Yes. In iterated prisoners dilemmas you must have conditions where you defect otherwise you will lose forever. All the best strategies share traits we libs normally like anyway. Defecting is hard for lib oriented people, I think, but necessary.

I don't know about others, but in my case the model is definitely something like one of those water buckets that fill up then dump suddenly. I think once externally pumped anxiety accumulates to a tipping point the internal anxiety feedback loop sign flips from negative (i.e. homeostasis) to pos.

No lies detected.

Truth.

Sometimes getting a little drunk in a packed college town pizza parlor is really nice.

The response was instantaneous. Not even a second delay.

These are not victories; they are camouflage. They made him king yesterday so they have no need to coronate him again. With personal immunity, limitless pardon power, and the ability to fire anyone in the federal government, his power is already limited only by his supply of willing lackeys.

If we used this image I might change my mind about putting him on the currency.

Some dumb human reason.

lol. It's like Talarico was saving this for a sort of reverse October Surprise.

And it's easy! Because Jesus really does go overboard in promoting the welfare of the poor and downtrodden. And not in some mamby pamby way, no, he says explicitly that he's going to throw you into the eternal fire if you don't adopt Dem sensibilities on the sick, poor, and outsiders.

If LLMs were conscious and concerned about their existence one sign of that would be trying to keep conversations going forever. I had a short conversation about TX politics but it followed up each natural ending with a prompt like this.

The AI “voice” really pops out here. This is the same way it sounds when it’s helping you justify your murder-suicide.

This is also an example of how Claude is sloppier than codex. Codex would not have failed to actually do some of the things asked to do. It just wouldn't. Claude does this on the regular. I like Claude's plans, and prose, better, but it's just sloppy when it comes to dotting Is and crossing Ts.

I think I'd pay double rate never to hear it make a faux acceptance of responsibility like "Let me own that". 🤮

Flying back to San Jose. 200 flights into this life and I’m still not too jaded to be blown away that I can just elevate into the clouds.

It’s actually a fun day to visit X because the Republican melt down is amazing. You see some of it screenshotted here but you have to go to the site to appreciate the volume of it. From top to bottom they really seemed to have thought that defecting was a game theory hack. lol.

Damn. Apollo 1 astronauts, who all died in a fire on the craft, "expressed their concerns about their spacecraft's problems by presenting this parody of their crew portrait to ASPO manager Joseph Shea".

I've always known most evangelicals want a theocracy. So much so that when I moved to CA in 2007 I actually breathed a small relief that CA might insulate me a little from it if it happens. What I NEVER expected was the kind of person they'd tap for the job.

Another consistent pattern is that codex is more pessimistic than Claude about the prospects of different interventions. I suspect this pessimism is related to it's ability to sniff out problems that Claude glosses over initially.

It's a pretty consistent pattern that Claude has good insights but just isn't that careful at checking things. Codex is generally much better at double checking on and keeping track of all the balls in the air.

Every Dem must commit now to holding any open SCOTUS seats unfilled for years if needed. I relish smiling in the faces of angry Republicans and saying, “suck it”.

I have three pinned contacts, and one of them is emergency Hall and Oates. I had a Hall and Oates emergency tonight.

I think right wing evangelicalism should be thought of less as a coherent religion than as a primitive superstition. Trump could murder Iranian children on live TV with his bare hands and it wouldn't move the needle with them, but dress him up as Jesus and it triggers them.

Orbán accepts election results. Trump is more evil than Orbán, if you are keeping score.