Starting to like the lack of memory. Claude remembers I have a grill and will interject in conversations about how maybe this thing would go well with BBQ when it's unrelated or just also about food.

This is so obnoxious. I ended up deleting all the memory from Gemini because it ended every response with, "As an engineer, father of X, you'll love this because...". As if I want my occupation and the number of children I have to be relevant to which lawn mower I buy.

Yup. I finally went into settings and disabled memory altogether. Every chat is a fresh slate now, the way it should be.

Haha I recently asked Gemini for a product comparison for USB-C GaN chargers and it randomly inserted "as a Software Developer at $COMPANY working remotely, you may find the 100W fast charging useful when using your company laptop while travelling."

Like, thanks, really useful stuff (and definitely worth the creepy vibes to include that).

Gemini thinks my name is my brother in law's name, and despite explicitly telling it that's not my name + digging through the settings, it still amusingly calls me the wrong name.

I'm a network engineer and Claude loves to make analogies to network routing protocols and such. They are often very creative. You can actually edit the profile Claude makes of you. It can be very funny to say you are a professional clown or mime or something equally odd. I wonder what analogies it would create for horse semen extractor?

You can turn that off in settings.

I have that disabled. I tend to use different chats as the LLM equivalent of private browsing, so I like it to not have memory transferred between them.

:D that's like my Claude where it loves to point out that I have an ADU in the backyard in unrelated situations.

I like my Python with hot sauce.

It's the opening page of the book Technopoly.

And here I thought I was being unique. I guess Socrates must be popular.

It's yet another Goodhart's law effect: > Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes.

The economic ideas are interesting, but the manipulation and 2nd order effects makes it not work as designed.

Which grammar tools?

Even the system spell checker in Apple devices points out grammar mistakes. Vale works on the command-line, Grammarly was already a thing before publicly available LLMs. There are also editors like iA Writer (iA, not AI) which highlight clichés, adverbs, nouns, and more.

BETRAYAL

Would you say the same for 191 people rescued hiking in Yosemite a year?

If the alternative were banning hiking entirely, I’d be in favor of having a waiver.

The legal history is a bit more complex. TLDR: assholes that were BASE jumping in Yosemite in the early 1980s did things like throw burning barrels off the top of El Capitan and take trucks on trails not designed for vehicle traffic.

Comparing the number of BASE jumpers (small thousands) and the number of hikers and climbers (millions) BASE jumpers just can't have the political influence for access.

Random note, Brendan Weinstein who posted here on occasion recently died BASE jumping: https://www.reddit.com/r/SkyDiving/comments/1q6n7v2/brendan_...

> A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.

Gall’s law wins again.

I started a project this year similar to this with rats. It’s now two axis with tracking and a stereo camera with depth detection. The amount of hours I’ve spent on it is astounding but I’ve learned a lot!

Also, ended up swapping the Pi I started with to a jetson.

Until you factor in the legions of devops writing terraform, iam, and cicd scripts.