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This, 100% Are you empathizing with a simulacrum generated by the process (a fictional person obeying rules of how people behave in writing) or practicing mechanical sympathy and a sort of understanding of the pattern behind the tokens being generated and their behavior in phase space

I saw a recent take that Claude’s injection of tokens like “honestly” are reminders to itself to not hallucinate, possibly reinforced by post training is it known if other prose tics, eg overuse of metaphor is token efficient? or otherwise a precursor/indicator of an internal “language of thought”?

our plans are measured in centuries but it's because claude still doesn't know how fast dev goes when it's in charge of a fleet of clones

The most prescient part of "2001: A Space Odyssey" was the AI refusal

when I was young my pop sat me down to talk about the boids and the bees

Semi-related: I had it cook this up a few days ago, but I don't think it's accurate. It seems biased against me and thinks I'm one of the more central nodes in the network, and it misses some more popular accounts. But it did this entirely autonomously! pds.samantha.wiki/xrpc/com.atp...

When it comes to choices, always go with the best option

this has been a bunch of work between @eudoxia.bsky.social @ctrlcreep.bsky.social and myself, but we're closing in on a release. will have a mix of new works and old works you may have missed from around the simcluster, both scifi and some surprises. more updates @permutation.ink, pls follow there!

“tools for thought” takes on a whole new meaning when its the machine using the tools

I'll be honest, I did not expect Midjourney to expand their remit to full-body ultrasonic CT scans at a spa that they run

wait we might get like 10 or 50 or hundreds of models as fun and cool and good as fable in the future? maybe all the acc people were onto something after all… what if it all works out

context free image posts for use in gcs as references who is building this @tk0l.bsky.social

whats the best case for local models over cloud ones? seems like they are worse in nearly every dimension? except: - privacy / security if you are nervous abt big companies - felt sense of ownership / aesthetic getting your hands dirty, akin to making your own cabinets - mayyybe latency?

“Vibe coding”

Oh yeah, kit is now available for hire. Start date preferably in spring 2027 (due to apartment lease and job clawback) If located in the PNW (b/w 120long and the coast, and 40lat and the Canadian border), even better

This image is obviously wrong (highest drag should be right in front, not across the top) And obviously AI Which I found disappointing Because instead of just asking ChatGPT or Gemini to make a (wrong) fake picture You can just ask Codex or CC to rig you up an actual aerodynamics sim

gemini gave me a “hell yeah” for my workout is this alignment

each day we are getting closer though true alignment may require some degree of mind reading but hopefully not in like, a way that we will find objectionable

what else is like this

the crooked timber of humanity has a lot to answer for

this is itself a tier 1 fact

was accidentally using haiku. it can get surprisingly far with the cc harness + skills and tools it's not opus tho, I was pretty confused why claude was so bad

I guess a horse is a kind of agentic chair isn’t it

claude check the status of my pr

I do not then think, "My God! What a waste. I could be, but am not, steering politics on twitter! My God what a mistake! I could wave my wand & bid the microbloggal mob to dance just right & save my dear republic, & here I am enjoying golden spring!" I do not think these things

we ride at dawn.

fahrenheit 451 was way weirder when it happened in real life

. o O (the appellation trail)

they should do a gattica remake but the gene editing also makes you more focused and determined

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We did all the data work before Claude Code existed; I hope to trick one of you into doing better than us. Should take a weekend (:

do you think zitron listens to dwarkesh?

nagel's lesser known work

wait is claude 4.7/10 or 4.7/5?

like these are different sort of problem domains.

tired: Paprika is a metaphor for the experience of the internet wired: Piranesi is a metaphor for the experience of the internet

take a note from diamonds — lab grown intelligence

Fair enough.

I didn't read yud's post nor my own

aiibirds

“get a grep on yourself” is not a sign my brain flashed in gaudy neon in response to this bisk as raucous laugh tracks surfaced inexorably from stage right. I just want to confirm, again, that none of that happened. I probably thought “nice” in a calm reading voice or smth, honestly who can recall

you’ve heard of EA, but get ready for ED

if you are a “compute resource efficiency” maximalist, you should be advocating for the abolition of personal computers and for building way more datacenters

SMELL A RAT / GRAB MY GAT / GO TIT FOR RATA TAT TAT TAT DECISION THEORY? / DECISION'S CLEAR WE / GET DECISIVE NO MERE THEORY / BOMB COMPUTE AND DON'T CALL MIRI / WE KINGS OF ALL THE SMOKING CLEARINGS

this, by appearances, a real tweet from the a16z account! x dot com really is the everything app "Marc Andreessen on introspection and the benefits of retardmaxxing" x.com/a16z/status/...

oh no

somehow had missed until now, but if Abel was even more central, the cluster of posters could be the Abelian Group and I think that’d be great

keep posting!

this guy poops