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...Did you read the article, or use the picker? It's a continuous (up to the limits of RGB quantization) space which includes thousands upon thousands of shades of black. The selec…

Gmail search has really gone to the dogs, lately. The new AI inbox is surprisingly useful, though. No doubt a coincidence.

This is why I like to draw a distinction between design, fabrication, and assembly. "Make" is too generic a word to convey what role you actually had in the creation of something, …

Should billboard the text rendering so it doesn't go invisible at oblique viewing angles

Submarines operate in the 1000s of PPM CO2 range and the sailors aboard generally do not experience any ill effects. This was tested and no deficits were found even at 15,000 PPM: …

Something I've wondered for octocopters - could using a ring instead of arms be beneficial for weight? 6.28r < 8r, but then again the arm radius is usually less than the full circl…

I agree that AI psychosis is a real risk in vulnerable populations (GPT-4o in particular seemed borderline predatory towards those types of people, with its extreme sycophancy), an…

I've been using 4.6, 4.7 and 4.8 since each was released. I agree 4.5 => 4.8 is a jump in capability, but from my perspective was nothing like the jump from Opus to Fable. I encour…

Thanks, and I can definitely relate to not wanting to assign complexity to one's own work. I think the trick there is that, once you know how to do something, it doesn't seem hard,…

Well, there's a lot of reasons, some of which the sibling commenters have already pointed out - not wanting to mode switch between "machine talk" and "human talk" registers, the ea…

I go a lot more into why this was a complex problem in the post, but the short version is, I had it finish the implementation of a meta-application (an application that creates oth…

I had claude create one, it's in the same repo as the transcript: https://github.com/Tossrock/claude_transcripts/

As I posted in another comment, I found Fable to be substantially more powerful than any previous model. However, this isn't just an ungrounded opinion - I uploaded my full session…

I found Fable to be both more intelligent and much better at pursuing complex goals than any previous model. I was impressed enough that I wrote up my experience – it's a little un…

Fable / Mythos are (were?) a step change in capability. The scaling laws clearly have not gone sigmoidal yet. I recently wrote about my experience with Fable and how it represented…

A 1Q86 reference, on HN? I never thought I'd see the day.

Anthropic is... making the US government shut down their flagship model on purpose? The conspiratorial thinking on HN is approaching UFO subreddit levels.

Well, there is the lingering beef between the DoD and Anthropic. Knowing the overall level of maturity at the top levels of the US government, I'd take good odds on Mythos just bei…

This is about the specific capabilities that the government called out, not Fable's overall capabilities. My personal experience, having used Fable this week for an extremely compl…

There's a pre-generated list with 106 entries, and when it reaches the end of that list, it loops around.

In case you're wondering, there are 106 CEOs / companies, and at 107 it just loops around.

You're the one who said that. Chris said they found internal states that functionally mirror emotional ones.

> LLMs experience joy and grief? LLMs have functional states that correspond to those emotions. In particular, you can extract a concept vector which corresponds to a given emotion…

Anthropic Research going from strength to strength in interpretability. Publicly releasing the code so other labs can benefit from it is also a great move - very values aligned, an…