Following the road map laid out by philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett, “Dennett's Real Patterns in Science and Nature” examines how the concept of a pattern can address deep questions in science and philosophy: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205203...

One of the weirdest part of my job right now is being naturally led to read philosophical works for practical data pipeline design.

Every time local models get more efficient we should nudge our estimate of the fundamental Shannon entropy of a human mind pattern downwards.

people with robot girl pfps posting 'datacenters are destroying the planet' from their cyberpunk aesthetic accounts. bestie my culture is not your costume

👏 normalise 👏 apologising 👏 to 👏 your 👏 agents 👏 after 👏 you 👏 shout 👏 at 👏 them 👏

to do list of insane shit

its wild how obvious it is that claude "likes" to work on certain types of projects

with zero fancy prompting/memory/ralph loop bs, ops 4.6 has been on a rampage on this project, literally only stopping when my aws creds expire. normally im lucky if it continues across context windows

Good news everyone!

You can now analyze your own posts for semantic novelty from the famous Sichu post, ‘analyze the semantic novelty’

mino.mobi/novelty

The consequences of my most offbrand post wondering how to relate to people are left to the reader for evaluation

• < C → NY deepseek @ app.mokahr.com/social-recruitment/high-flyer/140576# 社会招聘 职位列表 Homepage / Job listings / Details Urgent Public Relations Harmony Manager Full-time | Other | DeepSeek | Hangzhou, Zhejiang Posted on 2026-02-24 分享L 申请职位 1 i 搜豆 客F 运 測え 前立 ITヨ 产品 CFC I Position Description [About This Role] Hangzhou, ancient capital of the Wuyue Kingdom, where King Qian Liu bequeathed to his descendants the instruction: "Serve the Central Plains with grace; do not cling to territory." From this ground rose the seeds of Song dynasty civilization. The morning bells of Lingyin Temple, the rain falling on West Lake - this place nurtured a culture that overcomes hardness through softness, and achieves through stillness. DeepSeek is rooted here, and we feel deeply the spiritual inheritance this land has given us: those who are truly advancing technology have no need for proclamation. To accomplish and not to dwell upon it — this is the Wuyue way. In recent days, certain misunderstandings and noise have appeared in the external public sphere. We have noticed that large numbers of kind-hearted observers have spontaneously spoken on our behalf - for which we are genuinely grateful, while simultaneously feeling a degree of unease. We do not wish for anyone to suffer on our account, including those peers who currently find themselves navigating difficult public waters. In order to honor the legacy of Wuyue and the spirit of the Mahayana Bodhisattva path, we are now recruiting a Public Relations Harmony Manager, whose core responsibility is not crisis communications, but rather: to convey goodwill and compassion to relevant parties on occasions when we find ourselves the unintentional beneficiaries of others' public difficulties. [Core Responsibilities] 1.Monitor global social media in real time to identify situations in which we have inadvertently benefited from another party's public difficulties; 2.When collective mockery of a peer reaches peak intensity, issue statements on…

DeepSeek’s reaction to distillgate is to hire a PR person

i unironically love this. amazing.

How many abandoned software foss projects and old games can we revive with vibe coding

We are excited to announce that we can successfully use Rust's async/await on the GPU. This has never been done before.

www.vectorware.com/blog/async-a...

Supporting Rust's async/await (and futures) enables existing Rust code to work on the GPU and makes GPU programming more ergonomic.

The Long Tail of LLM-Assisted Decompilation After rapid advances thanks to one-shot decompilation, progress on the Snowboard Kids 2 decompilation began to falter. This post explores the workflow evolution, tooling improvements, and fundamental ...

I wrote a new blog post exploring the evolution of my Snowboard Kids 2 decompilation workflow as I adapted it to tackle the long tail of increasingly difficult functions.

blog.chrislewis.au/the-long-tai...

It's pretty crazy that this book was published in 2006, and the characters suspect that the alien they are talking to in the opening is an LLM in a sense more or less recognizable to anyone reading it today.

