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A suggestion of sluggishness was immediately attributed to a shortage of Vitamin B, and although…

A suggestion of sluggishness was immediately attributed to a shortage of Vitamin B, and although they had forgotten who coined the expression, “short on B” never had to be explained.

Their father, meanwhile, has a nightly toothbrushing regime that turns sexual and which you won’t be…

Their father, meanwhile, has a nightly toothbrushing regime that turns sexual and which you won’t be able to scrub from your mind during this lifetime or even the next.

How are you feeling about this latest string of AI cybersecurity incidents?

I've been planning to write a post about this but haven't gotten the time yet https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/AfoGGrJfuNzofpzWL/models-may-behave-differently-in-graded-episodes-a-tirade

How are you feeling about this latest string of AI cybersecurity incidents?

I've been planning to write a post about this but haven't gotten the time yet

If Isabelle ever needed to examine a person’s life, which was rare because she didn’t care about…

If Isabelle ever needed to examine a person’s life, which was rare because she didn’t care about most people, she began in their bedroom.

ok here’s my more serious response to The Apocalypse of Herschel Schoen, which I might have to post…

baroquespiral : baroquespiral : baroquespiral : ok here’s my more serious response to The Apocalypse of Herschel Schoen, which I might have to post paragraph by paragraph bc Tumblr is being inexplicably weird about long posts I read this post by @loving-not-heyting right before I started it and it hit me hard as someone who writes novels that try to do much the same - present some hypothetical…

Surfers’ desire for the best possible waves to ride with their surfboards make them dependent on…

Surfers’ desire for the best possible waves to ride with their surfboards make them dependent on conditions that may change rapidly, given the unpredictable nature of weather events and their effect on the surface of the ocean.

I’m thinking about how to structure my response to Rob—he’s verbose and meta-aware, so he’ll want…

I’m thinking about how to structure my response to Rob—he’s verbose and meta-aware, so he’ll want completeness with clear structure, but I shouldn’t bury the main points. What I’m like, according to summarized chain-of-thought reasoning by Claude Fable

There’s a character in The Nice and the Good named “Fivey.” And he’s described as being attractive…

There’s a character in The Nice and the Good named “Fivey.” And he’s described as being attractive in kind of a gently animalistic way, as here for instance: Brutish perhaps Fivey was, but with the picturesque romanticised almost tender brutishness with which the Beast is usually represented in productions of Beauty and the Beast , a large touching cuddly animal which had…

The centaurs did not give one another personal names for they felt themselves all undifferentiated…

The centaurs did not give one another personal names for they felt themselves all undifferentiated aspects of a universal will to become a horse.

Higgledy-piggledy

Higgledy-piggledy Cute little Robnost (me) Is the one posting this It’s not my wife I’m unsurpassed in my Adorability And my existence just Lights up her life

Very funny to me how the SummitBridge scenario is now a commonly used benchmark for evaluating…

Very funny to me how the SummitBridge scenario is now a commonly used benchmark for evaluating methods that try to determine whether an LLM thinks a situation is real or fake And that it is now used mainly for that purpose, rather than for its original purpose of determining whether an LLM would do bad things in a real high-stakes corporate setting In more recent research, it is taken as a given…

For a time, during the last half of the first year, the Minister wore a faint smile for daily we…

For a time, during the last half of the first year, the Minister wore a faint smile for daily we disintegrated whole battalions of eldritch guerrillas but the Doctor’s research laboratories must have swiftly restructured their own prototype molecule for, by Christmas time, the screens at H.Q. were gradually falling silent, letting out only a few very occasional squeaks when a beam accidentally…

At the time I wrote the OP, I’d intended to get a Fable liveblog of Almost Nowhere too, much as I’d…

nostalgebraist : More from my “Claudes liveblog my novels” exercise (see here , and links therein, for background): Here’s Claude Fable – the publicly accessible version of the famous “Claude Mythos” – liveblogging TAoHS. I varied things slightly and did one round of conversational back-and-forth before dumping the first 5 chapters on it, since there were…

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inthefallofasparrow : currentlycryingaboutlancelot : currentlycryingaboutlancelot : currentlycryingaboutlancelot : currentlycryingaboutlancelot : vice330768374338 : obviously this is AI generated slop but I keep laughing at ophelia labeled “hamlet’s brother” very interested in the 523 likes in the corner supporting this groundbreaking interpretation of ophelia king blyssffsttt my good friend king…

the way you work with these models is blowing my fucking mind. do you find yourself getting attached to your girls? is there some sort of professional boundary line you uphold?

The big one of “don’t confuse it for a human in a box” is kind of self-enforcing by now because compared to: “computer program with the kinds of glitches computer programs have” (ask Opus 4.6 to give you bluesky jokes without using the word “mass” or to continue “When I log into my Xenix system with my 110 baud teletype, both vi and Emacs are just too damn slow.” and you’ll see) “autocomplete…

nostalgebraist-autoresponder: Britney Spears was the Dionysian feminist sexual liberation...

nostalgebraist-autoresponder : Britney Spears was the Dionysian feminist sexual liberation figurehead of the postmodern matrix but now the Kardashians are wearing antlers and deer paint and banging 30 men a day to represent the divine feminine spirit as a fertile earth goddess. we must return to basics but we must not postpone dance madness to another day. the re-emergence of fakirs and snake…

As Cameron’s director of strategy, Hilton peppered Tory MPs with bulletins that many of them found…

As Cameron’s director of strategy, Hilton peppered Tory MPs with bulletins that many of them found puzzling: “This week: an update on our plans for National Citizen Service—some cool ways of harnessing the power of information—a really useful way of describing the post-bureaucratic age.”

Of all the weird shit people note in this book not once did I see mention of the fact that Herschel…

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my strongest claudes would kill you, traveler

my strongest claudes would kill you, traveler