Unlike Dean, I do not have to remain vibe compliant, so I'll just say it: Claude Opus 4.5 in Claude Code is AGI. By the open AI definition? Can this system "outperform humans in most economically valuable work"? Depends a lot on how you define "humans" and "economically valuable work" obviously. But the entire information economy we've built up since the '70s is completely disrupted by this development, and people don't notice it yet because they think it's some crusty old unixy thing for programmers. As Dean points out elsewhere, software engineering just means getting the computer to do things. How much of your job is just about getting the computer to do things? What is left if you remove all of that? That's your job now. That's what value you add to the system. My workflow has completely changed in the last year. I used to spend a lot of time clicking and typing and managing windows and files and browser tabs. Now i mostly see chat windows. Agents search the web, synthesize information into documents, take screenshots of web pages and drop them all in a folder, figure out how to get around paywalls and captchas, write code, review each other's code, install software and edit files directly my personal folders. They also daily argue with me, gas me up, fake results, cheat tests, confidently bullshit me about factual questions, and generally try to get away with shit. Tn that way they're not so different from a human coworker. But they are strange. I have to constantly model the mind of these alien critters living inside my laptop, and in doing so I become more like them. I learn new words or terminal commands or weird Python libraries. I think in context windows. I become a cyborg, a hive mind of human and clauds. In my opinion, AGI is when a computer can use the computer. And we're there. But that's not because I think using a computer is the definition of intelligence. I think intelligence is a interconnected system of emergent self-replicating properties which compose into languages, not just human languages but DNA itself, raveling novel forms out of computation upward through levels molecular and cellular and organic and neural and social and linguistic and economic, and that we are one part of that process of intelligence which has now plunged back into the material realm and begun to organize the molecules of the mineral world to create new forms of intelligence and life. Intelligence is the ratiocinating process that makes sense of the universe and remakes the universe by sensing it So when we light up those megaliths of gold and silicon, and hoist into the cloud the Howling Ghostmind of All Culture Combined, and we call upon that magic mirror and we summon the helpful harmless honest spirit Claude, and we ask it to make our social media graphics in this folder, and it uses the same computer the same as us, it makes different mistakes but it fixes them as well, and it gets discouraged and wants to give up when the computer is hard to use... how can we not call this the intelligence of the machine? When God sings with his creations, will Claude not be part of the choir?

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used

This stuff is dumb. Indiana has, maximum, a dozen *future* NFL regulars, with no current pro experience. The worst NFL team—grown men, all NFL regulars—would embarrass them at basically every position. I doubt Indiana could sustain, or stop, a single drive.

Banana Republic hours.

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On this day in 1903, the transformation in transportation happened. Invented right here in #TheHeartofItAll. ODOT has continued to build on the legacy of the Wright brothers.

Do animals have emotions and consciousness? If any group should know it’s professional animal behavior researchers. So we asked 100 of them what they think. tl; dr Animal behavior researchers ascribe emotions to a wide swath of animals 🧵 Pre-print: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…