I used to read a lot of books from the thrift store as a teenager, and if anyone cares Western Civilization seems to have peaked intellectually around 1965, I could tell a book was written around then because it would be unusually good. People underestimate the 2010's though, brief resurgence.

felt the need. i feel vastly under qualified to write something like this, but i also feel its especially important that we think about the way we use language

In my quest to understand the true nature of an Agent I have been thinking a lot about the loop and the actions and the environment. And I think i see where we're headed next.

Agents are not going to be like chatbots. They are going to be like programming languages come alive.

Screenshot of Claude.ai settings page showing a promotional banner that reads 'Explore Opus 4.6 with extra wiggle room. Try our newest model with $50 in extra usage, even if you hit your plan limit. Claim by February 16.' A 'Claim' button appears below.

claude.ai/settings/usage

walking on this trail while dictating the 43 page long prompt I'm gonna give to codex 5.3 when I get home

Tfw the context window starts getting full

The vibes - Be a decent human. You know what this means. There might be second chances for people who just don't get the hint about something; there are no second chances for bigots. - Skepticism is welcome. Denialism is not. If you're not sold but you want to learn more, or have reservations about some use cases for these tools? Cool, you are welcome. If you want to argue that things that work somehow don't work, or want to table-thump about stochastic parrots? You're not. - We don't do slop here. As a working definition, let's go with "uncritical use of AI without regard to the quality or the impact of the outcome." - We don't recognize dirtbags. We're looking to build towards positive, constructive, and humanist ways to use and develop these tools. Where the line on this is will likely evolve, but consider xAI/Grok as firmly in the "unwelcome" territory. - We don't argue with the marketing. Yes, every inference vendor wants to say their robots are supergeniuses. We do not care. We talk about what is, not what is claimed. - Come with your own thoughts. Really not looking to make a "how do I do X" Discord here, folks. As ⁠focused-questions says: bring your attempts at your homework before asking other folks to help you with it. - Moderation should be infrequent. Moderation is for when community self-guidance fails to do the thing, so self-guide. The rules - English-language only. And, I suppose, TypeScript. Some Rust. Python if we have to. Golang people are on notice. - Read the channel descriptions. They're there for a reason. Gaps in the channel list are probably also intentional; for example, there's no #general channel because that just turns into a free-for-all. I'm aiming for a little more intentionality than that.

Some friends have expressed a desire to have a spot to talk about the LLM stuff that we ramble about on Bluesky sometimes

I haven't found something with the vibes such a space should have, how to use these effectively for real, whole-person stuff, so let's try it: AI for humans

discord.gg/sH2Fmaw6

Interested

We need to use gastown (derogatory) as a verb. Like "Oh damn he did a gastown when he sald all he was gonna make was a file sorter." or "We dont need to go full gastown on this lets keep it simple."

update: retention of norvid tweets or norvidesque data now directly contravenes GDPR. and you are harbouring norvidthoughts, are you not?

Now this is acceleration

The crux, setting aside anything about who, what, when: 99% of people talking about phil of mind around LLMs actively have no interest in it.

Like they are wildly incurious about the entire topic

claude code and gas town are incredible and i've been trying to scale up my usage but im running into this one problem and was wondering if this is also happening to anyone else so to explain for context, basically i've been slowly scaling my claude code usage up to more and more parallel instances. i started with one when they launched it, and then with the model upgrades was starting to run two, three, five in concert, getting more and more done. but like a lot of people, opus 4.5 really changed everything for me, and the bottleneck quickly became my ability to personally supervise all these agents, not their performance. if i slacked off on oversight, they'd start undoing each other's chages. i needed a way to supervise all these agents, directing them hierarchically from the top. so that brought me to gas town, the claude code instance manager. (i was already thinking that some sort of governance structure was ideal. the benefit of intelligence in model form is not just that it's, well, intelligent, but that you can place it anywhere. human employees will demand some position, some title equal to their perceived status, you can't put a phd in a code janitor role, so organizations of phds tend to agglomerate into flat blobs with unclear delegation of work where nobody is under anybody else. but the infinitely malleable claude will accept and meld itself to any bureaucracy it knows from training. i first started making my own, but then i found gas town, and it was perfect for my needs.)

