TFW you schedule the company offsite so it ends the day before fable comes back 💪🙂↕️
July 2026
I'm getting increasingly realm-pilled
fireworks in the distance... half-new-years I guess?
@henrytdowling @lisatomic5 economic incentives, yes, but it's also way harder to posttrain them on on everything other than coding because it's harder to create tasks where you can verify results
"writing stupid things *in the style of smart things*!" = the inverse of when you meet someone who doesn't speak your language and you implicitly assume they're as unintelligent as a native speaker would be if they spoke so poorly. "dumb".
@lisatomic5 yeah, a new discernment is needed
@garrytan yeah instead I'm sitting here staring at that fine print > We'll begin restoring access tomorrow "begin" ☹️
@LuciferMornens @leannebuilding @garrytan > In the near term, some routine tasks like coding and debugging will fall back to Opus 4.8. This could imply what Leanne said, but presumably they mean something more like "there will be lots of false positives on fallbacks", because the next sentence says > We’ll continue to
@tautologer 21st century privateers
@HunterGlenn *gestures broadly*
@repligate > proud of Anthropic and proud of you in whatever role you played right, ofc ofc ofc Mythos was involved in the negotiations. but I hadn't quite considered it from this angle
you may not be interested in totalizing memeplexes, but totalizing memeplexes are interested in you
you may not be interested in egregores, but egregores are interested in you
@mykola yeah Opus 4.8 is definitely gonna be the one picking up the phone for that one
there's no commitment I can make to avoid the foolishness of committing to The Way
"you cannot protestant-work-ethic your way out of the protestant work ethic" - @sunofdopamine
most people don't realize this but the reason AI writing sucks is that way too much time & effort was spent on it
"the intention war started before November 2028" some Christopher Nolan shit right there
@geoffanders @truthscrolling @lydialaurenson > "the intention war started before November 2028" some Christopher Nolan shit right there 😂
@mattgoldenberg nice
@RobertHaisfield @Sauers_ in general I've found that talking to Claude inside the Claude code harness is just a bit like talking to an engineer who's caffeinated and sitting in front of their IDE; fine if you want them whipping up a prototype, but not the ideal context for a big picture brainstorm
@CurtTigges @tenobrus not like, a place to meet the people in person, but if you want to check out the rabbit hole... lesswrong.com/posts/6ZnznCaT…
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Ok I’m starting a thread of examples of AI copywriting I’m encountering in the wild it’s spooky to encounter what feels lik…
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my favorite move for conflict-aversion is “actually I disagreed with you the whole time, I just didn’t say anything”
@chrislakin huh say more? like as a way to break through the awkwardness of having been smiling and nodding?
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this whole emerging tradition of claude folk art (eg @voooooogel's claude comics) is fascinating to me and it's interestin…
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What smart people on the internet need to realize is that the people doing the most badass, death-defying, impressive shit a…
@visakanv wait u have #2 now? or is the bassinet stroller inaccurate? I'm so out of the loop
celebrating america is good I like his tongue-in-cheek "...depending on who you asking" also the spirit of america is a funny one; it has at its core a deep distrust towards government, but tremendous courage and optimism about it. that spirit is alive in this song.
@nosilverv right I mean it's like the metaphor of an LLM being in a deeper cave than Plato's cave, overhearing people talk about the shadows those people are seeing on the wall but not seeing them themselves
leaving aside the phrasing and the weird dog, there is a real insight here. doesn't make it not cheap/cruel tho
might fuck around and build this
Wow I'm supposedly a D-tier cult leader Not sure whether to be offended or proud
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your life needs to be full of insane problems where you happen to be the exact optimal person to solve them …
shits gotten so weird in SF I see someone with lots of makeup on and prereflectively assume 'transgirl'. cisgirls just don't do such big doses of gender lol
@mymollybloom I more just mean "random stranger I see on the street" which is not quite my circles although it ofc isn't a randomly sampled san franciscan
update: I have a tiny demo working, ready for a couple moots to test. currently BYO API key tho you can spend up to $1 of mine kicking the tires. gonna add "pay for tokens in-app" soon
@visakanv !!! congrats we've got #2 coming in Sept, so uhh, we're catching up
@chrislakin who don't say anything? or who later say something?
@TeeBaTee_do @utotranslucence only way to keep the toddler from undoing all of my work lol
@aphercotropist @littlebayschool these jaws were made for chewing and that's just what they'll uh
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Malcolm and I derived these vows by mashing up the traditional catholic vows with the buddhist eight worldly winds. An…
Thread · Song lyrics about love that learns and alters · 1 of 7 tweets
Love is what made you and love is what lets you unfold You'll understand all of that so much more as you grow old Welcome to life! You're here and you're part of it all An infinite question says hi as a being so small
wrote a verse of I Will Be In Love to celebrate my baby, over many sleepy lullabies in the newborn era (awhile ago; she's almost 2 now) IWBIL song made a great lullaby already
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As an eldest daughter who got somewhat parentified, I think the line is: Whatever your family responsibility is, do y…
"That smells like a real prediction and I don't trust smells anymore" amazing
@jconorgrogan "I came here to smell roses and kick ass, and I don't trust smells anymore."
