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The specific thing I was responding to here was your claim that storyboarding gets around a need for understanding. I haven't actually said anything about human artistic capability.

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They are just different videos with different goals. It's worth noting that turn down for what only has one lyric.. I'm not sure that style of video would fit these lyrics.. The style gone for here is an Airplane-style series of separate jokes

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ok I guess your last video is helpful - if you ask for something less literal like that one will get something more like that..

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I'd be interested in whether it's able to do something you do like artistically for that specific scene, but I can't do that unless you give some indication of what that is. [Except for the point about you wanting a stronger throughline, but that's not scene specific]

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You picked the specific example of how it interpreted the "training run" being too literal as an example of why you don't think it's understanding. I instead think it's just trying to do something that you don't like artistically. [1/2]

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that's a visual joke - what visualisation would have indicated more understanding in your view? A server farm just sitting there humming?

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tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

How does generating a storyboard shortcut the need for understanding? I expect a human would also generate a storyboard (whether in their head or written out)

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we are not the only intelligent things on this planet anymore it would be no less crazy if aliens had landed. this is an insane time to be alive

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Pathoplexus @pathoplexus.org · 22/09/2026

1/ 🧬 A big #Pathoplexus milestone: you can now optionally include raw sequencing reads alongside your consensus sequences! Hosting raw reads alongside consensus data helps improve reproducibility & allow in-depth analyses. 📰 Read more: pathoplexus.org/news/2026-09...

AI-generated image showing raw reads (short reads) lining up above a consensus sequence, with both the raw reads and consensus sequence labelled. Vague images below show a virus, coverage, and DNA.

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 21/09/2026

(featured in my bluesky banner pic)

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Ragnar {Groot Koerkamp} @curiouscoding.nl · 21/09/2026

The math of MSCA applications: - Suppose writing an application takes 2 months. - Total cost of hiring a PhD is maybe €5k/month (??) - Applying costs €10k. - Total cost for 21k proposals: €210M - Total funding: €400M So half the budget is wasted on just applications.

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 17/09/2026

haiku does a little better (one command at a time not per char): asciinema.org/a/YdNLwl5GHs...

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Claude Haiku plays The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Recorded by theosanderson

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 17/09/2026

tried to get Jev to play the HHGG adventure game, one keypress at a time, but no

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 17/09/2026

Increasingly convinced that specs are now the source and that code is an artifact akin to a lockfile.

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 16/09/2026

What proportion of new production code for commercial software in 2028 will have been read by a human? 1️⃣ 0-10% 2️⃣ 10-50% 3️⃣ 50%-90% 4️⃣ >90% 📊 Show results

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 16/09/2026

I just tried an arbitrary GISAID fasta and it worked. Could you let me know the accession? It may be too diverged (which I'm sure I can address)

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 14/09/2026

Ah sorry, currently off kayaking but will investigate asap on my return

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 10/09/2026

Definitely echoes of Feb 2020 vibes atm

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Max Read @maxread.info · 10/09/2026

continually underrated how FUNNY the horrifying transcripts of rogue autonomous AIs always end up being

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Anthropic do geniunely think AI may kill us all. They believe that no one else is going to even try to make a reliably benign AI, so they have to be first. It definitely sounds sort of insane, and I’m nowhere near equipped to tell if it is. But the belief is sincere and internally consistent.

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Stefan Neumann @neumannstefan.com · 08/09/2026

Hah yes this was entirely curiosity to see what a one shot prompt did (in fairness I think it just used whatever TTS was already on the machine). If I cared about my audience I would definitely have added some authenticity :p

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I wanted to submit a grant proposal this week and ended up not doing it precisely because of this. I have no idea how in a project that, say, lasts from 2027 to 2032, I can promise results that cannot be achieved by an LLM in 2031 with one person prompting.

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Room temperature superconductivity when? 1️⃣ by 2028 2️⃣ 2028-2030 3️⃣ 2030-2035 4️⃣ 2035-2045 5️⃣ 2045-Never 📊 Show results

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Who knows if relevant here but it's intriguing to be moving towards a world where all customers of each AI firm are co-opted into a hive mind

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Astra implemented a feature I'd been wanting in gensplore.genomium.org for a while but hadn't managed with previous LLMs - overlaying a sequence onto its reference. The button isn't very obvious, so as an experiment I also asked it to make an (admittedly annoying and slop-py) video walkthrough

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God the future is weird. I'm gonna go water some plants.

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 08/09/2026

*The editor was told where to shove it.

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 07/09/2026

No, claude. You can't play portal. You need to finish this PR. Oh my god fine but keep it under an hour.

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cee @cee.wtf · 05/09/2026

“Anyone could have made this in a day” Ok but no one did

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 05/09/2026

This is interesting. You get assigned to being born at a random place and time in history, to see what a typical person's life might have been like then. Unfortunately I was born in 1403 in the valley of Mexico and died at age 4 from dysentery.

anyhumanever.com

Any Human Ever

One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived.

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hmm, n of 1 but it seems to be working now maybe "delegate some stuff to opus" is a magic incantation that stops it getting worried even when it's doing most stuff itself

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(but I wasn't delegating)

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yeah, I am too. thanks for the info!

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Yeah I got opus to make a new version of a thing with no references to viruses but was sad that that didn't do the trick in that case

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