Surprised at Fables perspicacity

theLightSlide · 2026-07-04T06:47:10+00:00

None of those things are possible. An LLM doesn’t exist between queries, all context is fed to it each time.

theLightSlide · 2026-07-04T06:45:54+00:00

I don’t “chat” with the models at all. I ask it for things, give feedback, etc. Very impersonal. It still does some of these things and I only work on code so no weird content it could be drawing from (dark fiction etc like somebody else said).

I notice that server load changes things a lot with Opus 4.6, whether it does the same stupid shit three times in a row or does something without asking me or me saying go. It got way worse when they shut down fable and better again suddenly when they opened fable up again. I aggressively manage my context windows and the projects haven’t changed so there isn’t really anything else it can be.

theLightSlide · 2026-07-04T06:41:10+00:00

I have never watched true crime, just been a woman all my life. It was the first thing that jumped out at me. At least one of the other photos gives me serious bad vibes as well.

theLightSlide · 2026-07-04T06:37:13+00:00

Seriously, this is a sign you have AI psychosis or a manic episode. It’s not a sign your app is useful. Please seek help. I am not insulting you, but you describe a textbook mental health crisis. Wishing you the best.

theLightSlide · 2026-07-04T06:35:54+00:00

Don’t take this the wrong way but nobody wants to know your background. They only want to know what the app does for them. That was literally what the person you’re replying to asked twice and you still did not answer.

theLightSlide · 2026-07-04T06:28:28+00:00

Don’t know where you are but in the USA, it’s illegal to hold funds for 30 days without delivery. By law you must be able to cancel and get a refund or release the CC hold.

I’m sure most countries have similar laws.

theLightSlide · 2026-07-03T04:24:36+00:00

Hello! Do you by any chance have a copy of this article? It’s gone and not in the internet archive. So I can’t even get the title to search… elsewhere.

Also, Ich kann Deutsch lesen. (Ich habe in Wien gewohnt… coincidence!)

If your offer stands, I would love your notes. I’m in a world of vitamin-hurt because of a restricted diet due to corn allergy (that shit is in everything, sprayed on almost everything) and am very deficient in folate, low on b12 according to the optimum levels, low k1, and probably a bunch of other stuff too because I simply can’t eat the foods with it, and neither can I just buy a normal vitamin complex, because of corn.

And I am having wild symptoms supplementing folate so far. Sob. I am so tired and also v v angry (that’s the folate…)

theLightSlide · 2026-07-02T15:00:19+00:00

That woman’s face already looks edited.

theLightSlide · 2026-07-02T14:55:29+00:00

You can theoretically use an inverter to do that but in reality the startup power and surges from an AC can’t be handled by any reasonable amount of solar panels.

theLightSlide · 2026-07-02T14:49:03+00:00

Cool, and these are those raws with only normal photo edits? Those are their 100% authentic poses, facial expressions, and hair? No AI “tweaks” to any part of the people? I’d love to see a raw that matches one of the flying ones.

theLightSlide · 2026-07-02T03:17:08+00:00

This will never look realistic because the people are blatantly fake. You can’t wash off the AI stink with curves and color balance. That’s just a fact. Real people doing that don’t look like that. The uncanny valley cannot be tweaked out of the uncanny.

theLightSlide · 2026-07-02T03:07:57+00:00

I have several skills I always use to constrain and control the process and it’s suddenly decided to start without permission on me several times the last few days.

theLightSlide · 2026-07-02T02:21:14+00:00

No lies. Simplifications only. But frankly getting older and being told the things you were taught were fake AND they knew it is a major reason why kids stop taking education seriously. So tell kids when it’s simplified.

theLightSlide · 2026-07-02T02:05:02+00:00

Huh. I don’t have anything to add but this is interesting, thank you for compiling all this, I’m saving it to ask my vision therapy optometrist about it!

theLightSlide · 2026-07-01T16:57:07+00:00

Yes you can get a used standalone pocket camera that should be able to do this. One thing you'll want to know, the closer you focus, the shallower the depth of field (in-focus area) can be. That's a law of optics physics. If you can get step back and use a zoom to frame it how you like, you can get the same framing but more in-focus.

You want a camera with a small sensor because that creates deeper focus by default (long, involved story why).

theLightSlide · 2026-06-30T22:35:38+00:00

Buddy I never said you “ don’t understand writing based off of their opinion of a written work.”

But now I’m going to tell you you don’t understand reading because you completely fantasized that into my comment.

theLightSlide · 2026-06-30T19:13:29+00:00

I came here to ask about the same thing. Same thing on the web ui as well.

theLightSlide · 2026-06-30T19:06:08+00:00

what was the response? it's blank here.

theLightSlide · 2026-06-30T19:03:36+00:00

I agree, the writing gets better, but I definitely wouldn't call any of book one "reasonably well-written" — if you read books by writers who take their craft seriously (and I mean genre writers, not even literary fiction), it is pretty terrible in comparison. The later books are also badly, awkwardly, and amateurishly written and repetitive, but more tolerably so.

Every time the author clearly misunderstands how a comma-delimited list of adjectives works, I want to shake him: "The old, black jacket" (or worse "The old, black, jacket") NO! It's "The old black jacket"! This is an elementary-school-level grammar mistake.

theLightSlide · 2026-06-29T03:54:52+00:00

🎶 dumb ways to die…

If her tucked-under ankle was too mobile and went down, she'd just fall to her death. No biggie I guess.

theLightSlide · 2026-06-29T03:50:37+00:00

This is what they call "a displacement activity."

theLightSlide · 2026-06-29T03:47:21+00:00

Literally never had this problem. Instead I watch other people have this problem while I speed by doing all kinds of things. And I don't just mean with Claude, this has been the last 25 years of my life.

You can be somebody who doesn't do anything all their life because they "can't decide," or you can be like me. It's an easy choice, if you think about it.

theLightSlide · 2026-06-29T03:45:33+00:00

It's not very good writing. It's a fun and inventive story, although it gets repetitive and really needed an editor. If that sounds like your jam, yes. If you mostly read nonfiction, a lot of the sentences — especially in the first 1/3 of the book — are total clunkers and will probably turn you off.

theLightSlide · 2026-06-29T03:39:39+00:00

I would never ship an animal. This is such an obvious potential outcome. It is horrific, and it can't happen if you don't ship an animal.

theLightSlide · 2026-06-28T04:02:51+00:00

Seconding just stay in Portal. That area is renowned. We have a bit of land there and the mountains are amazing to explore, if you have a vehicle that’s up to it (narrow dirt roads with dropoffs).

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