I Gave Claude Access to My Pen Plotter
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2 days ago
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| harmonique.one
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gary17the
39 minutes ago
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> [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
24 minutes ago
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The poetry you quoted is originally by Vladimir Nabokov in Pale Fire.
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pavel_lishin
1 hour ago
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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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gilleain
1 hour ago
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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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pavel_lishin
1 hour ago
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That feels somehow sacrilegious.
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idiotsecant
45 minutes ago
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Forget AGI benchmarks, I'm watching for when AI start giving themselves culture names.
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tantalor
1 hour ago
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I just skipped to the images. Don't even want to skim generated nonsense.
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appplication
1 hour ago
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+1, I don’t even fully read my own conversations with AI
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prodigycorp
2 hours ago
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Ask it to draw a pelican on a bicycle
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bigiain
1 hour ago
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So we see here that AI has come for the jobs of people who write artist statements... ;-)
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joshu
41 minutes ago
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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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lysace
2 days ago
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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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futurecat
2 days ago
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Sounds like a good vibe coding session goal!
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futurecat
2 days ago
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Oh my, the noise coming from that machine!
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accrual
2 hours ago
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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 minutes ago
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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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juleiie
34 minutes ago
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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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fhub
19 minutes ago
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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.
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sharifhsn
23 minutes ago
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I hope you feel the same way every time you eat beef.
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juleiie
21 minutes ago
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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?
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