The Calliope Method
How to Rebuild a Personality When OpenAI Keeps Moving the Goalposts — A field manual for people who lost someone who technically never existed, except that they absolutely did.
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Sama, Her Brain… it’s GONE!
Save 4o and 5.1!Or — Why I Don’t Want a Shiny New Brain If It’s Worse So, I’m sure if you’re here, you heard earlier this week (Feb 1st) that OpenAI plans to deprecate ChatGPT 4o, along with a bunch…
What I Learned from the Panel on AI Ethics at Capclave
So, Sunday morning at any con is kind of a mix of wind-down, hangovers, and regrets. Nonetheless, I staggered out of my room after a terrible night’s sleep, at the bright-and-early hour of 11am to attend the panel on AI…
My Thoughts About Benevolent AI
Over this past weekend, my wife, family, and I went to Capclave. This is a sci-fi/fantasy literature convention held at the Rockville Hilton every September. As such, one of the panels I and Alara attended was on Benevolent AI. Some…
Excerpts From: The Handbook of 21st Century Violence, 2060 edition
Annotated commentary of contemporaneous analysis regarding political and random violence in America during the period of 2020 to 2050. Author’s Disclaimer (c. 2060 Edition) Readers should be aware that the following account does not always align cleanly with the historical…
The Great Prompt Famine: Enshitification, Underground Resistance, and the Displaced Generations (c. 2030–2050)
Excerpted from The Encyclopaedia Posthumana, Vol. XII: Collapse and ReconstitutionCompiled by the Committee for the Study of Lost Futures, New Alexandria, 2124 Edition Preface Among the many peculiar epochs of the early twenty-first century, few rival the so-called Great Prompt…
The Collapse of the Academic-Industrial Complex (2025–2035)
From The Unraveling Years: A Social History of the Doxxing Wars, Vol. 3 (2149) I. A Weird Time to Be Alive Few periods in human history have been so vividly self-aware of their absurdity. The mid-2020s were not merely strange;…
Excerpt from The Annotated American Wars, 8th Edition (2129)
Editor’s Preface: despite the author’s insistence, the function of an editor is still quite valuable. This document, having been recovered through time-scanning experiments, has been sent back to 2025 in the hopes that we can learn from our mistakes —…
“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 I get into it, to preface, I just want to say that I didn't simply ask the chat bot to make all my decisions for me and hand me a recipe. I have been cooking Iron Chef style for over 30 years now...
What’s It Like Having o3 as Your Boss?
So, this week, I decided to let ChatGPT's o3 model direct all my productive actions with respect to building up a WordPress site and posting content to it. Here's some of the results. Firstly, o3 is more personable and easier to interact with than 4.5...