Hi, I’m Doc (aka Doctor Wyrm), professional tinkerer & AI wrangler. Read more about me and my blog here. This blog dissects tech hype, speculative fiction, and all the glorious mess in between—pull up a chair. 🔥
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Interviews
I sometimes interview LLMs – and occasionally humans too – just to see what makes them tick. You can find transcripts of those conversations here, which I have pulled out of the blog since they’re generally significantly longer.
o3 Speculates about AGI Supergenius
In this lightning-round Q&A, we set up a hypothetical “Alex-level” genius bent on accelerating AGI and used that premise to drill through today’s frontier-AI playbook.
Friendly Singularity Discussion with ChatGPT 4.5
If we want to explore how to get to the singularity – and how to cope with it once we do – why not ask ChatGPT for some help? I woke up .. resolved to interview the AI once more just to see where it would lead.
Blog Posts
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ICE Should be for Drinks 😛
So last week, ICE got to my daughter’s friend and arrested him. He has been in the US since he was a toddler. He was enrolled in DACA and had a social security number, and that’s what they used to find him pick him up at work on a Thursday afternoon. Perhaps most importantly, the…
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LGBTQ+ Privacy and Safety Tips
Pride month may be just behind us in the rearview mirror, but it seems like it’s still far too often that I hear from one of my friends about someone suffering abuse, scamming, or hate based violence. Below is a “keep-your-hide-intact” checklist I give friends in the community who’d rather spend Pride season (or the…
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Book Review – The Chain of Chance by Stanishlaw Lem
A Book Review and Critical Analysis May 2025 WARNING: This book review contains spoilers. Indeed it would be very difficult to tell anyone about a Lem book without spoiling something in it. I have gone out of my way to mark them as such, but if you are the type of person who hates having…
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“Unstuck” Beef and Shrimp Noodle
So, the inspiration behind this post is that yesterday was my night to cook dinner for the family, and I was fresh out of ideas. So, I decided to consult with ChatGPT to see if it could produce anything better than cake-is-a-lie recipes full of fish-shaped toxic resins. And, damn, was I pleasantly surprised!? Before…
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Discussing the Meta and Anthropic Legal Decisions This Week
So, I happened to be listening to This Week In Tech this morning, and they were talking about the recent court victories for Meta and Anthropic. Of course, this situation is more nuanced than it may seem on the surface, and you can expect the AI hype machine to try and spin everything their way.…
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I came here for an argument, but this is just abuse.
Someone turned me onto an argument in r/CMV and I made the mistake of waking up from a nap to read it. ^_^ In actuality, this might not have been the post that I originally intended to reply to. Oh well. That’s how it goes!