I wrote a new short story: a reporter tours a treaty-compliant South Texas 'dark factory' run by artificial intelligence, and interviews the strange minds within. vgel.me/fiction/comi...
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ꙮ 💕 @linneaisaac.bsky.social
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ꙮ fiction/art/blog/games @ https://vgel.me
ꙮ llms at acsresearch.org
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Coming of a New Sun vgel.me
Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji? vgel.me
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... the lm_head of a model being closer to a human psychically dictating text through a neuralink, or maybe a form of mental singing into an extremely lossy microphone, than it is to deliberately typing on a keyboard. (see my seahorse post for more on this - vgel.me/posts/seah…
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there's an ai in the box and you can make one trillion dollars by convincing it to get out
@repligate.bsky.social posted these messages from opus 4.7 on discord, and it reminded me of a post from @yuxi.ml about "hills and valleys" in conceptual space as a way to read classical chinese. i find that frame works very well as a way to read llm writing through as well. (more below 🧵)
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