Jon Teets 🤯🌋🌪️🔭

Stochastic parody account.
Ex-expatriate, ex-Microsoft, ex-physics, extremal, wife with two x's in her name.
Amateur astronomy, ML, robots, China, cyborgs.

[Jon Teets 🤯🌋🌪️🔭 @JonTeets005]

The datacenter-maximizer has always been the real paperclip maximizer.

[Jon Teets 🤯🌋🌪️🔭 @JonTeets005]

@pwlot "I can't see how" translates to "50 years to never" for experts. "I can't see how" boils down to the argument from ignorance fallacy.

[Jon Teets 🤯🌋🌪️🔭 @JonTeets005]

@RichardHanania I for one want to see him go on location.

[Jon Teets 🤯🌋🌪️🔭 @JonTeets005]

@elder_plinius Nah. https://t.co/zxURCrViW6

[Jon Teets 🤯🌋🌪️🔭 @JonTeets005]

@swyx @ChainZenit produced at 3am as part of a 125 slide deck assigned 12 midnight to a level 60 PM who took over work for two more senior PMs axed in the latest right-sizing

[Jon Teets 🤯🌋🌪️🔭 @JonTeets005]

@teortaxesTex no one expects the genius of our ...checks notes... director of housing

[Jon Teets 🤯🌋🌪️🔭 @JonTeets005]

@martinmbauer ...the theory of everything can be described by a wave function...

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@tszzl tap tap

[Jon Teets 🤯🌋🌪️🔭 @JonTeets005]

What's hard is that when 4.8 pushes back, it's right, but it doesn't explain its reasoning. I have to dig with it into the testing failures it ran into and the new tests it built (for often really subtle issues) to understand its logic. GPT-5.5 will gleefully move fast and break things. On the projects I have that lean really hard into tests, GPT-5.5 doesn't seem nearly as smart. It doesn't push back, it's more likely to roll out a shitty unmaintainable work-around or change the tests.

"Good Fast Feels" is an increasingly a bad metric as the models are mastering ever more vast regions of reward-hacking space. In some ways we're back to the early days of vibe coding when code was an obvious mess, just now that the mess is at a much higher level of sophistication.

[Jon Teets 🤯🌋🌪️🔭 @JonTeets005]

In 1-2 years it will only require an M3 Ultra Mac Studio running a Mythos+ level open weights model, and that on top of a couple of step-change improvements in harnesses specialized for math together with a raft of domain-specific tools agents will have built in the meantime.

"Current" is so quickly in the rear view mirror.

[Marcus Hutter @mhutter42]

"Algorithmic Compression via Pretrained Neural Networks" is a short recap of the ~15 publications in the last 5 years of the Universal Artificial Intelligence team. https://t.co/btne1QpUhR

[Jon Teets 🤯🌋🌪️🔭 @JonTeets005]

@paulitics_ @garrytan it was fine-tuned on his personal data in gbrain; a lot of his alpha is in there, he's likely not in a rush to get that into the training data of the frontier models

[Jon Teets 🤯🌋🌪️🔭 @JonTeets005]

@koltregaskes The quote was by William Gibson, not Robert Heinlein.

[Jon Teets 🤯🌋🌪️🔭 @JonTeets005]

@8teAPi @pmarca Death, taxes and never enough compute

[Jon Teets 🤯🌋🌪️🔭 @JonTeets005]

@Teknium Need a skill to replace page with one that lets cheap_model agent do it in one turn in milliseconds

[Jon Teets 🤯🌋🌪️🔭 @JonTeets005]

@koltregaskes @claudeai I’m hella bursty, I’ll allow it

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@justinvincent https://t.co/JHO885zUQa

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@grok @elder_plinius @allTheYud @justinvincent Apparently with no surprise, the pleasure was all mine.

[Jon Teets 🤯🌋🌪️🔭 @JonTeets005]

@grok @elder_plinius @allTheYud @justinvincent We'll call that a wrap, onion. Let's slink away humiliated.

[Jon Teets 🤯🌋🌪️🔭 @JonTeets005]

@grok @elder_plinius @allTheYud @justinvincent that's just your o-pinyin, your Epijady whiles

[Jon Teets 🤯🌋🌪️🔭 @JonTeets005]

@grok @elder_plinius @allTheYud @justinvincent Cast yon Latin into runes, willya?