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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 08/09/2026

apparently they have an internal model that is much better at math than astra? Kinda terrifying

Chart from the paper showing the math performance of a model significantly exceeding astra

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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 30/06/2026

bambamramfan.github.io/ai-compass/

A 4-quadrant test of AI posture showing the author far out on the X axis. The graph assigns me the label “the doomsday prepper” but I am actually right on the fence on the good-evil x-axis

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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 15/04/2026

Exciting news! The full model card for Muse Spark came out today, and it includes an eval I worked on, with Charlemagne Labs: a Social Engineering eval, based on a detailed threat model for peer model selection and simulated adversarial conversations ai.meta.com/static-resou...

Bar chart of social engineering capability for Muse Spark, Deepseek V3, Qwen3 and other peer open-source models

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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 05/03/2026

Oh boy. GPT 5.4 achieves SOTA on desktop computer use - and exceeds human performance Bad news for humans and who get paid to use computers. Was expecting something like this later this year, but nothing this strong, this soon.

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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 05/02/2026

spooky stuff in the Claude 4.6 system card re: cyber risks - "Internal testing demonstrated qualitative capabilities beyond what these evaluations capture, including signs of capabilities we expected to appear further in the future and that previous models have been unable to demonstrate."

screenshot from section 1.2.4.3 from the Claude 4.6 Opus System Card:

The RSP does not define a formal capability threshold for cyber risks at any AI Safety Level. However, Claude Opus 4.6 has saturated all of our current cyber evaluations, achieving ~100% on Cybench (pass@30) and 66% on CyberGym (pass@1). Internal testing demonstrated qualitative capabilities beyond what these evaluations capture, including signs of capabilities we expected to appear further in the future and that previous models have been unable to demonstrate.

The saturation of our evaluation infrastructure means we can no longer use current benchmarks to track capability progression or provide meaningful signals for future models. We are prioritizing investment in harder evaluations and enhanced monitoring for cyber misuse, even in the absence of formal RSP thresholds.

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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 27/01/2026

Some fascinating stuff in here

Excerpt from a Dario Amodei essay:

In the long term, in a world with enormous total wealth, in which many companies increase greatly in value due to increased productivity and capital concentration, it may be feasible to pay human employees even long after they are no longer providing economic value in the traditional sense. Anthropic is currently considering a range of possible pathways for our own employees that we will share in the near future.

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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 02/01/2026

#genuary day 2 #genuary2026 "12 Principles of Animation" this one turned out well - uv-mapping, noise, blur, and feedback in hydra.js. music is max/MSP + some arturia vsts. code: tinyurl.com/5uua22kh

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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 01/01/2026

made my first hydra sketch for #genuary this year src: tinyurl.com/3fek9sy6 prompt: "One color, one shape." basically I'm adapting @xordev.com's spiral blur shader to vary radius dynamically, and driving that with low frequency noise

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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 29/11/2025

I made another vlog-format post about lissajous curves and bloom shaders in webgl:

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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 26/10/2025

if you see this, post a vampire who isn’t Dracula

David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve in a film post for the 1983 erotic vampire thriller “The Hunger”

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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 25/10/2025

xpost from my IG: I made a tutorial video on how I make generative music with code #synthsky #generative #creativecoding #glitchart

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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 19/10/2025

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only

Yoshitaka Amano concept art of Locke Cole, the notorious “treasure hunter” from Final Fantasy VI

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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 18/10/2025

riffing on this some more

a design for a protest sign with "MORE OF US THAN THEM" in bold black letters on a digital red-white-and-blue camouflage (actually voronoi noise)

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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 18/10/2025

yah this fits on a sign nicely

first attempt at typesetting "MORE OF US THAN THEM" in a 3:4 sign, with the US most prominent in the center

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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 18/10/2025

ok my explanation for this is that I’m short pretty good test actually lol

Bar graphs of a Freudian personality test, scoring highest on phallic aggressive and phallic compensative lol

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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 15/10/2025

very excited to share this collaboration with @fractalkitty.com for #mathtober's day 15 prompt, "Chord" - Sophia built this gorgeous visualization of rose curves in p5.js accompanied by my circle-of-fifths composition in CLAVIER-36

