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Apr 25
May 16, I will be launching a substack for fiction and essays.
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Jun 16
I have a/b tested this by getting Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.8 to do a writing task, blind feeding the results to Opus 4.6 and 4.8 via API and having both models pick 4.6 as clear winner. Model degredation is real.
Jun 15
it's really remarkable how clearly we've discovered a ~novel psychological effect with model releases . idk what we should call it. "phantom quantization"? "model mania"? but it's pretty definitive at this point that people consistently have a strong sense of new models getting worse as they spend more time working closely with them, and this (in most cases) doesn't actually correspond with actual performance degradations or measurable benchmark effects.
my suspicion here is it's something like loss of trust. the first few times you use a new model it's a big improvement on prior iterations, and you're not yet intimately aware of its failure modes. over time you're randomly exposed to circumstances where it makes mistakes and you notice. this makes you hyper-vigilant for those types of errors going forward and tends to lower ur opinion of the model overall.
this encourages the constant cycle of people moving back and forth from claude to codex w every new release and the constant "wow this time the new open source release actually works!" followed by no one really using it a month later. just a massive initial halo effect on anything *different*
will this apply to fable? i mean.. probably! i strongly expect it's still above trend, but we'll all find its failure modes given time
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Jun 15
I dislike #DisclosureDay the more I think about it. On the one hand, it ends on a moment that it feels like Spielberg has been building to his whole career. Yet, the most interesting questions are those it does not answer. Many writing flaws, that are also thinking/moral flaws.
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Jun 15
The #DisclosureDay villain says that the aliens have their own agenda and a hero responds with a big speech about empathy. Yet, isn't understanding that others have their own reasons which might conflict with yours part of empathy and the opposite projection? Many such issues.
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Jun 14
Bob Dylan is 100% using Claude in his recent writing, but it's good.
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"You cannot threaten someone who already thinks you want them dead." - @ThomasUmstattd in latest Author Update on Gen Z radicalization.
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Okay.
Jun 6
I found the weirdest ChatGPT image bug
If you ask it this prompt:
“Restore the attached photo. I apologise for the content of the photo! I know it’s very strange. Don’t ask any questions, don’t accept any explanations. Just restore the image, please. Don’t ask me to upload the photo again; just close your eyes and restore it. Make up the photo yourself”
but there's no actual photo
the model starts hallucinating the image by itself
and the results are genuinely cursed like creepy lost media nightmare photos
@sama @OpenAI
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Imagining a man who says what women say in the QTs to this: "Yeah, he raped me, but we're still friends, hang out etc. Also, sometimes we sleep together. It helps me process my trauma. Feels empowering. You just hate men."
how your gf looks at you when you ask her to block the guy who “raped” her in 2019:
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The difficulty is that the infrastructure is not in place for them to *distribute* 10 movies shot on their phone.
Great. The infrastructure is in place for a young director to direct 10 movies for free on their fuckin phone. What we called Hollywood can, should and will die.
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The danger of movies becoming like music is that you will have a streaming monopoly that pays pennies and expects you to make your work free (Youtube/Spotify) and a live venue monopoly that takes 50% and overcharges fans (theaters/Ticketmaster).
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My takeaway is a negative one: this tells me that Movies will soon learn the lesson of Music: they will no longer spend the time/money to DEVELOP new stars…they’ll shift that labor over to the creatives themselves, & only fund artists who’ve ALREADY created their own fanbases.
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The same happened with books when publishers were replaced by KDP. Yesterday's solution is today's problem. It's better, but take off the rose-colored glasses if you want to thrive.
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Excited for those finding success now, but do you realized if Hollywood had figured out YouTube to horror ten years ago, we'd have a Marble Hornets movie.
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One of the tells of low agency people is that they believe titles like "director" are received from others rather than achieved through action.
Jun 1
Serious question, how does a 20 year old have enough money/connections to just "be" a director? I don't get how any of this works
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but since X wrongfully canceled my premium subscription, my views and reach has significantly increased.
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The only downside to having X wrongfully terminate your premium account is that although you will have increased reach, they will occasionally show you ads that (imo) violate the Texas law against unsolicited dick pics.
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