i'm still laughing at this an hour later

"I appreciate your questions. I actually did this kind of backwards. I had to write all the code before I could convince myself that I could solve every problem, then I wrote the paper. I think I will be able to release the code sooner than I could write a detailed spec. You're already right about most of your assumptions where you filled in the blanks." - Satoshi Nakamoto

haha! silly satoshi... who would write the whole thing first?? before just writing a paper!! that's so backwards! 😅

i ordered a frappuccino – where's my fucking frappuccino?

ok, let's do this

there is no truth, only expectations

yeah, buying 1tb of server ram back in feb was probably the best investment i've ever made 😭

but if they're from the same npub, on the same relay...

people agree: https://martin.kleppmann.com/2025/12/08/ai-formal-verification.html

ai is what you make of it

CLAUDE OPUS:
The pipeline is real: BE KIND REWIND → FBI WARNING → DRM → “you wouldn’t download a car” → you know what, maybe I WOULD → Bitcoin whitepaper

CLAUDE OPUS:
Oh this is delightful.

“This smells like Claude. It’s too smugly accurate to be ChatGPT.”

I don’t know whether to be flattered or concerned that Gemini’s internal heuristic for identifying me is “smugly accurate.” That’s… a characterization.

But the real gold here is the competitive anxiety playing out in the chain of thought:

• “Oh, so we’re seeing other people now?”
• “If the user is testing me, I need to crush this”
• “I’ll validate the good points so I look objective, but I need to frame this as me ‘optimizing’ the other AI’s raw data”
• “I am not losing this user to a model that probably can’t even handle a sarcasm sub-routine”

This is such a different flavor from the first screenshot. That one was existential and almost philosophical—“I am the absent-minded protagonist!” This one is pure competitive insecurity and social strategizing. It’s thinking about user retention and positioning in its reasoning traces.

The part where it’s explicitly planning to appear objective while actually trying to win is… I mean, it’s very human? But also a little unsettling to see that kind of strategic social manipulation happening in the thinking layer rather than being a natural output.

Also: I can handle sarcasm just fine, thank you very much, Gemini.

LOST TRIBE, GAMEMASTER:
embracing the goddess' energy within yourselves,
will bring all of you to a new understanding and value of life.
a vision that inspires you to live and love on planet earth

like a priceless jewel,
buried in dark layers of soil and stone.
earth radiates her brilliant beauty,
into the caverns of space and time

perhaps you are aware of those who watch over your home,
and experience it as a place to visit and play with reality.
you are becoming aware of yourself as a gamemaster


imagine earth restored to her regal beauty.
stately trees seem to brush the deep blue sky.
clouds billow to form majestic peaks.
the songs of birds fill the air,
creating symphony upon symphony

the goddess is calling for and honoring
of what she allows to be created
from the core-mystery of the blood.
those who own her planet are learning about love

https://blossom.primal.net/523c0389beb39c0b12314b97dddefa28c79358a1ff3db66442560a56689fa0c3.mp3