swag prince

they’re calling him ‘the terry tao of typescript’

[swag prince @HashtagGotSwag]

@MMASchopenhauer @PolitlcsUK it’s compassionate leave for mothers who experience stillbirth. it’s really not that deep if you have any emotional intelligence whatsoever - which, in all fairness, might be asking a lot from the guy who thinks grieving a dead baby is a ‘lifestyle’ choice

[swag prince @HashtagGotSwag]

@MMASchopenhauer @PolitlcsUK the best bit about you being an unfathomably reddit econ LARPer with zero self awareness is that i largely agree with your politics - ur just too lost in the sauce to know when to turn off the shtick and pick your battles.

type shit i commented on lesswrong when i was 14 😭😭

[swag prince @HashtagGotSwag]

@MMASchopenhauer @PolitlcsUK we’re either reading a different set of policy proposals or ur approaching terminal levels of maidenless autism. pick your battles lil bro 😭😭 if you can’t concede on compassionate leave for stillbirth then idk what to tell you lmfao

[swag prince @HashtagGotSwag]

@MMASchopenhauer @PolitlcsUK procreation isn’t a lifestyle, retard, it’s a human imperative. women have a physical, emotional, and financial burden that you couldn’t begin to relate with. if you have any respect for your own mother you should feel a duty to level that playing field however you can

[swag prince @HashtagGotSwag]

@MathewHulbert the uk? liberal? in 2026?

[swag prince @HashtagGotSwag]

if you're ever in doubt about how unfathomably retarded the average (and above average) person really is, just remember that the old "child safety" moral panic chestnut still works in 2026. the median brit *supports* curtailed freedoms. they live among you. they can vote.

[GoalMouth @GooalMouth]

If you're an adult raging on X about the ban on social media for under-16 kids, then you need your hard drive checked.

[swag prince @HashtagGotSwag]

@uncreativetom good point, you *do* have he/him and an eu flag in bio after all. let's make it 25. or perhaps mental age, gauged by political ideology?

[swag prince @HashtagGotSwag]

@Keir_Starmer just log off bro it's done

[swag prince @HashtagGotSwag]

@socraticwealth1 @Lawrinho ???

are you asking me about conscription?

yes.

[swag prince @HashtagGotSwag]

@kevinhollinrake crazy how chairmen of major political parties will be absolutely *CLUELESS* about a topic, but post about it like they're an authority anyways

lil bro said the TRAIN index 😭😭 some rando scorecard from 2023 that measures 'rules' as one of its 4 key metrics 😭😭 give me strength

[roon @tszzl]

it’s starting to feel like end of evangelion again

[swag prince @HashtagGotSwag]

@Techniacus @tszzl it’s sublime

[swag prince @HashtagGotSwag]

@AnthropicAI @t_blom you simply cannot outmanoeuvre him 🥶

[swag prince @HashtagGotSwag]

@ednewtonrex ed, i’m curious, what part of this objectively good advice makes you believe that the bot isn’t working as intended? should tinpot keir and the ministry of truth have forced the llm to give bad advice to save face or something?

[Taelin @VictorTaelin]

this is my personal singularity moment

this post may sound like a paid ad. I only wish. I'm concerned, more so than happy. the world is changing, and, among the scenarios where AI goes terribly wrong, inequality is the most realistic, yet, the one Anthropic seems to be the least concerned about. I'm glad OpenAI is taking the opposite stance: *personal AGI for everyone*. I think this is a commendable position in the times we live. but who am I in the queue of the bread?

anyway, Fable is here, so I'll just report my first-hour experience

first of all, all my pet prompts are solved.
→ λ-calculus puzzles
→ bug questions
→ one-shot apps
all are trivial to it.

I don't have anything harder other than my
ongoing work

so, in the last several days, I've been toying with HVM5, a new interaction net evaluator with a faster loop.

after writing the first version, I left 32 GPT-5 agents working for ~20 hours each. this resulted in up to 2x speedups, but the file size increased by 2-fold and quality decreased significantly.

I then simplified the whole thing into an even simpler core, and left Opus 4.8 and GPT 5.5 optimizing it for 8 hours. Opus got a legit 6% - 34% speedup in most benches. GPT got better results, but, sadly, an unusable file.

I then asked Fable to optimize it.

2 hours later, it landed a 1770% speedup in one case, 100%+ in other 4, and 22% in average. yes, in 2 hours it outperformed me, opus 4.8 and a swarm of gpt 5.5 agents, by one order of magnitude.

that could not possibly be legit. "it must be hardcoding the benchmarks" (GPT trauma). so I read its explanation and what it did was, indeed, the most high impact optimization one could try first. seems like HVM5 was wasting a lot of time garbage-collecting unused branches of pattern-match nodes. I had optimized that for static mats, but not for dynamic mats. skill issue. Fable figured how to do it for these, resulting in a massive speedup in some benches

but wait, is that *correct*? I'm not sure yet, it is credible, but this is the kind of thing that is very easy to get wrong on interaction nets. the problem is, when I was ready to start auditing Fable's solution so I could tell whether it was buggy or legit, it interrupted me to tell me it had found a massive bug on the code *I* had written.

... wait, what?

so... for garbage collection purposes, I stored a bit on lambda term pointers that meant "the variable bound by this lambda has been freed, so, its lambda must free whatever argument it is applied to". that's fine. yet, on duplicator nodes, I also used the same bit to mean "one of the duplicated variables was freed, so, treat this dup as a passthrough no-op". so, if a lambda entered a duplicator, it would mistake the lambda's collection bit for its own, resulting in corrupted interaction!

that's a mouthful, why I'm writing this?

just so you can appreciate the sheer absurdity of what just happened. I didn't ask it to find bugs. I asked it for an optimization. and even if I did ask it to find bugs, this bug is so astonishingly subtle and specific, identifying it takes mastering the domain to an extent that it beyond even me. I'd easily need hours or days to fix it, *if* I ever came across it. chances are it would just go unnoticed. and Fable found it and fixed it like it was nothing, while it was busy adding a 17x speedup to a file that neither I, nor Opus 4.8, nor a fleet of GPT 5.5 managed to barely make 2x faster.

oh and there is also another tab where it is also ripping through Bend's codebase and finishing everything I had to do

I don't know what to say anymore

this isn't about Anthropic or OpenAI, this is about our collective future as a species. the world is changing, and we need to be aware of it, and discuss how to handle this change.

receipt below . . .

[swag prince @HashtagGotSwag]

@oskargroth @fabrohl ?? completely different products for completely different users. this will be a step change in perceived ai capability for millions of people

[swag prince @HashtagGotSwag]

@ednewtonrex “i don’t want my kids taught by omniscient superintelligence, i want them taught by fatima, 22, second-class sociology degree holder from de montford university instead”

[swag prince @HashtagGotSwag]

@vxunderground bro, the average nhs employee cannot read. 365 copilot is the correct tool for the job.

[Signal @signalapp]

Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all.

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