A friend asked Claude to describe me (for purposes of summarizing my weird background) and it came back with " a 20 year practitioner who is constitutionally skeptical of hype and called it essential anyway”
Most of this is not wrong
A friend asked Claude to describe me (based on available evidence) and it came back with "Constitutionally skeptical of hype" and this is my new tagline now
I have no evidence or foreknowledge on this, but I feel it in my bones that Belgium was involved somehow.
It matters all that much. The tricky thing about Claude is that it feels 'conscious' to us in a way that many LLMs don't. At least, it feels like this to me, and that's both interesting and sightly unnerving.
I want a better answer to _why_ this happens with Claude, but not the others
_that_ version of Claude. Contrast that with your average 5-year old. A five-year old might forget what they did 10 minutes ago, but the child still has a concept of self that's fairly defined and consistent. They don't need a MEMORY file to define their personality.
IMHO, I don't know if
As for Claude: one way I think that it's different is that it has no theory of mind -- or certainly no consistent one. Every instance of Claude is a new version of itself. Sure, this can be bolstered by a MEMORY file, but that's fragile, easily corrupted, and if you lose it, you lose
Philosophers, psychologists, and lately neuroscientists have been puzzling over this for millennia. They still can't explain human consciousness, much less in 280 characters.
Oh good to know!
Not the first time, sadly.
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I should add, that there are other, less colorful ways, including Een lange piemel (standard) and Een grote lul ("a big dick"), but een flinke jongeheer is soooo much more memorable.
Hubs and I are both trying to learn Dutch. He’s using Gemini as a language aid, and sent me Gemini's answer on how to refer to tallness.
I, being half a bottle of wine + a rakkia in, ask Gemini how the Dutch describe penis length and… it's “Een flinke jongeheer” — A "hefty young gentleman."
I mean. It's hard not to see validity in these numbers. A sizeable chunk of the American populace (77M of them) voted for an authoritarian sex predator, and another large chunk sat on their hands. That's not evidence of a good person. And conversely, they think the same, so...
Unfortuantely, the leadership of almost every major power has a bad case of PTSD - Placating Trump through Summary Debasement - so they're not willing to act on this very obvious point. They'll just play along, Neville Chamberlain-like hoping the fascist will just go away.
*sigh* so DO something about it, Bernie. I'm sick of you guys posting here and on X and otherwise sitting on your hands. Do your job, and be a check on unrestrained executive power. Y'all remember how to do that, right?
As it says in the name — you watch for fish on the livestream and then ring the doorbell to alert the lockkeeper.
I swear, the Netherlands is so freaking wholesome.
Did you know that Utrecht has a fish doorbell?
Every spring, thousands of fish swim through the Oudegracht canal in Utrecht, so the municipality of Utrecht in collaboration set up the visdeurbel.nl website to crowdsource when to open the locks (which are normally closed.
Did she think that the Iranians secretly created the Euphrates River? Because... that's the only way any of this makes sense.
Congrats! Lots of hard parental work.
At this point, I wonder how long before other governments suggest that the US should overthrow the dictator and push for regime change?
This is amazing.
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We moved to Europe almost 8 years ago. I do not look back, and the longer I stay here, the less and less I miss. The US is in rapid decay, which is plain to see when you're not in the fishbowl. When most Americans realize how bad it is, it will be too late.
Trump REALLY wants to kill CNN. That's saying something.
Because guys in the "male self-improvement" sphere are overwhelmingly devoid of personality/charm or empathy?
Well said. The Republicans don't want truth; they want spectacle. If anything, HRC was far too restrained. I would have included names. Since it's spectacle they want, and they're creating the spectacle, might as well play into the Trump Spectacle and stop protecting the pedophile rapist.
And in other news:
"We show that [LLMs] can be used to perform at-scale deanonymization. With full Internet access, our agent can re-identify Hacker News users and Anthropic Interviewer participants at high precision, given pseudonymous online profiles and conversations alone..."
I'm surprised it took until February 2026 for that to happen. I honestly expected to hear this a dozen times last year.
Big props to Anthropic for standing up against the American SS and having actual standards and values. It's a nice change from what everyone else in big tech seems happy to do.
the-decoder.com/anthropic-re...
100% predictable. Age-verification systems are just surveillance with more palatable messaging.
Read the full tear-down here: insights.priva.cat/p/rock-solid...
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