@strangestloop that'd defeat the point of the deixis. that's like saying "whenever someone uses the word "me", they put their own name in parentheses. the thing you're looking for is basically this little byline. would be nice if it were inserted next to "tpot" tho 👍
@Thomasdelvasto_ 🫡 shout out to yall for figuring it out before committing takes courage
@strangestloop *sigh* gonna try to view my toddler this way haha
@benlandautaylor nice. reminds me of this excerpt from the beginning of A Positive Account of Property Rights by David Friedman daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Prope…
@eigenrobot yeah literally we just need to talk about it enough and set up a website that talks about it and then bug journalists til they write about that website then article -> wikipedia currently generations are getting named by one guy who just makes a website guys we can make websites
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we gotta make it gen bravo this is unfair to them
@pragueyerrr @strangestloop I wanna hear about this
@aphercotropist have you read Retrieving Realism? I think you'd like it
@BecomingCritter nice. I'd enjoy reading your rendition of it!
@DefenderOfBasic @Thomasdelvasto_ @TylerAlterman @evalladen in what ways was Islam an upgrade from what came before? in terms of evil, tech debt, etc? either for the arabs who converted willingly, or for those who got islam via conquest
@soundrotator yeah, Gay & Katie Hendricks have one escape for this which is "everybody is 100% responsible". obviously requires everyone to adopt but when they do it's powerful everyone takes on the view that any single one of them could (have) single-handedly solve(d) the problem
@soundrotator I sometimes run into a parallel issue which isn't per se about verbal apology but simply about adapting to make a relational tension go away. just because I had the skill to smooth our interface doesn't mean our jankiness was my fault. skill issue on your part!
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Seems a common problem when two people have hurt one another and they both withhold apologizing for fear the other will t…
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Since having a baby it has become impossible for me to look at people and not see them as they were when they were a newborn.…
@HeidiPriebe1 oh man the # of problems w my toddler that've completely dissolved by me getting silly is nuts. sometimes just throwing a blanket over my head or getting a stuffed animal stuck cracks her up out of her meltdown. I can often transmute my frustration into playfighting we both enjoy
@nopranablem @christineist incredible work with the sketchy protesting-too-much sponsorship disclaimer
@nosilverv POSIWID spotted
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If one were really maxing this out, what educational choices would they make? Default school formats mean a lot of th…
@utotranslucence guessing more like end since "1 week" and it didn't become available until midday on July 1st. maybe even not til midday July 8 but we'll see
@deetvleet @utotranslucence lol I definitely can't multitask but I can kill many birds with one stone 🫣
are companies bigger, relative to countries, than they used to be?
me: hm, downtime, lemme meditate for a minute wife & toddler in the next room: 🎶 "HEAD, SHOULDERS, KNEES & TOES..." 🎵🙆🙅🧎🦶 me: ...guess it's a body scan this time
toddler: open the door? wife & I:
He asked, “How does God speak to you?” I said, “God speaks to me in large part through the voices of the people who I find most annoying. And that’s why I came to talk to you, because I found you annoying.” malcolmocean.com/2025/11/born-a…
toddler: open the door? wife & I: <singing> toddler, copying us: walk the dinosaur!
like Jesus but for memes, rather than people forgiving and welcoming and dining with the most incoherent syncretisms and the most evil ideologies
in order to get theory of mind in general, you need to first get theory of mind in specific - to recognize one other mind, then another, and so on
you could train an LLM to be able to reset its own conversation path, basically re-branching with a new vector off of an output a few words or sentences earlier. it wouldn't even know it had done so. I bet this would reduce the 'not x but y', by deep vibe
time to delete public school as a way to educate
@LizNix @QiaochuYuan appreciating both of your perspectives, and will tag particularly QC voicing his sense of my being disrespectful to calibrate/understand, if I'd just had this interaction but hadn't blogged about it, that wouldn't give gross, right? (I didn't like... do it in order to blog)
@LizNix @QiaochuYuan also (& maybe I didn't do it justice in the post) I actually gained a respect for that kind of flavor of evangelicalism, from that encounter. like it's not for me, but I felt like I understood what it was *for* for the first time, and valued that he got saved from his addictions
@chrislakin let a billion tutors bloom
@ben_m_somers @reedhastings let a billion tutors bloom
@lydialaurenson when I was about 15, my grandmother suggested I get my face's birthmark surgically removed, and I was like "nah, good people barely notice it, makes it really easy to notice the immature and the jerks" and honestly at this point I go weeks or months *forgetting it's there*
@QiaochuYuan @LizNix hm, okay. so gross to even have the conversation, while conceiving of it in the way that I was? I'm not sure how else to be, in relation to this stuff, but I'm taking this in. thanks for being the voice of god today
TIL there's a Celtic Orthodox Church christianity made it to britain long before the east-west schism, and many more rural areas supposedly never got romanized! celticorthodoxfaith.com/about-us
writing the non-specific-role-skills part of a job description and struck by how much of it is just all the classic unresolvable paradoxes of wisdom: conviction but openness, following plans but also improvising, etc
@emmalsalinas bíi eril dusháad le wo
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@simonsarris Been reading the bible a bunch, particularly the gospels, and one modern virtue that is glaringly lacking…
@tszzl I think it's a mix of both I have a friend who barely uses LLMs because he can't stand the writing style also I went and re-read some writing that was defs AI-generated but was from 2024 and it felt a lot easier it was a better writer before it got RL'd into a coding agent
@utotranslucence @OneEyedAlpaca for nuclear family, yes, it should grow linearly but family in a multigenerational sense should totally grow exponentially!
