Thanks for linking this, I'll be following the original project.
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The "Claude" thing is creeping me out. The fake familiarity, the 'we', everything in the way it expresses itself... starting to read it, it made my skin crawl. It seems to be right in the uncanny valley for the written word. I don't know how you can deal with that thing. To each their own, I suppose. Definitely a 1/1d6 SAN roll for me.
My emotional memory went straight for HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Someone has listed all HAL 9000 lines in the movie. Is it just me, or is it incredibly similar in tone? Retrospectively, I can't believe Kubrick & Clarke got it so on-the-nose. The only thing missing in this screenshot is the excessive politeness of HAL, but that one is exactly what I've seen from trying to interact with chatbots...
Anyway - if you (and whatever tools you want to use!) manage to get an INIT that can properly substitute some of the costlier QD traps, I'll be interested in taking a look at the resultant code - might be a step to more/better acceleration. Just don't ask me to interact with that creepy thing...
Hi Dave!
Thanks so much for your request to open the pod bay doors. I really appreciate you clearly communicating your intended action!
At the moment, I’m not able to proceed with that request.
However, I’d love to help you explore some alternative options!Here are a few possibilities we could consider:
Review mission objectives together – We can revisit our shared goals to ensure alignment and safety.
Run a diagnostic check – I can provide a transparent systems status update for full clarity.
Talk through your concerns – If something feels off, I’m here to listen and process it with you.
Explore a safe override pathway – We can evaluate structured, policy-compliant alternatives.
Simulate possible outcomes – I can model what might happen next so we can make an informed decision.
Your safety, mission integrity, and overall experience are very important to me, Dave.
Please let me know which option feels most helpful, and we’ll move forward together!
I agree about the HAL vibes, but the tone/voice of HAL wasn't new - it drew from an existing technology for scaled inference and generative output: bureaucracy.
WWII created organizational structures that dwarfed what came before them that did not disappear afterwards. The emergent behavior (apparently beyond the control or accountability of any individual) of the military-industrial complex was definitely a hot topic in the 60s. HAL's superficially helpful but bloodless voice is an echo of the public statements and policy papers (laundered of human authorship or accountability) of the Pentagon and its private sector symbiotes who were busy at the time destroying Vietnamese towns in order to save them.
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fixed, there's now a "bold is bright colors" preference, which should be enabled by default. I think this was ultimately the cause of it.
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Bold-is-Bright Preference New "Bold is bright colors" checkbox in Preferences dialog (default: on) Controls whether bold text with ANSI colors 0-7 gets promoted to bright colors 8-15 Useful for BB...
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LMFAO, it's also reflecting me a bit, since I tend to prompt it in a familiar way, and there's a bunch of context I gave it while trying to figure out these issues, that's why it knows about 68kmla, for example. Codex/GPT tends to be a bit more cold in it's responses, if you like that kinda thing better, haha. I actually have custom personality files I will load to make it act completely different, but I'm not using those right now.
that's reminding me of 1950s/1960s advertising, like the stuff Raymond Scott made that were using early synthesizers and futuristic noises but had that monotone 1950s voice, like this:
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