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Early Literacy and AI @ Alpha School | GauntletAI Cohort 1

[spencer @spenicillin]

@notadampaul @BlendiByl Needs some kind of overworld where buds can get together and decide what game they’re going to play…

[spencer @spenicillin]

@badlogicgames I’m partial to ‘slop cannons’

[spencer @spenicillin]

@Bagz_Tech Ffs indeed

[@levelsio @levelsio]

I keep rejected by Claude for the most benign things now

Like it wouldn't download and install a 1990s game from archive(dot)org because of copyright

The safety guardrails in a way make it more dangerous not less I think because after rejecting you it becomes kind of a pedantic child that will just reject whatever

If in that moment your server will go down and it feels it's related it could just reject fixing it

I'm confused how Anthropic is fumbling their lead so much with this stuff, I love to use Claude Code but they're kinda forcing me to move elsewhere to actually get my work done

Also the irony knowing that every single LLM is trained on billions of pages of copyrighted data

[spencer @spenicillin]

Got my first safety refusal from grok the other day for some inventive but innocuous task. Upon closer inspection though, grok refused only because while searching my machine for context it came across Claude’s safety refusal for the same task and took this at face value 😂

[Austen Allred @Austen]

I find myself using Grok Bot more and more and leaving Claude and Codex on the shelf, just because it always does what I tell it to without bitching about it

[spencer @spenicillin]

@MarryLohnson I’m always saying this

[spencer @spenicillin]

My mom used to put this cd on when I was a kid and couldn’t sleep. I remember looking up at the glow in the dark stars on my ceiling, neurons firing, internal dialogue coming online for the first time, not just satisfied but delighted to be alive, and drifting off to sleep.

Not quite as constantly as the girl in the qt, but I still fire it up often to arouse the same feelings. It’s as close as I get to therapy.

[asparagoid @asparagoid]

I dated a girl once and she was extremely beautiful. She worked for DNA models. She ate a terrible diet that horrified me. She thought she had to. By far the strangest thing about her was that she would listen to the same song for over 4 hours in a row, every day

She'd come home exhausted, climb into bed and put on her huge expensive headphones and start playing her song. It was this song. It was no secret, I could always hear it through the headphones. In her music app she only had this song and she put it on a permanent loop. Some days she'd listen to it for 4 hours. Other days for more. Occasionally at the weekends if she really needed to recover in bed, she'd listen for 8 hours or more

When I was around her, I'd listen too. Not because I wanted to, but you could always hear it a little from her headphones, in the background. At a certain point, it started to feel normal. At the start, I asked her why she did it and she said "I just love this song, why would I listen to anything else". I really liked her answer. So I didn't challenge it. She said she'd been doing it for years

Sometimes I'd pick her up from shoots in the city and the moment she met me she'd ask if she could please put her headphones on and listen to music. Then she'd start. She wouldn't do it in public without me there, because she wanted to stay aware of her surroundings. But if I was there, she could put her headphones on straight away and just trust she was safe. She'd listen to her song and rest on my shoulder and close her eyes as we rode the subway home

Throughout our relationship we didn't talk much, really. It was more of a physical thing. Not in a superficial way. Not just lust. I mean that we were both completely satisfied just resting on each other, without speaking. We liked physical contact, or a sense of shared physical beingness. But neither of us needed to talk like most people do and we really savored that about each other

I actually really loved it when she put her headphones on and entered her cosy,safe space. It was like she was entering into a little coccoon. With time, I realized it was a kind of recovery protocol and a meditative trance. It anchored a state of rest for her that she desperately needed. She didn't have OCD or any other compulsions. It was just this one thing. This one particular song. It was like a little cave she entered to heal from the stress of the day and burdens of existence. I dated her for 2 years and she did it every single day, up until the end. When I kissed her goodbye on the final day, she had her big headphones hanging around her neck and the song was playing through them. It was the last thing I heard, on the last day I looked into her eyes

[spencer @spenicillin]

@MJisawizard Enya heals all wounds

[spencer @spenicillin]

@kutluokan @cursor_ai

[signüll @signulll]

adulthood is saying “after this week, things should calm down” every week until you die.

[spencer @spenicillin]

@alezander9 so fcking sick

[spencer @spenicillin]

Welp.

[The Missing Data Depot @data_depot]

A 7-year study of 3,900 social science papers found that only ~50% could be replicated.

There was significant variation across fields, however.

While more than 60% of political science & econ papers were replicated, only ~25% of sociology & 0% of education papers were.

[spencer @spenicillin]

@Bottled_Captain dude yes

[spencer @spenicillin]

@oliviajune82 Working on it!

[spencer @spenicillin]

@wyattmattoe if i unmuted to anything other than dnb i was going to be pissed. well done

[spencer @spenicillin]

me everyday with @turing_hamster

[Alex Imas @alexolegimas]

This past weekend I found myself talking to a few people about AOL CDs we'd get in the mail, and that to get on the internet you'd need to install AOL, make sure no one was talking on the phone, and then dial up that 56kbps modem (if you were lucky) to watch an image slowly load on your blinking screen.

One person in the conversation, who will remain unnamed (jk it was @jasminewsun) said: Alex, I have no idea what any of those words mean.

And that's when I aged 20 years in a second.

[spencer @spenicillin]

@MeganGierka better shut up before they kick me out of Texas

[spencer @spenicillin]

And this is why Orange County is the best place in the world to live

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Oh yes 100% the place for it

Most surf towns are like it

If you can find a capitalist-minded (!) surf town you're in business!

[spencer @spenicillin]

@yiran__c I would love to be blind tested on this. I suspect I would find it unreadable. But if the human's 50% contribution was editing and cutting down all the ai jibber jabber... could be great

[spencer @spenicillin]

@david_j agi may not have been achieved!