| ▲ | I gave Claude access to my pen plotter(harmonique.one) |
| 101 points by futurecat 2 days ago | 41 comments |
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| ▲ | dmd an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| I think it's somewhat interesting that codex (gpt-5.3-codex xhigh), given the exact same prompt, came up with a very similar result. https://3e.org/private/self-portrait-plotter.svg |
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| ▲ | pavel_lishin 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The images are neat, but I would rather throw my laptop in the ocean than read chat transcripts between a human and an AI. (Science fiction novels excluded, of course.) |
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| ▲ | vunderba 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Somebody a while back on HN compared sharing AI chat transcripts as the equivalent of telling everyone all about that “amazing dream you had last night”. | | |
| ▲ | echelon an hour ago | parent [-] | | We're watching brains harmonize and work together. There aren't any priors for this, only crude analogies. This is alien contact. This is the spark of fire that kicked off civilization. This is the beginnings of the next industrial age. But what you're specifically watching here is two brains from two entirely different species communicating and working together. It doesn't matter that Claude is dumb and a statistical machine with flaws. We're early. This is only just starting. Imagine the communication paradigms we'll have in the future - I'm instructing image models with images instead of text. Images are better spatial arguments. What's better for thought? Probably thought. Language is just an encoding. Imagine what happens when we hook up BCI to this and can wear the AI like an exoskeleton? But the intermediate, these chat conversations, are amazing to watch. It's like a parent teaching a toddler, except the toddler is a trillion dollar machine that can work harder than a thousand humans at some discrete tasks that used to be impossible for metaheurisic algorithms to crack and required real humans. It's dreaming alright. | | |
| ▲ | protocolture 22 minutes ago | parent [-] | | >But what you're specifically watching here is two brains from two entirely different species communicating and working together. No this is a dude playing with his chatbot. |
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| ▲ | tantalor 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I just skipped to the images. Don't even want to skim generated nonsense. | |
| ▲ | appplication 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | +1, I don’t even fully read my own conversations with AI | |
| ▲ | voxelghost an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | -HAL, Throw my portable computing device through the porthole. -Im afraid I cant do that Dave! -HAL, do you need some time on dr. Chandras couch again? -Dave, relax, have you forgotten that I dont have arms? | |
| ▲ | gilleain 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Oh that reminds me. Could someone make an AI interface where each agent uses a different Culture ship name, and looks like the dialog from Excession? If we are going to have a dystopia, lets make it fun, at least... | | |
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| ▲ | gary17the 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > [Claude Code] "A spiral that generates itself — starting from a tight mathematical center (my computational substrate) and branching outward into increasingly organic, tree-like forms (the meaning that emerges). Structure becoming life. The self-drawing hand." "And blood-black nothingness began to spin... A system of cells interlinked within cells interlinked within cells interlinked within one stem... And dreadfully distinct against the dark, a tall white fountain played." ("Blade Runner 2049", Officer K-D-six-dash-three-dot-seven) :) |
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| ▲ | SaberTail 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | The poetry you quoted is originally by Vladimir Nabokov in Pale Fire. | | |
| ▲ | ghywertelling an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Pale Fire book is shown in the movie Blade Runner 2049 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtLvtMqWNz8 Solving Nabokov's Pale Fire - A Deep Dive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8wEEaHUnkA Pale Fire is what we call as Ergodic literature Ergodic literature refers to texts requiring non-trivial effort from the reader to traverse, moving beyond linear, top-to-bottom reading to actively navigate complex, often nonlinear structures. Coined by Espen J. Aarseth (1997), it combines "ergon" (work) and "hodos" (path), encompassing print and electronic works that demand physical engagement, such as solving puzzles or following, navigating, or choosing paths. Ergodic Literature: The Weirdest Book Genre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKX90LbnYd4 "House of Leaves" is another book from the same genre. House of Leaves - A Place of Absence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJl7HpkotCE Diving into House of Leaves Secrets and Connections | Video Essay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du2R47kMuDE The Book That Lies to You - House of Leaves Explained https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCQJUUXnRIQ I went into this rabbit hole few years ago. | |
| ▲ | zabzonk 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Pale Fire is brilliant - wonderfully written and very funny. The poem itself is pretty good too - one of my favourite bits: How to locate in blackness, with a gasp, Terra the Fair, an orbicle of jasp. How to keep sane in spiral types of space. Precautions to be taken in the case Of freak reincarnation: what to do On suddenly discovering that you Are now a young and vulnerable toad Plump in the middle of a busy road |
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| ▲ | davidw 41 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It's kind of ominous. I could see people in a science fiction thriller finding a copy of the image and wondering what it all means. Maybe as the show progresses it adds more of the tentacle/connection things going out further and further. |
