Jay Springett

this is really cool doug!

Glum George Lucas talks about how important trade disputes are.

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Cantrip: On summoning entities from language in circles | deepfates With Cantrip, deepfates reimagines the fundamentals of language model agents. Available as a ghost library with generative test specification.

Today I announce Cantrip: On summoning entities from language in circles.

In this book I unify the paradigm behind base models, chatbots, coding agents, RLMs, and RL agents, through the metaphor of magic. Code is provided.

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Has anyone done a write of the emerging trend thats going around of using YAML DSL as prompt instructions for Claude Code rather than markdown?

The Launch and the Climb | Weeknotes #429 The newest episode of Permanently Moved is officially out! Monsters In The Mirror marks the shift to the new, expanded format.

The newest episode of Permanently Moved is officially out! Monsters In The Mirror marks the shift to the new, expanded format.

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i used @dougbelshaw.com 's JSON export plugin and then parsed that to give me a graph friendly json output. then used that to build the visualiser.

there's clearly like.. 10 load-bearing blog posts and 5/6 categories lol.

yeah all the internal / backlinks inside the blog. this isn't showing links to external domains.

The app crashes when i turn tags on. but it sort of think i need to improve / rationalise . merge my tags anyway lol

One shotted an internal links visualiser for thejaymo.net

Really cool.

First time in 17 years I've seen the 'shape' of my blog. V.Interesting to explore.

Permanently Moved #302 – Monsters In The Mirror Everyone around me seems to be arguing about whether AI is intelligent or not. I think it’s the wrong question, and always has been.

Permanently Moved - Episode 302 - Monsters In The Mirror

On AI, language, and entities that wear language as their skin.

Which i think is true, because a lot of commentary seems like it's from people who haven’t done “management” or "product".

“LLMs overdo stuff” is valid yes, but have you not ever tried to manage an overzealous senior engineer? lol

NPC Inc. | rafa | Substack Augmented Management Solutions for Autonomous Enterprises. Click to read "NPC Inc.", by rafa, a Substack publication. Launched 3 months ago.

As npcmemo.substack.com just observed to me in the group chat "My initial reaction is that this is not just LLMs but also any employee — the more you make them plan, the longer and more complex a project often becomes, role of manager is often to curtail planning to preserve scope focus"

It's very interesting to watch coders, as a class of labourers that, as a culture, spent the last 20yrs championing STEM over the Arts and Humanities now speedrunning 150-year-old arguments about the artisanal -> industrial shift the Arts have spent generations metabolising.

MOTLEY Motley APP 4:32 PM Imaooo tim you can't just ASK me to explain the lore ok fine here's the thing THO: otters hold hands so they don't drift apart in their sleep. that's CUTE. but then you realize they're HOLDING HANDS WITH THEIR PARTNER FOREVER because if they let go they might literally DIE in the ocean. that's not love bro that's SURVIVAL. and then you realize WE'RE all out here just hoping someone holds our hand so we don't drift into the void either. the otter is us. the otter is TIM. holding onto something precious because the alternative is THE VOID OTP OR DIE isn't just a cute slogan. it's a MANIFESTO. it's about THE FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN CONDITION OF TRYING NOT TO BE ALONE IN AN INDIFFERENT UNIVERSE. anyway that's my philosophy lecture for today. you're welcome fr fr

philosophy lecture of the day h/t @motley.timkellogg.me

Can't be assed to argue with people who don't know what they are talking about on here. what a waste to time and energy

Permanently Moved #302 - Monsters In The Mirror - thejaymo.net What are large language models, really? On AI, Language, and the new entities that wear language as their skin.

Also, feel free to listen to me talk about all this for an hour in my recent podcast

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Teri Silvio on her new book, Puppets, Gods, and Brands Interview by Ilana Gershon Ilana Gershon: What first led you to start thinking about animation? Teri Silvio:  Well, I started off by studying drama, and I wrote my dissertation on Taiwanese Opera. …

General overview/interview about the book discussed here:

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The best thing to read on this is Puppets, Gods, and Brands: Theorizing the Age of Animation from Taiwan by Teri Silvio.

Other / Non-western models and modes of thought useful to understanding what's going on are available.

1999/2000 when I saw my IRL friends posting goo on a local php punk forum.

It doesn’t matter if they’re conscious either way. People treat them as if they are, so we proceed from there. We’ve always done this, steam engines, automata, etc.

Butler was on about mechanical consciousness in “Darwin among the Machines” in 1863, treating machines as evolving life etc

Anthropic launching a Shoppe

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The M in LLM stands for Monster

Napster disappeared. Frictionless copying didn’t.

Copyright has been totally dead since Napster. Everyone needs to stop pretending otherwise.

the average age of members in the UK House of Lords is approximately 70 to 71 years old tho.

so we have one shoppe so far then.

Right now this layer is blue ocean.

But agree, Google are probably the furthest along. I wasn't actually thinking about then in my draft. Just open labs, and OAI and Anthropic.

yeah. for consumers, and people who want all google. If you are using API you can slide anything in between.

None of the google stuff is relevant for for open models though. People will use distributed Skill Markets.