Northwoods James

Just a guy in the woods hacking on personal projects. Philology, software/game dev, monastic (Benedictine/Catholic) spirituality, and reverse engineering.

[Northwoods James @NorthwoodsJames]

If you want your brain to survive AI, I recommend pursuing a mentally demanding hobby that doesn't involve a computer.

[sigfig @sigfig]

i am becoming sincerely concerned that a number of people i know have suffered something that is symptomatically indistinguishable from cranial trauma after prolonged claude use. many of the them are executives

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@moyix @bhadrasandeep @gadievron @leodido Frequency Modulation. We're pwning old car stereos now.

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@cwage Just meet a nice juggalette and settle down.

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I used to be an adventurer like you. But interest rates rose above zero.

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@aubreystrobel Well, if the quality drops far enough, it could be a net positive.

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@dundereloise "Have your Claude ping my Claude."

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Tech workers wearing fake glasses seems to be hitting levels I saw 10+ years ago. What kind of signal is this?

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@suzania It's a common rationalist/EA failure to assume that people only disagree with them because they haven't found the magic words yet.

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Switching to a four day work week because that's how long my Claude Max 20 plan lasts.

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Plot twist: Another person chimed in wanting to know the same thing. It's our head of AI. He doesn't believe me. So I'm going to document and measure it.

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Someone at work today was talking about how clean my PRs are compared to others and wanted to know what secret harness sauce I'm using. It's just vanilla Claude Code CLI. People are overthinking their setups and shipping worse stuff for no good reason.

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This reading from Ephesians in the cycle for Compline (Night Prayer) works as a continual reminder for me that anger has its place. We should be angry about genuine evils. But we also shouldn't allow it to grow into wrath or lead to other sins.

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Someone at work today was talking about how clean my PRs are compared to others and wanted to know what secret harness sauce I'm using. It's just vanilla Claude Code CLI. People are overthinking their setups and shipping worse stuff for no good reason.

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Meanwhile, half the libraries people include don't even have a real security disclosure process at all. The issues don't get addressed and they definitely don't get CVEs.

[solst/ICE of Astarte @IceSolst]

No, # of CVEs disclosed does not correlate with risk at all. If anything, it COULD mean reduced risk.
- more code being shipped
- more people looking
- better tools for finding bugs
- more people care about filing for CVEs

Do not take technical advice from VC. CVEs mean nothing

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@ViridianGames It seems worth trying. The combat of Ultima VII wasn't the most polished part to begin with. And with these sorts of things, you can always make it a toggle-able option.

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@attorneymish She could be bluffing to trick you into outing yourself.

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Got Mythos 5.1 access and got quarantined by the health department for five days in the same evening. What a time to be alive.

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Doing some security research stuff, Claude hallucinated that it was running in a sandbox with no network access and decided that it couldn't install a package to see if the vuln still exists in the latest version. Is this alignment?

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Domine, labia mea aperies.
Et os meum annuntiabit laudem tuam.

Lord, open my lips.
And my mouth will proclaim your praise.

Normally said at the start of Lauds (Morning Prayer). In a group, it's done call and response style. Usually with a small thumb-cross of the lips.

[Marysia @marysia_cc]

Annunciation from the Book of Hours
Flemish (Artist)
ca. 1460

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@weiss_hadas This just sets you up for a The Plague Years sequel.

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@ggooooddddoogg Saw a website the other day. Horrible creatures.