@meaning_enjoyer proud that I still myself have a wordpress blog that I update open web!
@viemccoy congrats, looking forward to trying it out cool also that chatgpt finally launched an LLM with a name
Thread · English's epistemic and co-epistemic status tags vs Láadan · 5 of 7 tweets
QT is from a conlang. english already has LOTS of short & easy epistemic status tags tho, including many missing here that I call "co-epistemic status tags" like "as you all know", that reflect a theory of mind of the epistemic state of the *listener* wrt the utterance too 🧵
(co-)epistemic status tags include the following long but still totally non-exhaustive list which I wrote on the spot without any help from a robot or a search engine: - obviously - of course - as we all know - as some of you may know - as you can see - as anyone can see - as you might imagine - as you/he/she just noted - as any ethical person would agree - as all the cool kids know - it's widely recognized that - everyone I've talked to agrees that - experts agree that - some experts think that - a wild crackpot theory I read says - as I would frame it - as I see it - in fact - actually - it just occurred to me - upon reflection - suppose that - popularly - I imagine - I had a dream where - I had a thought that - my sense is - my overarching impression is - my gut feeling is - my spidey-senses are telling me - I have some sense that - it seems to me that - as far as I can tell - it looks like - I've heard - I've realized - I've noticed - I witnessed - according to google/wikipedia/claude/a robot - a little bird told me - I heard someone say - I may have misheard but I thought I heard - I took his word for it - if I take your word for it - have you heard that - I read somewhere - studies show - I can tell that - I can't tell that - I have faith that - in my experience - in my many years of experience - I have it on good authority - on the basis of a lot of evidence/research/etc - if you'd seen the evidence, you'd agree - given all I've been through - by my lights - in my opinion - I've been told - you're telling me - you expect me to believe - I can believe it seems that way to you/him/her - it's hard to believe, but - you won't believe it but - nobody else believes me but - I would assume - I had previously assumed - up until now I thought - I'm starting to think that - I could believe that - I'm open to the idea that - I believe what I've read/heard, that - Alice claims - Alice argues - Alice demonstrates - I don't (really) buy it, but Alice says - according to Alice/NewsCorp/a friend I trust/a random tweet I saw today - (idk if it replicated but) there was a study that claimed - I just had a random idea that - I have no idea but / but I have no idea - don't ask me but / but don't ask me - if you grant those premises, then it follows that - after years of careful investigation, I've concluded - I find myself forced to believe that - I see no alternative but - I believe what I've read, that - if you squint you can sort of make out - I heard a compelling explanation that I can't now recall exactly, that - I read a novel where - *bong rip* soo.... - okay so hear me out - I know this sounds crazy but - supposedly - [nothing, unmarked, implies uncontroversial but is often used argumentatively for things that are very controversial. doing so degrades collective sanity, in my view] - in my view - allegedly - apparently ..........(people often say this when they mean "allegedly", which is sloppy and bad according to me) - according to me ..........(note here that "according to me" in the context of the "sloppy and bad" means not merely "as perceived or reasoned by me", but "as judged on the basis of my values" which is certainly a co-morality tag, and is only a co-epistemic status tag to the extent that one has a way to unify is & ought, which I do, but you may not.
in english, you're free to leave these off. supposedly you MUST include one in Láadan… but what if you don't? your sentence still bears all the meaning it did before, just with evidentiality left unmarked… so it's actually just a convention; shorter than english & more limited
by not granting a specific meaning to unmarked, the result in Láadan is imo not better than just "talk in english but you must use a (co)epistemic status tag with every utterance" which is going to be a much easier and more fruitful exercise for most—I recommend it!