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| ▲ | bitwize 32 minutes ago | parent [-] | | I'm reminded of the episode of Star Trek: TNG where Data, in a sculpture class being taught by Troi, is instructed to sculpt the "concept of music". She was testing, and giving him the opportunity to test, how well he could visualize and represent something abstract. Data's initial attempt was a clay G clef, to which Troi remarked, "It's a start." |
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| ▲ | bigiain 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| So we see here that AI has come for the jobs of people who write artist statements... ;-) |
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| ▲ | prodigycorp 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Ask it to draw a pelican on a bicycle |
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| ▲ | WalterGR 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Claude: Let me think about it seriously before putting pen to paper. Jaunty! |
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| ▲ | lysace 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I bought an 80s HP pen plotter a while ago (one of these: https://www.curiousmarc.com/computing/hp-7475a-plotter). Haven't put it to use yet. I bet Claude can figure out HPGL though... |
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| ▲ | joshu 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| i guess i should have written up my claude/plotting workflow already. i didn’t bother actually plotting them. https://x.com/joshu/status/2018205910204915939 |
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| ▲ | empressplay 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Personally I'd like to see the model get better at coding, I couldn't really care less if it's able to be 'creative' -- in fact i wish it wasn't. It's a waste of resources better used to _make it better at coding_. |
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| ▲ | accrual 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This is brilliant. It could be fun to redo the process every 6 months and hang them up in a gallery. Maybe someday (soon) an embodied LLM could do their self-portrait with pen and paper. |
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| ▲ | ineedasername 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | They should run it, same verbatim prompts, using all the old versions still obtainable in api- see the progression. Is there a consistent visual aesthetic, implementation? Does it change substantially in one point version? Heck apart from any other factor it could be a useful visual heuristic for “model drift” |
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| ▲ | barrance 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Lovely stuff, and fascinating to see. These machines have an intelligence, and I'd be quite confident in saying they are alive. Not in a biological sense, but why should that be the constraint? The Turing test was passed ages ago and now what we have are machines that genuinely think and feel. |
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| ▲ | daxfohl an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | And then we turn them off. | |
| ▲ | righthand 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Feelings are caused by chemicals emitted into your nervous system. Do these bots have that ability? Like saying “I love you” and meaning it are two different things. | | |
| ▲ | mr_mitm an hour ago | parent [-] | | I've seen SOUL.md. Has anyone attempted to give these things a semblance of feelings by some sort of pain/dopamine mechanism? Should we? |
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| ▲ | juleiie 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| This is who is wasting our computing power guys I always feel guilty when I do such stupid stuff over Claude, these are all resources and limited computing. Enormous amounts of water and electricity. Gotta really think about what is it worth spending on. And is it, in fact, worth it at all. AI is very selfish technology in this way. Every time you prompt you proclaim: My idea is worth the environmental impact. What I am doing is more important than a tree. We have to use it responsibly. |
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| ▲ | DrewADesign 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The entire current AI industry is based on one huge hype-fueled resource grab— asthma-inducing, dubiously legal, unlicensed natural gas turbines and all. I doubt even most of the “worthwhile” tasks will be objectively considered worth the price when the dust clears. | |
| ▲ | signatoremo 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Did you raise tbe same point in pointless meetings that you participate? “Guys, stop quibbling, you are wasting precious resource” | | |
| ▲ | olyjohn 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Are you saying that you like pointless meetings that waste your time? I sure don't. My team generally does a lot of work to ensure that our meetings are short and productive. It's a point that comes up quite often. |
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| ▲ | fhub 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I do appreciate this note more than others. It is food for thought. I think it could have been worded a lot more respectfully though. | |
| ▲ | sharifhsn 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I hope you feel the same way every time you eat beef. | | |
| ▲ | juleiie 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Maybe I do, or maybe I am very selfish and I think that my palate is more important than cows? Or maybe cows wouldn't even exist at all without the cheeseburgers? | | |
| ▲ | asddubs 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | I think their point was that beef farming has an enormously negative environmental impact, and we in the west in fact do overconsume meat. Though I think their point was to use AI with impunity, when I think we should cut back on our meat consumption a lot. |
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