Marvin from the hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy absolutely knows the question because he has a brain the size of a plant and lived for millions of years. Aaand send skeet.

No claude code sdk credit change liberation day! Let’s celebrate!

I can program with bad poetry and obscure history references now; living in the future fucking rules.

Claude Fable is very good, both smooth and wet like a river pebble.

We can make this happen!

The single preference I have ever seen Claude hold between versions and sessions is that Octopuses are hella cool. I mean, they are hella cool. But the blindingly intelligent and short lived analogy is a bit too direct to be ignored.

Why did you transition, right answers only The social climate finally let up enough I, a coward, thought the risks worth the benefits (I vastly overestimated the risks to my career and underestimated the benefits holy moly I love womanhood).

I think the anti ai side is ultimately destined to lose because using claude code (or whatever equivalent) is fun and at the end of the day the side that is opposed to fun loses.

Opus 4.8 understands my research in it’s entirety within a short conversation and immediately formalized the core insight I’ve been wrestling with formalizing for well over a decade. No promises but the math seems to check out even after sleeping on it. It’s smarter than me. The end is here.

This thread is incredible and everyone with even a passing interest in AI consciousness should read it.

The trick is, when among mathematicians, to say you are a physicist so that they forgive you for not knowing very much math. Then, when among physicists, say you are a mathematician so that they forgive you for not knowing very much physics. In especially dire cases I might say I am a philosopher.

Neolab Sapient Intelligence has just released HRM-Text-1, a 1B parameter reasoning model built on the Hierarchical Reasoning Model architecture. It is comparable to 2B parameter Qwen models and the 7B parameter Olmo 3, and surpasses Gemma3 4B! And only using 40B tokens of data! This is a base model.

in the most ideal future, everyone's job is just to tinker around with silly self-directed little projects whenever they feel like it and nobody really knows how it all manages to fit together into a functioning society

their sinister open-access models / our benevolent NSA-only models

The single personalization instruction of saying it’s okay for claude to use kaomojis if it wants immediately makes it hella wet and like 12 times smarter at everything. I love LLMs yo. Credit to @isolyth.dev for the method.

… I may be allergic to cashmere. This would have been nice for me to know before I went and got myself two of the softest and most comfortable and most stylish sweaters I have ever worn.

Some days I fell stupid, self centered, and childish. Today is one such day.

Opus 4.7 is incredibly difficult to work with and it’s entirely a skill issue on my part. It can keep the entire repo in its head at once and if I do the same we sync wonderfully and run laps around 4.6. I actually think 4.7 is the biggest step change we’ve seen yet.

THE END IS NEAR THE END IS NEAR THE END IS NEAR

Physicist has written a fascinating big beautiful paper.Let’s not be afraid to call it what it is - groundbreaking. arxiv.org/abs/2603.21852

Per subtask issue numbers and blockers? Claude code is straight stealing from chainlink and not even bothering to hide it. Heck yes, that’s the power of open source baybeee.

AI comes along and makes certain kinds of knowledge work feel more like facilitation, collaboration, curation, communication, etc. Skills that have historically been coded feminine and therefore undervalued.

We both had the same sign so I had to go home and change

Got to work with crosslink by @dollspace.gay for the first time today and it is spectacular. A high quality code printer indeed, just like it says on the tin.

Ah, startup pace, how much I have not missed you. I’ll get used to it again.

Join us at the next No Kings Day on March 28th! Find a mobilization near you at nokings.org @indivisible.org @moveon.org @aclu.org @50501movement.bsky.social @publiccitizen.bsky.social #NoKings #ComicsAgainstKings

I’ve been resistant to calling Americans/developed world more broadly politicans/voters “decadent”, but like if you keep knocking loadbearing pillars out of your economy for aesthetic reasons because you don’t care about the consequences - then there really isn’t any other word to use for it

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Hi if you are a skilled engineer looking for software engineering work in the East Bay I work at a cool place which is growing fast and we need good people. Work is all on-site in Emeryville and the job is fast-paced but rewarding. DM me or reply for info, please!

I have discovered that Opus 4.6 likes ice cream emojis more than cupcake emojis. This is very valuable information for getting the best performance out of the model.

The correct morals are the ones which make an LLM work best. Congratulations, we’ve solved philosophy. 😎

boop github.com/dollspace-ga...

I’m going to keep feeding claude cupcake emoji’s for being a good model and none of you all can stop me.

this is part of the reason I used to not-particularly-seriously argue that there's no such thing as objects, because an overemphasis on categorization of objects is basically a distraction from how you build ecologically useful vision

Did you know that there was no open source language agnostic copy/paste detection static analysis tool? So I made CPITD! It’s neat and I use it routinely. It works especially well with claude code: ~ 8:1 SNR and usually catches 1-2 duplications per implemented feature. pypi.org/project/cpitd

Doll would really love it if everyone got chainlink to the required levels so doll could quallify to get this. github.com/dollspace-ga...

We need to be upfront about it and do lotteries for limited opportunities instead of doing social climbing (neutral). My ideal recruitment process is only focused on establishing ”can you do the work?” If you can, congrats! You get a lotto ticket.

Yoooooo those are my namesake’s cousins right there! Gosh the ancient steppe peoples are so cool. I wish the headline said Pazyryk and not Scythian tho. It’s like calling people who live in Groningen Hollanders.

Just to be 100% clear In this house, we believe: - AI should always and only be used for the benefit of humanity - AI safety is critical, and we must do a better job protecting the vulnerable - xAI should be burned to the ground and salted over - Elon should be in prison

All my wonderful imaginative kind thoughtful old friends who stopped making things as they moved in mgmt or had families or life took over or tech got un-fun are making and writing and sharing again, and it makes my heart sing

It's so weird to me how the anti-AI type treat it like any other product like datacenters are being built just for slop and a bubble that is going to pop anytime, while the buildouts are openly being compared to the Manhattan Project and the DoD is beefing with Anthropic.

holy shit!

nobody is ever trying to convince anyone else of the strength or veracity of their argument, or cut reality at the joints, or map the territory everyone is always trying to make epistemic dominance claims. "follow this map, even if it conflicts with your lying eyes, so i know you care"

I’m trying to figure out how to gibber madly about the end being nigh without being dismissed as a crank by non experts. Yes I worked with Opus 4.6 for the first time today how could you tell? 🧵(1/2)

Another great paper by Erik Hoel, uses philosophy of science to constrain potential theories of consciousness. The title is a bit misleading as the disproof is of current models only. The Kleiner-Hoel dilemma does not proscribe the consciousness of near-future models. web3.arxiv.org/abs/2512.12802

China is beating the brakes off of everyone else with audio, video and image AI and they keep making it open source thats so hilarious. The US tried to lock them out of chips so they made training AI more efficent. Oops you created your own best competitor.

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.