People have different levels of respect for property, which in turn influences how they weigh the choice to work a field that _appears_ to be used by someone else.. The other party weighs what being asked for a field would mean for them. expected bonus from generosity, how much they need it themselves, etc. (the player can just let these decisions happen, or can step in and steer the AI on either side). Sometimes people do just decide to take the field anyway.... ...and sometimes the "owner" lets it go, depending on their disposition and current needs View quoted note →

at this point, i'm having a hard time telling any difference in quality of work between GLM 5.3 and Opus 5.5 on a complex codebase. and it's far cheaper (and anonymous) in sats over @routstr than paying Anthropic.

i won't be convinced that general anesthesia isn't just strategic amnesia until the Hard Problem is solved.

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hot tip: if you're about to upgrade a claude plan, do it when you're at your usage limit - it resets right after you pay.

we've, uh... made a bit of progress.... View quoted note →

Every summer, groups from all over the map head to a regional summer gathering near them. That is, if they had hear about it due to trading and fighting with others. A lone band in the middle of the woods doesn't magically know about the gatherings. And as a result they'll probably die out before too long View quoted note →

remember when we called it a puter? i always preferred that to "comp".

what i'm building: "if the Civ series was as emergent as Dwarf Fortress" aka "what Civ always wanted to be" i'll sell it to you when it's done :) View quoted note →

I can't believe how long computers were basically just like a relative step above levers and pulleys, in hindsight, looking back from this moment now when they're actually capable of reasoning and problem solving. It's incredible how far we DID get with very very stupid machines. This next chunk is gonna be crazy.

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