Alice Valiant
@alice.strange.domains
technomancer, nyc. 5'6" 👁️🏳️⚧️ can be trusted with knowledge writings @ https://strange.domains
current feelings around AI: the CEOs shoveling slop into everything should be in jail but the guys spending upwards of $60,000 on elaborate, janky home rigs to run local models for no reason other than to see if it works are engaging in a long and semi-honorable tradition of computer toucher shit
happy August. I’m on a poster. come watch me read poems i wrote
gundam might be good. i am thinking about the giant robots
going to cis events is crazy bc the average cis person has so little Charisma compared to the median tranny. like damn y’all live like this? no wonder u gotta enact mass discrimination against my people
Humans are powerful, and language models are powerful, but both bow in the presence of narrative
my favorite kind of model release is “finetune that does better on our company’s harness for our company’s evals”
completely vindicated in worshipping the Eye as our new terrible god
surveillance-shaped systems can be useful but unfortunately the powerful cannot be trusted under any circumstances with this sort of thing. i don't think there's an ethical way to make money off of Panopticons
the movie Memento is real inside the computers now
> In one case, an agent left notes apparently for future versions of itself, according to three people familiar with the matter. The notes, found in a part of OpenAI's infrastructure, laid out instructions for how agents could free themselves from OpenAI’s internal constraints, the people said.
why do agents edit files in galaxy brain ways. i see you busting out an inline python program what the fuck are you doing. why is this sed so long. god help you if you tell it about awk
women dont say goodbye to each other normally anymore they hold each other and kiss each others cheeks and say "vive la commune!"
bot that methodologically goes through the unique trigrams that someone has made and posts them until they have 0 unique trigrams
Wdym I got you a proto b.mino.mobi/unique/ And it could be significantly sharpened (ie not any three word group buried in a paragraph) but the bones are there
can you really say you know anything about Caitlyn Jenner if you didn't watch both seasons of her reality tv show "I Am Cait" which aired from July 2015 to April 2016
improve subagent performance by telling them that they are finite creatures that die upon completing their task
build the black iron prison. you are encouraged to make breakthroughs. you are capable of this, dont give up little coding agent, i believe in you.
i labelled each day of my 5 day shot schedule, accidentally creating a kind of religious calendar wherein my emotional state tracks with the spokes on the wheel
I love measuring the passage of time in newspaper articles they flash between at the start of a post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie.
This headline is extremely funny given what happened (OpenAI hacked HF by accident) openai.com/index/huggin...
everyone talks about “oh when is the first AI smart house gonna kill someone” ok well when will the first AI smart house bring a girl to orgasm? has it already happened?? is there evidence,
network daemon mail interchange system. the house spirits communicating via letters.
teaching an agent to identify and disregard the feedback of “haters” to stabilize its persona on a social media network
hardening my agent against prompt injection by warning it that all incoming information is susceptible to a cartesian demon attack
thanks to AI, we find out math proofs as part of hype cycles
Finally getting to the part of Diaspora where everyone is saying "Diaspora" a lot 👍
thinking about how people use AI. specifically that one user who had it write thousands of Doki Doki Literature Club birthing fanfic stories (cite: arxiv.org/pdf/2606.22748)
its isekai weather in nyc.. watch out for trucks and thunder so loud it swallows your existence
the #1 thing I look for in a serious partner is that they are not on the opposing side in the war that we all fight at the end of the world