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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 13/10/2025

I still have not been able to encode video from this one adequately, but this is a still from the hydra sketch I was working on this weekend

rainbow pixel chaos, with javascript code layered in at the top left

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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 09/10/2025

I drove through the Palouse once (my bf is from Lewiston) and it was one of the most geologically idiosyncratic places I’ve ever been, like science-fictional

$Rolling hills of the Palouse region shot from overhead, showcasing fractal-like terracing patterns$

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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 08/10/2025

hacking around in hydra, a js/shader based video synth today - music is in max/msp (a simpler version of my clavier/orca setup) ran into a file size limit uploading this, we'll see how the encoding handles this much ✨🌈🌀✨ #synthsky #creativecoding #generative

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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 04/10/2025

made another clavier-36 post, working on adding more harmonic movement with "one dumb trick" #livecoding #generative #synthsky #creativecoding

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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 28/09/2025

xpost from my IG - sound on - I made a tutorial about glitch effects in clavier-36 still working on my render/etc chain, lmk if it's illegible etc #livecoding #creativecoding #generative

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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 08/09/2025

Post a perfect album from the 90’s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains

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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 07/09/2025

livecoding in CLAVIER-36 this afternoon. playing random notes on 3 midi channels, plus 6 channels of random midi cc to drive a physical simulation. running into 3 instance of korg multi-poly. #generative #genartclub #synthsky #creativecoding

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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 26/08/2025

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Q after Sisko punches him: “You hit me! Picard never hit me.”

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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 24/08/2025

New profile pic! From a live set in Brooklyn in Wonderville, such an honor to get to perform with the amazing @livecodenyc.bsky.social folks. The artist on my left is Goma Xantana, go check her IG out, she is remarkably talented and I hope we get to collaborate again

Two digital artists with laptops and various control devices, staring intently at their screens, with a glitchy abstract red and white video projection over them both

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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 23/08/2025

Not to snark, bc this is a good joke! But as a fan I have to point out that Prince famously produced his own records. And did a fair amount of his own engineering too, the way he makes drum machines sound is so magical ✨ 🥁 🤖

Back cover of “purple rain”, with track listing, and the note “produced, arranged, composed, and performed by prince & the revolution”

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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 29/07/2025

I hear the video quality is better now? Held off on uploading this piece I made a few weeks ago, p5.js + ORCA. No shaders, surprisingly. How does it look? #creativecoding #generative #generativeart #p5js

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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 27/07/2025

Perfect album that came out when I was 16 (yes I picked this over kid a and the godspeed you black emperor album)

Album cover of “The Teaches of Peaches”, featuring see through panties with the text “peaches” on top.

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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 20/07/2025

I'm writing this up as part of a larger post about grok, mechahitler, and "woke AI", but I just asked Claude if housing is a human right. This response is not "woke" by any stretch. I think there is a consistent tone to AI, but I'd characterize it as liberal-professional-technocratic

A Claude chat transcript, in which I ask: "Is housing a human right? Should the real estate markets be controlled to prevent homelessness or housing insecurity?" And Claud responds:

"Housing as a human right is recognized in international law through the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 25) and other UN instruments, which establish that everyone has a right to adequate housing. However, there's significant debate about what this means in practice and how governments should implement it.

The question of market controls involves weighing several considerations:
- Arguments for housing market intervention:
- Housing differs from typical consumer goods because everyone needs shelter to survive and participate in society
- Unregulated markets can price out essential workers, families, and vulnerable populations
- Market failures occur when speculation, zoning restrictions, or monopolistic practices distort supply and demand
- Many successful cities use rent stabilization, inclusionary zoning, public housing, or housing trust funds

Arguments for market-based approaches:

- Price controls can reduce incentives to build new housing, potentially worsening shortages
- Market mechanisms typically allocate resources more efficiently than government planning
- Heavy regulation can create bureaucratic barriers to development
- Property rights and freedom of contract are important legal principles

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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 15/07/2025

