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Dev Seth

@DevSeth44

building @Vapi_AI prev Peregrine, @McKinsey cs & phil at @DukeU @UniOfOxford

 San Francisco, CA
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Joined August 2019
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🚨 New Paper at EACL 🚨 arxiv.org/abs/2303.05077 tl;dr: we look at ⚺iSuaᒧ⅃y perturbed text through the lens of legibility, collect 30k annotations comparing the legibility of perturbed words, train models to predict legibility, and use the models to successfully attack LLMs.
Learning the Legibility of Visual Text Perturbations

Learning the Legibility of Visual Text Perturbations

Many adversarial attacks in NLP perturb inputs to produce visually similar strings ('ergo' $\rightarrow$ '$ε$rgo') which are legible to humans but degrade model performance. Although...

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you will be sorely missed
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j.b. exte@jbexteOct 25
saw someone refer to food as “W chews”. i like this and i think i will bother everyone i’ve ever met with this for roughly the next year or so
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Today is the final day of service to the greatest airport terminal there ever was. Good night, sweet prince.
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$3500 rental in SF sunset district
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A typical Soviet kitchen in an apartment in Riga, Latvian SSR, 1974.
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Spanish missionaries in California dedicate a small chapel by a large bay that they call the Mission San Francisco.
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@tszzlOct 7
do not let yourself be reduced to the status of audience at a magic show, uncomprehendingly clapping as machine intelligence creates parcels of astounding knowledge. all of this is for us, to be understood by us, to sate our own curiosities. it's all really happening
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@tszzlOct 7
we are breathing rarefied air
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freia@freialoboOct 5
a well executed red eye is indistinguishable from teleportation
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OpenAI incident reports in 2025: oopsie! ChatGPT says delve a lot 🤭 this crazy guy loves talking about goblins! 🤪 we got it under control though 💪 OpenAI incident reports in 2026:
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@orph_Sep 29
please stop saying that airplanes can "fly". they are only exploiting aerodynamic regularities to produce flight-like behavior
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opus 5.5 just teleported me by tearing me down at the atomic level and making my BYTE-IDENTICAL copy at the destination (lean verified)
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You’re listening to Sisyphus FM, the home of non-stop rock.
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"how much did that agent run cost" "about Ψ2B" you'll be saying this by 2027
Dev Seth (@DevSeth44) profile pictureDev Seth
@DevSeth44Sep 27
every civilization eventually names its currency. ours is denominated in tokens and we're still writing "tokens" like cavemen. proposing Ψ as the symbol for a little piece of thought
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every civilization eventually names its currency. ours is denominated in tokens and we're still writing "tokens" like cavemen. proposing Ψ as the symbol for a little piece of thought
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Claude Opus 5.5 has the best visual design of any model I have tested so far
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@slimer48484Sep 9
Claude-Pop - I'm Upping My P(Doom)
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Riley Walz
@rtwlzSep 23
It's a little hard to internalize that the list of things one person can achieve is rapidly growing. You must think big to match what you're truly capable of now
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@jachiam0Sep 21
A subtle thing: the fear of AI creeps into, and has a mutually-reinforcing relationship with, the language we use to describe it. The word sense for "swarms" to describe multiagent systems, instead of "flocks" or any other more neutral collective, reflects a deep unease.
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OpenAI's acquisition of @skybysoftware / @AriX has to be the single most underrated acquisition of this cycle... Codex is still *so* much better at computer use, and it might be the only frontier capability where the lead hasn't changed hands in the last ~6 months?
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@jennywenSep 15
the ROOM phonebooth is the geography of nowhere, suburban strip mall of corporate america. a call taken from one of these looks exactly the same, no matter where you are. they could be anywhere, at any company, talking about any topic.
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Civilization began by playing with fire.
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