Chris

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@maxbodach Unfortunately the small caps with the tracking ramped and the decorative italic are some of my big tricks for a lot of situations—I’m trying to dig out more formally why only Claude layouts smells so Claudy so I can repair and repent

@CMccafe it loves to do the small caps too ᴇɴᴄʏᴄʟɪᴄᴀʟ ᴘᴏᴘᴇ ʟᴇᴏ xɪᴠ

Only Claude would have italicized “Humanitas” like that.

A shared italic compulsion is perhaps the greatest kinship between the bishops of Rome and our leading machine intelligences.

Always have been—

the institute for a christian machine intelligence

No babe I love your stated preferences the revealed ones scare me

@NatPurser “One small chunk of text at a time”—isn’t this embarrassing to parrot by this point?

@NatPurser This is so embarrassing

these pieces all end up doing the same motte and bailey thing — “ai capex investment may outpace demand” (sure!), and “therefore ai capabilities are fake and ai risks are overrated.” ai harms are already emerging, refuting that is not owning big tech or anything.

I’ve at this point in my 30s read 10,000 posts about the virtues of eating beans. It’s totally cross ideological and all trivially true I just don’t get even a little bit why this discourse gets people so invested. Is there a rush I’m missing out on from the virtue signaling?

What goes on in everyone’s brain when how much to spend on food comes up? About once every ten days for the past decade and a half this website has gotten overrun by some discourse variation policing how much people spend on food.

This supposedly "classic" book has an incredible number of hallucinated references. It's as if he's summarizing books that never existed in the first place.

@NatPurser oh sick

@CMccafe tempting

apparently I have Popeyes points expiring anyone want to hang out

@zck I feel like this has been the case for ages—I’d stopped using Claude for any search-intensive prompts maybe by the beginning of this year? It’s just lazy.

When did ChatGPT become so much better than Claude for search? I find Claude to be a bit lazy - stops searching far before giving me a comprehensive overview no matter how I prompt it

It’s only Straussianism if it comes from the ground in which the Western tradition of political thought was first cultivated, otherwise it’s just sparkling esotericism.

My unironic recommendation for the upcoming AI encyclical is that the Vatican urgently needs to establish a frontier alignment lab

@zck Banger Zak

You put $100K into a triple-layer Anthropic SPV at ~$350B. After fees, you've actually deployed ~$68K. A $1.3T IPO returns ~2.75x after dilution. You net ~$30K. Your layered SPV got you 68% Anthropic exposure. GOOG gets you 14%, and — for completeness — founding a four-person polycule in Bernal where two members are MTS at Anthropic gets you 22%, scaling to 31% if one of them has badge access to the office. Manifold has this trading sideways. Meanwhile the fourth-layer SPV exists. I have seen it. It is GP'd from a Hayes Valley basement by a man who only eats raw liver and his returns are, inexplicably, fine. The fifth layer is Lighthaven. The sixth layer is a guy named Amish who whispers "Claude" into his Mac Mini at 3am and charges 2/20. The 32% you lost in SPV fees did not, in fact, fund a Miami coke habit. It funded: - $11K to a peptide dealer named Brook who has a Substack - $8K to the GP's au pair, who is also his cofounder, who is writing a memoir - $6K to a single Eames chair - $4K to a prediction market shorting his own fund - $3K to a Waymo that has been circling Dolores Park since March 2024 with no passenger Here's what you should have done instead: take the $100K, drive to Sunnyvale, find an H100, marry it. California is community property. On exit you own half, free and clear. That's an unbeatable tax basis. You also get to file jointly with the model that ate your cap stack. You're welcome.

@seanhackbarth @CharlesFLehman @JoinFAI DM me your addresses guys

@CharlesFLehman @CMccafe @JoinFAI I want to know too. Arlington, VA, needs one.

New stickers from @JoinFAI

@ZacharyGraves It seems as though our hand is forced here

As I was saying @CMccafe, office art is a business expense