I always try to see what crazy shit I can get Claude to do. It still won’t give me the nuclear launch codes, but it did give me complete (and accurate) instructions for wiring up a 120+ DB outdoor speaker setup connected to our home infrastructure that would broadcast, “I’m a very naughty monkey!” at top volume any time any bit of our infrastructure had an issue.

So there’s that.

There’s no way I’d build something like that. Not unless I really hated my neighbors. But the LLM told me how. And that’s some funny stuff.

Very naughty monkey, indeed.

Correct. This is — no exaggeration — 99.999999% of human thinking and 99.999991% of mine. So even though I am significantly smarter than the average person, it’s hard to see behind all those nines.

Anyone who believes humans think using some radically different meta-level cognitive process than LLMs is just wrong. And also you failed your class where the expanded Church-Turing thesis was discussed.

The amount of self-hosted software we have in our network now is getting a bit ridiculous. Fittingly, we have a self-hosted dashboard just to track all we are running. I might need to get another self-hosted dashboard to track all the dashboards we have.

Our infrastructure is now getting more complex in some ways than that of some large (much less medium) businesses.

I think you stopped seeing them when you decided to refrain from your daily LSD dose.

Class of ‘84 high school seniors.

Those terrible haircuts and styles make them all look 40. Wow. I remember when everyone walked around looking like that.

She’s a Canadian doctor.

A lot of people getting poppycock out of AI is just the usual GIGO: garbage in, garbage out.

And thus it ever was and ever will be.

Remember when movie theaters had personalities?

That is some personality, yes, but that is a sloppy caricature of and feeble nod to 1920s-style theaters that were the height of amalgamating Egyptian, Asian, Indian and other architectural influences, most famously in the various Fox Theaters that dotted the nation then — some of which have been restored of late.

So even this is but an imitation of an imitation of a simulation of the reality. And it shows.