Great post, thank you! So, let's resolve ancient Near East chronology and determine an absolute date for the sack of Babylon?

I recently tried to revive my account after not having accessed it for a decade or so. They asked for my gov issued ID, to be processed by the Persona service. Um, hell no.

Facebook has been doing this to me too when trying to revive my old account for using stuff like Marketplace.

I get wanting some kind of verification but hell no I'm not giving you a photo of my ID.

Let me make a new account then. But they won't.

The juvenile nonchalance with which some Anthropic employees seem to be talking to their AI (wacky, sick, cook, ...) is truly bizarre.

That’s just how people in their 20s casually communicate now. It’s mostly from tiktok

They've never had a job at a normal company

It's a chatbot, not their boss. Who cares?

If anything I'm glad to see them having fun with it instead of further convincing themselves that it's God.

That's literally just how kids talk these days. Are you really that unaware of modern slang?

I'm pretty nonchalant with coworkers to begin with, when it comes to LLMs i sometimes am curious how well it can handle slang, and other times, since it's a program, am extremely rude. Their whole purpose is to handle natural language after all.

"You know what we want. Let’s go"

discussion of oai announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49790389

Don't worry, in its final reply the agent will always present one or two things "worth flagging" to keep you engaged

As some commenter in another thread pointed out OP is on a crusade, posting variations on this theme (and getting flagged) all the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=Bitu79

See also (hypothetical) Proto-Euphratean, "the lost language hidden within Sumerian": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Euphratean_language

More on the upcoming priesthood and monasteries: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49743400

What a fantastic article! Thank you for sharing it!

Funny! Not sure if it's a cultural thing, but I experienced this phenomenon with Indian and Portuguese guys, and while I'm sure they're just trying to be polite, it's annoying as hell. Just ask the damn question!

I've gotten "Hi" with zero other context from people of all backgrounds.

I just assume they are pig-butcherers, and never respond.

I'm not affiliated, and did not actually try it, but your comment reminded me of the juggler coding agent, discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48883305

>Each conversation is a Yjs CRDT tree. It can branch into sub-threads (recursively), and you can drill down, backtrack, edit, undo/redo, and inspect everything: tool calls, approvals, and the raw context JSON going to the model, etc.