Bookmarking this for later when I can say "I told you so"

The audience is pretty divided on whether AI thinks

They are begging to get sued. They think this is going to result in regulatory capture, but it's just going to result in lawsuits.

We've reached very silly levels of cope. This is like saying the internet is not a communication device because it was built by humans

People who assert that this is a bubble are radically missing the point

The world is, by and large, shifting from virtue ethics to consequentialism.

The Anthropic Network gave $2.2M to members of Congress over 2024-26. Senator Warner ranked #4 of biggest recipients. Out of 535 members, Warner is in the top 1%. The Senator is doing what he was paid to: pushing Anthropic's AI agenda to have government regulate its industry.

We need a name for the phenomenon that when a smarter/better model comes out, even the most beloved until-recently-SOTA models feel aggressively stupid. GPT 6 Astra was like the holy grail for all of two weeks but now it feels like talking to a caveman with dementia compared to Opus 5.5.

The only jobs that are forever safe are those where the human is the entire point. This is called ESSENTIAL DEMAND. What you must understand is that the vast majority of labor is DERIVED DEMAND, meaning that the human labor input is merely incidental to the desired outcome. For instance, if you want a house built, you are not paying for humans because you want humans involved. You are paying humans because there is no cheaper, better option. That is derived demand. Essential demand, however, is when you are paying for THAT HUMAN in particular to be present or involved. There are four overarching dimensions of essential demand: 🎨 PROVENANCE Provenance is when you care that a thing was created by a human. Real art, real music, real food. That sort of thing. ✨ PRESENCE Presence is when a human is physically present, such as for childcare, massage therapy, and other immediate, embodied experiences. ⚖️ LIABILITY Liability is when you want a human to be legally accountable for something. Like the owner of a company, a CEO, a judge, a lawyer, mayor, or president. 👩‍🎤 AFFINITY Affinity is when you are paying for a specific, named person. RDJ sells movie tickets. Taylor Swift sells out concerts. If your job is not dominated by one or more of those dimensions, I've got some bad news for you.

I made this public. github.com/daveshap/SkyRingG… There are some tweaks based on what works well and what doesn't.

LLMs can think and reason and understand

I would really love it if ChatGPT was not hell bent on misunderstanding you just to correct you. It's better than it used to be. Grok was clearly distilled on ChatGPT tho, because the current Grok very deliberately misrepresents what you're saying the way that GPT 5.5 and 5.6 did.

The democrats are working real hard on reality distortion. They are going to alienate a LOT of progressives and independents with this nonsense.

I asked Opus 5.5 and Astra 6 to improve the watch face I made a few days ago. I gave both models the same exact prompt. Opus 5.5 has about 10x the taste as ChatGPT. OpenAI needs to really get on the ball.

This is called "strategic ambiguity"

Gork really fell off, huh

This was me for a few years.

I'm sure this means nothing

You best start believing in fast takeoff You're living in one

Give your agents cocaine

I was playing around with Suno to make epic video game or OST music and this piece sounds like a Frieren AMV suno.com/s/YPQ57GzlrpHle2lJ