Jason M. Hardy

Good point! Zero punk indicators in to ToC!

How dare you put political sentiments into a punk game.

Reminds me what a friend and game company co-worker said once to his kids: "Of course I've never had an affair! Who has that kind of time?"

They found that sentiment very romantic.

In some ways I hope Claude is at least competent at making sentences, since it has so much of my writing in its database. But it doesn't understand concepts and it has no soul, and those are pretty important to writing. Even average writing.

It's a poor comparison. Calculation is measurable—we know how a calculator can be designed to calculate. Intelligence and consciousness are far more ephemeral. We still don't know the mechanism that makes humans sentient. So trying to put calculation and intelligence on the same plane doesn't work.

But the fact that it was AI generated helps explain why the post continually _asserts_ things but never truly _supports_ them. Because AI doesn't understand making points.

Two killer quotes:

"Debating whether Claude is 'really' intelligent is like debating whether a calculator 'really' does math while your competitor finishes the problem set."

No! It really is not like that at all! Why would he make such a poor …

"This post was … generated by agentic AI"

Oh.

If an AI is going to rip off a few dozen things I wrote, at least I have the small consolation that the Trump government will not be using it.

RIP Dan Simmons. Hyperion taught me not to be _too_ sad about my children getting older.

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I'm glad the ACLU is suing Kansas over their anti-trans laws--makes me happy there's a Shadowrun Humble Bundle raising money for them!

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Lots of options from my high school, but I'll go with Charlton Heston.

If they messed up such an easy one, imagine what they did to Paulina.

Ted commits a basic violation of game night etiquette--when you pick the game, you don't get to complain that you don't like the game.

As well you should. The footnotes are a treasure.

I love Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell and awful lot. Does so many things so well.

Skim on the laptop, PDF Expert on mobile.

That's no good! Hope you recover and they figure out what's up.

I'd say it's worth playing and I have a lot of respect for the people who make it.

The best kind of fishing.

But I mean spot-on with regards to your love for fishing.

Trump is a real-estate tycoon. His whole career was based on hyping a property enough to make people believe it was worth more than it was before, or more than it should be. The fact that it worked sometimes led to one of his central beliefs: Enough hype can shape reality.

I fully agree that a military coup is bad and should not be wished for, but also Trump is trying to make himself king of Venezuela basically through sheer force of will and also has the Big Lie and windmills causing cancer and so on, so all I'm saying is it's a tight race.

Also, let's remember that this could be describing a bruise.

Document I'm working on confused "stumping" in the political sense with "stomping," and I am here for it. Give me politicians stomping through their districts. Delivering stomp speeches. Stomping for votes. All of it.

"Organized gangs of wine moms" sounds like a Monty Python sketch guest written by Bill Lawrence.

In other words, the fight is to put up guardrails around something designed to break through guardrails. So disasters will keep happening. (7/7

But in order for that to work, the code has to be flexible and adaptable, and that means what we keep seeing is going to keep happening—it’s going to keep breaking containment, because users are going to keep pushing it to do so, and it has no reasoning capacity to resist them. (6/)

That’s the whole sales pitch—that gen AI will perhaps be a funhouse mirror of human creativity, making new connections and doing things in different ways and what not. (5/)

Which leads to the next issue. The whole deal of generative AI is that it’s not supposed to be contained. Algorithm programmers keep talking about how gen AI surprises them, comes up with combinations they didn’t expect and can’t explain, and so on. (4/)

(And certainly not moral vs. immoral, because people don't have that settled, and we have cognition!) It has to keep being limited, but even when those guardrails are applied, it has no way to understand why those limits exist. That’s just the programmers trying to contain the algorithm. (3/)