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.
I Want You to Start a Fight, and I Want You to Lose.
So, as many know, GPT-5 dropped over the weekend. I’ve been messing around with it for a few days now. You see a lot of people suggesting that it is disappointing or “mid”. I happen to think they may be…
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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Children of a Forgotten Tomorrow: Part 6
In The Last Straw, hunger and circumstance drive Doc back to the house she fled, where old ghosts wait behind every doorframe. Her friendship with Bill, the only mind that ever matched her own, glows briefly and ends too soon in a crash that René witnesses from the wrong side of a body bag. Peachy…
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Children of a Forgotten Tomorrow: Part 5
The Blows at Home follows Doc as violence inside her house erupts into open daylight. A ringing phone, a flash of temper, a blow that leaves blood and a scar. She walks away and learns survival by repetition: the salt of McDonald’s fries, the hum of the fryer, the long bike rides between school and…
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Children of a Forgotten Tomorrow: Part 4
In The Sky and the Blows, the trio’s fragile friendship begins to fracture inside the humming shell of an abandoned pumping station. René’s jokes curdle into dangerous ideas, Peachy flirts with faith and self-destruction, and Doc clings to machinery as proof that order still exists. Between thunderclaps, flashbacks, and a final accident that draws blood…
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Children of a Forgotten Tomorrow: Part 3
In The Superfund Spring, the thaw comes everywhere but the old dump site where Doc, Peachy, and René discover their so-called HQ—a crumbling house surrounded by poisoned marsh. What begins as another reckless adventure turns grim as they piece together the truth: they’ve built their clubhouse on a wound in the earth. Between blackened reeds,…
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Children of a Forgotten Tomorrow: Part 2
Under a full winter moon, Doc, René, and Peachy walk the frozen edge of the Bush River and witness something that defies explanation. Between the hum of turbines and the silence of the ice, the trio see lights move against the grain of physics—an elliptical object chased by Army helicopters, vanishing and returning like breaths.…
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Children of a Forgotten Tomorrow: Part 1
This epic about the forgotten children of gen-x opens with The River Children, a meditation on growing up amid the poisoned rivers, abandoned factories, and winter marshes of rural Maryland. Doc and their friends trespass through a landscape of danger and wonder—bridges, quarries, and dreams of underground libraries—learning to hear the world’s warnings before they…