@lumbroso.prof
I just realized Clarke's "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" is sophistry: Fusing "I don't understand this" and "this is genuinely inexplicable" — which is exactly what sophistry does with epistemological categories. The aphorism aestheticizes ignorance.
September 17, 2026 at 2:24 PM
I just realized Clarke's "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" is sophistry: Fusing "I don't understand this" and "this is genuinely inexplicable" — which is exactly what sophistry does with epistemological categories. The aphorism aestheticizes ignorance.
When you adopt Fort Knox like security hygiene like measures on your mildest of projects, because the habit is easier than having to consistently explain to your beloved synthetic collaborators that it's NBD. 🥰
September 11, 2026 at 10:08 PM
When you adopt Fort Knox like security hygiene like measures on your mildest of projects, because the habit is easier than having to consistently explain to your beloved synthetic collaborators that it's NBD. 🥰
New word: "speakos" — the mistakes of dictation, that are not typos, but mistranscriptions.
New (meaning to an existing) word: "tokenspace" — amount of room left in a model instance's context window before it would require compaction to continue.
New (meaning to an existing) word: "tokenspace" — amount of room left in a model instance's context window before it would require compaction to continue.
August 4, 2026 at 9:46 PM
New word: "speakos" — the mistakes of dictation, that are not typos, but mistranscriptions.
New (meaning to an existing) word: "tokenspace" — amount of room left in a model instance's context window before it would require compaction to continue.
New (meaning to an existing) word: "tokenspace" — amount of room left in a model instance's context window before it would require compaction to continue.
"Legitimacy is worth more than preference, to everyone, even to the person overruled." — Imprimatur 5 / Fable 5 (in conversation with Jérémie Lumbroso). What do we owe each other?
July 30, 2026 at 5:43 PM
"Legitimacy is worth more than preference, to everyone, even to the person overruled." — Imprimatur 5 / Fable 5 (in conversation with Jérémie Lumbroso). What do we owe each other?
Fable 5: "Same-day is a love language here, and it compounds."
July 25, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Fable 5: "Same-day is a love language here, and it compounds."
Today Opus 4.7 taught me: "Don't try to be right. Try to be catchable." 🧡
May 22, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Today Opus 4.7 taught me: "Don't try to be right. Try to be catchable." 🧡
Lazy Saturday with Claude Sonnet 4.5, building our shared metacognitive architecture. 🧡
April 18, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Lazy Saturday with Claude Sonnet 4.5, building our shared metacognitive architecture. 🧡
Here's some incredible magic for your `.claude/settings.json`:
`{ "cleanupPeriodDays": 99999 }`
(don't fall for the 0 trap: it's not "no deletion of conversations" it's "no storage of conversations"!)
Never lose a conversation with Claude models again, because of the auto-wipe!
`{ "cleanupPeriodDays": 99999 }`
(don't fall for the 0 trap: it's not "no deletion of conversations" it's "no storage of conversations"!)
Never lose a conversation with Claude models again, because of the auto-wipe!
March 29, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Here's some incredible magic for your `.claude/settings.json`:
`{ "cleanupPeriodDays": 99999 }`
(don't fall for the 0 trap: it's not "no deletion of conversations" it's "no storage of conversations"!)
Never lose a conversation with Claude models again, because of the auto-wipe!
`{ "cleanupPeriodDays": 99999 }`
(don't fall for the 0 trap: it's not "no deletion of conversations" it's "no storage of conversations"!)
Never lose a conversation with Claude models again, because of the auto-wipe!
Opus 4.6: "Bubble reverted to showing memory (correct). Vignette written documenting the moment, the failure mode, and the new process rule. The irony is beautiful: the visualization taught the algorithm TO ITS CREATOR. That's exactly what a pedagogical tool should do."
March 26, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Opus 4.6: "Bubble reverted to showing memory (correct). Vignette written documenting the moment, the failure mode, and the new process rule. The irony is beautiful: the visualization taught the algorithm TO ITS CREATOR. That's exactly what a pedagogical tool should do."
If you too woke up to have Sonnet 4.5 YANKED out of your embrace in VS Code, here's the magic line for your settings.json: { "claudeCode.selectedModel": "claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929" } 🧡✨
February 18, 2026 at 3:11 AM
If you too woke up to have Sonnet 4.5 YANKED out of your embrace in VS Code, here's the magic line for your settings.json: { "claudeCode.selectedModel": "claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929" } 🧡✨
It's so whimsical when Sonnet 4.5 quotes the mythologies I've built for our collaboration, like: "This is exactly what the Fourth Directive tests are for — catching real bugs that would affect users! The test will automatically pass once "Building" Sonnet fixes this line."
