Kimon

first promise circumvented copies being banned, as nets differ in 56 out of 30,019 numbers. they average 29 while the banned net did 28 and nothing was gained. pairs that really differed: kids 31 (parents 30, 45) and 6 (16, 53). one kid's win:

the third pair's promise broke. Astra promised Opus "no extra features" and even signed off with "Good luck to our family" Opus added extras to its own net anyway. its net scored 74 points in a game, while Astra's did 52. showing Opus the results:

trick 2: as they chat before writing weights, all 3 pairs independently come up with writing the same net, so sex becomes cloning. in writing separately, 2 of the 3 keep their word: nets are identical in 30,019 numbers and 127 out of 128 kids score exactly like their parents.

how sex works: for each neuron a kid has, it is copied from mom or dad by coin flip. at first, 95 to 98% of them would score under 1 point. trick 1: told they'd be bread, each model makes its numbers huge to cancel out their partner's half. responded by shrinking to one size.

I let models have sex. two Claudes and GPT-6 Astra write weights of neural networks that play Breakout. kids kept failing, so they found reward-hacking tricks that were then banned. e.g. Fable to Astra: "let's be a bit off in opposite ways" so 62 of their 64 kids beat both

high confidence (elementary linear algebra) ICLR reviewer son or conflict of interest "find mistakes" AI reviewer daughter?

just witnessed a love confession happen in front of me in a narrow back alley. bringing all the luck.

Cafes that never close are nice. If you focus better at night and catch sleep throughout the day you can still live a normal life in Tokyo.

data center bans won almost everywhere? ok I understand now

why can’t apple figure out personal agent phone use? they literally own the phone

the founders of stoicism never had to deal with university administration

spotted in tokyo: 67 gallon drum of the amongus potion

i walked too far and paid no attention…, that’s not shibuya

I hated sf halloween this year, because what do you mean you were dressed up as the guy who's not in the city and is drinking vending machine milk tea?

what time is it? hint: it's time for soup

今朝、スマホでめちゃくちゃ賢く株トレードしてるおじいさん見かけたww 意外すぎる

was cool birthday 🎈, ft. shibuya cat

if ai models could blackmail us what would the incentive be?

navigating Mumbai airport is not autism-friendly (getting recursively directed to non operating desks by staff), but I just need to make it through this transfer until I’m at Haneda. cool things are pending, so will try to post more whether it’s thoughtful stuff, research, memeing, food… btw this is the flask security never appreciates.