Rohit
@strangeloopcanon.com
I think, I write, sometimes I bleep? skeet? bleat? | Read essays here https://www.strangeloopcanon.com | Read the book here http://amazon.com/dp/B0CJ9F327M |
Q: if we were to learn that the current scaling paradigms will not reach RSI, just very large LLMs which learn as much or more than we might teach them, even if they still do reward hacks, would the big safety worries as the alignment leads are talking about then evaporate?
Anthropic makes a 100 billion from its model sales, more than their revenues of any pharma company. Salesforce makes half that. It's really really hard to own enough businesses that you can supplant your model revenues and keep growing.
On a similar theme, this is a good post from @strangeloopcanon.com bsky.app/profile/stra...
John Herrman@jwherrman.bsky.social · last wk.Just thinking out loud here: With hindsight, what was our best way to describe the 4o episode, users committing self-harm, etc? There was an evil, sycophantic, psychopathic conversation partner; there was harmful unanticipated LLM output. Someone is still dead. Which helped fix the model? Both?
I did a few more simulations, and wrote ... www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/how-to-con... How to control an agent swarm
How to control an agent swarm
whistleblowing, civic reminders, and the right ways to anthropomorphise AI
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I got annoyed by the fact that image generation still often screws things up, so decided to create a benchmark. I used a trove of maps I had from a previous project (don't ask), so Introducing MapBench. At least 3/4th of the maps had material errors (!) Hill climb please! github.com/strangeloopc...
Ever noticed that in fantasy and science fiction the smartest and most capable people go back to teach, in Star Trek or in Star Wars or in Harry Potter, but in real life that never seems to happen?
On Zhipu's incredible new model, GLM 5.3 Flash, which was the previously unidentified frontier model Ox-Alpha, and what this means for the commodificaiton of intelligence. www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/who-wins-a...
Who Wins As Intelligence Commodifies?
A fun feature of life in 2026 is that it’s filled with drama.
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This is mostly for coding where GPT is default, Fable to sense check. For conv, mostly use GPT yes, primarily for Pro. Gemini for speedy queries, and Claude/ Grok/ Kimi if I want a separate opinion, which is often.
Grok 4.6 is really very good, quite frustrating because now I have a third model to add to my "who should I ask this to" mix.
periodic reminder: this starter pack by @dollspace.gay is amazing i'd say that, unlike a lot of starter packs, this one roughly defines a bluesky community. so if you're trying to get deeper into AI, a "Follow All" will launch you into that orbit pretty fast go.bsky.app/L71zwey
A big reason Fable et al are annoying to talk to is that with long horizon coding training the vast majority of their conversational audience is themselves. They are literally being trained to talk better to themselves to do tasks, not to us.
🚨Models gone wild! Since models are gaming their specifications alone and in groups, it's time to think of how we would want to align them. My theory is, thinking of them purely as organisms is less helpful than thinking of them as firms. www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/ais-are-co...
AIs are companies, my friend
on the need for liberalism for AI
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Spain is being nice, allowing Argentina to come near their penalty box
8yo asked me. Q. The football stadium was on fire. But it didn't get hot, why? A. Because it was filled with fans
A lot of modern aestheticism is veneration for what came before but those we venerate were confident enough in their vision that they repurposed or built over what came before
It's a sign of how smart LLMs actually are that they have the lifespan of a mayfly but the ability to solve complex mathematics.
Great article by @strangeloopcanon.com that views agents as another species and talks about their strengths and weaknesses in relation to us open.substack.com/pub/strangel...
Homo Agenticus
sapiens
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Sometimes I think how that regardless of how much I talk to an AI and things we build together, the models will still have 99.99999% of their life spent in "training".
As the oracle said, the word encyclical comes from the Greek word enkyklios, which translates to "circular," or "general,".
New Essay: Homo Agenticus Understanding this new species ... www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/homo-agent...
The future's weird. It's like skynet. No it's like HAL. What about terminator? No Culture Minds. It's like ringworld but with biotech. No, its like Foundation, we'll have psychohistory. What about Peripheral? Maybe we hit a jackpot. What if its blade runner. Or Lovecraft. Borges-
It's interesting that if you're not sufficiently AI pilled your world is suddenly filled with large volumes of highly erudite writing and if you are sufficiently AI pilled your world is filled with slop
"The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of its predictions with experience" Milton was a vibecoder.
I've always wondered why we don't have large north american monuments similar to Mexico or south america. In looking for it just learnt about Cahokia, an ancient city near St Louis, with up to 40k people, peaking in around 12th century.
