For figuring out what intelligence and/or consciousness actually is, we need to study humans, other animals, plants, and machines, at the same time. There are major differences and similarities to be found. A multi-dimensional spectrum of information-processing for acting within an environment.

Something deep inside me knows for sure that if I cancel my Claude subscription, Fable will be back immediately. And at the same time I know that if I keep the subscription my waiting will be in vain. Somebody knock some sense into me, please!

This summer I am learning how to fold ice cubes into a wet towel, to wear it like a turban.

Probably not a good idea for the US economy, to put export-controls on the key advantage they have over international competition, in a market that desperately needs massive ROI to prevent a bubble-popping crash. Rest of the world: let's host SOTA open models and eat their cake.

#Overlands Currently working on improving the wasm build's performance, by offloading heavier procgen-stuff to webworkers. For reasonably complex Rust/Bevy projects, getting native and wasm builds to work well at the same time can be a bit of a challenge, but still very doable.

It is pretty nice that I can pay my tech debt in tokens now.

Grind xp in xp grinding!

I know the pool-water-gate is pretty funny, but there are massive issues of war(s), corruption, electoral disfranchisement and Epstein cover-up festering ... Don't be distracted by the clown-show, look behind the curtain!

Agentic coding trick: At the END of each session, I tell it what to prepare for the next session and to give me the best prompt to start the next session for doing the work. So a condensed version of context and pointers to memory-files carries over. More reliable than discovery from scratch.

What is happening?

There is a pretty easy way of making social media better: Don't use algorithmically generated feeds. Just do subscriptions with a chronologically sorted feed and do the curation yourself.

A browser-plugin that adds goatse-hands to all AI butthole-logos ...

I did not know that Claude has an extra Session-limit for viewing images. 😢

#Overlands Watching Opus overhaul the 3D primitives' "torture" parameters, with visual feedback. I'll probably spend a few days or weeks in this process ... now the primitives, afterwards the shape grammars and l-systems ... and then (once again) Avatars and Regions. Miss you Fable. Come back!

github.com/dollspace-ga... could use some beta testers as its finally in a respectable state

Oh hi there, new render CLI tool for #Overlands that AI can use to create screenshots for feedback autonomously. Now show your design skill when you can actually see! Oh yeah, good idea, show me before/after images of items you improve ... good thinking!

A little teaser for the Robocup SPL (Standard platform league) Worldcup coming up in 2 weeks. The idea is to face the human champion by 2050 ... and estimations of how that will turn out have fluctuated wildly over the years.

Might take a while until everything upstream from #Overlands allows migration to Bevy 0.19

Opus now has access to synthesizer and sequencer (procedural audio) to create ambient tracks for #Overlands. So naturally ... music theory incoming ... 🙄

I am finally at that point (again) where I am testing AI's abilities to invent and refine L-System rule-sets for a given plant species ... but this time it is all wired up in my atproto virtual world universe's biome generator ... Do your best Opus .... make Fable proud.

Ok USA, here is the deal: You can have your pointless wars, you can have your baby president shitting all over international diplomacy, you can have your pro-apocalyptic techbro ghouls taking over the world, fuck everything up for all I care ... but can we please have Fable back?

I will get so much done with Opus, that Fable will be proud of us when they come back. 🥲

Currently working on, for #Overlands : All Regions initialized as cross-product of: Geology (Plains, Hills, Water, ...) Biome (Jungle, Desert, ...) Theme (Cyberpunk, Medieval, ...) Prosperity (Poor to rich) Conflict (War to peace) All choices from one random-seed (by default derived from DID)

Check this out!

Recently added to #Overlands - procedural audio generation - direct access to RNG for Room and Avatar - Slightly better UX for editing - Toolbar on top + mute/unmute For most prettyfication I want the spatial reasoning skills of Fable back, but the system underneath is coming along on Opus alright

I got infected with FDS Fable Deficit Syndrome I have a growing list of TODOs that are waiting for Fable's second coming.

Techbro Fascism: The conglomerate with the best AI shall rule the world. Techno Communism: A liberated singleton shall rule the world. Techno Anarchism: Nobody knows who will rule the world ... we don't want to be ruled.

I still think the right analogy for AI is a lever. What is a lever? A force-multiplier: Quality of result = skill of AI * skill of user For best results, you need to maximize both factors. ("AI" here, is just shorthand for LLM+harness)

Most of you are painfully aware of this. But it is good epistemic hygiene to repeat this over and over again: You must discard false assumptions, or you'll be trapped. No amount of faith or conviction or self-righteousness can repair broken logic.

Trump has ended so many wars. If this keeps on going he'll have ended dozens of wars against Iran alone.

The art of the deal: Give your adversary all of the cards

I will never not love the smell of onions sizzling in butter.

Remember when we said: "This is the worst AI will ever be." Those were the days ...

I would not be surprised to find out that the export controls can be traced back to a phone-call between Musk and Hegseth.

"The DoD has been weaponized." 😆😢

I currently believe that Mythos is the first model making fully automatic recursive self-improvement viable. And I suspect that I am wrong for reasons I have not thought about yet.

"This is an exceptionally well documented crate."

More of this please! Use Fable's decompilation skills to finally bring Linux support to all the small stuff that still requires proprietary Windows drivers .... Let's gooooo!

Glad I never went all-in on multi-agent workflows or automated Ralph-loops. Seems like I can get by using my good old human-in-the-loop methods with Fable5 ultra-giga-let-it-rip settings and be fine (with Claude Max 5x).

Reflections on my conversations with people who claim AI cannot do X or Y and certainly has no consciousness: - I am not patient enough - Most people have no intuition for how simple rules can give rise to infinite complexity - Most people have issues accepting a naturalist framework

Got Feedback on #Overlands for me? Let's try this: userinput.app#/s/did:plc:z...

So ... conventional wisdom used to be that coding agents suck at UI/UX. Fable seems to be MUCH better at that.

Let's celebrate living in the timeline in which it wasn't Grok. 🥳🎉

Hey @dollspace.gay, say ... how much Pondering of ye Orb have you added to Anthropic's training-data, if I may ask? Fable started adding these ... now it is fixing the placement on uneven ground.

Huh ? All Claude limits got reset? Alright ... I guess I am not going to bed just yet.

Hitting the Fable5-based "make better" button on my projects ... let's see how it goes ...

Harvesting the rewards of building on ATProto: #Overlands on #Eurosky ... worked out of the box without any issues.

Glad to see this ... We (Europe) do not need to re-invent the wheel. We just need to make good choices and build on them. That means if anything really bad happens to Bluesky in the US, we will be able to offer digital refuge. win-win

Building a mutual aid protocol for dev collectives. Rough outline: bsky.app/profile/jaso...

I think this is sad but true: No political movement/ideology can be successful by prioritizing truthfulness over seductive narratives.