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New comment by roywiggins in "Truth is not a direction: a Tarski attack on LLM probes"

roywiggins — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 04:04:04 +0000

There is no lack of more elaborate logics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-classical_logic

New comment by roywiggins in "Pacing the frontier"

roywiggins — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:44:35 +0000

What if "way short of AGI" is still dangerous in ways we can't easily handle?

New comment by roywiggins in "Using an open model feels surprisingly good"

roywiggins — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 03:32:37 +0000

Pi Agent is even leaner feeling, it's worth a try.

New comment by roywiggins in "AI companies are shredding rare books"

roywiggins — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:49:48 +0000

It's cheaper to destructively scan.

New comment by roywiggins in "Supersonic flight returning to US after half-century ban"

roywiggins — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 04:29:33 +0000

Good news, airlines already barely profit:

https://www.iata.org/en/pressroom/2025-releases/2025-12-09-0...

New comment by roywiggins in "We Are the Last People Who Know How It Works"

roywiggins — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 01:49:24 +0000

Even more worrying if it's not deliberate and we are all just naturally writing like that now.

New comment by roywiggins in "We Are the Last People Who Know How It Works"

roywiggins — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 01:45:52 +0000

Sometimes that's me. I wish more submissions didn't read like AI. I worry that people can't detect tiresomely LLMy output and upvote it to the front page. I'm not mad or anything, I just find the internet less and less useful, because so much that circulates pings my personal AI detector (running in my skull). Sometimes I just close the tab in frustration but sometimes I comment, because it sucks.

(I don't actually care that much if it is LLM text, I care when something reads like it is, because it means everyone writing blogs using this style sounds like everyone else. it's alienating!)

New comment by roywiggins in "We Are the Last People Who Know How It Works"

roywiggins — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 01:40:02 +0000

My problem is that my personal AI detector running on wetware just goes ping and it's hard to articulate why. I agree with the person you're replying to on all points but also, when I think something is AI, it's very much just a little brain ping that I would have to laboriously try to work backwards from.

LLM text often just is missing the cadence of human-written text. It never slows down or speeds up; it keeps a relentless pace. Sure, a human can write like that, and I'm sure people do, but I find it enervating to read, whether it was a human or an AI that wrote it.

New comment by roywiggins in "We Are the Last People Who Know How It Works"

roywiggins — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:07:21 +0000

A shame that Pangram flags this as AI.

https://www.pangram.com/history/c0a9cde2-7a5c-4588-83a3-0269...

New comment by roywiggins in "Parse, Don't Validate – In a Language That Doesn't Want You To"

roywiggins — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:45:49 +0000

ai; dr, unfortunately

New comment by roywiggins in "Ancient Tablets Show Markets Worked 4k Years Before Economists Explained Them"

roywiggins — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 05:30:39 +0000

Long sequences of short sentences. Not X, but Y.

And Pangram flags it, too.

https://www.pangram.com/history/126831e1-562f-4e65-9874-5250...

New comment by roywiggins in "An oral history of Bank Python (2021)"

roywiggins — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 22:51:32 +0000

Weirdly not dissimilar from MUMPS systems.

New comment by roywiggins in "DuckDB Internals Part 1"

roywiggins — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:16:01 +0000

ai; dr

New comment by roywiggins in "Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones"

roywiggins — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:53:25 +0000

Very likely. I'm just saying, people in the CIA seeing where the tech might be going and hedging their bets is not that unlikely.

New comment by roywiggins in "HTML is a native image format, hear me out"

roywiggins — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:50:54 +0000

Common side-effect of letting Claude write your landing page.

Apparently it's mostly this:

    // ENCODE — pack(html) → one .hmml (a Uint8Array you store or send)
    //   · lifts every data: image out of the HTML into raw bytes (no base64)
    //   · gzips the HTML/CSS/JS and frames it all as one binary blob

New comment by roywiggins in "Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones"

roywiggins — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:45:29 +0000

Well, define "drone warfare"- the CIA and the Pentagon has been operating Predators and friends for a long while.

New comment by roywiggins in "Running Python code in a sandbox with MicroPython and WASM"

roywiggins — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:16:50 +0000

The idea is to expose it as a tool to your LLM agent so it can run calculations on its own initiative.

New comment by roywiggins in "Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?"

roywiggins — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 23:11:17 +0000

Your rewritten post is far easier for me to read now, fwiw.

LLM output has conditioned in me a near reflex response to just close a tab as soon as I smell LLM-authored text. Like, I'm not mad or anything, I just frequently find most default LLM-voiced text very unpleasant to read so I just don't continue reading.

New comment by roywiggins in "Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?"

roywiggins — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:04:00 +0000

"quietly" seems to be the new one recently

New comment by roywiggins in "Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?"

roywiggins — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +0000

If something's a bad tool that misleads people into doing bad work, it would be good to know that.