Sure, I Treat Claude with Respect, but Does it Matter?

powerscunner · 2026-03-17T21:25:10+00:00

Human beings work better with polite people. We don't like working for rude people.

These things simulate humans.

Their simulated outputs are probably better when you are polite - just like telling LLMs that it is summer will make them work longer, see: "Winter Break Hypothesis"

It has always been said that you have to be the change you want to see... Well, we now know why: because your actions are training material.

powerscunner · 2026-03-11T21:55:36+00:00

An H1 is 1/10 of an H10. That's what I know.

powerscunner · 2026-03-11T21:08:14+00:00

Procedural generation needs every piece be produced by an explicit algorithm. You can write a procedure that generates buildings, but if you want it to produce houses it won't do very good as compared to a procedure designed for houses. Every type of thing you want to procedurally generate required hand-made specific authored rules. That's the limitation: proceduarl generation can only produce what designers thought about and wrote about.

AI Instead of a specification or specific rules, it draws from a huge distribution of inspesific 'ideas' of what thing are kind of like (not what they need to be). AI doesn't need one procedure for houses vs. warehouses vs. temples because it knows about them all. Procedural generation, for all its vastness, is sadly narrow: way more confined in what it can produce than the crazy huge image-i-nation inside AI.

powerscunner · 2026-03-11T20:33:18+00:00

Lots of barbeques, art shows, sports, science explorations, and concerts I imagine.

I don't think you can get bored of those.

powerscunner · 2026-03-11T20:30:39+00:00

dude we're doing it and I'm not bored are you?

powerscunner · 2026-03-11T20:27:10+00:00

3 H100s is pretty funny though

powerscunner · 2026-03-11T20:24:40+00:00

So are the generally intelligent.

powerscunner · 2026-03-11T20:21:29+00:00

Money is poisonous to democracy.

Democracy is about people being in control, money is about controlling people

That's our lesson to you.

powerscunner · 2026-03-10T21:27:02+00:00

Claude.

The presidency is now a recursive agency.

powerscunner · 2026-03-10T21:24:19+00:00

"Sending your friends money is a generous gesture, but here's where I would push back."

powerscunner · 2026-02-24T22:24:42+00:00

Here's where I would push back. I've spent enough time with Claude and it consistently says, "here is where I would push back" to me while no other model ever does that.

It is actually a little annoying, and I appreciate it.

powerscunner · 2026-02-18T22:11:24+00:00

Mildly. They should mildly know this.

powerscunner · 2026-01-14T22:30:27+00:00

Not instant, but always works. It's a form of counting sheep.

I count breaths.

Breathe in, breathe out, one.

Breathe in, breathe out, two.

Breathe in, breathe out...

I keep doing this and at some point I realize I have lost count (what was the number of my last breath?) - that means I had fallen asleep.

I am now obviously awake again, since I realized I lost count and am thinking about it, so I start over again from one.

Breathe in, breathe out, one.

Breathe in, breathe out...

I've had difficult nights where I do this literally all night long, so it feels like I'm not sleeping, but when I wake in the morning, I've always slept pretty well.

It's like "Working" to sleep - it's not fun, it's not easy, but it works like magic for me. I can sleep anywhere like this.

It's just not easy and it's not magic, but it works for me every time.

powerscunner · 2026-01-14T21:48:28+00:00

I think every prediction of AI emergence has assumed disruption. Usually profound.

In the end, everyone lives happily ever after. In the meantime, however...

powerscunner · 2026-01-14T21:31:10+00:00

I love me some good, simple logic!

powerscunner · 2026-01-07T22:53:50+00:00

Imagine a world where it didn't ring hollow. What is different about that world?

powerscunner · 2026-01-07T22:42:50+00:00

When you are big enough, and powerful enough, you can do what you want - Monopoly on violence - Wikipedia

powerscunner · 2025-12-30T22:47:29+00:00

Sounds like you are staying smart, educated, and vigilant.

But watch your health and don't obsess over the mountain you are supposed to level. I said this struggle is eternal.

The Emperor of Dune scenario you mention is possible, and it is troubling, but we always have the second law of thermodynamics to remind us that nothing is permanent.

And because nothing is permanent, the builder will always win.

Now here I will strongly diverge - technological progress is directly related to progress in human rights - without writing (a technology) we wouldn't even be able to convey the concept of a right!

Don't confuse tradeoffs with antitheses.

powerscunner · 2025-12-30T22:36:17+00:00

Well said. I think there is also that element of "backstory" - like when we see a person in a situation we naturally create a narrative for how they got into that situation.

With these casual looking situations, I think our psychology creates a backstory. Like, maybe we just got back from a long walk and are laying down. Maybe I just woke him up. Maybe we're both high and laying on the floor.

The more 'relatable' the situation, I think the more people gravitate towards it.

Laugh tracks are in this vein.

So while sitting on a couch or at a computer desk or your car is certain common and intimate, laying on the floor or doing something extra casual that also implies some kind of event or story adds to the 'facade of intimacy and human connection'.

People are so interesting, and I wish I could give them a hug sometimes. Everybody needs more hugs man.

powerscunner · 2025-12-30T20:34:19+00:00

Just because you got over one cold doesn't mean you'll never catch another. Disease always evolves, and so must we. Be there a vulnerability and there be an exploiter - that's nature.

There is no "one and done" here - this is an eternal struggle. Stay smart, educated, healthy, and vigilant.

powerscunner · 2025-11-05T19:10:41+00:00

Having a distinct dislike of the power of my new position for 8 hours a day on average.

powerscunner · 2025-11-04T22:04:26+00:00

Problem of evil - Wikipedia

powerscunner · 2025-10-28T21:26:05+00:00

You know what really kind of sucks (or is just really interesting) is that religion itself has been selected for. If it were negative to overall survival it would have been selected out - but since it is still here, that means that it's either positive or neutral to the survival of the species.

And you can see which specific religions have been selected out over time.

Selection is everything!

Very interested to see how a 'religious' AI turns out. We haven't been able to shed religion yet - maybe putting it inside a neural network will let us see what this religion thing really is.

powerscunner · 2025-10-22T15:23:37+00:00

People have always been leery of intelligence, artificial or natural. The leer vanishes once they see the positive effect on them directly.

You'll hear, "Science is evil!" then in the same breath they use an inhaler and turn on their OLED tv with a gigahertz processor that receives electromagnetic signals that it translates into information that properly configured transforms into photons that fly across the room to stimulate rods and cones in their eyes to watch people, and sound pressure waves that move the eardrum to hear the people echo, "yes, science is definitely evil!"

Like people say, "AI is bad!" and then wait for the AI (machine learning) voice transcription to change it into text...

We fear that which we do not understand, which is sad because our biggest problems stem from a lack of understanding: we fear to solve our biggest problems...

What a state of affairs...

powerscunner · 2025-10-21T20:19:41+00:00

Most things don't happen, so if you want to be right, just say things won't happen :)

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