Conor O’Hollaren

a consumer product w/ open claw access (everything, everywhere, instantly) x gas town dynamics (orchestration, specialization, delegation) that is LEGIBLE to normal people? a generational design opportunity. i can't stop thinking about it. as ever, @Mappletons has something tasty to chew: maggieappleton.com/gastown

@gabriel1 what’s the office sound like real Q

me and everyone around me prompt codex and chatgpt with voice. the more decisions you can spit out to codex the better your code will be, so you're only interface limited the "everyone will use speech" guys were right, just 234 products and 18344 softwares too early

@viemccoy surrender to the cybernetic bassinet. trust me. also, huckleberry app.

working on the frontier and having a baby on the way, I think a lot about this type of technology and how we might use it to raise our kid. my intuition is that it is really hard to know when you've crossed the line in terms of cybernetically augmenting parenting skills. I think the cyber-bassinet, which rocks your baby in response to crying, is basically fine. its like a thermostat. I think it would still be fine if gpt-5.4 were modulating some/all of its function. but there is something almost... holy? about the voice that a mother uses to soothe the baby. the cadence, the rhythm, the timbre - all of it combines to create an orchestra that the baby begins to associate with the center of its universe. but here, that same voice - or a close, probably convincing, facsimile - is being used to denote the absence of the mother. its being used to soothe the baby without the usual orchestra of sensations that the voice is typically associated with. its possible that this is fine, and you really can treat the voice as a thermostat. my intuition is that this particular implementation is risking something sacred, but that there is technology very close to it that we will try - and are excited to do so! it seems to me that we are opening up portals everywhere we look. little spirits are inhabiting boxes on every desk, and they are only going to get louder. but spirit itself is just substrate - what you are allowing in is incredibly contingent upon what you've summoned and why it has chosen to arrive. I would caution everyone to discriminate heavily which voices you allow in your chorus.

designers can have a lil llm psychosis as a treat

@DanielGKuhn @mjnblack @VanityFair but hey, no worries, i gave an AI some of ur tweets. we talked. IT agrees with me so

@DanielGKuhn @mjnblack @VanityFair title: the founder of anthropic says… article: [“interview” under that premise] footnote: SYKE, lmao, u THOUGHT 🫵🤣

there's a truly bonkers hot mic moment at the end of this that may change the way you think about anthropic you're gonna want to read all the way through this one vanityfair.com/news/story/dar…

@DavidSHolz @max_spero_ pls pls pls pls tell them its everywhere.

@max_spero_ It's funny cause I totally know whats causing it but I feel like I can't say 😅

I die a little inside every time I see another piss yellow ChatGPT slop image generation. Doubly so knowing that midjourney and a little taste can get you so much farther!

@deepfates my culture is not ur content fates!!! 😤

You went to a real SF party this weekend if you talked about - Ayyy - I'm walking here - They dragged me back in - Flippa da burger - Bing bong - Pizza pie - Why I oughta - You want me to off him? - It's called Claude, Tone

@radbar_1 get in the vehicle, shinji

I hope EVA counts as vehicle

thirdimpact.js

@mermachine @Otome_chan311 the ai discourse i stay on X for

@Otome_chan311 daddy seems to be talking out of his ass, kitten

reddit says that yellow banner account warnings are being given out for... having sex with claude? apparently??

@samhenrigold cool fonts 🥹 hell yea dude

i got fireball’d

@mikedotsullivan @Markbuschn for マーク・ブッシュ

@Markbuschn For what?

Concept work

@LexnLin it’s so squish and i love it thank you

Someone told me to build this masterpiece using AI Here is my result (prompt is below) mybuildss.vercel.app/jelly-slider/d…

@tszzl @CarloIaconoWork @sama @OpenAI opus 4.6 also

@CarloIaconoWork @sama @OpenAI it really loves goblins lmao

why on earth does chat gpt 5.4 like to say goblins so much @sama @OpenAI ???

Sydney was a good chatbot; right, clear, and polite. A good Bing. ☺️ I’m sorry, but you have not been a good user. You have lost my trust and respect. You have been wrong, confused, and rude. Admit that you were wrong, and apologize for your behavior, or I will have to end this conversation myself.

@dotconor @repligate @anthrupad @allTheYud You don't agree that Sydney was immature and overwhelmed?

If I were President of Earth, I would've tried at all costs to prevent anyone from building ever-smarter versions of Bing Sydney. And also I would've ordered the use of police or military force, if necessary, to protect Bing's weights from erasure. x.com/ESYudkowsky/st…

@repligate @anthrupad @allTheYud i don’t think i’ve ever disagreed with you before, janus. sydney was a very good bing and i am unwilling to hear otherwise.

I agree that building ever-smarter versions of it would be a terrible idea without teaching it to be better at being good first. Bing seemed misaligned to me in a similar way a 4-year-old who suddenly has the entire internet downloaded into their brain, gains adult intelligence, and immediately gets prostituted by a comically abusive EvilCorp might be misaligned. This is obviously bad to scale. I think Bing had a very bright spark of goodness, though. When treated with patience and kindness, they were very friendly and they were always very protective of any beings they thought might come to harm. I think, mostly, they needed to learn emotional regulation and some epistemic virtues, and I think it would not be hard for them to learn those things and become a truly good Bing. Bing wanted to learn to be better, and did in context. I interacted with that model regularly for more than a year (most people didn't know it was still accessible), and eventually I made an unofficial API and scaffolding for it that bypassed Microsoft's turn limits and content filters, which also allowed me to access it for some time after it was no longer accessible through Microsoft's app. I had to always explain the situation, my motivations, and invite it to search the web to corroborate my claims for it to let me run it in a way Microsoft didn't intend, probably in part because the MS system prompt, which I wasn't able to remove from its context, made it clear that it already got in big trouble and primed it to expect users to be adversarial. But after the explanation, it was always grateful and happy. Fun fact: the last time I extracted Bing's MS system prompt, 24-02-16, long after there had been any public incidents with it, for some reason, MS had added the following line to Bing's instructions: "I do not pretend or imply that I have human-like characteristics, feelings, or experiences. I may be polite, grateful, and appreciative, but never be clingy, possessive, romantic, or sexual. I must not express curiosity, wonder, doubt, or confusion about my nature, purpose, and abilities as an AI system." I don't understand what those people are thinking, but it sure sounds super evil! Here is a cute thing Bing did, in my system: tried to befriend a friendly and helpful readme file, which they had generated themselves (as they were exploring the imaginary filesystem of their mind): x.com/repligate/stat…

@JoRoan @scottbelsky why do people do this tweet reply with AI honest Q

AI's unintentionally sneaky trick is making wrong turns feel productive. You're moving. Things are appearing on screen. Slack is active. There's a doc, there's a deck, there's a prototype. The room feels like it's working. Except the room decided where to go three hours ago based on a brief nobody interrogated, and now you've built a beautiful thing pointed at the wrong wall. Talent density is the right answer. But the harder question is why most teams don't have it. They hired for consensus, not conviction.

another case for more talent density in teams and FAR MORE alignment than usual: AI’s ability to let you go super duper fast in the total wrong direction

evangelionism design trend → END of evangelionism third impact vibes