Axe Ghost. Now with Fragments mode

"add a note to claude.md that we always use pipeline to talk to the ghosts"

very normal programming, current year

i'm used to being penalised/banned for expressing unpopular views. but you've been very clear that you've made your mind up. go in peace.

I'm using chainlink by @dollspace.gay to allow Claude to do issue tracking and I'm finding it very helpful

Open models continue to pace closed models on a 9 month lag.

shades-wearing hare materialising

& censorship is 'nothing but' a dysphemism for curation/moderation.

claim: a thing that's 'worse but cheaper' isn't actually worse, for you, *if you end up choosing to use it instead*; the now unacceptably high opportunity cost of the expensive version has to be factored in.

you don't value those features?

that's fine. you asked what the point was. I answered.

'who cares'
everyone who cares about:
stealth taxation
regressive wealth transfer
price signal distortion
asset inflation
planning erosion
moral hazard

central banks debase currency continually.

'spend rather than hoard it's
non-issue because time preference isn't zero.

the point is decentralised hard money, no actor can unilaterally debase it (unlike fiat currencies).

that doesn't follow

needs uh, a bit more hardening against jailbreaks

first time round, maybe ten years ago? it took me a couple of weeks to build v1. with claude, v2 took ~2 days. with a good deal more polish.

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this guy

Two abstract grayscale images side by side, user is asked to click the most face-like one.

resurrected an old project for doing pareidolia reps💪
click the image that looks more like a face. repeat.
nb. feels a bit uncanny after a while
facemaker.redshiftmedia.com

If you see this, post walker

It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until the tests pass.

or even small accounts. to a first approximation, social media users can't reason/read.

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oh yeah 😅 tx!

I feel like this is going to be a useful QT image perhaps.

The Human of the Gaps is a logical fallacy as counterproductive as it’s theistic counterpart. The domain of uniquely human capacities is an ever shrinking one. In hanging our hopes there we are destined for disappointment.

people who don't learn from bad rhetoric in history are doomed to repeat it
supermedicine.substack.com/p/human-of-t...

very interesting! noob question: i installed the plugin for my repo, what should i be looking for as signs that it's active and doing something :D

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in LANGUAGE MACHINES, Leif Weatherby describes this tendency of "remainder humanism" in academic writing about LLMs, a seeking after whatever remains, once we lay out first what is similar between human and machine language-processing, and calling whatever is left over "humanity"

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly