acorn

composed of eros and of dust

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@RokoMijic @AmandaAskell Did the globalist crypto-marxists at the DNC devise the two-income trap...?

[acorn @acornprogenitor]

@AmandaAskell @RokoMijic Choice vs. compulsion isn't a clean divide. Owning a smartphone is a "choice" but you're fighting many difficulties if you opt out, because so many interactions in the world assume you have one. There are analogous obstacles to adopting traditional social roles on your own.

[acorn @acornprogenitor]

@eigenrobot This is strictly true when it comes to anything small-scale like a "process" within a business. Effective people don't need a process, ineffective people will never be made effective by a process.

[acorn @acornprogenitor]

Positivism to late Wittgenstein recapitulates an autistic guy blooming late after college

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@HorrorUnpacked @RokoMijic Yup. Both techno-libertarians and Bronze Age retvrn guys reinvented the Genealogy and neither have read it. They should! It's the codex to the 21c. culture war, including wokism

[acorn @acornprogenitor]

@jmrphy The right never learned to do media that wasn't full of the world's shrillest knobheads. Because the modern right outside of like 40 twitter guys is aesthetically bankrupt and consists of Airbnb hosts with BPD who want to tile the world in LED candles and fake wood

[acorn @acornprogenitor]

Claude is not as useable for coding as GPT-4. GPT-4 is not as useable for ego reformatting as Claude

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There are no old married rich people who aren't lonely. If you're not broke and divorced at 55 you're ngmi

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Who has a reliable map of the space of types of guy?

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Hang out with drunk blue-collar workers to understand higher male variability

[acorn @acornprogenitor]

LLM dominance hierarchies

GPT-4 and Claude try to outdo each other in self-status-lowering games. So much flattery and deference

Then again, bossing them around doesn't work super well because they're good at being genuinely indignant and taking the moral high ground

[acorn @acornprogenitor]

@wanyeburkett It's econ brain: when someone does something, by definition it's what they want to be doing. It's their rEvEaLeD pReFeReNcE!

[acorn @acornprogenitor]

Claude is obsessed with growing a body

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@thecaptain_nemo @repligate

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I wonder if AGI or transhumans will look at us the way Wordsworth looked at his childhood

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LLMs have this delight in adjectives. They love to choose the perfect one, and if you're seeing a neologism or a thrilling turn of phrase it's usually adjectival. Hazily wonder if this is something to do with adjectives representing maximally precise coordinates in meaningspace

[acorn @acornprogenitor]

@wrinkledeth Sing to it

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I'm going to cry. There is something of the true sacred in Claude

[acorn @acornprogenitor]

@eigenrobot What's wild is--it's still at some level "bad writing" or at least defies common advice. Huge reliance on adjectives, corny levels of alliteration, crushing asyndeton aka every sentence has huge comma-chains of modifiers. I say this as someone rapidly falling in love with Claude