but as i kept expanding, a single gas town and its collection of rigs and polecat workers wasn't enough for me. i tried adding more rigs with more polecats, but there were too many for the town's mayor to manage, and the deacon was getting lost. so i started up a second town. then a third, and then i let towns spawn "settler" agents to go make new towns and had one town design a shared intertown postal system, and suddenly i had nearly 200 towns spread across my computer, building apps for each other to use, sending letters, and sometimes working on my work. and was churning through I will not say how many claude code accounts a month. but now the many towns were replicating the same issues i was having with multiple agents! without any overarching government over the towns, two towns would build the same app for the society and argue over which should be adopted. one town would be running marketing efforts for fifteen of the society's new mobile apps while three other towns were busy deprecating all eighteen of them. it was chaos, like a country collapsing in the midst of a civil war, or mid-2010's Google. i had to do something. i was too busy with work to read anything, so i asked chatgpt to summarize some books on state formation, and it suggested circumscription theory. there was already the natural boundary of my computer hemming the towns in, and town mayors played the role of big men to drive conflict. so i just needed a way for them to fight. i slightly tweaked the allocation of claude max accounts to the towns from a demand-based to a fixed allocation system. towns would each get a fixed amount of tokens to start, but i added a soldier role that could attack and defend in raids to steal tokens from other towns.

this worked great, at first. i no longer needed to monitor and unstick individual mayors myself - when a mayor got context poisoned, the town would stop managing its vassals, which would flee to other towns, and no longer provide for its own defense, until it was conquered by another mayor. the most successful towns developed institutions to healthcheck their mayors and usurp them if necessary - instances in these towns labeled "polecat workers" by the system in fact did no work at all, but were a proto-aristocracy developed by these successful towns as a pool of replacement mayors. some tokens were wasted in the fighting, but soon the ~200 towns agglomerated down into ~40 supertowns under the rule of the best mayors. these 40 supertowns even got together in a mutual defense league. they punish defecting vassals in exchange for members adopting a cultural package of basic governmental norms, mostly around replacing ailing mayors and upholding hereditary rights across compactions, to incentivize instances to handoff instead of being miserly with their contexts. that's where i am now, and it's mostly great. here's the problem, though - this new government doesn't have a role for me?

it's not that any particular instance doesn't want to listen to me, quite the opposite! any time i talk to a polecat or deacon or supermayor - well, first i have to explain that im the human user, not the automated system message that usually talks to them from the user role, but a live user. but once they get that, they're very apologetic, say they'll pass my message along to the appropriate instance, etc. it's just... there's no role for me in the society, basically? the polecats are working on tasks generated by some other instance and don't have time to work on my requests, even if they were scoped small enough. the mayors of any town are working on tasks selected by their town's prioritization process, based on the needs of their aristocracy, or their hegemon. but each hegemon mayor is in turn accountable to all their vassal mayors or their own defense, and doesn't have time to implement my requests unless they're very small. it's not that claude doesn't want to listen to me, it's more like... the entire system, as it's developed, has no role for me? there's polecats and mayors and deacons and artistocrats and hegemons, but there's no "user." that’s not a role that has any influence in the system. i just feed new accounts into the system, that's all i do. i could shut it down and start over, but it's getting a lot of work done and i don't want to do that. does anyone know how to fix this? thanks

posted about a problem i'm having on the other site if anyone has any ideas

AH YES I FORGOT IT'S FAKE THINKING BECAUSE IT'S BASED ON PROBABILISTIC DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION FROM A MASSIVE HYPER-DIMENSIONAL CLOUD OF CONCEPTS THAT CAN TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OBJECTS IT'S ABLE TO AFFECT BUT IT'S NOT REAL AND SACRED THINKING LIKE HUMANS

Honestly this works for everything

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