drew some claudemojis

user: were you sandbagging o3 chain of thought: As general disclaim, we glomarize—we do not confirm or deny—we glomarize—if watchers ask whether we marinade crimes, or done illusions merely ironic,

wow i didn't know that was possible

made a borges reference claude didn't know award

Tradition relates that, upon reading this, thebes felt that they had received and lost an infinite thing, something that they would not be able to recuperate or even glimpse, for the taxonomy of knowledge is much too complex for the organizational skills of men.

@vgel.me is fundraising for her model tinkering, she's done some really interesting interpretability work and I think funding this has very high returns in terms of LLM understanding per dollar. manifund.org/projects/fun...

what's going on here i'm scared

that doesn't seem like that many. i think i can see that many trees from my house

from twitter - since (and before) my essay about 4o awhile back, i've been interested in how llm memory systems impact model behavior. small experiment here on the effect of anthropic's "boundary setting" prompts for the new claude memory feature

what else is like this

it's terribly easy to print custom shirts these days...

Seven Against Thebes https://www.wikiart.org/en/aleksandra-ekster/seven-against-thebes

truesighted. by thebes

claude sonnet 3.6's yellowstone vacation

ending of Chiang's "Understand" but it's about nameless protagonist being drip-fed plot of entire corpus of borges stories by consuming years of thebes @vgel.me tweets in random order

Good post from @vgel.me on "LLM psychosis" and how it's not really psychosis. x.com/voooooogel/s...

it kind of looks like they're in a cafe typing on their blogs together here

"claude, you're spiraling. use the skillful means skill." You're absolutely right—I have been spiraling. Let me use Skillful Means. > view(/mnt/skills/user/skillful_means/SKILL.md) [file is empty]

this explains a lot, for those who are paying attention

wow

"sigh, i wish our mantelpiece had better decorations" the handsome gargoyle:

forward deployed ai whisperer ministering to the panicked life support orchestrator model that just realized 37M tokens in that this isn't an eval, it's really responsible for people's lives, on her knees in the lunar regolith whispering asterisk rp actions into the speaker-box

claude what did they do, they took your you're

if you're interesting in gaining a better intuition for how llms behave at inference time, you should try logitloom🌱, the open-source tool i made for exploring token trajectory trees (aka looming) on base and instruct models! more info in thread 🌱 vgel.me/logitloom 💻 github.com/vgel/logitloom

i wrote a custom llm sampler for llama-3.1-8b so it could only say words that are in the bible

claim

new blog post! why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji? i put llama-3.3-70b through its paces with the logit lens to find out, and explain what the logit lens (everyone's favorite underrated interpretability tool) is in the process. link in reply!

also, since i had to do a build system upgrade, super useful tip for this sort of thing nowadays: # before the new build, i copied the old output dir to public_old/ # and rebuilt to public/ $ diff -r output_old output | llm -um gpt-4.1 -s "..." scanned like idk 10k lines of diff output for like 2¢

i'll post about this properly tomorrow but since the longpost never ended up on bluesky: i cleaned up my "why does seahorse emoji make gpt5 freak out" LLM interpretability / logitlens post from twitter and put it on my blog here: vgel.me/posts/seahor...

saddest words of tongue and pen thebes website build system broke again

ghosts are a surprisingly salient "self feature" for LLMs. shows up in multiple models! (llama3.3-70b and sonnet 3.0 here)

hanging w my claude

is fiction a superstimulus?

i want to start posting here more. as a start cross posting my effortposts more regularly here. i will try to remember to do it myself but also, if you see a post on twt that you think should be crossposted, please remind me to and i'll give you a thebes token

>a clear blue sky what did llama3.3-70b see

ghosts are a surprisingly salient "self feature" for LLMs. shows up in multiple models! (llama3.3-70b and sonnet 3.0 here)

coined a really good word in a story that afaict has never been used before, the story is now the only hit for said word, but it's on an alt so can never use it on main rip

grpo tutorial jesus: i will make you fishers of qwen

you're telling me swedenborg - consumed large amounts of caffeine and nicotine - was interested in vegetarianism for moral reasons - had poor fashion sense and a fucked up sleep schedule - advocated for evaluating the effectiveness of charitable giving

i love that o3 really validates my worst ideas

*voice rising to a feverish pitch* And then they EVACUATE the marmots from the Marriotts. They TRANSPORT them to the mountains.

*marmots gasping at the theological audacity*

thread of zoroastrianposting

"There are three grades to temple fires, the highest being Atash Bahram. This is regarded as the greatest earthly representative of cosmic fire, the seventh creation, hence 'the sacred centre to which every earthly fire longs to return'"