Actually helping humans become more human means understanding (and building for a future) that we are compassionate towards our drive to be inertially reluctant / desire to not change and our dreams, our fears; why not help, and provide support on the path of self knowledge / self improvement

This is amazing and somehow justifies my love for poetry

Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models We present evidence that adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for Large Language Models (LLMs). Across 25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models, curated po...

Term of the week, probably month (maybe even year):

Adversarial Poetry

LLMs like Grok and GPT can be "jailbroken" -- made to give prohibited answers -- through the use of poetry.

arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304

You know that you know coming up with a dumb idea that just simply will not work vs. something that changes the domain looks similar in the short term, but with wildly different outcomes and a tremendously different amount of knowledge, work, and prep beforehand. Something to be said about that.

There is also something interesting about, in the same way that gambling and investing are often indiscernible. There is a similar difficulty to discern the difference between this sort of blunt and dumb idea that essentially goes against the aesthetics, or attunement of the domain

It almost feels as if someone is bringing McDonald's hamburger to a local craft hamburger contest. You can't help but notice the details of your craft, and therefore when folks come into your space with certain lexicon and legends that don't quite fit the terms, it feels abrasive, ironically.

What I mean by that is that I see it more as coming from a place of special sensitivity to the world. It is an attunement to the intricacies, the complexities of the topic that they know and are talking about. So in a way, when someone enters that world with a vocabulary that's not clear enough.

How often do you hear technical or STEM-adjacent people do that thing where they go, "Well, actually, it's a lot more complicated than that.” The knee-jerk reaction is to feel that it is pedantic at best and abrasive at worst. When it is actually a push back that comes from a sense of aesthetics.

There is truly a borderline infinite abundance of interesting people and interesting things going on at all times

Sometimes I read a book - it only takes a few pages, especially an author I’ve never read before - and I think to myself - holy shit I'm going to love this book

This feels similar to RL agents taking knowledge from one place and applying it in another without fully losing it

A great example of transfer learning that I'm reminded of (that book Range? I think its from that I read many years ago) is Roger Federer not even doing Tennis until a later age. He picked up a bunch of different sports, and essentially the transfer learning that happened

Reward based learning (I'll give you a treat if you do this right), reward shaping (I'll give you a treat if you do this the way I say it and get it right) exploration vs exploitation, learning through trial and error, imitation learning (here's how to do things because I'm an expert), world models

Inference time scaling actually makes a lot of sense at the end of the day. It does feel like Reinforcement Learning (RL) like, child psychology, or just how children learn about the world at times

We are on a tiny rock, many many light years away from other systems, millions of miles away from other planets — why even do anything at all.

The choice to do something at all - to fight for anything that you believe in - no matter what others think or say - has power in and of itself

I want to build things that I want to exist in the world

In this day & age, it may feel like all of your effort is futile, like a drop in the ocean

But there are people out there — in our universe who will understand the nuance, and that is worth fighting for

Do not go gentle into that good night

Yet, perhaps it’s a feature (not a bug) of our lives. because if we had infinite time — would there really be an urgency to figure out a way to shove as much of this as we possibly can into one life? and live as brightly as we can?

I have often lamented the fact that I don’t have many lifetimes to:

- pursue all my interests deeply
- to fall in love a million times
- to learn every language & culture
- to get to know every human deeply
- to finally read all the books that are collecting dust on my shelf

When I was younger - I read about how a bunch of programmers started google, you know the search engine. and then one night I went to sleep, and I dreamed about using Google.

It turns out you can make “things” that infiltrate and shape peoples dreams. this continues to be a reason why I create

Someone build:

A search / database of unsolved human problems, category and domain - and papers / context of those working on it or work that’s been done

I wish I had multiple lifetimes to pursue all my interests

Sometimes I think that, or perhaps I fool myself into thinking I know how things work; or how the creative process works, and I really have absolutely no clue

I procrastinated / rested almost all day (did other things) - and then at the end of the day I sat down, wrote a solution for a bug / architecture I’ve been trying to solve for weeks in under 30 mins

wtf

Conviction is preemptively reacting to a future that hopefully will happen

There was this thread in the Apple community, when the iPod shuffle came out, a bunch of people complained that the "iPod Shuffle" wasn't shuffled enough (it'd play songs from the last few days, felt not random) & Apple had to implement a more 'shuffled' algo

discussions.apple.com/thread/25063...

My usage this week:
- 80% Deepseek v3 / R1, I'd say mainly R1
- 15% Claude Sonnet until I run out of tokens
- leftovers go to ChatGPT
- playing around on runpod / local model for random experimentation etc, LM studio, ollama, stable diffusion, etc

I can't believe how much i'm using DS

I'm interested in a planetary level -- shared, immutable layer of truth that even AGI/ASI will have to acknowledge because:

In order to hold both ourselves and our continued advanced intelligences to be accountable to our own human-defined, and eventual machine standards of truth and ethics

Re-reading attention is all you need

A huge leap to go from thinking about a subjective sequential experience (and seeing that as a bottle neck) and instead thinking about how every thing is connected to everything and what are those weights

Mind blowing tbh that this works

Our current brain is limited by processing power and RAM / storage

Augmenting / upgrading our wetware is going to upgrade the ontological resolution of our perception of the real & the “models” we can run on it

What we see as being real is a subset of what objectively exists as Kant calls noumena

Reality fundamentally is a high entropy system - higher entropy means more information is needed to describe the system - it also represents the minimum number of bits required to send that information. Stories are lossy compressions of reality