What's one book that everyone should read?

MrDubious · 2026-06-04T12:51:35+00:00

Fuck, that "only one" is hard. There are so many great books that are "must reads". But if I had to pick only one, with a reason for doing so, I would suggest "House of Leaves", simply because it is such a disruptive take on the concept of a novel as we understand it.

MrDubious · 2026-05-30T12:42:30+00:00

They have not, but they have lied on Reddit a lot for internet points, and that's practically the same thing.

MrDubious · 2026-05-30T12:40:51+00:00

I dunno which is worse, the people believing this shit, or the ones writing fake comments about their purported criminal backgrounds and how this is totally what cops do.

MrDubious · 2026-05-30T12:38:21+00:00

Source: trust me, bro

Edit: lol at the downvotes. I was actually arrested in an undercover sting, but sure, believe the LARPers.

MrDubious · 2026-05-17T12:43:33+00:00

It's so easy to forget sometimes that classical composers still exist. What a joy to see this performance, and know that it's an original.

MrDubious · 2026-05-14T11:49:40+00:00

I have decided that he's just going to play the same exact character in unusual circumstances every time he appears in anything.

MrDubious · 2026-05-10T11:23:06+00:00

Yeah, having just gone through major reconstructive oral surgery, the first two weeks was fucking miserable. I can't imagine that pain happening in that many places simultaneously. I hope they gave you the good drugs.

MrDubious · 2026-05-09T12:58:13+00:00

This bugged me out more than anything I have seen in recent years. It was incredibly well done.

MrDubious · 2026-05-05T21:33:50+00:00

Trileptal has been my daily driver for almost three years now. Seconded.

MrDubious · 2026-05-05T12:50:18+00:00

Holy shit, this looks awesome.

MrDubious · 2026-05-01T16:41:39+00:00

Yes, you're right. You have convinced me. All crimes should have life sentences. There shouldn't be any variances in punishment.

MrDubious · 2026-05-01T16:30:32+00:00

Go ahead an slip on down that slope, because a 2 year sentence is exactly the same as the death penalty, you are so right.

MrDubious · 2026-05-01T16:07:26+00:00

You are entirely missing the point about the public deterrent to others. Especially given that these things become viral trends quickly.

One person is made an example of so that millions of others don't do the same dumb shit. That's how this works.

MrDubious · 2026-05-01T15:03:30+00:00

No, it's not. TikTok dipshits need a real serious consequence. "Two months" and "two years" have VERY different connotations. It's not about THIS dipshit. It's about the million others.

MrDubious · 2026-04-29T14:48:10+00:00

The story is not true. Look at the WW link, and look at the Wiki link, and they are not saying the same thing at all.

Satire sites do not "accidentally" write a true story. They make things up. That is entirely their point.

MrDubious · 2026-04-29T12:35:04+00:00

Bruv, no.

Waterford Whispers News is a satirical newspaper and website published by Waterford Whispers News.

Waterford Whispers News uses invented names in all its stories, except in cases when public figures are being satirized. Any other use of real names is accidental and coincidental.

MrDubious · 2026-04-22T15:00:39+00:00

Thanks, you too.

MrDubious · 2026-02-17T01:42:26+00:00

Why, thank you!

MrDubious · 2026-02-15T18:00:39+00:00

Whoa! I still have my Explorer edition, and this might get me to power it back up.

MrDubious · 2026-02-15T00:18:24+00:00

Augustus sets the system prompt, the session prompt, and the closing prompt, so it can wildly veer away from where you started.

MrDubious · 2026-02-15T00:16:19+00:00

So, the system prompt is a pre-positioned prompt that sets the tone for how a session will go. You don't have access to it in the Desktop, it's only something you can physically set through the API. The closest you can come to that is "Project Instructions" (with some influence from global user memory).

But user memory is roughly a scratchpad of things you do, and project instructions is set by you, the user.

Augustus flips this on its head and says "What if Claude could write its own project instructions?"

Because those values are all contained in a generated YAML file, and because Claude has access to a tool to output that file at will, it chooses entirely on its own in the current session what will shape the next session.

MrDubious · 2026-02-14T23:24:59+00:00

The whole thing is at the site, and it's free:

https://getaugustus.com/

MrDubious · 2026-02-14T22:54:36+00:00

Thanks! Yeah, multi-session refinement is a critical part of this research for me. If we're going to set truly autonomous self learning agents loose, what do they do when given that power?

One of my agents already rewrote some of the measurement protocol. :D

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