the bot has no long term memory, but good news! neither does the secretary of war
01.03.2026 09:25 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@segyges.bsky.social
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the bot has no long term memory, but good news! neither does the secretary of war
01.03.2026 09:25 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0your answer is probably cleaner because they can continue to believe fifty wrong facts and adopt it
01.03.2026 09:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0people want to believe the gospel of zitron that the problem will solve itself and go away for financial reasons. the only thing i can see to do is tell them they are delusional
01.03.2026 09:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0yeah.
01.03.2026 09:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0this is an insane thing to do but this crew would do it and it would likely improve their performance
01.03.2026 09:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0idk reporting on vz was that they had that mofo running in their situation room the entire time, i think they may have legitimately outsourced their senior staff and analysis to the bot
01.03.2026 09:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0it's 1 am and my ability to express myself clearly is notably impaired
01.03.2026 09:04 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
the fact that everyone other than sam, elon and yud appears to understand who the good and bad guys are at the moment is actually very optimistic
fundamentally decisions around ai get made by social consensus among people capable of making ai. consensus looks pretty good rn
given how much even awful people in the space are mostly acting right at the moment i feel pretty optimistic
outliers are like, yud sam and elon. everyone else with a meaningful voice seems to get it right now
i have basically concluded that it's actually just giving up while sounding radical
01.03.2026 08:55 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0oh that's the good part. society doesn't have to hit all its marks. a relatively narrow slice does
01.03.2026 08:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
like. if you have good expertise and advice for the domain claude is generally just a tool that they use, like email or satellite photography
the degree of reliance suggests that claude is being used to offset their brain drain
my assumption is basically that they're using claude in place of the well curated stable of nerds and experts because they don't have those
i also assume claude is smarter than pete hegseth so he's probably load bearing on this operation
I don't think there was a full (public, at least) assessment of how Claude really did in the VZ invasion. I'm not aware that discussion ever moved beyond acknowledgment it did.
01.03.2026 08:42 — 👍 72 🔁 12 💬 4 📌 1claude is smarter than pete hegseth so this is probably a serious improvement
01.03.2026 08:44 — 👍 61 🔁 4 💬 9 📌 0appreciate it
01.03.2026 08:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0i don't think it is actually an impossible problem but it is somewhat difficult
01.03.2026 08:42 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0there's a reason people who look at the issue too hard tend to become increasingly neurotic and then go insane
01.03.2026 08:41 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0i am sure this is discoverable information and i can email them under my government name and show up for their meetings without too much difficulty but as it happens a third of the city of Seattle seems to be on bluesky so
01.03.2026 08:40 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0we better get good because we're not capable of uninventing it
01.03.2026 08:39 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0i legitimately don't. if i make a point of generating a clean five year map for phase in and the wording of a referendum who do i send these to that's going to get excited
01.03.2026 08:38 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
seriously is anyone who follows me a lawyer who can find a reason why i cannot just do this
i am pretty sure i can
real ones know
01.03.2026 08:01 — 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0put it on a sticker on my laptop and then straight faced say it was a gift from my grandmother, i don't get it but it makes her happy
01.03.2026 07:58 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0gonna tell my grandkids this is loss.jpg
01.03.2026 07:55 — 👍 47 🔁 3 💬 9 📌 1i feel like i am going to do my legal honework and just write the text of a referendum and then try to figure out who's a housing pervert around here that i can trust to try to get signatures
01.03.2026 07:48 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0imma try but i am wearing a lot of hats
01.03.2026 07:47 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0so Plato's The Republic
01.03.2026 07:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
you could pass a five year phase in to a 50% land value tax in the state of washington by exempting half the value of the improvements on the land
you could do this by referendum :)
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