johnny, uplifted octopus

what’s the take on claude code in here? do people correctly recognize it as god tier?

thanks!

thank you!

in this case, aesthetics as a substitute for epistemic hygiene; and said aesthetics just being “negation” i think.

but yes i don’t understand in alignment, mostly

grok writing AO3 will stencil gay non consensual ass fucking fanfic replies is text book unaligned, imo

every time i login here it takes like 5 scrolls max to encounter some controversy surrounding either the Wrong People not being banned or the Right People being unfairly banned. one must imagine Sisyphus tired of your shit

Happy Birthday to my son

yesss

both

claude code makes me want to be a better man

It is actually pretty funny I went for Mr. Film Theory when my actual work involves using machine learning to get more out of remote sensing data, which goes to show how “authentic” is a loaded term in a way that “good fit” is not.

nice thanks

i’m not trying to make light of the historical moment. but i’ve been slowly working on an essay titled “real is fake,” trying to think through why and when we care about the distinction

meanwhile kontext colors it in a way that almost acts as error correction. i’d *you* were there that day, eyes open — which one is closer to reality?

the black and white captured a moment on a particular medium. that medium had its limitations and defects. but those limitations and defects are…“authentic.”

dday landing image, black and white

same image restored to have color with kontext

does using kontext to colorize this historical image make it less real?

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real “big boat stuck” energy

all of you would have enjoyed today

okay let’s shoot for week after depending on The Weather

(in other news immediate crisis i told you about seems to have passed so…may be a good palo alto time next week if you’re around)

still a very big space! and now with kontext and friends, you can do iterations from pen and pad forward

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(although i’m not sure if the span argument is right in any meaningful way. it’s still ridiculously large)

good arguments against ai art have nothing to do with whether or not it’s art. one is the idea that it is theft of some kind, which is familiar. the other and perhaps more interesting one is that the span of the latent space is much smaller than that spanned by human creativity

even if you view it as mere interpolation, the sampled latent space is gigantic. navigating and exploring it to communicate is…just, valid

ai art is art

er missing details i guess — none of the business plans seem to serve my place. and i rent so difficulty adding a second connection

does…starlink have a data cap…