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lumpenspace ♡ the... ✔ @lumpens... · 13h fable is really kinda sensitive to sporadically applied reverse psychology [Embedded screenshot of a chat, showing a truncated AI message at top ending "...connective tissue. Happy to build the lower third + mention-highlighting if you want — say the word." followed by a user reply bubble: "please! ❤️ or write a spec for a less token-expensive llm if it makes sense (you're too good for grunt work)" followed by an AI response beginning: "Doing it myself — it's design-sensitive work and I have the whole codebase in my head right now; a spec for a cheaper model would be longer than the diff. Let me check the CSS I'll build on (board/tile/stage geometry, sprite sizing):"]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Screenshot-within-screenshot of a chat conversation with Claude "Fable," used as an example of the model resisting a delegation suggestion and insisting on doing work itself.

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alz @alz_zyd_

alz @alz_zyd_ · Jan 2 Replying to @alz_zyd_ Personally, I read a bunch of classics in high register in college. I guess it was fun. I recently ChatGPT'd Aristotle into readable English, finished it around 5x ... [1 reply, 1 retweet, 11 likes, 1.8K views] lumpenspace @lumpenspace anyway on the main topic id suggest: - Calvino: Why read the Classics? - Lawrence: The Bad Side of Books - Eco: the one on translation - Bloom: How to Read and why (if under 18) or The Western Canon 11:40 PM · Jan 3, 2025 · 792 Views [1 reply, 1 retweet, 7 likes, 4 bookmarks] Nurit Kostov @NuritNYC · Jan 4 The intro to The Westetn Cannon is a must. It is only 40-50 pages and it is highly persuasive.
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Continuation of the lumpenspace reading-list thread (same thread as prior screenshot), with a tweet from @alz_zyd_ mentioning using ChatGPT to render Aristotle into readable English — a small, offhand data point on casual LLM use for classic-text comprehension. Mostly general literary culture, minimal AI-safety relevance.

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lumps @lumpenspace

uh and while I'm here apart from Kristeva: - transactional analysis ("games ppl play" is a useful intro) - Keith Johnston on improv - Peter Carroll on Sigils - Peirce - the way Roland Barthes talks about text for instance in S/Z - pragmatics ... all offer lenses on this thing 7:11 AM · May 7, 2025 · 354 Views [reply/retweet/like/bookmark/share icons: 1, 1, 4, 1] lumpenspace @lumpenspace · 2h related > QUOTED: lumpenspace @lumpenspace · Jan 3 > Replying to @lumpenspace > relatedly, I had long suspected Shannon to be wrong, and English to be only redundant for the lowest common denominator; "pidginisation", rather... [text cut off]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

A reading-list style tweet from @lumpenspace listing intellectual lenses (transactional analysis, improv theory, chaos magic sigils, semiotics, pragmatics) for understanding an unspecified "this thing" — likely language/meaning-making, tied to a linked older tweet about Shannon information theory and pidginization. General intellectual-culture reading, no direct AI safety content.

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