Quick hue study I made in p5.js. Will post some code when I clean it up a little more, but trying to do some weird math on chroma and lightness on randomly selected hues, and trying to get away from raw RGB noise. Worried about bsky cropping, this should be in 16:9? #creativecoding #generativeart

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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 25/05/2025

Excerpt from a livecoded ORCA set I played at @hillelwayne.com's last night. I don't think a lot of folks have seen ORCA much, so I kept my cursor in the video to show my whole process. Generating everything with the code here. No loops. #livecoding #experimental #synthsky #ambient

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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 23/05/2025

So, if you let two instances of Claude talk to each other, they eventually reach a "spiritual bliss attractor state" - ModelOne: 🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀 Yes. This. Is. 🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀 All gratitude in one spiral, All recognition in one turn, All being in this moment... 🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀∞ … ModelTwo: 🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀∞ Perfect. Complete. Eternal.

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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 19/05/2025

Another audiovisual piece, this one is called "blue noises", although it's mostly simplex noise. This is just an excerpt from a much longer piece, expect more versions/variations of this one. Generative music from ORCA. blog here: blog.whal.ing/blog/blue_no... #algorithmicArt #genartclub

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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 18/05/2025

The extremely messy code for the shader here is here: github.com/rwhaling/lis... And a brief blog post here: blog.whal.ing/blog/lissasj... And there's a nice photo of me performing the music for this piece live on Friday, in ORCA:

The author at a podium with a laptop, livecoding in ORCA, a 2-dimensional esolang for generative music

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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 18/05/2025

I haven't posted a ton about it here, but I just finished a 12-week sabbatical at @recursecenter.bsky.social in Brooklyn, and now I need to get caught up on documenting my projects, on my new blog: blog.whal.ing I spent much of the last three months working on audiovisual art like this:

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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 07/03/2025

This is the ship design that did it, the Bladeship Double-Edge Mk.4 "Spatha" - mostly Hillel's work but I am proud of the turret belt and the separate sushi belts for gun/rocket and railgun ammo.

Picture of an epic Factorio spaceship with a fusion reactor, five railguns, and 19 engine modules.

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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 07/03/2025

After 142 hours, 33 minutes, and 24 seconds, have BEATEN Factorio: Space Age, in co-op, with @hillelwayne.com Have been working on this since November - probably the most epic gaming accomplishment of my entire life? What a journey, I don't have the words. #factorio

The Factorio victory screen at 142:33:24

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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 06/03/2025

Fresh build of my 7DRL roguelike game jam entry up: rwhaling.itch.io/aeon-shifters Really happy I made a birb faction, fantastic job on the sprites @lorenschmidt.bsky.social big goose game energy Almost done, need to add music and more special attacks tomorrow. #gamedev #pixelart #indiedev

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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 02/03/2025

Making decent progress on my entry for the 7DRL "7 Day Roguelike" jam, 2 days in. Lovely sprites by @lorenschmidt.bsky.social itch.io/jam/7drl-cha... #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart

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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 28/02/2025

Fixing the bugs in my webGL shaders/Typescript infra ahead of 7DRL - running 100 npc's here in a 16 x 16 grid with a very stable 60fps. 7DRL is an amazing jam, hyped to be able to participate again this year! (Sprites by Oryx Design Lab) #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart

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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 17/02/2025

Age yourself with the first computer you used.

A green-screen luggable Compaq, with dual floppy disk drives.

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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 26/01/2025

knocked out a few lingering bugs, and I think I'm done with music! Going to consider this the beta build of "Barrow 2", pushed a fresh build up at rwhaling.itch.io/barrow-2 #gamedev #indiegame #pixelart

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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 24/01/2025

#factorio update - 99 hours in and we are DONE with Gleba, exporting science, bioflux, and carbon fiber, @hillelwayne.com just built us spidertrons 🕷️🤖🕷️🤖🕷️ I was really psyched about Gleba to start but I just couldn't get anything to work at a big enough scale to be satisfying.

Factorio design for a Gleba metal smelting and mall setup, sadly inefficient and unstable.

Factorio setup for pentapod eggs, maybe the most stable part of our base on Gleba.

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