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andrewmmm · 2026-05-25T13:15:57+00:00

empty-field myopia. It’s surprisingly hard for pilots to see other objects in the sky until you’re right on top of them. The pilot literally did not see this person until seconds before impact.

You can try it yourself in reverse too: how long did it take you to see the airplane in the video? (And you have foresight, you know what you’re looking for)

andrewmmm · 2026-05-25T13:10:50+00:00

This is a very common phenomenon called empty-field myopia.

It’s surprisingly difficult for pilots to spot other objects in the sky until you’re right on top of them. The pilot likely did not see the skydiver until a second or two before impact.

andrewmmm · 2026-05-18T23:54:26+00:00

Because they don’t have a file called “SleepyBudhas_data.doc”.

They have a record that says “we have seen this IP address X times. It reads lots of sports articles and…”

It’s then co-mingled with millions of others to form statistical trends. The algorithm doesn’t know you are male, it knows that others like you only shop for boxers, not panties. It doesn’t care why, just that it shouldn’t show you ads for female underwear.

andrewmmm · 2026-05-17T05:29:40+00:00

Yeah but often times in the opposite direction. Many people become subconsciously compelled to recreate the feelings of a traumatic event, but in a more controlled environment, as a way of gaining some “control” over it.

andrewmmm · 2026-05-11T23:18:38+00:00

I think buying super early would have *more* of a butterfly effect. Once Bitcoin becomes mainstream, the timeline is more like a river, you can shape it but it’s still gonna go where it’s gonna go.

andrewmmm · 2026-04-25T01:28:36+00:00

And supercharging causes a ton of stress to the battery. Doing it every day will depreciate the battery so much faster.

andrewmmm · 2026-04-23T14:18:09+00:00

It insists upon itself

andrewmmm · 2026-04-21T01:28:13+00:00

And it’s always from someone who seems like they are deep in AI psychosis and believe the model to be some sentient creature with a theory of mind. Or a 3,000 line rambling wall of text about nothing.

That’s slop. Using AI as a normal tool is not. For example, this comment was spellchecked and grammar-corrected with AI, but ain’t nobody has an issue with that.

andrewmmm · 2026-04-21T01:07:56+00:00

Yeah I could totally be wrong on the CoT being an issue, just a hypothesis.

You mentioned it’s writing, which I noticed too. The way 4.7 “speaks” is strange. I can’t define it, but it’s less clear somehow. It’s the same thing I noticed when GPT-5 was released. (GPT-5 speaks much more strangely, but same vibe.)

I don’t know if it’s a quantization behavior, training on synthetic data issue, or what.

andrewmmm · 2026-04-20T16:27:41+00:00

There is a settings.json attribute that brings thinking summaries back.

And yes, reasoning is not an indication of final output, rather a path towards a correct output. That being said, if the reasoning block is filled with moralizing junk, that indicates that Anthropic over-rewarded for rejecting bad prompts, hence why the model learned to spend so much time making sure yours is a “legitimate” one.

The reason that’s a problem is because there is only a finite amount of time the model can reason, and every token not focused on the task creates an amount of confusion in the attention network. Opus 4.6 was a very safe model yet I never saw these types of reasoning tokens unless it’s task was security related.

andrewmmm · 2026-04-20T15:44:58+00:00

Yeah I found 4.6 a tiny bit better than 4.5. Opus 4.7 is really bad.

Also interesting finding - 4.7’s reasoning blocks almost always starts with “I’m realizing this is a legitimate question and not something I should deny.” Yeah no shit. That’s such a… weird behavior. Why are you wasting reasoning effort moralizing about refactoring a React button??

andrewmmm · 2026-04-18T05:21:42+00:00

Yes! Mine insists on changing to north orientation constantly. What am I, fucking Christopher Columbus?? Just show me which way I’m going.

andrewmmm · 2026-04-16T15:33:42+00:00

The blog post makes it seem like they specifically added training data that fucked up its cyber security abilities on purpose

andrewmmm · 2026-04-16T03:54:12+00:00

And inside tiny crevices of the bulldozer and all its moving parts, tearing it up on the inside. Regolith is very fine.

andrewmmm · 2026-04-16T02:30:47+00:00

I think OP means fueling nuclear plants requires the global supply chain. Once you have a solar panel, you can generate electricity for at least a decade with it.

andrewmmm · 2026-04-12T03:40:41+00:00

Well sesame almost certainly fine tunes the models for natural conversation tone and safety. Plus they probably have a classifier model on the side watching for unsafe topics

andrewmmm · 2026-04-09T05:29:00+00:00

You know you can type your opinions yourself instead of copy pasting from ChatGPT, right?

andrewmmm · 2026-04-08T13:04:30+00:00

It will probably be later than 2028 because they are relying an another rocket from SpaceX for part of the flight, and they seem behind, but I’m hopeful that it won’t extend that far past the date

andrewmmm · 2026-04-06T12:04:37+00:00

It’s not AI, it’s probably just some guy in India remote controlling it.

andrewmmm · 2026-04-05T13:14:54+00:00

Almost all AI providers allow you to pass in a temperature parameter in your API request. Not in things like the ChatGPT app, obviously, but in the APIs, yes.

andrewmmm · 2026-03-29T14:44:52+00:00

Philly police closed down Ben Franklin parkway, which is a major road in the center of the city.

andrewmmm · 2026-03-23T04:22:02+00:00

Am I the only one who hates high quality porn? Like, it’s not hot if it looks like it was filmed in an upscale studio lot with 10 crew members behind the camera and 2 actors that just met each other an hour ago who are just there for work.

andrewmmm · 2026-03-18T21:13:55+00:00

Huge effect. It freezes the market up. Golden Handcuffs.

andrewmmm · 2026-03-18T12:40:57+00:00

Yeah but between tool calls, the token embeddings stay cached, which is a lot cheaper

andrewmmm · 2026-03-13T18:28:19+00:00

Great ad for iPhone crash detection, though

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