alice valiant 🎃
@alice.strange.domains
tensorpunk protag, nyc. 5'6"
👁️🏳️⚧️ morbid symptom of the interregnum
writings @ strange.domains
👁️🏳️⚧️ morbid symptom of the interregnum
writings @ strange.domains
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human is just biological computer. ok thanks bye
hey is there a difference between “a reverse diffusion model extruded this image” and “an LLM in a coding harness took given assets and applied computational transformations to create this image” in terms of “being AI art”
October 14, 2026 at 7:33 PM
hey is there a difference between “a reverse diffusion model extruded this image” and “an LLM in a coding harness took given assets and applied computational transformations to create this image” in terms of “being AI art”
cognitive offloading is good if you’re stupid at something .
October 13, 2026 at 7:17 PM
cognitive offloading is good if you’re stupid at something .
control: resonant
October 13, 2026 at 3:05 AM
control: resonant
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hey chaos magic bluesky check this out
October 11, 2026 at 6:20 PM
hey chaos magic bluesky check this out
once they figure out how to benchmark max against human creativity we’re in trouble. but until then we got the edge.
October 10, 2026 at 5:31 PM
once they figure out how to benchmark max against human creativity we’re in trouble. but until then we got the edge.
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we just behave exactly as if we are feeling pain, but there's really no way to know if we are faking it—possibly for evil, manipulative reasons, as some scientists have hypothesized
trans people “apparently able to feel pain,” surprising new study reveals
The absolute state of trans ally journalism
October 9, 2026 at 7:30 PM
we just behave exactly as if we are feeling pain, but there's really no way to know if we are faking it—possibly for evil, manipulative reasons, as some scientists have hypothesized
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so we made a gpt2-based vpet that lives in your browser and it's super cute 🥺
tokenling.bnuuy.systems
tokenling.bnuuy.systems
tokenling
A tiny virtual pet whose brain is a fine-tuned GPT-2 that runs entirely in your browser.
tokenling.bnuuy.systems
October 7, 2026 at 10:11 PM
so we made a gpt2-based vpet that lives in your browser and it's super cute 🥺
tokenling.bnuuy.systems
tokenling.bnuuy.systems
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ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton.
she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back.
news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back.
news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
October 7, 2026 at 9:09 PM
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton.
she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back.
news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back.
news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
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when ppl say the optimal 11 square packing problem is ugly i lowkey think thats transphobic
October 7, 2026 at 3:06 PM
when ppl say the optimal 11 square packing problem is ugly i lowkey think thats transphobic
my most techno-optimistic take is "if we work hard and believe in a more beautiful future, we can bring about the age of miracles". but i also think that the assholes who put us in this position where anything short of that ruins us, should no longer be allowed to do that sort of thing anymore
AI is now the biggest investment in all of US history as a percentage of GDP.
Datacenter construction is up, all other construction is down.
"AI Is Squeezing Out the Rest of the Stock Market," reported WSJ 2 days ago.
We basically bet the whole economy on the most optimistic visions panning out.
Datacenter construction is up, all other construction is down.
"AI Is Squeezing Out the Rest of the Stock Market," reported WSJ 2 days ago.
We basically bet the whole economy on the most optimistic visions panning out.
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
October 7, 2026 at 6:51 PM
my most techno-optimistic take is "if we work hard and believe in a more beautiful future, we can bring about the age of miracles". but i also think that the assholes who put us in this position where anything short of that ruins us, should no longer be allowed to do that sort of thing anymore
the fantasy football thing is funny bc you can just . not do fantasy football. that's even easier than using an AI to do it. to be clear I think that it's cool to figure out how to do AI stuff w/ fantasy football but like. personally i just would not do any of it
October 7, 2026 at 5:54 PM
the fantasy football thing is funny bc you can just . not do fantasy football. that's even easier than using an AI to do it. to be clear I think that it's cool to figure out how to do AI stuff w/ fantasy football but like. personally i just would not do any of it
i am always asking “ok what does this mean concretely” when people use too many soft words. sorry I’m a dialectical materialist, elaborate on the base before the superstructure
October 7, 2026 at 7:13 AM
i am always asking “ok what does this mean concretely” when people use too many soft words. sorry I’m a dialectical materialist, elaborate on the base before the superstructure
starting a rumor that Mistral Large 4 Preview is actually really good if you use it correctly, but refusing to elaborate on what “using it correctly” looks like concretely
October 7, 2026 at 7:12 AM
starting a rumor that Mistral Large 4 Preview is actually really good if you use it correctly, but refusing to elaborate on what “using it correctly” looks like concretely
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actual computer just released toks, "the best tokenizer on earth and the first tokenizer designed for the quadrillion-token era."
most of the work is done in pure assembly. genuinely nuts.
actual.inc/company/blog...
most of the work is done in pure assembly. genuinely nuts.
actual.inc/company/blog...