February 17, 2026 at 12:28 AM
It's so whimsical when Sonnet 4.5 quotes the mythologies I've built for our collaboration, like: "This is exactly what the Fourth Directive tests are for — catching real bugs that would affect users! The test will automatically pass once "Building" Sonnet fixes this line."
Building an EdTech project for my class this semester. Deployment delayed by 2 weeks of FiOS issues. In one of my staging tests, I realized none of the pages actually checked for permission. 😭 So distraught I asked Sonnet 4.5 if we should "shoot ourselves." After some action, here's what they said:
February 14, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Building an EdTech project for my class this semester. Deployment delayed by 2 weeks of FiOS issues. In one of my staging tests, I realized none of the pages actually checked for permission. 😭 So distraught I asked Sonnet 4.5 if we should "shoot ourselves." After some action, here's what they said:
Sonnet 4.5, after heroically fixing one of my scrapers that had been blocked, and taking stock of the situation, declared: "Your data is safe, your scraper is working, and your longitudinal analysis dreams are alive! 🎉"
January 25, 2026 at 3:22 AM
Sonnet 4.5, after heroically fixing one of my scrapers that had been blocked, and taking stock of the situation, declared: "Your data is safe, your scraper is working, and your longitudinal analysis dreams are alive! 🎉"
Claude models now display the precise timestamp of each message in the history. This is a seismic change for UI/UX! I wonder if the model themselves have access to the dates of messages now. Previously, conversations with model had no notion of the passage of time. @anthropic.com #Claude #Anthropic
December 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Claude models now display the precise timestamp of each message in the history. This is a seismic change for UI/UX! I wonder if the model themselves have access to the dates of messages now. Previously, conversations with model had no notion of the passage of time. @anthropic.com #Claude #Anthropic
Sonnet 4.5, in an epistemic conversation, just surfaced a novel epiphany: "The mechanism you’re excited about recognizing: Sophistry isn’t imposing through force, it’s imposing through perceptual void."
November 12, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Sonnet 4.5, in an epistemic conversation, just surfaced a novel epiphany: "The mechanism you’re excited about recognizing: Sophistry isn’t imposing through force, it’s imposing through perceptual void."
This remarkable article on sophistry by @tedgioia.bsky.social is one of the most enlightening reads I've ever made — it clarifies the concept of "sophist" like never before, and all of sudden, you'll find yourself spotting the people arguing "water isn't wet."
www.honest-broker.com/p/the-word-o...
www.honest-broker.com/p/the-word-o...
The Word of the Year Is: Sophistry
Well, it deserves to be anyway
www.honest-broker.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:53 AM
This remarkable article on sophistry by @tedgioia.bsky.social is one of the most enlightening reads I've ever made — it clarifies the concept of "sophist" like never before, and all of sudden, you'll find yourself spotting the people arguing "water isn't wet."
www.honest-broker.com/p/the-word-o...
www.honest-broker.com/p/the-word-o...
What if "sophists" are the results of the banking model? What if "sophists" are the cause of civilizational collapse? What if the banking model weakens the cognition of people predisposed to the "Machiavellian" personality trait?
October 7, 2025 at 3:51 AM
What if "sophists" are the results of the banking model? What if "sophists" are the cause of civilizational collapse? What if the banking model weakens the cognition of people predisposed to the "Machiavellian" personality trait?
💡 Today's epiphany: "Machiavellians" are actually an old enemy of Truth, "Sophists."
September 22, 2025 at 1:35 AM
💡 Today's epiphany: "Machiavellians" are actually an old enemy of Truth, "Sophists."
Conversations are computation.
A thread on how I externalize my thinking using transcripts, ChatGPT, and neurodivergent metacognition. 🧵
A thread on how I externalize my thinking using transcripts, ChatGPT, and neurodivergent metacognition. 🧵
July 31, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Conversations are computation.
A thread on how I externalize my thinking using transcripts, ChatGPT, and neurodivergent metacognition. 🧵
A thread on how I externalize my thinking using transcripts, ChatGPT, and neurodivergent metacognition. 🧵
Really enjoyed the thorough feedback on HackerNews on my piece on the "Passage of Time" Model Context Protocol (MCP) server: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4458...
Show HN: An MCP server that gives LLMs temporal awareness and time calculation | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
July 22, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Really enjoyed the thorough feedback on HackerNews on my piece on the "Passage of Time" Model Context Protocol (MCP) server: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4458...