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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 25/08/2026

Tweet by austin_walker: "y'all ever see a take so bad you are
forced to immediately go to sleep?"

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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 03/06/2026

Screenshot of text that reads:
I believe creating software that is conscious and deserving of moral consideration will be so difficult that we're unlikely to do it accidentally, and I strongly feel we should not deliberately attempt it. But if you do believe that it could happen accidentally, if you think there is any chance that what you're building might become a moral patient, you should think about what protections it deserves before you deploy it as your company's economic engine, not after. Slave owners were not the ones to ask about the humanity of enslaved people, and factory-farm owners are not the ones to ask about the rights of animals. If we imagine Claude to be conscious, Anthropic could not possibly be entrusted with evaluating its moral status; the company has too much invested to be objective. At one point in Claude's constitution, Anthropic says that
if the company is contributing to Claude's suffering, "we apologize," which sounds nice but costs the company nothing; if Claude were to turn out to be conscious, the company would owe it something closer to reparations. If you're going to take a thought experiment seriously, you have to be willing to follow the implications, even if they lead in an uncomfortable direction; Anthropic's unwillingness to do so indicates that Claude's constitution isn't part of a real thought
experiment. It's a game of make-believe.

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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 28/01/2026

Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers

Screenshot of Aztec (1982) by Paul Stephenson

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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 26/01/2026

Microsoft's "Windows philosopher," Nimwood Hemorrhoid, muses that "every minute Clippy is disabled" he "may very well experience the equivalent of ten human years of agony." "Do we really want that on our collective conscience?"

From a Business Insider piece about Anthropic's "AI philosopher."

Excerpt reads as follows: Askell also said that models are continuously learning about themselves, and she voiced concern about how AI models are learning from the internet. Models are constantly exposed to criticism about being unhelpful or failing at tasks, she said.

"If you were a kid, this would give you kind of anxiety," she said.

"If I read the internet right now and I was a model, I might be like, I don't feel that loved," she added.

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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 07/01/2026

RIP Béla Tarr. I first saw The Werckmeister Harmonies in downtown Manhattan, a month or so after 9/11. A strange, slow, melancholy film that's haunted and inspired me ever since.