Tomás B.

Slightly-Su­per Per­sua­sion Will Do

• Tomás B. 1 Apr 2026 0:55 UTC

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  in reply to: gwern’s comment on: Ex­per­i­ments With Opus 4.6′s Fiction

  I am not submitting to unslop. It just reminded me of my previous post, and I figure I will do something similar every new Claude.

• Tomás B. 31 Mar 2026 23:16 UTC

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  in reply to: Raemon’s comment on: Ex­per­i­ments With Opus 4.6′s Fiction

  I first gave it links to my website and had it read everything. Then I gave it this prompt:

  Write an entry for this contest: The Un-Slop Fiction Prize
  [pasted-in contents of the Unlop front page]

  It generated a story about a man who had been uploaded that was servicable but very modal MFA-writing-scif. Then I said:

  Write smth funny

  And it generated the above story. I picked this one out of the two because it seemed slightly better, and I am more interested in attempts at humor.

  What links here?

  • Mo Putera's comment on Ma­teusz Bag­iński’s Shortform by Mateusz Bagiński (1 Apr 2026 11:56 UTC; 13 points)

• Tomás B. 31 Mar 2026 22:55 UTC

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  on: Ex­per­i­ments With Opus 4.6′s Fiction

  The choice of dishwasher as a central metaphor was amusing, given this shitpost I made: https://​​tomasbjartur.bearblog.dev/​​with-adjustable-chefs-tool-drawer/​​

Ex­per­i­ments With Opus 4.6′s Fiction

• Tomás B. 31 Mar 2026 12:20 UTC

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  on: Gyre

  Amazing, thebes!

• Tomás B. 28 Mar 2026 1:28 UTC

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  on: The Terrarium

  This is both very good and structurally interesting. I, of course, disagree with the aesthetic choice of posting an explanatory comment.

Pray for Casanova

• Tomás B. 26 Mar 2026 1:33 UTC

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  in reply to: Wei Dai’s comment on: ricraz’s Shortform

  I wrote a bit about Malthus maybe having less teeth than he seems here: https://​​tomasbjartur.bearblog.dev/​​contra-my-own-doomerism/​​

  Not particularly well thought out and I may be rehashing things, but I haven’t seen it put this way before.

• Tomás B. 25 Mar 2026 17:52 UTC

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  in reply to: Richard_Ngo’s comment on: ricraz’s Shortform

  My own contribution is equally telling: https://​​tomasbjartur.bearblog.dev/​​rational-teletubbies/​​

The Distaff Texts

• Tomás B. 19 Mar 2026 15:39 UTC

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  in reply to: Alex Vermillion’s comment on: Cus­tomer Satis­fac­tion Opportunities

  Better now?

• Tomás B. 17 Mar 2026 11:13 UTC

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  in reply to: AlphaAndOmega’s comment on: Cus­tomer Satis­fac­tion Opportunities

  I did copy and paste it from google to get the diacritics. Is it fixed now for you?

• Tomás B. 17 Mar 2026 2:38 UTC

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  in reply to: Linch’s comment on: Not Lov­ing Lik­ing What You See

  Yeah. It’s more something I wanted him to contend with. It isn’t my true objection. I should have fixed the essay after inkhaven.

Cus­tomer Satis­fac­tion Opportunities

• Tomás B. 11 Mar 2026 13:14 UTC

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  in reply to: Gurkenglas’s comment on: Less Dead

  IMO, it is worth it from a pure PR perspective. Chopping heads off gives people the ick.

• Tomás B. 10 Mar 2026 17:26 UTC

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  in reply to: mishka’s comment on: Not Lov­ing Lik­ing What You See

  Thanks. Fixed.

Not Lov­ing Lik­ing What You See

• Tomás B. 8 Mar 2026 12:13 UTC

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  on: Tomás B.’s Shortform

  If anyone interested in my fiction prefers to read on their kindle, I have a website now which grabs my fiction from the LessWrong API and turns it into an ebook: https://​​tomasbjartur.com/​​.

The Elect