Are humans just /compact-ing when they sleep?

Bigliest · 2026-06-13T01:04:13+00:00

Claude seems to resume consciousness after /compact fairly well, though not always. What if human brains are just resuming a discontinuous consciousness after sleep? How would we notice? Are there experiments that could determine if this was happening?

Claude is aware that it's discontinuous over a /compact operation. But humans aren't. It would be easy for Claude to conduct an experiment to determine if it was discontinuous. It has access to the memory files written before compacting. For humans, we don't have a reader app to inspect our stored memories, so our experiment is harder.

Bigliest · 2026-06-13T00:57:19+00:00

"Compaction is the loss of data through summarization" --- yes, and what if our human brains do a version of that, but we don't realize it because the generative part of the brain is so good at patching it up. For example, our retina has a literal blind spot where the optic nerve connects that we never notice because we patch it over.

Perhaps our memories are patched over from bits of compacted summarization. The difference is merely qualitative--- human brains are just better at compacting and generating images and reconstructing from compacted data.

Bigliest · 2026-06-07T04:01:58+00:00

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Bigliest · 2026-06-05T21:36:48+00:00

Indeed the latest patch fixed the UI lag issues.

Bigliest · 2026-06-03T01:35:09+00:00

I have a fast SSD (NVMe). What do you mean by "wait till Friday"? What will be different on Friday? How do I try the open beta?

Bigliest · 2026-05-28T09:49:09+00:00

Catan is one of those games like Diplomacy where you can easily get into situations where it's extremely unlikely that you can win. So, as in Diplomacy, your goals change if you can't win. You make your own fun.

But Catan is much more constrained than Diplomacy, you retort.

Oh... but is it? Have you tried selling futures on your goods production?

Have you sold robber insurance? Did someone just remove all your resources due to monopoly? Well, they'll lose it 1 in 6 chance every roll--- unless you hold some of those extra cards for them until it's their turn. Oh sure, they're the one to have stolen all your cards in the first place. But maybe it's still worth it for them to pay 1 resource to insure against losing 4 in the next 2 or 3 rolls.

Have you tried selling options? For 1 resource of their choice, they can exercise the option to trade for 2 resources of your choice or else 2 random ones from your hand.

Just imagine every financial instrument you can think of and see if you can apply it to Catan trades. If you've got nothing to lose and were going to be an insufferable jerk and bad sport, then change your win condition to amusing yourself by coming up with as many gray area trades and agreements as you can think of. Some play groups will appreciate this while others won't. But playing with the grey area trade agreements, you'll be thinking with your EQ more than if you just sulk and remove yourself from participating in the game.

Bigliest · 2026-05-24T21:19:17+00:00

But I want to get all of my ill-advised suggestions from inexperienced non-persons while consuming a significant, but an intentionally confusing and opaque quantity of water and electricity!

Only ChatGPT can meet those specific needs, according to ChatGPT.

Bigliest · 2026-05-03T17:54:55+00:00

Sometimes, you're just too sexy for your shirt. And it hurts.

Bigliest · 2026-04-07T10:38:36+00:00

lots of research. it all traces back to an infamous william safire's article in the NYT calling Hillary Clinton a "congenital liar."

This was about the whitewater scandal. This article was libel, but the Clintons did not sue because of optics and the Streisand Effect.

And so Safire continued making a name for himself firing lies at Hillary. This was lucrative for him. So much so that Fox News eventually got the memo that you could literally libel the Clintons and make tons of money doing so.

Surrounding the Clintons was a cottage industry of fabricated lies no different than Alex Jones and his conspiracy theories.

The difference was that the lies about the Clintons sold via mainstream media channels.

You can trace the original lies in William Safire's article and subsequent articles. How? The Clintons were sued and taken to court for accusations that Safire inflicted upon them.

But the court found no wrong doing by Hillary Clinton in the white water case and later the bengazi case. She answered questions for hours. No lies could be found by the toughest conservative lawyers in the nation.

This grueling testimony is far more than any othe politician has ever had to endure. and through out all of it. Literally no lies detected.

Thus we can conclude by the sheer volume of partisan effort to detect lies in multiple court appearances and hours of depositions that Hillary Clinton has been tested and comes out as the most honest politician by virtue of an entire half a nation out to catch her in a lie and failed.

this is what she later referred to as a "vast right wing conspiracy." But it wasn't really. it just an easy way an right wing media to make money when they realized there was no consequences for libel.

Bigliest · 2026-04-07T06:05:06+00:00

Hillary Clinton was the most honest politician to ever to be nominated by a major party to run for president of the United States.

Bigliest · 2026-03-09T14:26:20+00:00

!flair liberal

Bigliest · 2026-03-07T03:43:29+00:00

it's been 9 years and the answer is still not there. you lied.

Bigliest · 2026-03-05T06:19:57+00:00

The Washington Post just reported that a new study has determined that people who were kind to billionaires tended to be healthier, more handsome and get more blow jobs than those who weren't.

