Sep 28, 2026 · 4 hr 10 min · 21 segments
Ace and Dean-O talk about AI saying “Hi,” Flock maps, Republicans begging to lose, Wumpus, and (of course) the Bungie news. Connect: Ace: @Ace\_Archist Dean-O: @PacingJouska Ace’s Substack TETC…
You want to talk about you want to talk first things, first things, first things first, first things first.
Do you want to talk about an interaction that apparently occurred?
Yes, I do, yeah.
So this is...
Several retained scripts construct requests to external language models.
solely containing the word hi.
I love this story.
So what was probably
at the time the most advanced model in the Frontier Labs, which was whatever OpenAI was testing at the time,
So this is like, I don't know, being from the 11th dimension, like coming down to a caveman saying, what's up? Yeah.
How's it going, bro?
That sounds like a big number.
It's not.
That is a...
Right now, there are open-weight models, especially mix-of-expert models, open-weight models that you can run on not quite consumer hardware, but prosumer hardware that match that.
Yeah.
It's not a huge model.
Right.
You want to talk about you want to talk first things, first things, first things first, first things first.
Do you want to talk about an interaction that apparently occurred?
Yes, I do, yeah.
So this is...
Several retained scripts construct requests to external language models.
solely containing the word hi.
I love this story.
So what was probably
at the time the most advanced model in the Frontier Labs, which was whatever OpenAI was testing at the time,
So this is like, I don't know, being from the 11th dimension, like coming down to a caveman saying, what's up? Yeah.
How's it going, bro?
That sounds like a big number.
It's not.
That is a...
Right now, there are open-weight models, especially mix-of-expert models, open-weight models that you can run on not quite consumer hardware, but prosumer hardware that match that.
Yeah.
It's not a huge model.
Right.
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