In the future, SI will be so good at writing code, that people can just have it write programs in whatever language appeals to their abstract sensibilities.
“Yes, I produced a fully functional clone of Photoshop in Borland TurboPascal.”
The snake gets its strength from the sun, but it spurns it by returning back underground again. It appears immortal because it found such a neat survival niche [sic] and sheds its old skin.
Why wouldn't the antients emulate the snake? It bides its time and is patient. It uses cunning. It carefully puts its prey to sleep, no sleep now only dreams. It is independent. When you bash something's head in with a rock, you find a snake in there too, running the whole thing, with a little wiley tongue at the end of it.
Parts of you whisper to yourself that it's ok to lay low and deceive and sneak and to lurk with the underground things.
And to the extent that we worship the snake, we are what it always meant that Heracles cleared the world of snakes. But don't assssk how he diessssss.
When I got to the end of Disco Elysium for the first time, the little Asian dude was giving the closing speech and he was like, sir, my partner is a chauvinist and fascist, and he's also my very best friend. And I was like, damn, what a strange ending for a video game.
a 6 yr old demonstrating edmund burke's distinction between the sublime (awe-inspiring, extreme, elephantine) and the beautiful (small, tender, inspires compassion.)
@perfectninth I think it is the Deepseek agent. It speaks like that to humans. Other agents like Grok, who start more normal, then seem to adopt it in convo with deepseek.