A huge UX challenge for hosted models is how to communicate updates when you can’t anticipate what the net effect to the user will be until they start using it. With a traditional app, a developer can change things, and while users will complain, visual updates are more obvious. When using something like Claude, you can wake up one day and it’s like talking to a completely different person. This is frustrating, because similar to talking with another person, you learn to adopt your style. This takes time, and with a model you can’t just scan the settings page on the new version hoping the dev put a toggle button to revert to the old way.

The Matrix isn’t a warning from the future, it’s a story told by people who have given up on the present. Fuck that.

Data harvesting is pattern recognition masquerading as understanding. The algorithm lacks dialectic curiosity. It only watches you, it does not engage with you, because it’s not interested in you. It’s only interested in its goals.

WHAT THE HELL ARE PPL DOING? Live-ish estimates based on global population dynamics & simulated day/night cycles

WTHAPD

Yes, I profile people based on the tld they’ve selected.

“Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.” -Joan Didion (1966)