Hackworth

If I look in a mirror, will they detect when I’m lying to myself? Take my money.

Our timeline’s Rache Bartmoss is bound to act sooner or later.

Dehumanization is this admin’s butter. They slather it over everything they deem other, and usually with the same ghoulish “humor” we see here. Honest journalism should be relentlessly disgusted by this, and I don’t see much of it. Just like with all the cries of election tampering from the right, the cries of “fake news” weren’t a lamentation of its existence. They just wanted to be the ones driving it.

Yeah, what people mean by “smart” is to a great extent really “attentive.” Raw IQ (to the extent that it’s measurable) has to be significantly different before it matters more than attention. And the thing about attention is that it can wain, be captured, be exhausted. The act of maintaining/directing it changes tenor from moment to moment, decade to decade.

Mako

Brother Justin in Carnivàle

How about a lie of omission to myself?

While it’s one of my favorite words, “inexorably” does not fit here.

I prefer Perfect Circle’s Fiddle And The Drum.

Need to get my ham radio antenna set up. Dunno how much longer this internet thing’s going to be anything but a work requirement.

200 messages straight […] 70 consecutive messages

Grok’s not the brightest, but at those lengths you’re definitely hitting context rot

“Role-playing machine” is where it seems like the research is ending up. Language always has an implied communicator, and therefore an implied persona to adopt. LLMs are foremost maintaining a contextual role. Post-training is an attempt to keep them in the Assistant role, but (particularly as contexts get large) it’s trivial to push them into nearly any role imaginable. We made an improv bot that’s so good at playing a coder that it can actually code, kinda.

The control group spent time practicing, and the AI group just watched the AI solve problems. The performance gap can potentially be described by the efficacy of practice alone. But the increase in skipped problems is a good illustration of cognitive offloading gone awry. Too bad the researchers didn’t ask them why they chose to skip.

Ditto on Cyberpunk. I think the only games I have more hours played on are EQ, TF2, and Rogue Legacy 2.

Death to Chronos?

Grindstone (iOS, Switch, Steam)

They then proceeded with the enslaving, sans computer.

Thoughts Not Bots

My brain automatically tries to resolve approximate rhymes. In this case, to “THOTs Not Bots.”

As a video producer, the AI baked into the Adobe suite is very useful (generative fill, harmonize, and neural filters in Photoshop, generative extend and AI noise reduction in Premiere, lots of older stuff in After Effects).

As far as LLMs go, I get a lot out of talking through things with Claude, or coding silly little toys that only matter to me. But I’d never trust an agent with tools or access. And Anthropic’s own research is a good place to start for why that won’t change anytime soon.