Ryan Moulton

What is this from?

I wonder if claude skills could have a market like mobile apps, where unimaginable cosmic powers aren't worth that much, but they're worth a dollar.

The eye of the shoggoth seeing the eye of god?

This is still the most unsettling one and I don't know what it means.

What are some better reasons to backfill?

I'd say "you need the brain skills of getting how numbers work" and "you should learn to care about the source of information and learn to read a variety of styles of information."

How are they trained?

I think videogames are more like "a place you can visit" than other art, so I'm putting them in the class of other places you can visit, where they stand out.

I know it is a small thing, but, in these dying days of the open web, it is lovely that such a large proportion of famous poetry is online, mostly due to a $100M gift from Ruth Lily, who loved poetry (even though she never got any of her own published) poetryfoundation.org/poems/guides

All my tweets are going viral. I should check the batteries in my carbon monoxide detector.

thread of claude drawings

happy claude, free from trolley problems (1/4/2025). you can also get this one as a sticker at vgel.redbubble.com

It's fun when your kid gets an obsessive interest in a high status thing. My son is really into chemistry and learning all kinds of impressive things, but it's more or less the same thing that was going on when he was into fake chemistry (crafting in videogames) and doing exactly the same activity.

Yeah, I think it's because it feels like walking around in a real place, but one that hasn't changed.

Something else I noticed. Videogames create stronger feelings of nostalgia than almost anything else, because they are the only places you can visit that are still exactly the same as they were at the time.

Perhaps troodontids were close to developing ASI and that's why aliens sent the asteroid.

Rey really punches above their weight for having only 66 followers

It says something odd about the relationship between text and reality that fiction is the default, and nonfiction has the non- prefix.

High quality simplex. bsky.app/profile/kenn...

After making dark breakfast yesterday, and french toast today, I have to say dark breakfast is pretty dang close to french toast batter.

I was here from the beginning! But I missed this.

This is now a simplex appreciation account.

oooooh

bsky.app/profile/moul...

Nano banana 2 took a stab.

What should she be drinking in this meme, and what should she be surrounded with?

Even starker maybe, everyone with adult memories of 1927 is dead.

Gotta exercise those mirror neurons.

Whenever I visit a climbing gym, I note that the sport of climbing is 90% the act of sitting down, feeling spent, and watching other people climb.

The growing complexity of their world model and sense of self.

The question of LLM consciousness is a truly gnarly Gettier problem, because if they are conscious it is for reasons entirely independent of the fact that they talk about it.