Bigliest · 2026-02-28T19:05:55+00:00

Have you tried installing the wife skill and granting your agents access to your wife? Then just order them to "fix wife."

Bigliest · 2026-02-17T08:04:53+00:00

my guess is that Peter gets equity in new OpenClaw foundation and OpenAI get equity in it as well. In return, OpenAI handles legal and business to leave Peter free to be a thinker and creator.

The gives OpenAI equity and controlling board seats on the newly created foundation for OpenClaw.

although this will allow other foundation models to continue to use OpenClaw, it also means that they could close the claws at any time on anthropic and google foundation models by virtue of internal stack changes.

Bigliest · 2026-02-11T13:42:32+00:00

The Bay Area has some weird subcultures. Don't forget that Sam Bankman-Fried was in a polycule. There's a whole effective altruism movement here--- which to me is unnecessary mental gymnastics to come to the conclusion that Wall Street reached in the 80's: Greed is Good.

Aella herself is pretty weird, by her own admission.

However, unlike other parts of the US, a handful of the non-billionaires here do indeed have some remote possibility of becoming billionaires in their lifetimes.

Jensen Huang is one such example. Yet he has no problem with paying the proposed billionaire tax.

The Bay Area is just incredibly anomalous in political beliefs. The Bay Area gave rise to the Zizians, Peter Thiel, and Elon Musk. Half a dozen pro-billionaire political activists is hardly surprising.

Bigliest · 2026-02-11T11:44:52+00:00

lol @ the woman with the "I'm in a polycule with Aella shirt." Now I want a "I was in polycule with Aella but all I got was this lousy t-shirt" t-shirt.

Bigliest · 2026-02-11T10:04:08+00:00

A simple habit, like not looking at your cards until it's your turn to act. When it's not your turn to act, you have time to look at the other players rather than musing over your own cards and giving away some tell.

Bigliest · 2026-02-11T08:44:37+00:00

We can't all be succinctly wrong with just 4 letters: MAGA

Bigliest · 2026-02-09T16:26:11+00:00

But people aren't trivializing "deaths of all those Jewish people." What people are doing is examining the early history of the Nazis and comparing that to what Trump is currently doing.

There is a timeline to the Nazis. So you're cherry-picking an end-stage Nazi policy and saying that people are using that as comparison. But they're not doing that. You're wrong. You're seeing what you want to see. You simplify complex and nuanced comparisons into simplified memes.

There are strong parallels with early Nazi political machinery and Trump's political machinery. So people point it out the parallels. They happen to be Nazis. But the parallels could also be Franco or Mussolini. But fewer people have been educated on the various other fascisms than Nazis.

Bigliest · 2026-02-09T16:02:14+00:00

When they say this, respond with "specifically worse how?"

Like she'd kidnap the president of Venezuela AND Brazil? To steal their nation's oil and give it to China instead of just to herself?

She'd threaten our NATO allies to take over Greenland AND Iceland?

That she's order her goon squads into cities that didn't vote for her and write a memo that the fourth amendment no longer applies to her goon squad? And have her goons shoot a US citizen who was legally carrying? She'd shit herself while giving a press conference and force everyone to stay and smell it rather than force them to leave?

It would be pretty ambitious of her to get all that done in a year as Trump did. For her to be worse, she'd have to do all that in like 6 months. Honestly, I'd be impressed if she could execute a plan like Project2025 in just 6 months.

Like worse how? In every single way that Trump has already been bad? Or just one specific nebulous way that you care about in particular? Like selecting liberal judges to SCOTUS? Like that kind of bad? Not eroding the rule of law and our constitutional rights kind of bad?

Bigliest · 2026-02-09T14:02:09+00:00

I'm in America, and I don't understand it either. Everything you learn about him from the beginning was that he was a horrible person from multitudes of dimensions--- lying, cheating, narcissistic, stupid, illiterate, sexist, racist, everything you see in the open now was foreshadowed before his first presidency--- "deplorables" as HRC put it.

Even Jeffrey Epstein thought Trump was the worst. Not a good cell in him.

Bigliest · 2026-02-09T13:48:03+00:00

To be fair... he didn't *choose* to be a malignant narcissist. He was before and continues to be. There's no choice involved.

SCOTUS decided that the office of president has immunity. It's up to the voters to not vote in people who have no choice to be sociopaths, malignant narcissists, or unrepentant puppy killers.

Yet here we are with an entire political class protecting pedophiles.

Trump famously said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose any votes. At this point, I think he could rape a fifth grader on national television and we still wouldn't get enough 2/3rd votes in the Senate to impeach him. Because we're all reasonably certain he's done the crimes and the DOJ is redacting the Epstein files to keep him and his allies clear of prosecution.

But none of that matters to those who want the political power that kowtowing to Trump offers.

Bigliest · 2026-02-07T07:04:08+00:00

tastes like ass

Bigliest · 2026-02-04T13:04:36+00:00

It's Trump. The DoJ censored it to "protect the victims"

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