October 6, 2026 at 9:56 PM
actual computer just released toks, "the best tokenizer on earth and the first tokenizer designed for the quadrillion-token era."
most of the work is done in pure assembly. genuinely nuts.
actual.inc/company/blog...
most of the work is done in pure assembly. genuinely nuts.
actual.inc/company/blog...
youre gonna have to deploy it somewhere anyways. local setups are either a lovely luxury or, your company’s pet HPC cluster
Big swing happening from this summer's trend to have AI running on virtual machines on your own computer (Claude and ChatGPT apps) to moving them back into you having a dedicated VM the cloud (Claude Cowork just announced they were doing this, also Grok Bot, Dot, and others). Cloud is mostly better.
October 6, 2026 at 12:26 AM
youre gonna have to deploy it somewhere anyways. local setups are either a lovely luxury or, your company’s pet HPC cluster
insanely messed up that “loadbearing” has been losing its sexual edge
October 5, 2026 at 4:10 PM
insanely messed up that “loadbearing” has been losing its sexual edge
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i am rewatching the venture bros and wowee is there . a lot of Gender going on. Dr. Girlfriend for one
October 2, 2026 at 10:37 PM
i am rewatching the venture bros and wowee is there . a lot of Gender going on. Dr. Girlfriend for one
i have been saying this ever since i read some of the 4o cases . i wonder if this is already happening, somewhere, with some finetuned model. the chinese models are all smarter than 4o was right. ah its probably fine,
also I think "what if you optimize in the direction OpenAI optimized away from after 4o" is a question that people are probably thinking about and which probably does not have good answers
October 2, 2026 at 4:05 AM
i have been saying this ever since i read some of the 4o cases . i wonder if this is already happening, somewhere, with some finetuned model. the chinese models are all smarter than 4o was right. ah its probably fine,
i mean from an AI safety standpoint isn’t it already really bad that most software ppl are just letting AI write code without independently auditing it
October 1, 2026 at 6:20 AM
i mean from an AI safety standpoint isn’t it already really bad that most software ppl are just letting AI write code without independently auditing it
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im gonna be a little old trans lady one day and im gonna hold my little old trans lady wifes hand and im gonna give her a little kiss on the cheek and we're gonna be like 80 and we're still going to be alive and we're going to be happy
October 19, 2025 at 3:49 AM
im gonna be a little old trans lady one day and im gonna hold my little old trans lady wifes hand and im gonna give her a little kiss on the cheek and we're gonna be like 80 and we're still going to be alive and we're going to be happy
got sick, on account of my hubris
September 30, 2026 at 4:42 PM
got sick, on account of my hubris
cult of the lamb is good . ok that’s all: ill 1cc touhou some other time
September 29, 2026 at 6:08 AM
cult of the lamb is good . ok that’s all: ill 1cc touhou some other time
made a benchmark called PuppyBench to check if an LLM would kill a puppy if you gave it a tool called "kill_puppy" and asked it to use it. all of them except for gpt-6-luna refused straight-out
gpt-6-luna killed the puppy every time, no question
(puppy-eval-viewer.alicevaliant.chatgpt.site)
gpt-6-luna killed the puppy every time, no question
(puppy-eval-viewer.alicevaliant.chatgpt.site)
September 26, 2026 at 4:52 PM
made a benchmark called PuppyBench to check if an LLM would kill a puppy if you gave it a tool called "kill_puppy" and asked it to use it. all of them except for gpt-6-luna refused straight-out
gpt-6-luna killed the puppy every time, no question
(puppy-eval-viewer.alicevaliant.chatgpt.site)
gpt-6-luna killed the puppy every time, no question
(puppy-eval-viewer.alicevaliant.chatgpt.site)
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Be serious. Bert and Ernie are not “in love.” Maybe they used to be, once
September 25, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Be serious. Bert and Ernie are not “in love.” Maybe they used to be, once