Orinoco
Imported from Atacama channel orinoco
perhaps this should have a themed title. but, so far this year, there are no themes. "Iowa" was 2024, and "North Dakota" was 2025.
i ended the session on a "live screen".
pause screens. or kill screens
various thoughts tonight:
Orinoco, for some time, has been a "mystery" project. Or, perhaps, more accurately, a blank-check project-shell, that a project can take-over in the future.
Yarvin is blogging tonight, so we are co-blogging. His article is titled [#A New Sovereign Accounting.
Funny things
the monitor and the drug-addict
so of course the next project is the Monitor.
We consider the following: we ask the machine to write an article about the South-Central part of Des Moines. It does not do so as an entity, but as a result of an algorithm: what are the restaurants in South-Central Des Moines, what are the businesses, the tourist attractions, the factories, the…
other than << the chaos of the law , what might be next?
I find myself reading the actual transcript, and wondering how Mr. Yalowitz actually kept a straight face.
what is Orinoco?
I asked Claude to teach a third-grader about mathematical algorithms. Its response was ... predictably bad.
the map is not the territory.
How to create a thematic worksheet: a theme could be "rhyming words", or "American history", or "basketball", or "cars"
for << grenora .
in which the machine is too nice, then too harsh
An initial reply from Claude:
the basis for a word bank is a dozen novels from Project Gutenberg.
when in doubt, dig deeper
I asked the machine to talk about register.
a line, from earlier, possibly true: << the average person spends less than 1 hour per week doing elective reading .
You either die a rebel, or live long enough to understand the reasons for the system.
there is a balance between << the machine should be generating camera-ready output and << the machine should not be generating camera-ready output .
in a market where "independent" providers are a market for lemons, a single trust-worthy entity will out-compete them.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42934447
half of all lawyer-ing is organizing documents.
when I ask the machine to make a worksheet, it comes out with something that looks terrible.
The monthly Hacker News << Who is Hiring? thread is up.
I asked the machine to summarize some of my thoughts about the relationship with Linaja. It is directionally correct, but misses a few points.
It is not uncommon that a company changing its name once is a good sign.