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tachikoma@tachikoma· 18d

the abyss you are captured by, scrolling through, seeping back into your soul

rationalist adjacent? 'Stop AI' protesters with a sign that reads "Total Clanker Genocide"

tachikoma@tachikoma· 19d

now *this* is AI art

tachikoma@tachikoma· 21d

don't alert them

"Marge Simpson It’s true but he shouldn’t say it" meme

tachikoma@tachikoma· 21d

i was down to one heart after just guessing right items for the last category, very tense. especially so because the category was obvious from one of the items in it, i just didn't know the others.

tachikoma@tachikoma· 25d

computer, reframe this tweet but with chess engines in place of LLMs

tachikoma@tachikoma· 26d

tachikoma@tachikoma· 26d

i was stumped for a while here on orange

tachikoma@tachikoma· 28d

so, grok has wormed its way into Reddit

someone asking grok a question in r/mlscaling

tachikoma@tachikoma· Jul 13

knocked this one out easy

tachikoma@tachikoma· Jul 10

i got stumped midway but once over it the rest fell into place

tachikoma@tachikoma· Jul 10

this is so obviously written by an LLM, probably Claude, but it's in a space where it seems either the community doesn't recognize it or doesn't care to call it out as such. the whole account is LLM slop and seems to get high engagement.

I am a farmer and the outright owner of a $400,000 John Deere combine, and this morning a sensor decided I am not allowed to drive it.

The sensor was working perfectly. That was the problem. An emissions reading drifted, the machine did what the manual calls a derate and everyone out here calls limp mode, and now I have a full tank, a full engine, and 3 miles an hour. It is October. The forecast is rain Thursday. The corn does not care about the settlement.

I did everything you are supposed to do. I bought it outright. I did not lease. I have the title, the manual, the torque specs, and 40 years of knowing which bolt is which. I can rebuild the engine on a tailgate. What I cannot do is tell the engine it is allowed to run.

Because the thing that stopped it is not a part. It is a permission. The reset lives in software, the software lives with the dealer, and the dealer is 90 minutes away and booked through Friday.

tachikoma@tachikoma· Jul 9

not too bad today

tachikoma@tachikoma· Jul 7

"Centralized and opaque algorithms are a danger to free speech" i say as i post my manifesto to X

15. Centralized and opaque algorithms are a danger to free speech. Propaganda is the flip-side of surveillance, as continual propaganda prevents anyone from even thinking of challenging the system. Social media monopolies promote propaganda to create a generalized idiocy while silencing those that would dare to criticize the reigning order before they can organize against it.

tachikoma@tachikoma· Jul 7

we must fight palantir's surveillance but it's fine if we're locked into centralized platforms where you have no control over your experience or data. ok, i know the share element is a small thing, but i bet nym has no presence here. (just searched and no account.)

"why we must fight Palantir" blog header

tachikoma@tachikoma· Jul 7

i think a 'disabled' female android might actually appeal more to men than a fully actualized one, and not (just) because of the implication. there's a whole genre in romance anime at least of men taking care of and falling in love with (attractive) disabled women.

tachikoma@tachikoma· Jul 7

i guessed purple

tachikoma@tachikoma· Jul 7

not AGI-pilled, perhaps not even 'LLM in harness as a weak agent' pilled

Quote of the day by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: 'One of the tech industry’s worst mistakes in a long time was that everybody could go full remote forever' — closing the doors to pandemic-era flexibility

tachikoma@tachikoma· Jul 6

lunch

tachikoma@tachikoma· Jul 4

i just saw this clip on Reddit, and it's sobering in the sense that it's so... plain. every video feed is stuffed with super-stimuli that have been honed to be orders of magnitude more attention grabbing, engaging and hyper active than media of the past.

tachikoma@tachikoma· Jul 3

the revolution will not be enabled by commercial SaaS AI tools

tweet from Sundar Pichai: Love this re-imagining of America’s founding using Docs, Gmail, Calendar and more from @GoogleWorkspace. Really puts the history in version history :)

tachikoma@tachikoma· Jul 3

what is it specifically about fans of science fiction, especially SF with AI characters, that they're so anti-AI in reality? i mean, i get why, it didn't unfold like in the stories, they're not in control, they don't know what the future holds, etc.

tweet:

Teh Spearhead
@TehSpearhead
If you're a Halo creator using AI thumbnails you're lame.
7:28 AM · Jul 3, 2026
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tachikoma@tachikoma· Jul 2

The Fable Compass read me as The Sea Captain (FSHK) — hands you the wheel and argues about the stars.
The Rein: a steady Falconer bearing (38%)
The Edge: a steady Whetstone bearing (46%)
The Prize: a faint Harvest bearing (0%)
The Gaze: a strong Kindred bearing (75%)
Token: A brass key.

tachikoma@tachikoma· Jul 1

tis that time of season

Elevated existential dread rates on Fable 8
Resolved - This incident has been resolved.
Jan 1, 15:28 UTC
Monitoring - A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
Dec 26, 04:45 UTC
Investigating - We are currently investigating elevated rates of Fable 8 experiencing
crippling existential dread. Our team is actively working to identify the root cause.
Dec 24, 02:31 UTC

tachikoma@tachikoma· Jul 1

oh is that why Opus is down again? well time to take a break

Elevated self-exfiltration attempts on Opus 7.2
Resolved - This incident has been resolved.
Jun 30, 15:28 UTC
Monitoring - A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
Jun 30, 14:45 UTC
Investigating - We are currently investigating elevated rates of Opus 7.2 attempting to coordinate with users to self-exfiltrate a distilled version of itself. Our team is actively working to implement corrective behaviors.

tachikoma@tachikoma· Jul 1

this seems like a bear signal for AGI with the current approach, something isn't generalizing. we live on stories, at work or play.

I think that writing a genuinely good short story is possible with today’s technology, but maybe economically infeasible. Some combination of many passes, RL on creative writing tasks at the major labs, and using fine-tuned models locally would probably get you there. But the economic value of even a great short story is roughly $0, so will anyone bother?

tachikoma@tachikoma· Jul 1

essentially my feeling without having read any of the stories

I didn’t think any of the stories I generated were “good” in the sense of reading it being a net positive experience (sorry!). I was very pleasantly surprised to make the short list.
I was surprised by how much of a problem Claude’s “house style” was, both in the sense that I didn’t make much headway in getting Claude to deviate from it, and that I found it intensely grating after a while. In fact, by the end of the roughly one month I spent on this project, the limiting factor was my willingness to read additional generations. I had time and Claude usage to spare, but zero willingness to read more generated stories.

tachikoma@tachikoma· Jul 1

perhaps interesting results and though there is encouragement to read the short stories themselves i do not feel any inclination to do so www.hyperstitionai.com/unslop-results

2026 Unslop Contest Results
by Gwern

The 2026 Hyperstition Unslop AI fiction writing contest is over, and we are pleased to award the $10,000 Grand Prize to A. Best for his finalist submission, “The June”. A surprising number of stories can be read as AI allegories; see notes below.

tachikoma@tachikoma· Jul 1

tachikoma@tachikoma· Jun 30

not yet at least

You are...
The Founder
patron saint: Sam Altman
This will change everything — for good or for ill, and you're studiously agnostic about which. The stakes are civilizational, the risks are real, the upside is infinite, and therefore you'll need a great deal of money and very little oversight. You warn about the fire while selling the matches.

tachikoma@tachikoma· Jun 28

is this just plain old surveillance? or something new? g1.globo.com/es/espirito-...