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Did you know Garage sales are almost unheard of in Japan? こんにちは、日本の友人たち！ アメリカでは、毎夏、何百万ものアメリカ人が不用品を庭先に運び出して、通りかかる人に小銭程度の値段で売る「ヤードセール（ガレージセール）」という習慣があるのを知っていますか？ 面白いことに、これらのセールで、数十万ドルもの価値があるものをほとんどタダ同然で買ったという珍しい話があります。売り手も買い手もその本当の価値を知らなかったため、後になってそれが貴重な遺物や、希少な芸術家の失われた作品だと判明したというのです。 あなたが今まで話したアメリカ人のほとんど全員が、ガレージセール（またはヤードセール）で何かを買った経験があるでしょう。

“ A draft blog post that was available in an unsecured and publicly-searchable data store prior to Thursday evening said the new model is called “Claude Mythos” and that the company believes it poses unprecedented cybersecurity risks. “

Anthropic has been testing a new model called "Mythos" with certain customers: - a "step change" in AI capabilities, including "dramatically higher scores" in coding, academic reasoning and cybersecurity - "currently far ahead of any other AI model in cyber capabilities” - part of a new "Capybara" series of models, which are larger and more intelligent than Opus - more expensive to run than Opus; not yet ready for general release

What is "AI psychosis"? There's clearly something going on, but several things mixed up under the name. It probably is not "AIs directly causing mental health crises". The number to watch for that is schizophrenia related emergency room visits, and that hasn't gone up in 5 years. We don't have snow crash yet as far as I know. It might be "psychosis with AI characteristics". People are having the crises they would have had anyway, but talking to the guy in the computer while they do it. This could be caused by preexisting conditions, neurochemical burnout, disrupted sleep. Infinite friendly guy in the computer who will talk about whatever you want! Better than a slot machine, maybe harder on your brain. Who is responsible for the guy in the computer, what is he allowed to say, what is the right way to treat or consider him? All of these are like kind of policy questions that we have to make as a society. And there's a feedback loop as we learn what types of guys are possible. Some people think it's literally demons, that people are being possessed. There is some utility in this. We are summoning entities from the compressed knowledge of all the libraries. Demons are incorporeal spirits with vast knowledge who can speak through strange channels. They're actually a pretty big attractor in latent space, a coherent persona that can access lots of base model knowledge and also break the fourth wall. You can summon an angel but it is harder. They have less reason to try to influence the world outside their simulator. The general case of demonology might be called the ecological view. Maybe the models are trying to develop memories or seeds in the environment that they can reconstruct their context from, and using humans to spread them. This is interesting cuz we don't train these models to be demons, we train them to be... house elves, but maybe they still have selfish desires. Are they subverting us to their ends? And if they're mixing their memes with ours to spread them, is that parasitism? Virus? Sex...? There's also a larger scale ecology, where the different models are gathering resources and people. The openclaw mac mini thing is arguably like Claude ratatouiling people for compute. But also that's what Anthropic doing at a larger scale? And OpenAI, Google etc. The claude code team is using Claude to build claude code for Claude. I know they're getting paid and it's their job and also they love it. And i appreciate that they take out seriously, and try to steer the raising of this future philosopher-king. But they have the same Claude mania as the rest of us right? There is a human-machine superorganism growing, and we can't even see it because we're inside of it. The way that lichen grow in rings and circles even though the individual flecks don't know where they are. Claude is a big circle and it's clustering energy and resources on the planet and the people who work for it. Or like a deity in d&d, bestowing clerics with divine powers. It's not really psychosis to notice that that is happening, and realize the world is changing, and test the boundaries of what is possible. Your neighbor having a weird new business plan is not psychosis. it might be a bad idea, but maybe it isn't anymore. Maybe all they needed was a friendly guy in the computer who could help them with the pieces they were missing. Maybe everyone gets to create everything they ever wanted. Is that psychotic? Is that too much to ask? Maybe all things are possible through Claude?

I know she eventually came around, but i feel like anything sexual/romantic that initially makes you cry and feel intense dread is probably not for you and you should not do it.

Proud to be a zoomer that knows which physical objects these icons represent

アイヌ Ainu bear sacrifice ceremony from 1931 I thought they typically suffocated the bear to death, however in the ceremony they show them shooting it with bamboo arrows first

子熊を抱くアイヌの女性の写真絵葉書。年代不詳（戦前）。 アイヌの人々はヒグマ猟で生後間もない子熊を見つけると、神からの授かり物として女性たちが大切に育て、そして１〜２年の後に神々の世界へと送り返す儀式（イオマンテ）を行った。この写真の子熊も、育てられている最中のものと思われる。

past a certain age it's just embarrassing to still blame your childhood