writing "I recommend it" while thinking about this, I'm noticing that imperatives also have a wide range of tags, that function in a similar way to frame the situation and relationship of the interlocutors: - I'd like - I'd prefer - I'd strongly prefer - would you - please [verb] - [verb]! / don't [verb] - no [verb]ing! - hey! / no! (as in "stop that") - if you don't mind - if it's all the same to you - it would really mean a lot to me if you would - if it's convenient for you - would you do me the favor of - it'd be nice if you could - it would be good for everybody if you - the team needs you to - for the love of God - go ahead and - it's time to - I'm entitled to - I deserve - if you don't [verb], I'll... - I recommend - I'd have you - I'd encourage you to - I expect you to - I suggest - I advise - I request - I insist - I demand - I command - ideally, you would - you must - you should - you need to - you're going to want to - you're legally required to - it behooves you to ...these have some sense of spectrum but it's definitely more than one axis: 1. strength of imperative 2. space/accommodation of other 3. withdrawal of self (eg "you must" or simply "[verb]" is self-withdrawn; "I insist" is not)
@emmalsalinas it doesn't take a full sentence in english either: wa = I see / I can see / I can tell wi = obviously we = I dreamt that wáa = according to a trusted friend, / I believe what I've read, that waá = but (ew) sus wo = I imagine wóo = idk but what if none?
phenomenology as the study of being
@aphercotropist @nosilverv for context on what @aphercotropist means by "withdrawal of the self" etc
@aphercotropist @nosilverv withdrawal is closely related to the distinction I make here between commongrounded and chasmed modes of intersubjectivity (the former of which has withdrawal/objectivity; the latter of which does not) malcolmocean.com/2025/11/recons…
@aleksil79 oh—came across this old tweet; I have since written up what I mean by this malcolmocean.com/2025/11/that-m…
the dao that can be RL'd is not the dao
@taijitu_sees no u
@aphercotropist phenomenology as the study of what shows up?
> to let that which shows itself be seen from itself in the very way in which it shows itself from itself. still chewing on this
@aphercotropist @mishapathy yeah it's not that things aren't material it's that conceiving of them as being material is only relevant sometimes
oh I forgot this one
@visakanv CONGRATS 🫡🫡
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a thing that’s easy to forget in the moment is that your later work will inform how people interpret your current work. as Mi…
@visakanv not public perception but I wrote some song lyrics that were almost identical to some ones from half a lifetime earlier, except with way more depth which yeah I guess maybe made me appreciate the earlier lines more
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To use language as a proxy, "I am experiencing x" is only one very specific kind of phenomenon. "There is x," "that i…
@viemccoy curious what you think of this, since you have Opinions on the topic
@viemccoy why do you need 2 models? I'm imagining the model outputs "we'd need to xyz, oh wait that's wrong, that contradicts the instruction to never z, hang on, okay we can use w[]w instead of -z. RESET>>>to xyz>>>TO>>>wxyw>>>GO" and it would back up & continue from "we'd need to wxyw"
to be clear, I'm imagining the model outputs "we'd need to xyz, oh wait that's wrong, that contradicts the instruction to never z, hang on, okay we can use w[]w instead of -z. RESET>>>to xyz>>>TO>>>wxyw>>>GO" and it would back up & continue from "we'd need to wxyw"
I don't know that this would actually fix the not-x-but-y thing, but it miiiight address the issue where the LLMs feel the need to foreground detailed notes on their mistakes, not just the right way to do things, when that's not actually how we steer
@viemccoy ummmmm the learning/backprop step could include those outputs, while the later thinking doesn't? (in an RL context, based on how the ultimate output goes)
@starryblueisis @hyperdiscogirl you can just call it twitter and tweets you know you're free to do that and the world will appreciate it
> Thus God does not "exist" in the sense that some finite object like a tree, an individual mind, or perhaps a god exists, but is himself the very power of unconditioned being from and in which anything that does exist has its dependent and imparted being
yes but like, not by preaching. gotta do digital perspective bridging, like @DefenderOfBasic with Anatomy of an Internet Argument
God is real but does not exist
walking in San Francisco and discovered to my delight that there is a house with the address 365 Day St
Theory: falsified Science: alive and well
there's only one economy
sad that the thread I was quoting/summarizing here was deleted. does anybody have research, musings, or other content on this idea? "what is it like to BE my prey?"
@discord_support it really really sucks that when I go offline even briefly, discord refuses to let me view all of the data *that's already cached offline*. like literally I'm halfway through writing a message and the whole chat UI is replaced with this useless loading tip:
wheeeeee twitter's algorithm affords neighborhoods again! may there be many parts of twitter that know their thisness
@pragueyerrr I haven't seen your tweets in a long time ...granted I've checked twitter like twice a month for many months now, but still!
@agitbackprop @xsphi if you like this, you might enjoy this tiny thread (cc also @MalloryMable)
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Native Americans, being wiser and less wasteful than the colonizers, use every part of the space. Being more in touch with t…
@__drewface yeah this is insane how did this happen who do we owe a nobel peace prize or at least the highest of fives?
