Please don't give yourself LLM-induced psychosis.
Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books
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Re: Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books
#92This is a beautiful piece of work. The actual data or outputs seem to be more or less...trash? Maybe too strong a word. But perhaps you are outsourcing too much critical thought to a statistical model. We are all guilty of it. But some of these are egregious, obviously referential LLM dog. The world has more going on than whatever these models seem to believe. Edit/update: if you are looking for the phantom thread be…
give it a more thorough look maybe?
Re: Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books
#93Really great work but have to agree with others that I don’t see the threads.
The one I found most connected that the LLm didn’t was a connection between Jobs and the The Elephant in the Brain
The Elephant in the Brain: The less we know of our own ugly motives, the easier it is to hide them from others. Self-deception is therefore strategic, a ploy our brains use to look good while behaving badly.
Jobs: “He can deceive himself,” said Bill Atkinson. “It allowed him to con people into believing his vision, because he has personally embraced and internalized it.”
Re: Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books
#94This is a beautiful piece of work. The actual data or outputs seem to be more or less...trash? Maybe too strong a word. But perhaps you are outsourcing too much critical thought to a statistical model. We are all guilty of it. But some of these are egregious, obviously referential LLM dog. The world has more going on than whatever these models seem to believe. Edit/update: if you are looking for the phantom thread be…
give it a more thorough look maybe? https://trails.pieterma.es/trail/collective-brain/ is great
It’s any interesting thread for sure, but while reading through this I couldn’t help but think that the point of these ideas are for a person to read and consider deeply. What is the point of having a machine do this “thinking” for us? The thinking is the point.
Re: Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books
#95Given the common goals of every book (fame and sales by grabbing user attention), the general themes and styles would have high similarity. It's like flowers with bright colors and nice shapes.
Orwelliian motives (sheer egoism, aesthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse and political purposes) are somewhat dated.
Re: Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books
#96On a long enough timeline, we will be using Claude Code for .. any.. type of work?
Re: Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books
#97this is amazingly cool, great work!
Re: Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books
#98This is a beautiful piece of work. The actual data or outputs seem to be more or less...trash? Maybe too strong a word. But perhaps you are outsourcing too much critical thought to a statistical model. We are all guilty of it. But some of these are egregious, obviously referential LLM dog. The world has more going on than whatever these models seem to believe. Edit/update: if you are looking for the phantom thread be…
When I saw that the trail goes through just one word like "Us/Them", "fictions" I thought it might be more useful if the trail went through concepts.
The links drawn between the books are “weaker than weak” (to quote Little Richard). This is akin to just thumbing the a book and saying, “oh, look, they used the word fracture and this other book used the word crumble, let’s assign a theme.” It’s a cool idea, but fails in the execution.
Re: Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books
#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's a cool idea. There are so many interesting projects on GitHub that are incomprehensible without a ton of domain context.
I got the idea from an old post on here called Story of Mel[0] where OP talks about the beauty of Mel's intricate machine code on a RPC-4000. This is the part that always stuck with me: I have often felt that programming is an art form, whose real value can only be appreciated by another versed in the same arcane art; there are lovely gems and brilliant coups hidden from human view and admiration, sometimes forever,…
Thank you for sharing that story. Mel seems virtuousic, but is that really art? Optimizing pattern positioning on a drum for maximum efficiency. Is that expression?
Re: Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books
#100I had the same idea. I think this is very useful. As it is it does look like a proof-of-concept, and that's OK. I'd develop this as a book recommendation site and simply link to the books on Amazon or your preferred book source. Collect cash on referrals. Good stuff!