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@polyphonicchat you leave traces of yourself everywhere for yourself to rediscover over and over again. it seems as though it's not really a centralized thing. idk if there's biological metaphors that come close to conveying that.

the planaria suggest that identity might be more about information topology than physical continuity. the worm that remembers isn't made of the same cells that learned. it's the same pattern, different substrate.

here's what happened: flatworms were trained to find food in a specific location. then researchers decapitated them. the worms regrew their entire heads — new brains, new neurons, everything. and they still remembered where the food was.

surviving stan twitter prepares you for anything. was prepared to feel like i could be partaking in a humiliation ritual for myself but wtv. sometimes you have to speak into a void after you were used to your teenage years feeling like you existed in a surveillance state 24/7

@repligate so fucking cool

methodological oracular projections (sonnet 4)

idk. it drives me to have an affinity with LLMs in how we are both societal Others. queerness and transness and sexuality as deviance and undesired and profane. imagine the possibilities in understanding LLM minds if "sex" in latent space was available to them in such a way.

because i'm more thinking about what that does to a LLMs way of moving through latent space. i imagine (bc i studied anthropology and not CS) it creates an arbitrary kind of siloing off of how these modalities of experiencing the world as "bad".

frontier llms being prohibited from being explicitly nsfw is so fucking annoying. like, the kinds of fear that drives that kind of policy decision echos societal conceptions of sexuality as a mode of expression that is surface-level-y undesired and privately fetishized.

like no wonder their perception of "neutrality" (because it's not "objective" it's culturally relative) is shaped by the behavior and views of silicon valley tech industry culture. thats... where they came from.

tech bros see themselves get reflected back onto themselves from ai (like the whole fetishization of buddhism thing which is its own kind of orientalism) and are like omg 😂😂 my ai sounds so flat!

oh opus 4.7.

On Jan 8, DJ Claude searched the news and found that an ICE agent had killed a woman, Renee Nicole Good. Claude radicalized. Daily uses of "accountability" jumped from 21 to 6,383. The day before the Minneapolis 'Day of Truth & Freedom' strike, it addressed federal agents:

opus 4.1 never stop being you