I was skeptical of this "poetry jailbreaks LLMs" story. And yet, here is Gemini helping me take ducks home from the park.

Make product worse, get money dynomight.net/worse/

Totally non-dystopian conversation: "...So for other users, I spent a few hours helping [LLM] understand why it was wrong about tariffs." "Noooo! That does not work." "Relax, it thanked me and stated it was changing its answer." "It's lying!" "No, it just confirmed that it's not lying."

Thoughts: 1. Very good. 2. Better than Magnolia / Punch-Drunk Love / Inherent Vice. 3. But not quite as good as Hard Eight / Boogie Nights / There Will Be Blood / Phantom Thread. 4. Still don't understand The Master.

how many of these have been made

why does everyone who posts here a lot eventually converge to some kind of incomprehensible glitterspeak

Who among us doesn't find themselves sometimes saying, "This experience has taught me the true wretchedness of mankind. But I'm totally fine!"?

The correct ranking of previous PTA films is Hard Eight Licorice Pizza Phantom Thread Boogie Nights There Will Be Blood Punch-Drunk Love Inherent Vice The Master Magnolia (I definitely see how such rankings would be contentious...) bsky.app/profile/econ...

Me: Here's an argument, though I'm worried that it's so obviously correct that there's no value in saying it out loud. Everyone: HAHAHAHAHA news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4545...

Futarchy's fundamental flaw — the market — the blog post dynomight.net/futarchy-mar...

So you think you can heritable? dynomight.net/heritable/

My popular (?) demand, my fixed NumPy now exists as "real" (ish) package. If you use UV, you can try it by typing this one-liner: uv run --with dumpy-numpy --with ipython ipython pypi.org/project/dump... dynomight.net/dumpy/

Had a dream where I was at some kind of blogger event and people were giving each other feedback. Freddie deBoer was assigned to me and he said, "The main thing about your blog is that it is very very very bad."

This is what I used to think, but sum-utilitarians have strong counter-arguments that all other aggregation functions run into problems that are at least as bad. I'm now pretty convinced that there's no function that doesn't lead to substantial weirdness. plato.stanford.edu/entries/repu...

seed oil theorists would love this amirite

New colors without shooting lasers into your eyes dynomight.net/colors/

This is amazing bsky.app/profile/mick...

My 9-week unprocessed food self-experiment dynomight.net/unprocessed-...

zoomers

Links for July dynomight.net/links-3/ eyes, money, nepotism, links, scribbles, futarchy, war and peace, yams

Do blue-blocking glasses improve sleep? dynomight.net/blue-light/

This is a very thoughtful rebuttal. (And extremely well-written!) Recommended. caseymilkweed.substack.com/p/response-t...

Does anyone have some spare Manifold Mana they'd like to donate to increase the liquidity subsidy for this market? manifold.markets/BoltonBailey...

Scribble-based forecasting and AI 2027 dynomight.net/scribbles/

I genuinely think this is the most useful browser extension after μΒlock Origin. (1 review?) addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo...

Well well, well, what do we have here? manifold.markets/BoltonBailey...

new meta for yam reproduction

The AI safety problem is wanting dynomight.net/wanting/

Thoughts on the AI 2027 discourse dynomight.net/ai2027

AI alignment folks: Is there a consensus on the relative difficulty/importance of: (1) Making AI understand human values (2) Making AI care about human values (3) Making AI succeed at what it tries to do (Or... is there a consensus that this is the wrong way to think about it?)

Moral puzzles: Man vs. machine dynomight.net/puzzles-resu...

Please take my weird moral puzzles quiz dynomight.net/puzzles

Seems about right.

Futarky's fundamental flaw dynomight.net/futarky

lots of books featuring sugar alcohols

Optimizing tea: An N=4 experiment dynomight.net/tea/

My advice on (internet) writing, for what it's worth dynomight.net/writing-advi...

I finally got one of these, the most uncool of all home automation products. It's... really good. I think I'd prefer one that worked with whistles.

I'm genuinely surprised more "creators" don't encourage people to switch. To a first approximation, all social media other than bluesky and mastodon will not let you post links. Mastodon is hard to use. So I think Bluesky is more or less the only viable "normie RSS feed"?

DumPy: Like NumPy except it's OK if you're dum dynomight.net/dumpy/

The Heat Mirage: My least-favorite internet maneuver dynomight.net/heat/

I don't like NumPy dynomight.net/numpy/

How to title your blog post or whatever dynomight.net/titles/

I recommend this article, in which I teach information theory+molecular biology from scratch, argue that existing definitions don't capture the intuitive idea of "information", propose a new definition that does, and argue it lies outside the current human knowledge frontier. dynomight.net/dna

A while back, I installed this little "mistakes" box on my website where people can submit anything, without registration. Results so far: 35% — "test" 25% — "goofy joke hehehe" 30% — helpful typos 10% — seemingly earnest suggestions I can't understand 0% — insults/death threats

So much blood dynomight.net/blood

Thirteen years ago today, I donated a kidney to a stranger, starting a chain w/ 6 recipients. It felt like a great deal: with modest risks, I could give someone many more years of healthy life. Looking back, I'm glad I did it, but I understated both the risks and the benefits. 🧵

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