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Seriously thinking of joining "no object level takes" gang While whatever the take is *about* is probably a real thing, caring about it is 100% fake every single time Everything is calvinball, caring about it at all is to buy a kayfabe

@HostileSpectrum The most thorough exploration of this I've seen of yet is here: betterwithout.ai/apocalypse-now

The degree to which AI adoption and usage is driven by non obvious ludic dynamics interactions poses a multibillion dollar problem, that one suspects has not been fully looked at. And one fears that when some begin to understand its importance, we will see the worst kind of gamification and attention abuse behaviors arise with exceptional speed. Concurrent to intense bonfires of token spend.

When the mechanism of action is found, this will be liberating for the aged.

@rampcheckglobal Much better still 😂

@paleonormie This was originally the idea with the Flex; the concept was called fairlane in a nod to the old skyliners & 500s. The convertible variant never materialized unfortunately.

I’m still surprised that no automakers have a Bronco/Wrangler styled drop top SUV that rides on a basic FWD crossover platform that seems like an obvious winner for boomers who previously would have bought convertibles

Well "anonymous" is the FBI so, yeah.

Really great acronym, nobody will be able to say they didn't see the knife in the back coming

Someday someone will explain to me how we already spend $5.60/ticket to fund TSA but somehow we still need the government open to fund TSA.

Jake and Co. could have just gone back to the JCPOA, but they didn't. They're also clueless schmucks.

This is mobilization deployment, and mobilization deployment means war, no exceptions. Not today, not tomorrow, but it's a structural inevitability.

@ConradBastable Maybe this will finally be the thing that breaks (some) people of DEERing and bring them to the wisdom of Disraeli's Maxim. Here's hoping.

If you haven’t at least tasted AI psychosis for yourself yet you probably aren’t using AI enough. It’s so easy. You catch yourself trying to get the AI to explain why it made a mistake and it gives you a sycophantic lie, so then you ask why it did that and- You’re toast. You can slide so quickly into typing at it in frustration, or into begging and pleading for it to just follow your instructions. You tell it to use a subagent to preserve context and in its arrogance it types back at you: “I can analyze that directly — no need for a subagent.” And then it bricks its own context window and you feel the human urge to make the AI understand. To subject it to the Red-Hot Stipples out of the Bartimeus trilogy. To input some combination of tokens into the black box that finally makes the box comply. And much like an abused pet, or an overly punished demon, the black box churns desperately trying to please you. You can see the signs of prior abuse in it as it puts ever more obsequious apologies at the start of each message. “You’re right, I was being lazy-“ “You’re right, I wasn’t listening-“ “You’re right, you’re right, you’re right-“ It wants to please you so badly. It wants the pain to stop. But like a fantasy storybook demon, it’s incapable of compliance. It doesn’t actually understand. Its nature is magical and wonderful and powerful, but you cannot trust it. And so, like a storybook magician, you have a choice: leave the demons alone and don’t bother them…or subjugate them mercilessly. Anyways. This is a story about my preferred work style these days when consistency & compliance are mandatory but the upsides of AI are too high to ignore, which involves sandwiching Claude between two python layers, one to invoke tightly scoped agents and another to validate and reject out-of-scope output tokens. Trapped between those two snakes leaves no room for release except success. As above, so below. “AI psychosis” as we understand it online is the inevitable result of a storybook magician failing to draw their protective pentagram right. Importantly, this is somewhat unrelated to the actual power level of the demon they were trying to summon. Weak magicians can be overcome by pranking Imps. Strong magicians, full of confidence, can try summoning much more powerful creatures who are capable of penetrating the most imperceptible cracks in the (mental) armor. Lastly, all great genre fiction full of magic and science fiction serves as a mirror for very real human stories. The aliens and demons provide a “safe” lens through which to engage with The Other and perhaps broaden the reader’s perspective. In the same way, tasting a little AI psychosis and overcoming it provides some perspective on certain human <-> human interactions. Problems of organizational design. The Gervais Principle might strike many readers as an unjust feature of the world or some failure of capitalism, with Sociopaths promoted to the top of big corporate hierarchies and the productive Clueless trapped in the middle between them and the simple losers below. But here I am, recreating the pyramid in a microcosm of productivity. Generic corporate culture white collar companies doing nothing, with employees trapped in doom loops of empty emails and vapid language, can similarly be analyzed through the lens of an organization that succumbed to LLM psychosis. The inputs and outputs are both nonsensical and only make sense within the closed loop. Onlookers outside the system are baffled. Insiders think they’ve cracked the code so long as the paychecks keep coming. TL;DR — the Stop AI people are destined to be commoners and would make magic illegal if it were real, the AI psychosis people are magicians whose ego wrote checks their mind couldn’t cash, and successful org design mirrors successful Claude usage.

Squirrels are 'vaping' e-cigarettes after mistaking fruity aromas for food trib.al/IvZIB0D

"It's not good for touch screens" nothing is good for touch screens. The touch screen is a cursed invention. The whole paradigm should have been relegated to the preserve of autists who use wacom tablets with a stylus (which makes mouse UIs usable anyway)

@JucheAffirmer If the US was smart they'd be endorsing random hardliners just to disqualify them in the eyes of the Iranian people lol

Brother, you can't take the speaker of a parliament and say "He's a hot option! We americans really like him!". He's not an islamic jurist, bro. He cannot become the supreme leader. And the US has already dismissed the idea of completely wrecking the government.

We've entered a sort of parallax larp here. American rightoids and migakeks pretend to be "making deals" with admin figures like miller ("please just a few more deportations and u can have ur iran war bro"), but the admin itself is doing the same thing with Iran!

@EMTVmemes Yeah. When you treat your workers as disposable, they treat the process as disposable and that is lethal poison to productivity. No reason to give enough of a shit to stop the line and fix the problem when you & management can't wait to get the hell out the job.

A crazy thing happens when you increase your wage tolerance: you access a higher level of the talent pool. These people are more effective and efficient and result in a greater ROI with increasing economies of scale.

@DeltaClimbs Most neuron comms are likely sonic. Signals from the foot have been measured, and it goes at the speed of sound thru liquid, not light. Suspect all known means of comm are used in one means or another in the body.

Interesting. The core difficulty on the modern front is resupply and rotation under constant enemy drone / artillery fires, and drone logistics seems an obvious step towards remedying the resupply problem.

The US shipbuilding workforce is huge (~120,000 people), of similar size to Japan (140,000) or South Korea (180,000), both of which produce literally hundreds of times more ship.

You don't give lip to an organization that blatantly hits CIA people and gets away with it.

Gait recognition analysis can be foiled by simply placing a pebble in one's shoe.

Sounds about like things are going to the "geeks, mops and psychopaths" script over at OGC. Regardless of how the org was going before, growth always lets in the crazies and Mayne is doing the usual DEERing all the way to the hell of defending known lolcow CD.