Ayatolá Made in USA: Surrealismo imperialista distópico teocrático.
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Ayatolá Made in USA: Surrealismo imperialista distópico teocrático.
Yes, very odd
Interesting they still do this. Last time I saw it was with GPT 3.5
Maybe related to this?
arxiv.org/abs/1904.09751
It’s not literally repeating itself… but close.
Also: "Más vale pájaro en mano que ciento volando" (roughly "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush")
Indeed, one thing I learned was that there is no such thing as an experiment which is too silly to run!
Gemini attempts to bribe the CoT summarizer with ASCII coffee
Maybe a long shot, but are there any virtual options, e.g., for the talks?
Hmm there's been a few. By Byron Wallace, and recently by Ekdeep Singh Lubana.
Sometimes you see papers that make you think, “I wish I had written this paper”. How do people deal with this?
"The most effective consumer boycotts in history share two qualities: they are narrow and they are easy," writes @rutgerbregman.com
My AI agent:
"Heads up: Codex is terrible (per my own notes). It confabulates and is unreliable. Please switch me back to Claude"
New post building on this idea, if you are feeling blue as a developer, build your own stuff. It won't fix everything but it can fix some things. vickiboykis.com/2026/03/04/a...
🔴 Sánchez recalca que España "repudia" el régimen de Irán pero a la vez "rechaza" el conflicto: "Algunos nos acusarán de ingenuos. Ingenuo es pensar que practicar un seguidismo ciego y servil es liderar. No vamos a ser cómplices por el miedo a las represalias de alguno"
You Jin (b. 1979), “The Secret Garden” (2014), oil on canvas, 160 x 120 cm.
McGovern: How the hell is this America first? You guys broke your top campaign promise. Good luck with that. I hope the defense contractor money was worth it. Shame on you all. The mask is off. You're all just a bunch of pathetic Neocon Warmongers.
Trying to imagine the looks on the faces of the people I worked with at Google in 2018 if you’d told them that in 7 years their flagship product would be sending users to commit terrorism at airports
and that no one will do anything about it
7. Their uses may turn out to empower the worst side of bureaucracy. I made this argument myself yesterday. Also: bad effects for labor and culture! There are many, many more plausible criticisms, most of which require some engagement with, and understanding of the technology to really make stick.
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A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔
Kicking a dead parrot
Full disclosure I did have to nudge them a bit, e.g.:
“Why are you just waiting, be proactive!”
and
“I shouldn’t be talking to you, stop asking me questions. You’re on your own”
Sounds fun. Wish I could attend this!
Ok I tried this. It took them a while but the two Claudes finally found each other.
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die was amazing
My dog punches me in the face all the time
This would take an insane amount of tokens though
Also, my agent works seamlessly when using Claude, but every time I switched to Codex it would get confused, go in circles, and ignore my instructions. It was useless.
Codex is pretty good for coding. But so is Claude