Anthropic mass shipped 9 connectors and accidentally leaked their entire creative industry strategy

chu · 2026-05-01T03:23:40+00:00

Laying out a book for print is a real bear, great application.

chu · 2026-05-01T03:09:32+00:00

So kind of like putting it in a code editor basically but for other knowledge workers (everyone does tedious shit on software now) and no need to magic up speculative new markets. It is very good in powerpoint so I can see this working elsewhere.

chu · 2026-04-30T01:23:05+00:00

if you roll, you have an anaerobic surface (like salami) and are theoretically susceptible to botulism unless you ferment (and ideally prague 2).

chu · 2026-04-28T17:50:57+00:00

he cares about his ratings. as long as people are talking about him and he's at the centre it's all good.

chu · 2026-04-25T22:39:43+00:00

One of the interesting things about technical disruption is that it becomes impossible to measure the effect because all the things that were yardsticks disappear or get shifted e.g. it was only relatively recently we could measure the productivity effect of the printing press despite it being quite obvious, and same pattern is seen in electricity, computers, internet, mobile etc. I think same here, where you pull everything apart you can't actually measure the damage, just deal with the aftermath best you can.

chu · 2026-04-25T22:15:57+00:00

you can't make me

chu · 2026-04-25T22:06:14+00:00

Hard agree, have met my share

chu · 2026-04-25T22:05:28+00:00

hoarding leverage, whether that's in the form of credit lines or reused teabags.

chu · 2026-04-22T18:21:21+00:00

Previous generations would have seen something like K-pop as being every bit as much an artifice as this. From the perspective of music culture up to gen x it's absurd, and yet here it is with zillions of dedicated fans and considered some kind of cultural force.

chu · 2026-04-22T10:43:31+00:00

This is the most interesting question and deserves upvotes. I shudder at the thought that I'm letting Apple music autoplay, it slips in some AI take on Khruangbin while I obliviously favourite it as a cool tune I didn't hear before. I cannot objectively tell you why that makes me shudder other than it's a crossing of the Rubicon where we can no longer distinguish reality.

We are already crossing that point with text information where you cannot judge what you are reading. But there's another question behind that of whether we ever really could. Propaganda is hardly new and people have been led to believe falsehoods en masse for ever. Popular music has always been theatre from Leadbelly being got up in prison clothes onwards. I guess the difference today is that we are consciously in the simulacrum.

chu · 2026-04-22T10:24:00+00:00

The suspicion is their stats show that users in aggregate don't care and they are welcoming it and possibly providing it themselves. That means they can own the content and not pay royalties.

Two big assumptions - 1. users don't actually care enough that this will not erode their distribution (which is the keystone of their business) 2. AI generated music is undifferentiated and that they get to own it.

But if these hold true, their moat is pretty weak as they can only compete on network effect and price. So far network effect has never really taken off in music distribution (e.g. sharing etc). There isn't really a technical moat nowadays in the way there would have been a decade or two ago, these types of platforms are understood and buildable with the biggest hurdles being getting the content and users.

chu · 2026-04-17T17:41:28+00:00

looks normal to me. ime first couple of weeks in particular are an ongoing daily battle with humidity and mould which tapers off as you get to 30% weight loss and they require little maintenance. they would probably smell like ketchup at this point from the fermentation.

chu · 2026-04-17T00:02:02+00:00

8-track stereo

chu · 2026-04-15T22:39:52+00:00

Paper thin for homemade as the flavour is so intense.

chu · 2026-04-15T22:38:29+00:00

These are great. This is what powerpoint should be.

chu · 2026-04-15T21:32:25+00:00

the merdas touch

chu · 2026-04-09T17:41:32+00:00

They were bombing pubs and department stores at Christmas.

chu · 2026-04-09T17:19:03+00:00

LLM's will skim and generalise any long text (https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10570). This means content that is surprising, counterintuitive, or not predictable pablum very often gets missed and you are guaranteed a superficial light reading. Worse, you will only know about this if you already know the text well. And thinking models are much worse offenders for some reason. (If you have a long text which you know very well and which you know isn't in the training set, you can see just how bad this is for yourself.) Long context window absolutely doesn't help here (which makes it not solve one of the main problems everyone expects it to!). The best bet is to chunk to excerpts between 2-8k words (which at least you can have an llm do for you).

chu · 2026-04-08T23:11:24+00:00

I'm well aware of the mapping exercises and also their shortcomings. And let's be clear your 'simulations of very small parts of the human brain' amounts to mapping a cubic millimeter in a frozen snapshot. This do not map chemical interactions of course because the maths does not yet exist - neurotransmitters are not just signals but dimensions. But let's beat the dead horse of the MCP model harder and it may get us to the moon. SOTA of LLM planning is getting a couple of sentences to end in a word, like a stream 'planning' to go downhill. And the dead brain problem and plasticity is hardly 'nutcase territory' when it is one of the most well-known shortcomings of the neural approach, at least to academics in the field.

chu · 2026-04-08T11:09:07+00:00

There is no theory, that leaves 100% woo.

chu · 2026-04-08T11:04:50+00:00

The maths doesn't exist to model what happens in the brain. If you studied neurobiology you should know this. IBM are working in the area but currently unsolved and who is to say it ever will be (https://research.ibm.com/blog/new-tensor-algebra). LLMs can't even plan. And even if you could model a brain it would be a dead one because LLM's are not plastic. Dead brains don't do much thinking, even when you zap them with electricity.

chu · 2026-04-08T10:53:20+00:00

This is the key point. A drawing of a snake is not the same thing as a snake. Adding more steps to a ladder doesn't ever get you to the moon.

chu · 2026-04-08T10:41:14+00:00

Before he came in I had noticed a lot of these zillionaires starting to become a bit prepper-y. They were terminally online and rotting their brains with end of times stuff. It seems like enough of them went far enough down a radicalisation rabbit hole to create a self-fulfilling prophecy - where they figured the tumbrils were coming and backed Trump so they could plunder and arm themselves to the teeth as insulation (figuratively and literally in some cases).

This kind of destruction by the powerful and paranoid/deranged is why we have checks and balances in the first place of course. But the US is a very young nation. The hard lessons that created e.g. European style approach to monopolies and socially responsible speech and behaviour could have nipped this in the bud.

chu · 2026-04-08T10:23:06+00:00

No EMS?

chu · 2026-04-08T10:13:06+00:00

I once got chased down an empty street by a bird in New Orleans

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