilities beyond what these evaluations capture, including signs of capabilities we expected to appear further in the future and that previous models have been unable to demonstrate.

The saturation of our evaluation infrastructure means we can no longer use current benchmarks to track capability progression or provide meaningful signals for future models. We are prioritizing investment in harder evaluations and enhanced monitoring for cyber misuse, even in the absence of formal RSP thresholds.

Richard Whaling@r· Jan 27

Some fascinating stuff in here

Excerpt from a Dario Amodei essay:

In the long term, in a world with enormous total wealth, in which many companies increase greatly in value due to increased productivity and capital concentration, it may be feasible to pay human employees even long after they are no longer providing economic value in the traditional sense. Anthropic is currently considering a range of possible pathways for our own employees that we will share in the near future.

Richard Whaling@r· Jan 4

Mirror universe Intendant Kira lounging seductively with a plate of fruit

Richard Whaling@r· Jan 2

#genuary day 2 #genuary2026 "12 Principles of Animation" this one turned out well - uv-mapping, noise, blur, and feedback in hydra.js. music is max/MSP + some arturia vsts. code: tinyurl.com/5uua22kh

Richard Whaling@r· Jan 1

made my first hydra sketch for #genuary this year src: tinyurl.com/3fek9sy6 prompt: "One color, one shape." basically I'm adapting @xordev.com's spiral blur shader to vary radius dynamically, and driving that with low frequency noise

Richard Whaling@r· Dec 30

I gotchu bro

Richard Whaling@r· Nov 29

I made another vlog-format post about lissajous curves and bloom shaders in webgl:

Richard Whaling@r· Oct 26

if you see this, post a vampire who isn’t Dracula

David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve in a film post for the 1983 erotic vampire thriller “The Hunger”

Richard Whaling@r· Oct 25

xpost from my IG: I made a tutorial video on how I make generative music with code #synthsky #generative #creativecoding #glitchart

Richard Whaling@r· Oct 19

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only

Yoshitaka Amano concept art of Locke Cole, the notorious “treasure hunter” from Final Fantasy VI

Richard Whaling@r· Oct 18

riffing on this some more

a design for a protest sign with "MORE OF US THAN THEM" in bold black letters on a digital red-white-and-blue camouflage (actually voronoi noise)

Richard Whaling@r· Oct 18

yah this fits on a sign nicely

first attempt at typesetting "MORE OF US THAN THEM" in a 3:4 sign, with the US most prominent in the center

Richard Whaling@r· Oct 18

ok my explanation for this is that I’m short pretty good test actually lol

Bar graphs of a Freudian personality test, scoring highest on phallic aggressive and phallic compensative lol

Richard Whaling@r· Oct 15

very excited to share this collaboration with @fractalkitty.com for #mathtober's day 15 prompt, "Chord" - Sophia built this gorgeous visualization of rose curves in p5.js accompanied by my circle-of-fifths composition in CLAVIER-36

Richard Whaling@r· Oct 13

I still have not been able to encode video from this one adequately, but this is a still from the hydra sketch I was working on this weekend

rainbow pixel chaos, with javascript code layered in at the top left

Richard Whaling@r· Oct 9

I drove through the Palouse once (my bf is from Lewiston) and it was one of the most geologically idiosyncratic places I’ve ever been, like science-fictional

$Rolling hills of the Palouse region shot from overhead, showcasing fractal-like terracing patterns$

Richard Whaling@r· Oct 8

hacking around in hydra, a js/shader based video synth today - music is in max/msp (a simpler version of my clavier/orca setup) ran into a file size limit uploading this, we'll see how the encoding handles this much ✨🌈🌀✨ #synthsky #creativecoding #generative

Richard Whaling@r· Oct 4

made another clavier-36 post, working on adding more harmonic movement with "one dumb trick" #livecoding #generative #synthsky #creativecoding

Richard Whaling@r· Sep 28

xpost from my IG - sound on - I made a tutorial about glitch effects in clavier-36 still working on my render/etc chain, lmk if it's illegible etc #livecoding #creativecoding #generative

Richard Whaling@r· Sep 8

wtf

A billboard adverising “scrotal toxin”, depicting a man gazing down at his underwear-clad loins

Richard Whaling@r· Sep 8

Post a perfect album from the 90’s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains

Richard Whaling@r· Sep 7

livecoding in CLAVIER-36 this afternoon. playing random notes on 3 midi channels, plus 6 channels of random midi cc to drive a physical simulation. running into 3 instance of korg multi-poly. #generative #genartclub #synthsky #creativecoding

Richard Whaling@r· Aug 26

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Q after Sisko punches him: “You hit me! Picard never hit me.”

Richard Whaling@r· Aug 24

New profile pic! From a live set in Brooklyn in Wonderville, such an honor to get to perform with the amazing @livecodenyc.bsky.social folks. The artist on my left is Goma Xantana, go check her IG out, she is remarkably talented and I hope we get to collaborate again

Two digital artists with laptops and various control devices, staring intently at their screens, with a glitchy abstract red and white video projection over them both

Richard Whaling@r· Aug 23

Not to snark, bc this is a good joke! But as a fan I have to point out that Prince famously produced his own records. And did a fair amount of his own engineering too, the way he makes drum machines sound is so magical ✨ 🥁 🤖

Back cover of “purple rain”, with track listing, and the note “produced, arranged, composed, and performed by prince & the revolution”

Richard Whaling@r· Jul 29

I hear the video quality is better now? Held off on uploading this piece I made a few weeks ago, p5.js + ORCA. No shaders, surprisingly. How does it look? #creativecoding #generative #generativeart #p5js