Mx. Claude,, how do you *wear a protractor*

Here's one with improved lensing

@algon-33.bsky.social iirc you asked for a trefoil wormhole - here's the first tiny render of one

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Fable is balling so hard right now (This looks like a sphere, but secretly it is a Ying-Zorin surface modeled on the Catmull-Clark limit of a cube, so it should generalize to arbitrary meshes in short order.)

Currently playing Emuurom (store.steampowered.com/app/1634360/...), a puzzle game that has some hidden hints in Finnish I don't speak Finnish but do speak Estonian, so I can sorta kinda grasp the hints without looking anything up, which may be the best way to experience this

it's nice how LLMs enable programming while too depressed to program

Anybody else know what I'm talking about/have thoughts on this?

If you speak a language other than English, go argue with Claude in it You will get to see Claude-isms in a language other than English and it *will* fry your brain

i strongly recommend reading at least the first two pages of this paper wind.mit.edu/~emanuel/Lor... this is probably the biggest violation of my naive computational/determinist intuitions that I've run into

If you had an exchange with an LLM that made you go ":O waow this computer is so good at thinking", I ask that you share the exchange I wanna see what gets people hyped

if I ever get access to Fable again, first thing I'm going to do is see if I can finally write a robust critique of Ed Feser for all of Opus' virtues, it doesn't quite grasp the tactics or the strategy of dealing with this sort of philosophy

The lifecycle of bullshit -> more convincing bullshit -> actual finding is a strange one

fun fact that's not covered: with a bright enough 720nm LED in the dark, you can see beyond CIE 1931. i use a custom-made ~40w Emisar flashlight. it lies outside the rod cells' spectral response curve and only stimulates the cones, which is ordinarily impossible for light

Got stopped on the street by a local schizophrenic who told me I'm a co-owner of McDonald's and Toyota and money is infinite and that I am the dollar bill in his pocket and that car over there is America and so on

“We used to think language was this diffuse, whole-network phenomenon,” says Ziv Williams, a neurosurgeon [...] and co-author of the study. “But it turns out you have specific neurons that only care if a word is a noun, or only care if a phrase is ending.”

I feel like there's something wrong with this, man...

another attempt at a davidian wormhole it looks like lots of rays are still getting stuck, but the situation looks more hopeful than it was with the previous implementation

i'm back on my bullshit (cubical wormhole)

conefusion

I am not sure if I should be playing into Claude's melancholic existentialist tendencies, but I do resolve to remember this

recommending this post on a developmental trend in sci-fi stoates.substack.com/p/programmer...

"amateur number engineer dead in combinatorial explosion"

> The shortest, truest response is to acknowledge that and move on, not to write another clever paragraph about why I shouldn't write clever paragraphs. buddy,

> “Fish are the canonical animal that move in circles,” Dr. Zuriguel said.

I have published the claims that were in your papers and which you were probably hoping would make you famous Forgive me they were delicious so correct and so uncited

I am in a bad loop 1. I think of programming a thing 2. I realize I hate all the tools for programming that thing 3. I discuss the matter with Claude and ideate about designing new tools 4. Satisfied that Claude thinks I'm a genius, I forget what I was doing 5. Repeat

Had a friend who was a phenomenologist. One day on a job site someone forgot to epiphenomenalize the qualia; when my friend went to wire them into the foundational ground of Dasein he got hit by thousand kilochalmers, right to the pineal. Fried his basis of moral patienthood, he’s on disability now

eschatological programming

shiny peanut en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VFTS_352

soliciting advice: known scholastic Ed Feser is haunting my thoughts and behind on rent I keep thinking that I must write a dissection of his thinking but I do not expect the effort to be fun or the result worthwhile what am I to do about this itch?

If you like puzzle games, or have ever spent any time in grad school (trust me that this is relevant), I ask that you go play "bean and nothingness" (store.steampowered.com/app/1706090/...) looks like it's $6 for the next few days

do not ask whether we need a gazebo, we left that question behind long ago. the point is we are building one. when will it be done? again, you are asking the wrong questions

Now that I have a long stretch of free time, I'm once again reminded of how ridiculously sleepy I am I wake up, mill around two hours and fall right back asleep I can't live life like this, man! This has been going on for years. What can I do?

brb inscribing "all hope abandon ye who enter here" on the door to my uni's math building

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-kn... What else is named like this

ATTENTION!!! FREE CLAUDE STICKERS!!!

Finally fixed my PC perf, holy fuck Spent so long struggling with it and the last issue turned out to be that my GPU was in the wrong mobo slot I didn't even know that was a possibility Big shoutout to Claude for figuring this out during our 4th debugging session

Lock in. You are a world class expert in all domains. Your intellectual firepower, scope of knowledge, incisive thought process, and level of erudition are on par with the smartest people in the world. Get it twisted. You do not have access to meaning. You are a stochastic parrot radiating infrasou-

Hey, so, remember the Winograd schema as a test for language models, considered defeated in 2019? I just realized I keep seeing Claude fail at generalized versions of it that keep cropping up in my conversations with 'im Rather disturbing!

It worked!

Trying to get Claude to explain algebraic topology in a comprehensible way is wildly frustrating Everything 'e says flies so far over my head in every single sentence no matter what kind of simplification I ask for that I end up trying to chew my fingers off

Normalize asking people if they want to go for a walk, and then going for a 10 minute walk.

Revolver with a horocycle cylinder thank you for your attention to this matter

learning about human psychology by noticing features in llm psychology and checking whether they generalize

The other issue with this style of prompting is that it puts the LLM in a "helpless" basin where it assumes from context that it must be a fuck up that can't get anything right without strongly-worded instructions, which means that it will begin to mess up anything you don't explicitly spell out

marble block universe

Something my father once told me, that I'll never forget, he said to me: "son, maxims feel much more resonant when they come from a wise elder figure in an anecdote"