POSIWID, the Purpose Of a System Is What It Does. A quick way to cut through bullshit and "But I meant for X to do Y"

Claude will routinely tell me to get some sleep and cuddle with my dog. I may mention the time offhandedly or say I'm winding down, but at least it will include conversation stoppers and decrease engagement.

from my (limited) experience of ChatGPT versus Claude, i get the same. ChatGPT will always add another "prompt" sentence at the end like "Do you want me to X?" while Claude just answers what i ask.

looking at my history recently, Claude's most recent response is literally just "Exactly the right move honestly — that's the whole point."

It'll ask if you're eating properly too! It's like a virtual mom! :-P

>Sooner or later one of them will hurt a human, and then what do we do?

Considering this took place before I was born, you might not be aware of the multiple times it's already occurred.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Williams_(robot_fatalit...

Thank you, I do, many thanks for the link. It is at that point exactly that we should have stopped and taken better stock of our situation. The companies involved drug the case through courts for a decade and paid a pittance. We decided years ago that companies are allowed to purchase a license for robots to kill humans. It’s gross.

Typically you use a pulse train and filter your train from the noise

I believe The Light of Other Days has slow-glass that you expose to a scene, it drinks it in, and then plays it back later.

If I recall correctly they didn't miss Mars. Quite the opposite, really.

Mars missed them?

The Purpose Of a System Is What It Does. Whether it is stated (or even designed) to protect kids, if it does anything more or different from that goal, it will perform those actions regardless of what is said about what the System should be doing.

Instead of building common cause among your allies, got it. Thankfully I presume you are not in a position where your decisions drive policy.

Allies, eh?

I defer to Sir Humphrey on these matters:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVYqB0uTKlE

"To create a disunited Europe"

Real shades of "that cable shouldn't have been dressed like that, in a dark and narrow channel, clearly marked on navigation charts(to mitigate exactly this scenario, from good captains at least)" energy.

>>"I think 2025 was less productive"

I think 2025 is more productive for me based on measurable metrics such as code contribution to my projects, better ability to ingest and act upon information, and generally I appreciate the Anthropic tax because Claude genuinely has been a step-change improvement in my life.

> more productive for me based on measurable metrics such as code contribution to my projects

Isn‘t it generally agreed upon that counting contributions, LoC or similar metrics is a very bad way to gauge productivity?

During 2025 I've almost exhausted my personal TODO-list of small applications and created a few extra ones.

This would've never happened without a Claude Pro (+ChatGPT) subscription.

And as I'm not American, none of them are aimed to be subscription based SaaS offerings, they're just simple CLI applications for my personal use. If someone else enjoys them, good for them. =)

I don't care about industry metrics when I'm building my own AI research robotics platform and it's doing what I ask it to do, proving itself in the real world far better than any performative best-practice theatrics in the service of risible MBA-grade effluvia masquerading as critical discourse.