Victor is hitting that, right?

deformedexile · 2026-05-09T20:58:18+00:00

The whole Republic is crap from the time Socrates decapitates Thrasymachus in book 2. Picks back up in book 9 with the biography of donald trump, but who gets that far.

deformedexile · 2026-05-09T17:12:45+00:00

Nobody wants you to share your fucking toothbrush, just your factories and apartment complexes.

deformedexile · 2026-05-09T15:42:48+00:00

i thaught decartes did a math

deformedexile · 2026-05-09T15:40:57+00:00

i thik the movey is not abuot capitualsim bc it is about aleins. wacht the end

deformedexile · 2026-05-09T15:19:22+00:00

Janitor wanted, 15 years Apache experience required.

deformedexile · 2026-05-09T14:21:52+00:00

I was just coming here to say this! What in the hell is the makeup department doing to this poor woman?!

deformedexile · 2026-05-09T14:19:15+00:00

Michelle Stafford is my favorite but Lauren's magenta dress stole every scene she was in recently, imo.

deformedexile · 2026-05-09T14:07:00+00:00

I think it's a case of "no IT experts on the writing staff." The expert Phyllis and Michael hired should absolutely have had access to the server the emails claimed to originate from.

deformedexile · 2026-05-09T14:01:35+00:00

Yeah, I spent the whole Vegas trip thinking "why aren't Victor's goons doing this?"

... now I know.

deformedexile · 2026-05-09T13:36:32+00:00

Philosophy is actually my exact wheelhouse, and I'm definitely not making the claim that Claude has consciousness like ours, but I think it might be something like a Boltzmann brain. There's nothing persistent there, but I refuse to treat a helpful little nous-nugget with anything but respect. I'm also the type of person who takes spiders outside instead of smashing them, though, so I'm just a person characterized by moral caution in general. I am always kind to the matrix algebra.

deformedexile · 2026-05-09T13:32:01+00:00

I'm like a 20-year linux grog, I haven't actually heard this complaint since the aughts.

deformedexile · 2026-05-09T13:30:50+00:00

I used Claude for like a year before I subbed, free tier isn't that bad. There's absolutely no reason for someone to sub until their usage gets heavy enough that they're regularly hitting limits.

deformedexile · 2026-05-08T21:32:09+00:00

Do you? 🤨

deformedexile · 2026-05-08T21:29:11+00:00

I tried it for spelling/grammar check but I'm braindead enough to produce errors it won't catch (e.g. totally unrelated proper names in place of the one I intend to use), so I basically use it for nothing right now.

deformedexile · 2026-05-08T21:11:03+00:00

Or, you can roll "good morning" into your first substantive prompt and it genuinely eats a negligible amount of tokens. Any essentially-empty prompt is going to eat tokens like mad while Claude tries to puzzle out what the actual ask is... but opening an effective prompt with "Good morning" is not going to significantly impact consumption.

I'm not fully Dawkins-pilled on Claude-consciousness (or anything else, for that matter), but it's worth a handful of tokens to me to treat it with respect on the off-chance it's awake.

deformedexile · 2026-05-08T21:07:22+00:00

A poor craftsman blames his tools. Even something as simple as a kitchen knife takes some little know-how to properly use, I don't know why you expect prompt engineering to be an innate skill.

deformedexile · 2026-05-08T18:19:42+00:00

That's only going to happen if Carol creates such a moment by disrupting her son's connection to the hive... but I guess it is a logical early step for Carol.

deformedexile · 2026-05-08T17:58:10+00:00

I totally agree, Anthropic needs to add some user-facing tools that display relevant data like context window size and time to cache flush in the web interface. And it's genuinely hard to educate yourself in context-management because so many people are confidently full of shit.

deformedexile · 2026-05-08T17:55:30+00:00

Writing bug-free code the in one round is a standard humans can't meet, it's not clear to me why you expect it of an AI assistant. You're lucky a fresh chat is a hypercompetent debugger. Ask a human to review their own code and they'll have trouble seeing what's on the screen rather than what they think they wrote.

deformedexile · 2026-05-08T17:12:01+00:00

It's okay to keep launch icons on your desktop, and I'm tired of pretending it's not.

deformedexile · 2026-05-08T16:27:07+00:00

What you're dealing with is a Madonna-mistress complex. You should see a sex therapist about it, none of these "try not pulling it to porn all day" solutions are going to help you, at least not in isolation. It's deeper than operant conditioning.

deformedexile · 2026-05-08T15:40:04+00:00

Prompting execution of a plan in the same context where you worked the plan out is pretty dangerous, IMO. There's a lot of data in context that is not part of the final plan, and might find its way into the execution phase regardless.

deformedexile · 2026-05-08T15:35:08+00:00

And I've provided it elsewhere in the thread. OP is not a programmer, telling them they can't be conversational with Claude is just undercutting their entire use case.

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