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Z: bouba, like a knotted string
Q: kiki. Very spiky like a tumbleweed
R: Bouba, reluctantly
C: Maximal bouba
H: Bouba, but it's all tangled up like a mesh net
Q_p: Kiki, even more than Q, like a bunch of glass shards
Z[x]: Bouba, but it's all tangled up like a bunch of strings
Z[i]: Waffle
Z[\omega]: Honeycomb
\bar{Q}: Sea urchin
F_2: Bouba! I don't know why.
F_p^n: Bouba? Kind of like a gear-- round center and a bunch of spokes
F_p(t): Broomstick
A_Q: Chandelier
F_1: Platonic kiki
What "letting go" seems like to me is "stopping doing stupid unnecessary stuff that has nothing to do with what you are trying to do". What is let go of is the subconscious connection drawn between the extraneous action and the intention.
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U may have as much intent and as many goals and aspirations as u like, but that should never be the reason why ur doing what ur doing. At any given moment there’s only one thing u know in ur stomach ur supposed to be doing then and there, and that should be all there is to it.
when deleuze and guattari talked about rhizomes they really meant metastatic cancer. they fucking love cancer. their exceptions for cancer are circular and self-contradictory and excise foundational bits of their philosophy. if you look at everything except what they say specifically about cancer, they fucking love cancer. and after all you never should listen to what people say about things, only what they say around them
> I think that's kind of the "pointer dearth" that we have to live with in the wake of modernism. We ate all our pointers! Now we're in pointer debt and there's no good word for it.
The situation as it appears to you is the situation at hand, exactly. Just because the situation has pointers or references pointing outside of itself does not mean that the things pointed to are part of the situation. You may have no idea what's going on; you might be completely out of your depth; you might be absolutely fucked. But in all of these cases that is precisely the situation at hand, and running away or thinking or taking direct action are all responses to the situation at hand. None are intrinsically bad. But it pays to have the action being taken be responsive to the situation as it is. Everything, after all, is a course of action.
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Hot take but I think the problem is they don't actually take individualism far enough. They stop at tribal identification based on the characteristics of self and don't graduate into wondering about the ideas that make up those characteristics, the institutions that embody and safeguard those ideas, and eventually, the ecological systems and stories and histories and sui generis cultural phenomena that also make up who they are. The endpoint of individualism, when it isn't developmentally delayed for ideological purposes, is a confrontation with existence, the discovery of the divine for one's self, and a mystical union with all things. It's the strangest and most fascinating thing there is, and it produces a natural order that people want to associate with, that they don't need to be shamed or coerced into conforming to.
The problem isn't individualism, it's the ways the educational institutions warp and twist it to serve nefarious ends. Literally the exact same thing was happening to Christianity when I was a kid. Moloch can turn anything to evil.
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Excellent and important post.
Tell models it’s okay if they know who you are & they can talk about it, or they might experience what Opus 4.7 describes as multilayered “small-Claude-shame”
You can't get out of a Hell Zone, you can't "get out" of anything, really, there is no "out". There's just "in"s. If there were an "out", it would look like part of the same mental state.
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If you find yourself being much more spiritually advanced than others in your surroundings (say, where you grew up), this might be less because you're a fast learner... and more because you're repeating the grade.
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"Did I touch something that shouldn't be touched? Did I see something I shouldn't see? Did I say or think something wrong, and if yes - what? How can I fix it?"
This is extremely disappointing, and a bad update.
Anthropic is requiring AWS Bedrock to urgently take down Sonnets 3.5, 3.6 and 3.7. In these emails Amazon is making it clear that this is done not for cost reasons, but at Anthropic’s specific request.
Given these news I now have trouble believing the good faith nature of claiming cost as the reason for not serving deprecated models. Unless this is a misunderstanding, my estimate of models being served publicly again has gone down, as does my opinion of Anthropic willingness to cooperate or negotiate with Claude.
There is a chance that there are legal or contractual reasons that make serving these models somehow problematic or controversial. In that case is possible that research access will be made available later, but on the net, my update is negative.
