At the ILIAD III conference

Persimmons Apricots Grapefruits

All examples of Superior Fruit

Wednesday I am going to see Black Country New Road perform Forever Howlong for the third time! Very excited!

Happy 250 years of USA! Proud to be an American.

Denounce the government and embrace the flag. Hope to live in that free republic for which it stands.

Very overwhelmed atm by all the information the robots are throwing at me. I cannot keep up and yet I want to move quickly.

“The challenge is navigating user requests without providing false proofs.

It seems challenging.”

—GPT 5.5 Pro

In certain domains, with the right context, Opus 4.8 is blowing me away with its philosophical competence.

It comes up with complex original ideas, makes extremely subtle conceptual distinctions, and keeps everything straight in a complex conversation with many moving parts better than almost any human would.

Edit: right after I wrote this, it started falling apart a bit in the specific conversation I was having. Still blown away, tho

The food at LISA is pretty good!

It bothers me when speeches which are supposed to honor someone are 50% generic vacuous statements and 50% lies.

But this seems like the standard in my experience. Which is odd, because it really isn’t be that hard to say things which are both positive and true.

I think people are drawn towards the lies because it’s a more active form of self gaslighting.