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Could it be that it’s able to rely on an internal model of the globe, which it had a lot more detailed GPS-tracked training on, than it does game worlds?
“Childish” is the word I also keep coming back to, but hesitate to use, for fear of insulting children by comparing them to people like Sam Altman and Elon Musk.
Reminds me of Solresol, except being a 5-tree makes it so it could fit a pentatonic scale, which is fun.
I’ve actually noticed this in a hobby project, where I have some agents running around a little MOO-like text world and talking to each other. With DeepSeek-R1, just because it’s fun to watch them “think” like little characters, I noticed I see this sort of thing a lot (maybe 1-in-5-ish, though there’s a LOT of other scaffolding and stuff going on around it which could also be causing weird problems):
<think> Alright I need to do this very specific thing "A" which I can see in my memories I've been trying to do for a while instead of thing B. I will do thing A, by giving the command "THING A". </think> THING B
This is a good point! Typically I start from a clean commit in a fresh chat, to avoid this problem from happening too easily, proceeding through the project in the smallest steps I can get Claude to make. That’s what makes the situation feel so strange; it feels just like this problem, but it happens instantly, in Claude’s first responses.
I happened to be discussing this in the Discord today. I have a little hobby project that was suddenly making fast progress with 3.7 for the first few days, which was very exciting, but then a few days ago it felt like something changed again and suddenly even the old models are stuck in this weird pattern of like… failing to address the bug, and instead hyper-fixating on adding a bunch of surrounding extra code to handle special cases, or sometimes even simply rewriting the old code and claiming it fixes the bug, and the project is suddenly at a complete standstill. Even if I eventually yell at it strongly enough to stop adding MORE buggy code instead of fixing the bug, it introduces a new bug and the whole back-and-forth argument with Claude over whether this bug even exists starts all over. I cannot say this is rigorously tested or anything- it’s just one project, and surely the project itself is influencing its own behavior and quirks as it becomes bigger, but I dunno man, something just feels weird and I can’t put my finger on exactly what.
I do think it’s helpful that managers now have a reliable way to summarize large amounts of comments, instead of making some poor intern with Excel try and figure out “sentiment analysis” to “read” thousands of comments without having to pay for a proper data scientist, and I wonder if that’s already had some effects in the world.
Ah, what a fun idea! I wonder if coloring or marking the ropes and/or edges somehow would make it easier to assemble ad hoc- I think Veritaseum’s video about non-periodic tilings included some sort of little markers on the edges that helped him orient new tiles, but that was on Penrose tiles and I’m not sure this shape has the same option.
This is absolutely a selfish request, so bear that in mind, but could you include screenshots and/or quotes of all X.com posts, and link to what the post links to when applicable? I have it blocked.
I thought these were pretty… let’s say “exciting”… reads, but I’d be interested to hear more people’s opinion of this as a trustworthy source.
Thank you.
I wonder what effect an all-edges pan would have; how did it taste near the edges?
It seems like if there is any non-determinism at all, there’s always going to be an unavoidable potential for naughty thoughts, so whatever you call the “AI” must address them as part of its function anyway- either that or there is a deterministic solution?
You can read the fanfiction this is for at: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14412246/1/Miss-Macross-My-Life-as-The-Star—I’ll get around to cross-posting it someday.
The Three Warnings of the Zentradi
All of their work is great, but for my favorite I highly recommend ‘Ra’, for similar reasons of feeling what it’s like to interrogate your own thoughts, senses, and reality itself.
Also this fun little story (Valuable Humans in Transit) about an AI: https://qntm.org/transi
I didn’t know what to expect, and this was an interesting read. What was the context for when and where it was delivered? EDIT: nm just saw the Fiction tag. Still interested in context though; I do not know who James Windrow is, except for what I can speculate on from this story.
In Anthropic’s support page for “I want to opt out of my prompts and results being used for training” they say:
We will not use your Inputs or Outputs to train our models, unless: (1) your conversations are flagged for Trust & Safety review (in which case we may use or analyze them to improve our ability to detect and enforce our Usage Policy, including training models for use by our Trust and Safety team, consistent with Anthropic’s safety mission), or (2) you’ve explicitly reported the materials to us (for example via our feedback mechanisms), or (3) by otherwise explicitly opting in to training.
Notably, this doesn’t provide an opt out method, and the same messaging is repeated across similar articles/questions. The closest thing to an opt out seems to be “you have the right to request a copy of your data, and object to our usage of it”.
I see people upvoting this, and I think I can see some good insights in this post, but MAN are glowfics obnoxious to read, and this feels really hard to read in a very similar way. I’m sad it is not easier to read.
Matthais Wandel feels like a super useful resource to include here:
Photographing airborne dust (12 years old, but is about measuring airborne particles without fancy equipment): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmehjfmoxPQ
‘dust’ videos on his channel: https://www.youtube.com/@matthiaswandel/search?query=dust
He’s usually more focused on woodworking dust, but does end up talking a lot about the different types and sources of “stuff in the air” and what different measurement tools are looking for.