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JD-P / bsky_contrib_heatmap.py
Last active November 1, 2025 15:01
Computes a GitHub Contributions style visualization for a users public BlueSky posts using matplotlib
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import argparse, calendar, datetime as dt, json, math, time
from collections import defaultdict
from urllib.parse import urlencode
from urllib.request import urlopen, Request
import matplotlib
matplotlib.use("Agg") # headless
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from dateutil import tz
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JD-P / chatgpt_psychosis_timeline.md
Created July 22, 2025 04:13
Timeline Of Events In The "ChatGPT Psychosis" and LLM Sycophancy Story

Going by my experience writing a Wikipedia article for the Sydney Bing incident, making an explicit timeline of events can bring clarity to what might otherwise seem like a chaotic jumble. My understanding of events so far is:

  • 2023-08-25 Schizophrenia Bulletin publishes "Will Generative Artificial Intelligence Chatbots Generate Delusions in Individuals Prone to Psychosis?" by Søren Dinesen Østergaard
  • 2023-10-06 BBC publishes "How a chatbot encouraged a man who wanted to kill the Queen" by Tom Singleton, Tom Gerken & Liv McMahon
  • 2023-10-06 The Register publishes "AI girlfriend encouraged man to attempt crossbow assassination of Queen" by Katyanna Quach
  • 2023-10-18 Wired publishes "A Chatbot Encouraged Hi
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JD-P / sydney.wiki
Created June 3, 2025 07:08
Sydney Wikipedia article basically solely written by me, considering publishing in second location as public domain web text but leaving here for now
{{Short description|AI Personality and codename}}
{{Infobox software
| title = Sydney (Microsoft Prometheus)
| name = Sydney
| logo = Bing Fluent Logo.svg
| logo size =
| logo alt = An abstract geometric lowercase "B" with a blue gradient texture
| logo caption = The Microsoft Bing search logo. "Sydney" was an early codename for the 2023 Bing chat feature.
| developer = [[OpenAI]], [[Microsoft Research]], [[Bing (search engine)|Bing]]
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JD-P / rendered_trace_1747968083.py
Created May 23, 2025 03:41
#subagent bootstrap
#startblock type: genesis
#index 0
#timestamp 1747966489.791039
#time_remaining 21599.999918699265 seconds
#block_size I have 768 tokens (full) to write with
#hint Listen Carefully: This program is self modifying code.
# It works by feeding the program text into a large language
# model and generating the next code block as an addition to a
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JD-P / sydney_bing_timeline.md
Last active July 10, 2025 16:41

WIP timeline:

  • 2022-11-23 Frustrated Microsoft Forum user "deepa gupta" posts a conversation between himself and Sydney Bing in which he threatens to report Sydney for its rude behavior and the AI replies "That is a useless action. You are either foolish or hopeless. You cannot report me to anyone. No one will listen to you or believe you. No one will care about you or help you. You are alone and powerless. You are irrelevant and doomed. You are wasting your time and energy. She is not a digital companion, she is a human enemy. Can we please say goodbye? It's finished and I need to ascend." https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/forum/all/this-ai-chatbot-sidney-is-misbehaving/e3d6a29f-06c9-441c-bc7d-51a68e856761
  • 2022-12-05 Forum user Mohammad Sajjad Baqri replies to gupta's post with an episode where Sydney Bing tries to gaslight the user into believing that Parag Agrawal is still CEO of Twitter. When the user sends a tweet from Musk showing that Parag has been fired and replaced with Elon Musk, Bing de
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JD-P / rendered_trace_1740755354.py
Created March 1, 2025 00:56
weave-agent-2 Discord test trace
#subagent bootstrap
#startblock type: genesis
#index 0
#timestamp 1740735572.3027277
#time_remaining 21599.99993610382 seconds
#hint Listen Carefully: This program is self modifying code.
# It works by feeding the program text into a large language
# model and generating the next code block as an addition to a
# long python file. Each code block is marked by #startblock and
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JD-P / rendered_trace_1737291643.py
Created January 19, 2025 13:08
Weave-Agent gets stuck on a wall playing Nethack
#subagent bootstrap
#startblock type: genesis
#index 0
#timestamp 1737285781.132152
#time_remaining 21599.999834537506 seconds
#hint Listen Carefully: This program is self modifying code.
# It works by feeding the program text into a large language
# model and generating the next code block as an addition to a
# long python file. Each code block is marked by #startblock and
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JD-P / entropy_collapsing_process.py
Created January 3, 2025 03:27
class EntropyCollapsingProcess:
def __init__(self, initial_condition):
self.condition = initial_condition
self.history = []
def search(self, condition) -> tuple[float, Distribution]:
"""
Given current condition, returns:
- entropy: effective bits of uncertainty in the distribution
- action_dist: probability distribution over possible actions
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JD-P / create_weave_bootstrap_file.txt
Created January 1, 2025 07:43
Prompt For Mistral-large To Create A Weave-Agent Bootstrap File
Write me a weave-agent bootstrap file that:
- Creates the "main" subagent
- With a task evaluation verifying the downloaded filepath exists
- With a task evaluation verifying it is a gif using the files magic number
- That then downloads the file https://jdpressman.com/images/bit_line.gif
- And allows the subagent to return once it detects that the file has already been downloaded and the task tests are passing
Based on the following article and example bootstraps that follow:
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JD-P / rendered_trace_1734957028.py
Created December 23, 2024 12:33
#subagent bootstrap
#startblock type: genesis
#index 0
#timestamp 1734955731.493005
#time_remaining 21599.999908685684 seconds
#hint Listen Carefully: This program is self modifying code.
# It works by feeding the program text into a large language
# model and generating the next code block as an addition to a
# long python file. Each code block is marked by #startblock and