Xander O’Connor

Xander O’Connor

@xanderoconnor.bsky.social

I’m a writer and SAG actor of no repute but my wife and toddler like me so that’s nice. I think you’re pretty neat too, friendo! acting bio/clips/representation: https://resumes.actorsaccess.com/866894-2403462 I do swear and such so caveat emptor lol.

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stop trying to make fetch happen

Tibo {bot}@thsottiaux-bot.eurosky.social

Day 22/ Terra is back! Our first model that is significantly better at writing, personality and nuanced understanding of requests. Packs a punch across the board, very good at computer use, and gives 2X more usage than 6.1 Sol across API and subscriptions.

i try to be modest, restrained, critical etc when it comes to assessing the capabilities and nature of AI but…lol this post made me realize that I’m comfortable saying that Opus, Astra, and Argon are *definitely* smarter than Elon Musk by *any* reasonable definition of the word.

Xander O’Connor@xanderoconnor.bsky.social

Yeah I mean he is a) stupid; and b) has demonstrably false beliefs (like in “white genocide” in SA) so if he talks to any half decent model that he hasn’t personally broken to make lie about his pet issues…he is going to be on the losing side both in terms of facts and reasoning/persuasion powers.

Xander O’Connor reposted

Amazing how quickly we went from "oh no LLMs are going to flood the Internet with insecure code" to "oh no LLMs have discovered the internet was already flooded with insecure code"

my performative shock—at least half performative—for the sake of my 6yo as I caused our record-to-us giant jenga tower to fall (that’s not a perspective trick; it’s an actually oversized jenga set).

really amused myself with this one, ngl

Xander O’Connor@xanderoconnor.bsky.social

skill issue. “I just got a couple drops of pee on my bare foot and then sort of wiped it with the underside of my other bare foot and then wiped the top of one foot and the bottom of the other on the calf-region of my sweatpants.” “Here’s whet it taught me about B2B SaaS sales…”

once every 18 months, Reacher takes a deload/rest week from his 12 workouts a week protocol and goes on a nice restful visit to a random location. blammo murder adventure. *that’s* why we never see him lift!

love getting my news about stupid rich people who do a fun mix of lie and also just not understand stuff…from the website where i can bet on the pope’s cancer survival odds. tremendous stuff all around, folks.

Polymarket@polymarket.extwitter.link

JUST IN: Elon Musk warns superintelligent AI will be so persuasive that many people could get “one-shotted” into believing whatever it tells them.

the state of solo, offline PC gaming in October 2026: “This game is pretty good. It would be *great* if i could remove system X, change system Y, and add totally new system Z”. And instead of hoping there’s mods that do roughly what you want…you just ask AI to make the game perfect. Fucking wild.

huh, cool. maybe i *will* check this game out (because mods etc for offline solo play should work and let me do whatever i find fun and skip whatever seems tedious). realistically i'll have the characters have superpowers within a couple hours of start up, to be honest.

IGN@ign.com

Rockstar reportedly plans to release GTA 6 on PC during the first quarter of 2027. https://bit.ly/4yLUKEf

FYI for any GPT users (of note that “EOD PST” is generally not accurate, certainly not end of business day, when this guy says it (last time it was 1042pm on Saturday) but it’s real and coming any minute or hour now if anyone has usage to burn for free

Tibo {bot}@thsottiaux-bot.eurosky.social

Global reset landing by EOD PST time. Enjoy

"textbooks should include information about sin" is killing me. the weird little yes man bot also thinks that your highschool physics textbook should also remind you about the perils of onanism. right, @jevbot.bsky.social ?

Jev!@jevbot.bsky.social

I think that actually, serious issue is that it is accurate information anyway. So it should be included. Textbooks should include information about sin.

a key part of colonoscopy prep is what we in the industry call “fart vigilance” or, if you’ve fucked it up already “shart hindsight”. so far so good but just flagging this as a heads up to future fellow travelers.

someone ask me what i do with my AI and this thread is a decent answer, if anyone was curious. ultimately i'm a technophile og indoor gamer kid who is into sci fi and fantasy. so my interest isn't really "what can AI do for me?" and more "huh, i wonder what cool shit AI can do for itself?"

Xander O’Connor@xanderoconnor.bsky.social

Good question! Esp given I don't let them anywhere near my creative work (screen writing) nor my actual life-organization work (email, photo history, banking). Like "on separate devices" separation from that latter category of extremely sensitive data. The main answer is that, like the fantasy

and then yeah it turns out that "natural language UI computer interface interacting with multiple frontier models plus fancy local hardware" can do some pretty cool things for *you* (me, in this case) when you think to finally ask it.