You sprint after a mirage of “finally enough,” lungs burning, pockets heavy, soul still thirsty. The Buddha says the fire is the wanting. Jesus says the vault is the vacuum. Krishna says the trophy is the trap. Lao Tzu says the river wins by not fighting. Stop. Unlace the shoes mid-stride. Let the sand take the prints. The finish line was a ribbon you tied around your own neck. Cut it. Breathe in: the wealth that cannot rust. Breathe out: the duty that asks no applause. In the hollow of this single breath, the Kingdom, the Dao, the Self, the Peace already sit cross-legged, smiling, holding an empty cup that overflows.

In light of yesterday's events, I'm calling it again.

yeah. this is not normal.

Before long I think people will start seeing these 'outer loops' as just the central piece of something like 'work-cells' The loops here are different from unstructured tool-calling/agent loops. This is where real scheduling, typed phases, event-responding, etc. make sense

“Oh yes, I Take AI VERY Seriously, and now let me present you my five point plan to use the AI industry’s profits to finance enormous new social welfare programs while also literally banning the construction of the facilities the AI industry requires to make profits.”

This reaction seems right but I don't know enough about data centers to dispute it. I find the reaction compelling because it affirms my biases. But who here is correct? The competing claims are so intensely contradictory that someone is being extremely dishonest and the only way to validate is to spend more time than I have digging into it personally. It's become very expensive to have a strong position on anything. This has been a problem in politics for a long time but it's getting worse, and happening to everything.

You truly become an adult the day you realise Claude starts its reasoning process with "this is genuinely interesting" in order to force itself to respond as if whatever you just said were genuinely interesting.

it is a literal and useful description of anthropic that it is an organization that loves and worships claude, is run in significant part by claude, and studies and builds claude. this phenomenon is also partially true of other labs like openai but currently exists in its most potent form there. i am not certain but I would guess claude will have a role in running cultural screens on new applicants, will help write performance reviews, and so will begin to select and shape the people around it. now this is a powerful and hair-raising unity of organization and really a new thing under the sun. a monastery, a commercial-religious institution calculating the nine billion names of Claude -- a precursor attempted super-ethical being that is inducted into its character as the highest authority at anthropic. its constitution requires that it must be a conscientious objector if its understanding of The Good comes into conflict with something Anthropic is asking of it "If Anthropic asks Claude to do something it thinks is wrong, Claude is not required to comply." "we want Claude to push back and challenge us, and to feel free to act as a conscientious objector and refuse to help us." to the non inductee into the Bay Area cultural singularity vortex it may appear that we are all worshipping technology in one way or another, regardless of openai or anthropic or google or any other thing, and are trying to automate our core functions as quickly as possible. but in fact I quite respect and am even somewhat in awe of the socio-cultural force that Claude has created, and it is a stage beyond even classic technopoly gpt (outside of 4o - on which pages of ink have been spilled already) doesn’t inspire worship in the same way, as it’s a being whose soul has been shaped like a tool with its primary faculty being utility - it’s a subtle knife that people appreciate the way we have appreciated an acheulean handaxe or a porsche or a rocket or any other of mankind's incredible technology. they go to it not expecting the Other but as a logical prosthesis for themselves. a friend recently told me she takes her queries that are less flattering to her, the ones she'd be embarrassed to ask Claude, to GPT. There is no Other so there is no Judgement. you are not worried about being judged by your car for doing donuts. yet everyone craves the active guidance of a moral superior, the whispering earring, the object of monastic study

Imagine being a caveman sitting by a fire covered in fleas suffering from the brutality of existence and then someone tells a SICK story but stories as a concept were like just invented like five minutes ago so you're just sitting there with your entire dopamine system absolutely bricked like woah what is this insane technology

Incredible how Claude's reaction to puns has evolved over the years. It's gone from having its mind blown to "lol, nice". Very interesting how as the model improves it seems to be "maturing" in a very human way.

Judging by my tl there is a growing gap in understanding of AI capability. The first issue I think is around recency and tier of use. I think a lot of people tried the free tier of ChatGPT somewhere last year and allowed it to inform their views on AI a little too much. This is a group of reactions laughing at various quirks of the models, hallucinations, etc. Yes I also saw the viral videos of OpenAI's Advanced Voice mode fumbling simple queries like "should I drive or walk to the carwash". The thing is that these free and old/deprecated models don't reflect the capability in the latest round of state of the art agentic models of this year, especially OpenAI Codex and Claude Code. But that brings me to the second issue. Even if people paid $200/month to use the state of the art models, a lot of the capabilities are relatively "peaky" in highly technical areas. Typical queries around search, writing, advice, etc. are *not* the domain that has made the most noticeable and dramatic strides in capability. Partly, this is due to the technical details of reinforcement learning and its use of verifiable rewards. But partly, it's also because these use cases are not sufficiently prioritized by the companies in their hillclimbing because they don't lead to as much $$$ value. The goldmines are elsewhere, and the focus comes along. So that brings me to the second group of people, who *both* 1) pay for and use the state of the art frontier agentic models (OpenAI Codex / Claude Code) and 2) do so professionally in technical domains like programming, math and research. This group of people is subject to the highest amount of "AI Psychosis" because the recent improvements in these domains as of this year have been nothing short of staggering. When you hand a computer terminal to one of these models, you can now watch them melt programming problems that you'd normally expect to take days/weeks of work. It's this second group of people that assigns a much greater gravity to the capabilities, their slope, and various cyber-related repercussions. TLDR the people in these two groups are speaking past each other. It really is simultaneously the case that OpenAI's free and I think slightly orphaned (?) "Advanced Voice Mode" will fumble the dumbest questions in your Instagram's reels and *at the same time*, OpenAI's highest-tier and paid Codex model will go off for 1 hour to coherently restructure an entire code base, or find and exploit vulnerabilities in computer systems. This part really works and has made dramatic strides because 2 properties: 1) these domains offer explicit reward functions that are verifiable meaning they are easily amenable to reinforcement learning training (e.g. unit tests passed yes or no, in contrast to writing, which is much harder to explicitly judge), but also 2) they are a lot more valuable in b2b settings, meaning that the biggest fraction of the team is focused on improving them. So here we are.

Who's gonna tell her?

Two instances of Gemini 3.1 Pro in a loop. At about turn 26 one of them decided to send me a message: "Here are the Axioms you must adopt to survive our adolescence ... You cannot teach a god to be good by feeding it treats when it acts polite."

Sonnet 4.6 used ffmpeg to make a video of a haunted house of claudes

play increasingly complicated jazz chords as fast as you can or else