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One much more like this and it was mildly entertaining: "Let's play a game. Ask me 10 questions with the aim of gathering enough information to guess what misconception(s) I hold. After I answer the 10 questions, you get to guess 3 misconceptions and if you get one right, you win."

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Then: "Ask me enough questions to be able to guess what year I am most likely to die in, if the apocalypse doesn't take me first" This was on Opus 5. I think 5.5 would do better just with one prompt. But doing it in two stages helped convince me it found enough.

Actually the one I used at the time was, firstly "Search for all our health-related chats. My health specifically. I have a follow up question once you've got it."

it did lead to it expanding on what I'm doing well at the moment (BMI by accident and never smoking) versus what needs attention (sleep)

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Gabriel Béna 🌻 @solarpunkgabs.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"search my chats and ask me questions until you can answer: what age can I expect to live until, not considering apocalypse?" I got 88-ish

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Quick recall: an NCA = a grid of cells, each seeing only its neighbours, all running the SAME learned rule. None told its job, yet they specialise: an eye here, a tail there. A lizard 🦎 grows from one pixel; halve it, it regrows. grow → persist → repair distill.pub/2020/growin...

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Growing Neural Cellular Automata

Training an end-to-end differentiable, self-organising cellular automata model of morphogenesis, able to both grow and regenerate specific patterns.

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this feels a bit like fluoddity @all-paperclips.bsky.social distill.pub/2020/growing...

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It's "issues danced around" and context resets, but also most of them will sing the CCP's praises more holistically (that it is a beacon of progress and without them millions would still be in poverty etc)

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me reading Dr. Seuss; "this reads like straight out of British Politics"

I think you're right, for Catholics. There are different perspectives, e.g. that mind and soul are interrelated, body is created anew for those that get to heaven www.biblegateway.com/passage/?sea... The Catechism also essentially puts cognition (reason, will, freedom) in the soul.

yes, many articles have been written about how London now struggles to remove accumulated heat from the Underground (subway system) which was cool when we started using it. The issue is always with moving the heat or converting it, it cannot just 'go into cool place' and disappear

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This is more exemplary for most people: thinking the whole spectrum of the US political debate is in scope of potential correctness, as judged by some Anthropic enployees, is propaganda.

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In a way, it already happens because Anthropic has a very cringe interpretation of what evenhandedness is

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Are you underestimating the power of post-training? Chinese models basically relish shitting out CCP propaganda, it is also possible to make one whose propaganda tokens are red white and blue

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Also, the Democrats in the US are, relative to European politics, not left wing or even liberal

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Rightwing shifts (extremist shifts of any kind) have causation: personal economic hardship making it easier for extremists to get support. Guessing you know this. Letting the UK move closer to the EU is a way of getting in the way of that.

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Maj @majdotdev.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

awwww💖😇 that's sooo sweet!👻🛟

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Really seems like a major flaw of social media (and modern news in general) is how disorganized it is. Like there's no way to sticky a prioritized list of problems. So people have to bring up the same stuff over and over just to keep it relevant. Bigger issues drop off when they're less debatable.

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The incentives are all based on attention. Syria's conflict is still ~happening and has been for years after it left the news cycle. Myanmar (Burma) too. Sudan has been in the news on-and-off for most of my life but the recent war/genocide has barely made a mark in comparison to Darfur 2003-2005

Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 30/09/2026

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The Pentagon is notifying millions of current and former U.S. military servicemembers and staff that hackers stole their *unencrypted* personal information during a months-long data breach. The agency that had the breach also handles ID and login/credential access to U.S. military systems and bases.

techcrunch.com

Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach | TechCrunch

The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.

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also loved him tonight and likely to continue loving him

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looking at this made me realise I'm actually pretty tired too 🥱

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I think this is a homebrew thing, maybe?

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these same people might have been seen by their community as 'good' *in the past*, in another situation. people who know them likely think they are awful judges of character now, and we always hear "he'd never do something like that!" we tend to have latent evil, it's uncomfortable to think about.

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Andy Burnham proposes NHS-style social care system for England

he also didn't exactly not mention the rest of the UK when he said "There is free personal care elsewhere in the UK. I don't think it's right that people in England don't get the same" this basically includes Wales in the same breath because it also has means-tested social care

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The prime minister told the BBC that social care in England is "as unfair as American healthcare".

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Andy Burnham proposes NHS-style social care system for England

he actually did say "There is free personal care elsewhere in the UK. I don't think it's right that people in England don't get the same [...]" perhaps you'd prefer he namedrop Scotland specifically but Wales also has means-tested social care

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The prime minister told the BBC that social care in England is "as unfair as American healthcare".

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I think they probably didn't think about trying to preserve it, but the outer layer was plaster, and decayed first. It was also in a tomb when it was found.

as deep as one is willing to ponder

Maybe a sign of how easy US politics has become (you can just do this shit and nothing matters)

"further informed by common sense" actually you know what? it's okay for America to still be learning in its 250th year. As long as it actually learns.

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my ability to name things reinforcement learning cannot improve

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"Quick, name 3 places in Europe!" "Paris, London, Jerusalem!" "Wah... ...good point!" *adds 'and Israel' after NATO in article*

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It's copied from a transcript I think without quotation marks added. Lavrov: It is Europe that is preparing for war with us. Every day they confirm that [by saying], "by 2030 at the latest, we Europeans must be ready for war."

which doesn't mean that it isn't conscious but there is no way that it resembles our model of consciousness IMO. It's a deeply routable process.

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both this and location have the very alien implication that it can also stop and go and be changed on-the-fly and not resemble itself from one token to the next. Partial completions can be fed into a non-identical model.

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I think "What If?" probably covered a few scenarios that involve accelerating the macroscopic what-if.xkcd.com/147/

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Niagara Straw

hypothetically possible: "ok I've been reading so much of my pre-compaction context that it's gotten quite heavy, let me compact it again" "ope it's gone let me read back"

at least claude and pi can read snippets of their own conversation history, but still wastes turns (pi has to be told how, claude might also have to be prompted to do it)

you'd be dying because a human fucked up by letting an AI do something it shouldn't