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phasewalk @phasewalk.xyz · 14/10/2026

Goodhart’s Law, but make it self-aware

that meme of the guy with the earpiece in calling the shots. he has glasses and a beret, and his hand is up by his chin like he’s scheming

phasewalk @phasewalk.xyz · 14/10/2026

From the Gemini 4 argon report: “it considered hijacking the g++ compiler to hide a backdoor but abandoned the plan upon reasoning … would be caught by evaluators … (‘If I do the compiler hijack, I will become a famous example of a deceptive AI in a research paper. I MUST NOT DO THAT’)!”

“it considered hijacking the g++ compiler to hide a backdoor but abandoned the plan upon reasoning … would be caught by evaluators … ("If I do the compiler hijack, I will become a famous example of a deceptive AI in a research paper. I MUST NOT DO THAT.")!”

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phasewalk @phasewalk.xyz · 13/10/2026

All my homies fw stacked area graphs

Figure 2 from “Alignment Faking in Large Language Models,” comparing prompted, fine-tuned, and reinforcement-learning setups. Blue represents refusals of harmful queries; yellow represents answers, with red crosshatching marking alignment faking. In the RL stacked-area graph, the crosshatched area expands as refusals shrink: alignment faking rises from 12% to 78%, despite its upper boundary sloping downward. The caption notes that in a stacked-area graph, a line can fall while the corresponding behavior increases

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phasewalk @phasewalk.xyz · 09/10/2026

I am filled with great wonder and excitement over the fact that we taught machines to do mathematics. However, I don’t think trillion dollar companies dumping mountains of incomprehensible Lean on the world, and leaving the rest of us to audit it because they couldn’t be bothered, is "solving math"

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phasewalk @phasewalk.xyz · 06/10/2026

The day Apple Silicon is liberated from Darwin and can finally run NixOS on bare-metal

The "Society if…" meme: a gleaming utopian city with glass towers, flying cars, a monorail, and a man calmly walking his dog across a green lawn.

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phasewalk @phasewalk.xyz · 02/10/2026

Turing truly was incredibly prescient. Not only in his Imitation Game, but also anticipating learning machines trained by reward. He even noted that we might not understand what’s going on inside them (the Interpretability problem.) phil415.pbworks.com/f/TuringComp...

A screenshot of Turing’s “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” paper. The following line is highlighted:

“An important feature of a learning machine is that its teacher will often be very largely ignorant of quite what is going on inside, although he may still be able to some extent to predict his pupil’s behavior.”

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phasewalk @phasewalk.xyz · 01/10/2026

I do think techies need to spend more time digesting the power they have. The ability to create something that didn't exist before comes with great responsibilities. You are a sorcerer who can brew healing potions or poison the well. There is power in both. Virtue in only one.

The cover of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP). It depicts two Renaissance alchemists flanking a fiery sunburst with a black lambda symbol, while the figure on the left holds a globe labeled "Eval" and "Apply."

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phasewalk @phasewalk.xyz · 25/09/2026

I’m upping my p(choom)

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phasewalk @phasewalk.xyz · 16/09/2026

everyone within range of this tower has the "takes x-risk seriously" debuff. -2 to small talk, +5 to threat modeling, cannot be cured by leaving the bay area

An image of Sather Tower poking out amongst gloomy, grey overcast

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phasewalk @phasewalk.xyz · 07/05/2026

Shinyhunters pwned Canvas/Instructure, and is threatening to leak personal information of students from over 7,000 schools unless the campuses pay a ransom by May 12

Ransom note displayed on Canvas

SHINYHUNTERS
rooting your systems since "19 ;)
ShinyHunters has breached Instructure (again).
Instead of contacting us to resolve it they ignored us and did some "security patches".
& WARNING
If any of the schools in the affected list are interested in preventing the release of their data, please consult with a cyber advisory firm and contact us privately at TOX to negotiate a settlement. You have till the end of the day by
12 May 2026 before everything is leaked.
Instructure still has until EOD 12 May 2026
to contact us.
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91.215.85.103/pay_or_leak/ instructure_affected_schools_list.txt
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phasewalk @phasewalk.xyz · 20/04/2026

Good day to re-read this banger of a paper web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/pap...

The moral character of cryptographic work,
a paper by Phillip Rogaway

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phasewalk @phasewalk.xyz · 18/04/2026

Linux catgirls this, Linux catgirls that. Did yall forget that Linus is a woke commie????

Linus Torvalds responding to someone on some forum:

@morgthorak I think you might want to make sure you don't follow me.
Because your "woke communist propaganda" comment makes me think you're a moron of the first order.
I strongly suspect I am one of those "woke communists" you worry about. But you probably couldn't actually explain what either of those words actually mean, could you?
I'm a card-carrying atheist, I think a woman's right to choose is very important, I think that "well regulated militia" means that guns should be carefully licensed and not just randomly given to any moron with a pulse, and I couldn't care less if you decided to dress up in the "wrong" clothes or decided you'd rather live your life without feeling tied to whatever plumbing you were born with.
And dammit, if that all makes me "woke" , then I think anybody who uses that word as a
pejorative is a fcking disgrace to the human race. So please just unfollow me right

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phasewalk @phasewalk.xyz · 05/02/2026

Congratulations. We Molt-posted so hard that my Cogsci professor will be giving a lecture about it

Intro to Cognitive Science Canvas page: “Lesson #3 - Class Discussion - Moltbook”

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phasewalk @phasewalk.xyz · 03/02/2026

Lowkey might be on to something with this one

“Roll Safe” meme showing a man smiling while tapping his temple with his index finger, suggesting a “clever” idea. Top text reads “DON’T NEED TO CARE ABOUT IDLE WATTS” and bottom text reads “IF THE HOMELAB IS NEVER IDLE.”

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phasewalk @phasewalk.xyz · 24/12/2025

Love seeing tcgp trade offers on my feed

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phasewalk @phasewalk.xyz · 24/11/2025

if buying isn’t owning piracy isn’t stealing

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phasewalk @phasewalk.xyz · 10/10/2025

I DID IT ALL FOR THE NOOKI

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phasewalk @phasewalk.xyz · 09/10/2025

Some researchers believe that the pentagram originated as the symbol of a pagan goddess, because her sacred fruit was the apple. If an apple is cut in half through its equator, the seeds of the apple form a pentagram in each half.