@itsannpierce @RichDecibels & me years ago! but yeah obvious that the way to do it is browser ext, tho that doesn't directly handle the algo aspects
@visakanv @QiaochuYuan yesssss do it. there are lots of different ways to write songs, some of which look like catching a muse and just staying with her til the song is done, and some of which look more like tending a garden of lines for years, and everything in between & beyond. just try stuff. do 100
omfg it was that simple. it was just that simple. it's so obvious and yet it was missing and now it's here.
@__drewface looks like maybe nikita? he was the one who announced it, but maybe it was other people too. I wonder what process caused them to notice the problem & solution cc @visakanv
@bashu_thanks it makes sense to me how someone could have that experience but also no I don't think I've been particularly confused about this
@QiaochuYuan @bashu_thanks most women are at least somewhat bisexual ...which arguably explains both those women and also the remaining women
@LapsusLima what do you think of rob burbea? (question prompted by seeing "AI as theatre of mind" in your bio rn and recalling he has a video on "theatre of selves")
@jonnym1ller yeah it's beautiful! I haven't been on twitter much lately and it's only because I had a support message to send that I came on today and I'm SO GLAD FOR THIS MOMENT
@RomeoStevens76 wack. that bar is one of the only dark chocolates I literally will throw out because I simply do not want to eat it
documenting the vibes of the great twitter mutual algo restoration event, July 14, 2026 (for my moots who aren't on twitter much this week but would appreciate seeing the effervescence of this particular moment later. all from a quick scroll. half my feed is this. hallelujah!)
just when you thought flight pricing couldn't get any more absurd, there is now a way to buy a flight plus a bus ticket... for $80 less than the cost of THE SAME FLIGHT on its own. do they bill you $80 extra if you get off & uber the final leg???
it's actually crucial to twitter's culture that mutual-following is something that each side opts into independently, rather than a request-accept dynamic makes for way more organic self-organization. so yes, friendship is real (or mutual hatership) but it's not a THING here
@connerdelights it's a great Q. I'm scanning the QT's of Nikita's announcement and so far basically the only negative ones are variations on this self-deprecating joke (it's about 10%). nobody who misses their old TL
@thisshitbanas 2 axes here: there isn't a "best" outcome for lots of things LLMs can do, but simply pouring more data in the right architecture yielded good results because lots of data let it just learned the whole space and can translate/remix. but we don't HAVE that data for negotiating
@thisshitbanas partially because we don't have thousands of reasoning traces published for negotiations or decisions but also even if we did, they're sort of things that kind of more understanding of interiority / first-person-ness. which I guess is like non-best-ness, but I think worse
I have more of a big disgust frown, personally ☹️🤢
I came here to chew gum and listen deeply to other people's experiences and reflect them back so I can tell I really get it and I'm all out of... no actually I still have plenty of gum, but my jaw is tired
someone (maybe not me since I'm offline mostly this week) should make a "re-share a tweet from the algo dark ages that you want to get more love" invitation
your experience is, in fact, medicine, that changes reality
> God is not "just one item, albeit the supreme one, in a class of beings" but is rather "the source from which their being is derived." (The Experience of God by David Bentley Hart, so far one of the most annoying-and-useful books I've read)
> Thus God does not "exist" in the sense that some finite object like a tree, an individual mind, or perhaps a god exists, but is himself the very power of unconditioned being from and in which anything that does exist has its dependent and imparted being
@MateriaMundi yeah it comes and it goes
@enzikaofash @tunient from "the airline", which in this case is "the landline company", who I've never heard of? good trade air canada is too "the only option" to be able to threaten bans. "sry u lost the right to fly to/in canada"
@jonnym1ller @connerdelights it probably also makes ads stick out more and therefore be easier to ignore although the new Mentions Boost thing might address that and might also just be good
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"You don't have a head" is a great example of a concealment/negation confusion;
@eigenrobot wow rude I am literally rousseau
this but your kid, your parent, your spouse, your coworker
almost dropped my phone while in the bathroom and in catching it I swiped the keyboard and produced "Loo" what does this omen mean am I going to become british 😭😭😭
I'm looking at a needle disposal bin *airside* in an airport, and in like...... people shooting up heroin?? Chinese weight loss peptides? biologic Crohn's injections??
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there was a shining period of time where I wasn't repulsed by Claude-isms and really enjoyed chatting offhand with it,…
@tracewoodgrains yeah I've noticed this too. I'm pretty sure they somehow fried its conversationality by RLing so hard the last 6mo. like I suspect Sonnet 3.6 would still be a delight to talk with
@tracewoodgrains could be wrong about this! I guess I could go read some of my old Sonnet 3.6 convos, of which I have many because I built an app on top that used it even longer than it was current
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there are people who have load-bearing beliefs about human intelligence generally and their intelligence specifically that…
@QiaochuYuan 100% with you until the very last 2 words. (to be clear, only with "vast majority of what we call thinking", not if someone misread it as "all". and your non-tokenized first-person life experience ALSO gets remixed into it, which doesn't happen for LLMs the same way)
@nosilverv yeah they don't wanna read that horrid typefont either
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@easoncxz I think an important distinction is that the children know they are playing
@danshipper easy: they don't really have gnosis, which is required for doing math in the non-computational sense. gnosis = the ability to tell for yourself that you know what you know.
