Trasmatta

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by Trasmatta 5d ago
There is legit grief associated with what AI is doing to our craft, and we're all trying to grapple with it in our own ways
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by Trasmatta 5d ago
Hopefully their advice includes: "take this advice, and then don't join the Jehovah's Witnesses. It's a high control abusive religion that will make your depression worse".
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by Trasmatta 5d ago
I often feel like this as well. It's hard to talk about it with people, because they panic and immediately start sending you literature about suicidality and giving you hotlines, etc, etc, as if I haven't already seen all of that
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by Trasmatta 15d ago
Yes! Claude was so pleasant to use at first. It was Anthropic's biggest advantage. And now it's like nails on a chalkboard.
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by Trasmatta 15d ago
> More work to be done (and we will!) but reading better prose makes me so much happier. I assume this work will be done for Opus as well? Opus has seemingly gotten progressively worse at its prose and technical writing with each version
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by Trasmatta 20d ago
Or Auvelity, which is a newer one that mixes Bupropion and DXM.
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by Trasmatta 22d ago
I am a type 1 diabetic and this is not true, and an incredible oversimplification. And categorizing "very low carb" as "good" and "very high carb" as "bad" is bizarre and untrue. You can go into DKA o
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by Trasmatta 26d ago
Agreed. I think PKD himself got trapped by words and trying to intellectualize his experiences. He experienced a lot of anguish because of that
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by Trasmatta 27d ago
What I love is how PKD and Horselover Fat phase in and out of each other throughout the book. Near the beginning, PKD makes it clear that Fat is "him" and that he's narrating the book to give himself clarity on the events. Bu
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by Trasmatta 27d ago
> who dives into the world of his comatose boss' brain This isn't quite what happens. It's actually left extremely ambiguous what's happening and where they are after the explosion.
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by Trasmatta 27d ago
I have a copy of his Exegesis, and I can confirm, he reinterpreted the experience probably hundreds of times. He loved the gnostic interpretation (which is the main focus on VALIS). But also yeah, sometimes just straight up orthodox Christi
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by Trasmatta 27d ago
Sometimes he wrote his worst trash in between some of his best books. He was ultimately a pulp fiction author, and often just pushed stuff out for a paycheck.
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by Trasmatta 27d ago
PKD remained surprisingly lucid and self aware of the likelihood of suffering from some sort of mental illness. He went back and forth the rest of his life trying to figure out whether he was insane or whether he'd had "real"
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by Trasmatta 29d ago
> It lacked depth and complexity in some ways that modern games have I would argue it has way more depth and complexity than the majority of modern games. There were so many systems that interacted in interesting ways, and so much player
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by Trasmatta 1mo ago
Once again proof that SOC2 is nothing but a marketing tactic, and busywork
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by Trasmatta 1mo ago
> tl;dv names their microservices after pasta. A subdomain scan reveals cappellini, carbonara, fusilli, pasta, penne, puttanesca-v0, and ravioli, all under tldv.io. An entire Italian restaurant worth of Express servers. Pretty appropriat
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by Trasmatta 1mo ago
I think some of them intentionally model themselves after the evil characters in fiction. I remember seeing Musk talk one time about how he loves the game Deus Ex. And there's an almost uncanny resemblance between his actions and Bob P
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by Trasmatta 1mo ago
Society at large is getting worse at critical thinking, because we are increasingly offloading that thinking to AI
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by Trasmatta 2mo ago
It's a nice Saturday afternoon, and I'm literally in Midtown right now, wandering around after walking down 5th Avenue (it's shut down to cars today for "Summer Streets"). Perfect chance to walk over and take a look
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by Trasmatta 2mo ago
> Even if some people will be less productive, the organization as a whole will function better This is what the execs might THINK but it's not actually based in real evidence. RTO does not make organizations function better. Execs
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by Trasmatta 2mo ago
Exactly my reaction. Of course a CEO is going to write a post saying "CEOs are expensive but worth it". At least they admitted to it, I guess!
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by Trasmatta 2mo ago
There's no mechanism that could possibly cancel the mid-terms. What we should worry about is the election being interfered with, and swayed by intimidation and disinformation, NOT being cancelled.
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by Trasmatta 2mo ago
It's no longer safe to even use a period tracking app in many US states now. The women I know are all cautioning each other to go back to pen and paper, and ditch anything app based.
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by Trasmatta 2mo ago
Switched to Codex last week, and I'm already MUCH happier than I have been with Claude Code. Which surprised me.
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by Trasmatta 2mo ago
The first reply clearly being a copy and paste from Claude made me want to vomit If people absolutely need to use AI to write replies, they NEED to start including a "everything after this was generated by AI" disclaimer
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by Trasmatta 3mo ago
All those billions spent on tokens by Meta, and not a single iota of value generated by any of it
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by Trasmatta 3mo ago
Protip: in the olden days we used to be able to read and write code ourselves. Worth trying while Claude is down! You might have fun and learn something!
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by Trasmatta 3mo ago
It really is awful right now. I'm lucky enough to still have a job, but floated my resume around earlier this year. I have a pretty good resume and and 15 YOE, and got turned down EVERYWHERE. I used to at least get interviews at like 5
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by Trasmatta 3mo ago
I knew this was going to be the end result after seeing so many companies reward employees based on how many tokens they were using. My company even pulled stats and gave physical awards out at an in person retreat. Ridiculous, and it was n
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by Trasmatta 3mo ago
People are very proud of their prompts I guess It's like people being proud of the AI slop art they produce

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