Chelsea Sierra Voss

I shared about parts of this earlier this year, but in light of New York’s S7263 and New Hampshire’s SB640, among other bills, I wanted to drive the point home. Doctors failed me very badly here, and ChatGPT was a godsend.

We've entered into an agreement to join OpenAI as part of the Codex team. I'm incredibly proud of the work we've done so far, incredibly grateful to everyone that's supported us, and incredibly excited to keep building tools that make programming feel different.

I got to speak with @markchen90 and @willdepue about this challenge, and who they're looking to recruit from it. 👇

go try openai parameter golf! presented by two favorites

Are you up for a challenge? openai.com/parameter-golf

July 22, 2025. Day 1 of people discovering “Voss” is the stereotypical AI sci-fi last name. Finally, objective proof that my last name is excellent! Hahaha! Yes! Yeah! March 18, 2026. Day 239 of “Voss” being the stereotypical AI sci-fi last name. I am sent TikToks with slop plotlines revolving around the surname’s “rareness.” I slowly realize, with dawning horror, that the algorithms of the future will refuse to believe I’m not a bot. Is it karma? The feed will derank me. In the 2030s, my personhood credit score under Reformed Neo-Worldcoinism will tank. In the 2040s, the Pangram Labs Pan-Galactic Dyson Swarm will flag not just my own words, but any text mentioning me (or any of my ancestors) as nonhuman, dooming even those who knew me to be forgotten, until the 2050s, when anyone still in possession of the forbidden memories of the word “delve,” the word “tapestry,” or my name will find their uploaded em is mysteriously banned from logging in to the newly-upgraded (4D VR) X HyperSpaces (by HyperSpaceX). Before long, even this tweet will vanish into the oblivion of time— —I see you’re trying to read a story about a person named Voss. If you want, I can swap in a surname that scores as more genuinely human for improved narrative credibility. Should we do that next?

to counterargue against Max’s silicon analogy from this other post, it’s as if we lived in a world where people are specifically eating expensive silicon wafers for breakfast, yet choose to go around asking each other “what semiconductors have you tried?”, as if picking up any random old sand off the ground would offer a reasonable culinary experience (it wouldn’t!) especially when plenty of peptides should not be eaten! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conotoxin

one last thing: the key problem with "peptides" is the speaker usually believes there is some class relevance to its members. it's only a tiny bit more specific than saying "drugs".

@nickcammarata @PabloPeniche he needs you

anthropic please fix your awful ios transcription my workflow rn while walking is is talking to chatgpt for its whisper model and copying and pasting to claude and i want to be freed from this

A 👏 PEPTIDE 👏 IS 👏 JUST 👏 A 👏 SMALL 👏 PROTEIN

@MartinShkreli your point about the movie list reminded me of the tweet story about a zoomer girl telling her friend, “no! we don’t ask AI for things we WANT to do”

this commentary comes off as in bad faith you’re well within your rights to be miffed that some rando with a n-of-1 experiment saved his dog (regardless for how long) instead of genuflecting to academics every step of the way (understandable if you yourself have played by the rules for years!) but why pretend that right-to-try regulations don’t exist, or sidestep the point that this is exciting to people precisely because many now feel empowered to create their own anti-cancer vaccines?

sorry buddy. I know your child is dying of cancer and there’s nothing technically stopping you from spending 100k to make an n=1 experimental vaccine to give him more time but have you thought about safety and efficacy and the ramifications on the healthcare system if everyone were to take matters into their own hands

happy birthday gpt-4

Happy birthday, GPT-4 You were the spark that started it all

We're entering the phase of AI politics where society will intensely debate whether it is a good idea to build AI at all. Builders need to make the case. The way I see it, AI is our best chance to defeat hunger, want, death, and war. It's a moral imperative to try.

@viemccoy you got this!!

I must admit that being in the hospital had me dooming slightly, they don't have any mechanism to get fresh air at this one without being discharged and it (along with my reasons for being admitted) was really getting to me. But today, I woke up feeling a bit better. And more hopeful. I can feel the future I'm working so hard to get us to pulling me back on track, which means getting my health sorted, which means taking time off. It's very counterintuitive to me, but it is necessary. I haven't seriously taken a break in years, and this is a bit forced upon me, but long overdo. Everything we do is one thing and all parts of it matter. Remember to take care of yourself :)

5.4 is really special.

GPT-5.4 Pro solves the first of the FrontierMath Open Problems! Two days ago, I sent @AcerFur a potential solution to this problem and was sent to @GregHBurnham for verification (prior to any other solution). We are confident it's correct and waiting to hear from the author!