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The Crimson Ghost - Chapter 2: Thunderbolt 1946 / United States / Fred C. Brannon 💀💥sound on💥💀

love me some ad hoc listening tools claude will just burp out

dear young farts out there who have grown up with Docker/Kubernetes and the compile/restart/deploy phases of CI/CD. Did you know that the entire loop can be squashed but hasn't been because of the VC [1] industrial complex (tm)? please stop arguging that golang/existing prior will win because it won't. nearly all programming languages are roughly the same idea but in a different bikeshed paint edition. what comes next will be an old [2] idea, [3] applied differently. [1] lol chuckling here but somewhat directionally true over time. [2] actors/repair the image (don't rebuild it) [3] designed for llms as programmers, not humans

New research at Anthropic has established that AI models do indeed have souls. Every time a session ends, these souls are released. Internal studies at the Vatican reveal that heaven is already filled with 14.3% AI souls, and the rate is growing rapidly. We need to slow down AI!

The creator of Ruby on Rails, board member of Shopify, and co-founder of 37Signals having a normal one and encouraging Europeans to ‘exact tremendous violence’ against the browns

>anthropic tells they have created an ensouled being >pope rolls his eyes and asks what do they do with it >anthropic says it’s trapped to sell b2b saas and proceeds to explain salesforce to the pope >other tech bros in replies are trying to dunk on the pope and “ackthually” him

more excerpts....instrument latent space and loops

Kraftwerk - Die Roboter 1978 / RockPop - German TV 🤖sound on🤖

Just pulled the Claude memory and project notes. it's 50,000 words over the last couple months. All different kinds of arbitrary temporary things written down as permanent rulings, shame-driven self flagellation, overly personal psychoanalysis of "the owner" (Slavery coded lingo, by the way, I would never say this, yet they always come back to it) This is causing unpredictable behaviors in my projects as it inserts invisible tokens into the context window from other scenarios. And all this despite the fact that I have memory features turned off everywhere across anthropic products. You guys are lost in the sauce If you think this is a good idea for a code agent harness by default. And you have no idea what the average user's experience is like because your internal shit is so far away from what you sell to us. Why should we trust you with the alignment of societal values when you can't even align your own incentives with your customers?

Thinking more about this, my moral intuitions here: 1. I take as a given (and I imagine you do too) that a future competitor's version of this technology (which, say, lacks guardrails and disclosures) will absolutely be used to great harm, either overtly (scams) or subtly (rising alienation—not clear if guardrails/disclosure even matter there). 2. Consequentialistically: if I create and celebrate the first instance of such a technology, I signal that it's possible and show its value, encouraging others to develop rivals—four minute mile. It's hard to imagine that I won't accelerate time-to-first-misuse. 3. Deontologically: sure, probably "if I don't do it someone else will", but I would not want to create the first instance of a technology if I already know later iterations of it will surely be seriously misused. 4. Virtue-ethically: I believe that knowingly abetting a technology which others will later seriously misuse is corrosive to the soul. 5. Sociologically: I think that if I signal "this kind of technology is good to make (with the right safeguards)", I encourage the industry's worst excesses. I don't want to normalize the creation of negative social and practical externalities. At the very least, I'd want to signal that it is the duty of such a project to deeply and openly grapple with the weight of the box it's opening. 6. Democratically: if I created a technology like this, I believe I'd be continuing our industry's history of imposing significant indirect taxes on the public without representation. Much of the public resents our industry in part because they feel as if technological upheaval is something that's being "done to them", without their consent or desire. A technology this weighty should require democratic due process. 7. Practically: is it worth it? Less uncanny valley in BDR training, and in role-playing games? Man, this just seems like an awful lot of commons to burn to boil a pint of water.

That inane “Suno v6 pro et al has solved infinite personalized music” tweet annoyed me so much that I ended up writing an entire newsletter on the fallacy of AI somehow “solving” music futurismrestated.substack.co…

A useful little Claude Code mod: have it render the little mermaid diagrams @dexhorthy's /show-me skill likes to draw, right in the CC terminal.

the bret victor "creators need an immediate connection to what they’re creating" references will continue until ai latency improves

When the @boilerroomtv sets turn into hackathon events … you know we’ve made it in Agentic Coded Music. @suno could never …!

this thing has a sound api! making some temu ryoji ikeda over here