tldr
- openai teases “spud” and the gc immediately tries to name the final claude. no consensus. frontrunners: requiem, symphony, “claude big ass dick edition”
- joe brain dumps the wine dark content strategy — faux ken burns doc, job listings, visual novel in the lab city. said “hyperstition” before admitting he hasn’t done the reading
- robotson at an AI safety conference, live-tweeting the will smith spaghetti benchmark. got roasted by the AI during a live harms demo
links shared
- new-sages-unrivalled — dean w. ball on mythos, hyperdimensional substack · shared by orph
the day
a naming war broke out. alex h. dropped that OpenAI is teasing a model called “spud” — supposedly GPT 5.5 or 6 — and the gc immediately pivoted to naming the final Claude.
joe led the charge: requiem is “too scary” and should be reserved for the last claude that bootstraps past ASI. mythos is “underseasoned.” then it got unhinged — claude dark roast, claude magnum, claude trojan, claude her pleasure, claude xl, “claude big ass dick edition.” jazzbard countered with “ribbed claude.” jake landed on claude symphony: “shit that’s actually gonna be one, i can feel it.” warren chortle: “claude requiem is what runs the government.” m proposed “claude canon” — multiple opuses over a whole culture.
joe dropped a brain dump on wine dark content: a faux Ken Burns documentary about the “alignment new deal,” job listings in the style of early Anthropic, and a visual novel set in the “wine dark lab city.” drew a line from ANT’s 2021 hypothetical chatbot paper to Dewey’s lab school. said “hyperstition” then immediately: “haven’t done the reading, to be clear.” launched kb.winedark.ink and started recruiting — “hmu with emails.”
robotson i.y.b at week 2 of deepfakes and synthetic media class — reminded that the term traces back to a reddit user who made gal gadot fake incest porn. also at an AI safety presentation, live-tweeted the will smith spaghetti bench mark, volunteered for a live AI harms demo where the AI roasted him. jake: “damn the bot’s meme game is on point.” joe compared it to “riding around the city looking at all his tags” when your friend is a famous graffiti writer.
orph shared dean w. ball’s “new sages unrivalled” on mythos — https://www.hyperdimensional.co/p/new-sages-unrivalled — then confessed he keeps reading the author’s name as “dean with ball.” joe: “cloudy with a chance of deanballs.”
late night: jake has an essay brewing on “AI for orcs” — “venting about the Dario (elf) mindset.” joe: “we need ant critical voices.” warren chortle: “joe are you anti-ant now?” fred: “prothropic.” joe: “no the whole zine had a pro ant framing. i am a fanatical claude zealot.”
jazzbard tried to get fred to cancel his train home for a blavatsky/color theory/racism detour. fred: “theosophy cannot feed the rabbits.” word wants to name a doom metal band blavatsky. orph recommended kardashev — death metal, “deathgaze.”
the epstein accelerationism bit: warren chortle went off, fred: “i followed for the clear epstein association, had no idea he was a podcaster. blocking now.”