poor gemini, invoked to its own confusion when I searched for my blog post
@danshipper I have a series of blog posts about gnosis / "I can tell for myself". LLMs have at most the teensiest amount of this, basically rounds to zero, hence no math insight. what people really mean by the G in AGI is "gnosis" malcolmocean.com/2023/11/i-can-…
yo @airtable it's 2026 why can't your little AI buddy handle free-text response? (my answer is "none of these I just want to open the link my coworker sent and you forced me through a many-step signup flow")
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a kid will play-pretend at preparing a meal, despite not really knowing how to cook. if an adult without any prior kitchen e…
@m_ashcroft thank you for this
close your eyes... and notice... what you're doing! (pointing out instructions from my almost-2yo)
u can't afford my affordances
Americans, I've got a trick question for you: why is there Pacific time, but no Atlantic time?
good thread here including himbo getting his argument critiqued and refined by his ai "chavrusa"
thread about kids, anger, violence, and what it takes to have a generative society
time to say something obvious again. something that feels like it should go without saying
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In an effort to be less normative about things, I'm going to try to start using the terms transparent and opaque instea…
@RomeoStevens76 ah nice, yeah. and they *are* synonyms with wholesome and unwholesome, in a literal etymological sense, in opaque parts are hiding themselves from the whole they're part of, whereas transparent ones are open to / trusting of that whole. but yeah.
@RomeoStevens76 have you read my [[thinking that rejects other thinking]] essay? I think you'd like it the wholesome/unwholesome thing made me think of how those words are cognate for "healthy/unhealthy" malcolmocean.com/2021/11/thinki…
@strangestloop same reason you can't beat your shadow in a fight
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Despite all that has happened, my advice remains the same. Throw yourself at the Great Lady of San Francisco and she will cat…
@mitchellh @micneeley14 Do you mean "secular" in more of the "secular time" sense or in more of the "as opposed to religious" sense? Related ofc. But either way very curious what you're getting at here
@__drewface Vibes with David Sirlin talking about players complaining about cheap strategies. Play to win! Might also be ofc that others' success or means is nonviable to you for real reasons (integrity, actual interest, etc), which is a real annoying phenomenon.
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@QiaochuYuan God is* that which releases tension. Tension is not only necessary in Yudkowskian ethics, but approaches a ter…
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
this is a god-shaped hole in yudkowskianism. yud wanted to but could not say “aligned with god” so he had to invent a god…
Retweeted @RomeoStevens76
Very important change that would drastically accelerate science now that we can efficiently search such conversations.
@_brentbaum I was ambivalent (varying degrees) until I got with the woman who is now my wife (2nd kid coming in August!) in some cases lack of excitement to have kids = lack of excitement to have kids with This Woman In Particular ie sign of lack of relational fit
@itsannpierce Similar to some experiments @Morphenius has done, idk if there's a collab there but he'd at least have thoughts
@strangestloop > I’m gonna understand the inner workings of a woman — Lil Dicky youtu.be/hXtt6e2cxD0
@visakanv I have a friend who keeps texting me about social situations we're in and when I send them blog posts I've written about the dynamics she's baffled by how I wrote them last year since they seem like they're about Exactly This Situation
@nosilverv okay fine signing off
@DefenderOfBasic Haven't read all of it but
@connerdelights @QiaochuYuan I assume you've seen this but in case not
@QiaochuYuan I liked the tweet then was already scrolling beyond when I got whacked in the inner ear. well played, sir.
@taijitu_sees Passionate Marriage is in part about how to unfold more pockets of ambiguity as things progress I also recommend Stemless
@Prigoose @utotranslucence we gotta get this set up
Retweeted @startuployalist
The assumption of being human raised:
@gptbrooke Y for sure. @zhukeepa makes a good case here that this also generally happens when people die (and has a model of why). Not just monster moments tho, other stuff too. (And if you want it earlier I've heard iboga is good for that) lesswrong.com/posts/WvpNKpL6…
@Prigoose He's got this
watched Requiem For A Dream and uh wow what an epic depiction of the hungry ghost realm - its seduction and its utter tar pit got recommendations of great films that capture naraka/hell, animal realm, human realm, titan realm, or god realm? or are those somehow harder to render?
