Hackworth

I used to occasionally go to nightclubs in LA with some older guys that insisted on wearing nice, fitted suits. They actually bought me one when I first moved out there. If I was in a nightclub in my 20’s, it was usually cause I was working. So I don’t really have much to compare the experience to. But I’d say they were attention-getting - not necessarily in a good way. One dude tried to start a fight with me. And a girl I texted afterward was surprised to discover that I was, in fact, quite poor. That was a while ago. I have plenty of suits now. I never wear them. I guess nobody dresses fancy anymore.

Attention is all you need? The modern world demands more attention than anyone has. Our attention was colonized by social media, shadow work (in the economic rather than Jung sense), and the constantly changing software, portals, and platforms that interacting with the corpos/gov require. So attention was automated (albeit poorly). And while it’s not news, it’s increasingly apparent to everyone that how we focus our attention is a significant part of who we are.

Well, and several have law degrees or honorary doctorates. WW was just the only one with a PhD.

Lex has multiple PhDs, and the only president the US has had with a doctorate was Woodrow Wilson.

Hints of /r/tulpa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence

AI is the general, broad term. See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect

That’s a common way to determine if you’re in a lucid dream. Read a line of text, look away, then read the line of text again. If you’re dreaming, it’ll usually change.

Short Circuit 2

I have first-hand experience living near a source of infrasound, and oh my god, it’s terrible. Here’s a good video about the infrasound generated by data centers.

Well, they did pay, just after the fact.

Writing an article about this without mentioning the Fable export control seems odd.

If you’d like a framework to think about magic(k) in terms that are compatible with scienc(k)e, I recommend the information paradigm laid out in Postmodern Magic. If you find it useful, Dunn later wrote a book on Tarot.

I happened to have an acoustic guitar version of the Max Payne theme playing when I read your comment, which apparently meant I’d “hear” your words in Sam Lake’s voice. Similarly, AI music summons the corporate egregore.

Bard?

I was also confused. It’s oddly worded. From Anthropic’s news post:

We reviewed a demonstration of this specific technique being used to identify a small number of previously known, minor vulnerabilities.

As far as I can tell, this review preceded the gov order, and it was at this point that Katie Moussouris was involved.

rest were hallucinations

I’m having trouble parsing whatcha mean here if they were coding tasks. The code didn’t run? Ran but had 0 functionality? If they were non-coding tasks, then agreed, I didn’t notice it being significantly more accurate. Though I did appreciate the larger vocab. I wasn’t gonna be able to afford to keep using it once it went to API pricing anyway.

I just use the web app, mostly to make self-contained html toys. During the brief period it was up and part of the general subscription, I asked it to make Terrace (the old board game from TNG) with very little help in the initial prompt. I kinda know how involved that task is, cause I manually wrote a Godot version back in '20. It nailed it with only minor fixes - 3D, reactive sound and visuals, a music score that is pretty chill, with Easy, Medium, and Hard levels of AI to compete against. I have yet to beat it on Hard. Opus couldn’t touch that. I’m pretty sure the fed’s response is simple retaliation against Anthropic for not playing ball with the DoD/W, but the capability jump was definitely notable. I saw someone liken it to the jump from gpt 3.5 to 4, and I agree, if not a bit more.