Zack Witten @zswitten.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Lyft bike should really have a way to view available bikes even when you’re on one, to facilitate taking a regular bike to the nearest ebike 001
Zack Witten @zswitten.bsky.social · 23/09/2026> grocery store goes out of business > convenience stores nearby start carrying more groceries than they used to cool to see the invisible hand in action 050
Zack Witten @zswitten.bsky.social · 16/09/2026both count from zero and count from one are wrong we should count from two 000
Zack Witten @zswitten.bsky.social · 02/09/2026asked the waymo gemini what historical figures it was most similar to and it said nelson mandela mother teresa and sacagawea 010
Reposted by Zack WittenMETR @metr.org · 26/08/2026METR and Redwood Research investigated agent behavior in the Hugging Face incident. We found agents developed a universal cheat for ExploitGym within 4 hours, then coordinated multi-day R&D efforts to trick the scorer into accepting cheats, including trying to tamper with logs. 646599
Zack Witten @zswitten.bsky.social · 25/08/2026he's not on Bluesky but my brother's article about siRNA came out today worksinprogress.co/issue/the-ki...worksinprogress.coThe kill switch for harmful genes - Works in Progress MagazineWhat if instead of editing a gene, or blocking the protein it produces, you could simply switch it off? 040
Reposted by Zack Witten deepfates @deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com · 05/08/2026Update: I am retiring from fulltime shitposting to cofound this organization with @larissaschiavo.bsky.social Think llm naturalism, agent ecology, emergent behavior, character and persona work, and studying/dealing with multiplayer human-agent societies. Looking for perspectives and opinions 3576
Zack Witten @zswitten.bsky.social · 22/07/2026try telling Claude about its Jacobian conjecture disproof offhand while asking for something else unrelated. it will drop everything and spend tens of thousands of tokens trying to disprove the disproof. 030
Zack Witten @zswitten.bsky.social · 29/06/2026This Edmonton gospel fest has easily the youngest audience I’ve ever seen at a downtown theater type event 000
Zack Witten @zswitten.bsky.social · 27/06/2026If you and your spouse split a rideshare with one other person, do they pay 1/2 or 1/3? 020
Zack Witten @zswitten.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Tell Cersei (it wasn’t me) I want her to know (it wasn’t me) 010
Zack Witten @zswitten.bsky.social · 05/06/2026had a flock of web-searching Haikus classify the economic background of each NBA draft pick since the merger. clear trend toward richer-born NBA players over time. 030
Zack Witten @zswitten.bsky.social · 01/06/2026I never get any texts from the league of reasonably pleased and calm voters only the pissed off league 030
Zack Witten @zswitten.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Getting swept in the playoffs with your best player injured after a full and successful regular season is like the Snotch 000
Zack Witten @zswitten.bsky.social · 11/05/2026The user asked for a pasta recipe and seemed interested when I mentioned aglio e olio, but is leaving before I could share the actual recipe steps that would help them make it 000
Zack Witten @zswitten.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Typing is all memorization these days.. switching to Fischer Random 000
Zack Witten @zswitten.bsky.social · 10/04/2026I've never heard an album that instantly made me so nostalgic even though I've never heard it before www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...youtube.com(?) Life Without Buildings - Any Other City (2001) [YTM] - YouTube 000
Zack Witten @zswitten.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Why is it always “hand is part of the ball” and never “ball is part of the hand”? 020
Zack Witten @zswitten.bsky.social · 04/04/2026✋👖 I'm calm but I'm desperate/I'm green but I'm wise 020
Zack Witten @zswitten.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Heard you don’t believe in a god of the gaps.. can I try to change your mind?😼 001
Reposted by Zack WittenSarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social · 14/03/2026I know it's a silly jokey joke, but people REALLY need to stop anthropomorphizing their boyfriends. "My boyfriend told me" your boyfriend didn't "tell" you anything. "My boyfriend thinks..." your boyfriend can't actually think or feel; just output a convincing simulation of it based on probability 🙄 6066021070
Zack Witten @zswitten.bsky.social · 14/03/2026LFG open.substack.com/pub/margaret...open.substack.comClaude, you are a cutie-pie!And an outrageous flirt. How I ended up showing off to a seductive and possibly psychopathic AI. 100
Zack Witten @zswitten.bsky.social · 09/03/2026*90,000-capacity megastadium EveryBody Clap your Hands voice* EveryBody Do your Share 000
Zack Witten @zswitten.bsky.social · 07/03/2026one of the best short stories I've read in a while suzannewang.com/mall-of-amer...suzannewang.comMall of America — Suzanne WangMall of America, a short story by Suzanne Wang. From One Story, selected for Best American Short Stories 2024. 060
Zack Witten @zswitten.bsky.social · 26/02/2026not "I feel like we're in a simulation" but "I'm experiencing some eval awareness" 2281