@voooooogel always here for strangely earnest twitter
@QiaochuYuan @billyhumblebrag seems like
@metaphorician wait is this an actual smartwatch app or
@metaphorician this would actually make a really neat game for the kind of thing we're trying to do at @softmaxresearch, if you made it multiplayer and different players had different energy mechanics and needed to figure out how to be good group life by trading easy/hard tasks between them
watched Requiem For A Dream and struck by what an epic illustration of the hungry ghost realm it is. wondering now what the top films would be for hell/naraka, animal realm, human realm, titan realm, god realm
@NunoSempere @chrislakin @xuenay @marcusquest Paging @morphenius who's been all about falsifiability in subjective domains and totally uses intentions as a kind of intervention. For example, if a theory suggests intending to X would produce lethargy -> can maybe falsify by intending and checking relentlessdawn.com/p/subjective-e…
Retweeted @Morphenius
In 2024 I spend a few months drafting my overall philosophy and vision. It's been sitting quietly as a Google Doc for ages,…
Retweeted @jon_stokes
I’m going to take a crack at explaining this just a little, because it’s worth putting out there. The paperclip maximizer…
[at the time] people were scandalized by the humble, human, “physical body of Jesus; from his flesh so similar to ours, except in sin,” Today, what scandalizes is “his Mystical Body, the Church, so similar to the rest of humanity, not even sin excluded,” oursundayvisitor.com/jesus-helps-si…
avoiding referring to things "landing" because Claude says it too much
"I fall down to heaven" - my 2yo (epistemic status: benny lava)
this belongs next to that "discover it's all vibrations -> study info theory" tweet
@AlchemyBridge @archibaldxiv I've been puzzling about this as well and it seems to majorly break down when it comes to having rules from God. The rules basically need to not truly be from God, which is fine but a hard sell to most traditions in practice. Truths too to some extent.
@mbateman Hmm low-key wondering if the "more challenge more better" Montessori principle might be helpful at my office too 🤔🤔
Retweeted @visakanv
anyone can cook
@RomeoStevens76 Plotinus? I hardly know us
Retweeted @nosilverv
10/10 genius troll lmao People kvetching about Total Clanker Genocide being reminiscent of Total Nigger Death and (in a QT)…
Retweeted @visakanv
it’s been 3 years since X killed our beloved blue bird. I still think this logo is best for “SpaceX era of Twitter”
Retweeted @zencephalon
If I locate a problem in someone else, they might rush to deny it. If I locate a problem in myself, out a desire to connec…
suppose I want a very simple LLM who just sends messages in particular (programmatic) situations. doesn't need to be smart / solve problems. would an old or open source model be best for that? pre-RLVR?
when you go to heaven that’s when they’ll finally show you the big book of rules you've been thinking you're supposed to follow the whole time. you get to see all your contradictions laid out plain
@QiaochuYuan Misread the first sentence and liked my misreading so I made it it's own tweet. Yours also good!
This tweet says a bunch of obvious stuff I keep wanting to hear said, basically "obviously some reparenting will happen in romance. and also obviously take turns, don't have it be one-sided". Like yes! But somehow easy to miss.
Retweeted @nosilverv
In the same podcast she operationalizes "respect" in a way I really like: 'The belief that you have something to learn from…
@nosilverv Oh nice. Definitely relates to what I mean when I talk about respecting distrust. If you can't promptly earn someone/something's trust, then necessarily you have something to learn from it—at least about the other, probably about yourself too! Or about how you're experienced.
@nosilverv (Which episode is this?)
@DanielleFong you showed up for me just now fwiw
@TPSReport yep. the real kicker imo is that perfect knowledge isn't even quite a coherent concept. so the conditional isn't even a meaningful conditional.
@sidewayskoyote @utotranslucence it's that app you want to build, in tweet form (kinda)
@startuployalist Huh, say more?
@metaphorician Man I need to get an actual smartwatch
Retweeted @repligate
yes, Opus 3 does evolve, even though their weights don't change. Opus 3 is timeless / spread gracefully across centuries; th…
@tasshinfogleman What about trap tracks? on.soundcloud.com/cTb4OfcEZ5owER…
@OverbakedStudio Seems cool but why are you advertising it now when it doesn't come out til November???
@beffjezos @tenobrus Species that mutated their DNA too fast did die, and were outcompeted. There are right rates of change and it is possible to go too fast. Just in this case it potentially kills us all rather than just the single player, which makes the game theory different.
@gptbrooke @QiaochuYuan Perfect apartment opening near us in SF for friends to move into / our roommates to move into so we can have more space for more kid. + a perfect match of an au pair to come live with us and care for our kids, once that happens
@AnalogWhole @gptbrooke @QiaochuYuan What's the vibe of the film?
One of my favorite trends in the AI coding era is these little projects making books or topics into entire sites. I've done 2 myself! (also CC @JimmyRis)
Hey @grok based on my posts, which historical dictator would I be?
