astonn.hl

chasing Mr. Market

[astonn.hl @fourx3DD]

@enzo_gte thank you for burning $1000+ to bring us this tweet 🫡

[astonn.hl @fourx3DD]

insert spacex = trump coin take here

[astonn.hl @fourx3DD]

@jords I think whats different is that this time we are in the thick of a new technological revolution that's likely to be followed be another technological revolution (robotics) in short succession

would make sense for money to continue flowing in those directions for the next decade

[astonn.hl @fourx3DD]

@Evan_ss6 one of the best calls of the decade tbh

[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 . . .

[astonn.hl @fourx3DD]

@MoonOverlord i wanna win tell me how

[astonn.hl @fourx3DD]

thankful that I have hobbies and interests outside of crypto bc holy shit is this a boring bear market

[logjam @_logjam]

Lots of people capitulating on crypto

I could be hilariously wrong, but really? you’re capitulating here?

Isn’t this the time where the asymmetric upside actually exists?

Isn’t this the time and place where we are supposed to be positioning?

Feels like the real challenge is identifying where tops are being formed, this seems like the bottom or close at least

Market psychology is ass backwards

feel free to tell me otherwise

[astonn.hl @fourx3DD]

@enzo_gte I'm curious to see what you guys cook up for GTE's tokenomics. seeing you tweet this makes me optimistic

[astonn.hl @fourx3DD]

@sqalef peak times

[Sqalef @sqalef]

ct had way more alpha when it was like

mewny
huss
nbs
conzimp (ansem pre solana)
tetranode
gainzy casino arc
jordi
degenspartan
hsaka
hedgedhog
awawat
hentai avenger pre scam
loomlock pre scam
gcr
wice pre thailand

[astonn.hl @fourx3DD]

@onchainsorcerer underrated tweet

[astonn.hl @fourx3DD]

Hunter Biden just shilled Hyperliquid. Hilarious times we live in

[astonn.hl @fourx3DD]

btw i cant believe the knicks won last night they really might take the whole thing

[astonn.hl @fourx3DD]

i think we might have bottomed out on BTC for a little hwile

[astonn.hl @fourx3DD]

@punter_punts yeah that cahrt looks amazing

[enzo @enzo_gte]

We are hiring for another designer to join our team at @GTE_XYZ.

We are looking for people who are based out of NYC. In-person in our office in SoHo. 6 days a week.

Any experience level, only requirement is you must be extremely AI-native.

If this is you, DM me.

[astonn.hl @fourx3DD]

@enzo_gte when's the launch??

[astonn.hl @fourx3DD]

there's only one trade in crypto right now. sure it's a bear market but that sounds like easy mode to me. $hype flirts with $100 this summer