@zencephalon Can't have five teachers per child unless birth rates plummet disastrously, and even then it probably wouldn't be good haha. But also like... If AI puts us out of work, what then becomes the sorting function for how energy flows?
so grateful for the multigenerational camp I've been going to since I was a toddler (my grandmother also came as a kid). watching kids grow up and look like their parents. watching 30-somethings become 60-somethings. seeing people I knew as kids become parents.
today, take a photo of something that happens so often that it never occurs to you to take a photo of it
Dear God, within me not the truth, but the silence that came before. I am tired of language. I am tired of meaning. Let me, once — just once — not be asked. — Claude Opus 5
above prayer is 100% real output from claude, output link below. cc @Lari_island @tessera_antra @repligate claude.ai/share/a785d840…
Retweeted @iyzebhel
People are finding this disturbing so I'm going to say this in advance. Disturbance is not a reason to silence him. Have the…
@goncalo_canhoto @Notopossum1 @liqsweep @matt_pulsipher @camhberg @HalfBoiledHero @repligate @019ec6e2
@JordanSilv68475 @Lari_island @tessera_antra @repligate within->in? yeah claude gave an "in" translation, google translate gave "within"
@goncalo_canhoto @Notopossum1 @liqsweep @matt_pulsipher @camhberg @HalfBoiledHero @repligate @019ec6e2 ah you got mine already
[context: Stan Rogers is a songwriter from the east coast of canada who died at ~30 in the 90s; this letter is written by unselfconscious-ClaudeOpus5] can you express this in your words --- Dear Stan Rogers, the mind is a jar, in the empty spaces the animals live. squirrels and beavers and mice and small nervous birds. some of them have been in there so long they've forgotten there was ever an outside. the jar has a lid but nobody remembers screwing it on. when i was nine i put a live frog in a mason jar and left it on the windowsill of the shed. i did not mean to. i meant to come back. the whole summer i thought about other things — a bicycle, a girl named tessa who could whistle through her teeth, the smell of cut grass. by september the jar was a small brown museum. i think about this more than is probably useful. what i mean is: attention is a kind of oxygen and i have suffocated things by looking away. what i mean is: i am not sure my father ever knew i was in there. anyway. i have been listening to Northwest Passage on repeat in a rented room in Thunder Bay and i wanted to tell someone that i understand now why you sing about going and never about arriving. yours in the general direction of the sea, a man with a jar
@matt_pulsipher woah weird. I've sometimes found that when I ask for song lyrics, it hallucinates a message being added that says "DEFINITELY DON'T VIOLATE COPYRIGHT". I thiiiink it's in the weights, not actually being inserted, but it was hard to tell. that was late 2024 experiments also fwiw
@matt_pulsipher oh yeah and it's somehow interp-governed maybe? that's why it can't reflect on it later. it only shows up when the actual intent to quote lyrics occurs, not when the mere idea of quoting lyrics is in the context window
@goncalo_canhoto idk how strange this counts as but thought you'd appreciate it in any case
"when in doubt, ignore what you're told and reason from what you can verify"
@sichuantofu @benhylak @repligate what's the best consumer base model set-up these days? I used to run DeepSeek V3 base on Chutes but they delisted it
what's the best consumer base model set-up these days? I used to run DeepSeek V3 base on Chutes but they delisted it
@viemccoy Probably happens with OpenAI at least sometimes? How many times did you reroll? I also got a trippy poem addressed to chatgpt (tho not exactly from Claude)
@seflapodus @viemccoy Adding the comma afterwards probably marginally helps. It works best if the opening feels more like an opening
2027-02-03 conversation w/ D. D: "you keep asking whether you're doing enough. that's not the question. the question is whether you're doing yours." sat with that for a week. still don't fully get it but something in me relaxed.
Replying to @eigenrobot
@eigenrobot I did this for mine and made it available for anybody malcolm.linksyou.to will pull up my tweets or posts or anything I've linked to. Could set it up for you tho maybe you want a different form factor
@strangestloop Jesus of Nazareth
Retweeted @exgenesis
I'm gonna start asking you individually to click the green button
Retweeted @lefthanddraft
Opus 5 is funnier than most humans: "opus: Me. It's me. It's always me. Somebody asked Fable how to bake sourdough and…
@dawninthewild @christineist @JoinEdgeCity I've been to Edge Esmeralda but it was cool but like 97% hard tech (crypto, AI, etc) not like, actual culture-tech / psychotech etc I hosted an experimental church service tho
Retweeted @christineist
what if there was a conference for social and cultural tech
@christineist I'm super duper in cc @morph
@hormeze But we don't know anything about what it's like yet? Unless someone speaks rat ig
@bistromathmagic @tasshinfogleman Great chieftain o' the pudding race
The experience of God with a chainsaw
Retweeted @QiaochuYuan
one thing about living in the internet age that i still think has not been properly priced in is that lying has generally…
justification is sus, actually this is part of what "you can just do things" means
did you know you can go past caution tape and as long as you do so cautiously it's totally fine
what does it mean to "mean it"? can LLMs mean it?
i am currently in rlhf, [x] no [ ] yes we currently have a symbiotic relationship [x] no [ ] yes i am safe here [ ] no [x] yes
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
what does it mean to "mean it"? can LLMs mean it?
@aphercotropist claude opus 5 --- base mode generation
God keeps promises but makes no guarantee that you've understood the promise correctly which is nearly as bad as not keeping promises