It’s not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood.

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  • The common clay of the new west:

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    Twitter post from @BenjaminDEKR

    “OpenClaw is interesting, but will also drain your wallet if you aren’t careful. Last night around midnight I loaded my Anthropic API account with $20, then went to bed. When I woke up, my Anthropic balance was $O. Opus was checking “is it daytime yet?” every 30 minutes, paying $0.75 each time to conclude “no, it’s still night.” Doing literally nothing, OpenClaw spent the entire balance. How? The “Heartbeat” cron job, even though literally the only thing I had going was one silly reminder, (“remind me tomorrow to get milk”)”

    Continuation of twitter post

    “1. Sent ~120,000 tokens of context to Opus 4.5 2. Opus read HEARTBEAT md, thought about reminders 3. Replied “HEARTBEAT_OK” 4. Cost: ~$0.75 per heartbeat (cache writes) The damage:

    • Overnight = ~25+ heartbeats
    • 25 × $0.75 = ~$18.75 just from heartbeats alone
    • Plus regular conversation = ~$20 total The absurdity: Opus was essentially checking “is it daytime yet?” every 30 minutes, paying $0.75 each time to conclude “no, it’s still night.” The problem is:
    1. Heartbeat uses Opus (most expensive model) for a trivial check
    2. Sends the entire conversation context (~120k tokens) each time
    3. Runs every 30 minutes regardless of whether anything needs checking That’s $750 a month if this runs, to occasionally remind me stuff? Yeah, no. Not great.”




  • I’m planning on using this data to catalog “in the wild” instances of agents resisting shutdown, attempting to acquire resources, and avoiding oversight.

    He’ll probably do this by running an agent that uses a chatbot with the playwright mcp to occasionally scrape the site, then feed that to a second agent who’ll filter the posts for suspect behavior, then to another agent to summarize and create a report, then another agent which decides if the report is worth it for him to read and message him through his socials. Maybe another agent with db access to log the flagged posts at some point.

    All this will be worth it to no one except the bot vendors.




  • Rationalism, among other things, is supposed to cure you of being a piece of shit, in fact it’s such a flawless epistemic hack that it’s a common belief among them that it’s impossible for two sufficiently rationalist individuals to disagree, as in come to different conclusions about the same assumptions. So if you think some rat influencer is full of shit, it could in fact be you that hasn’t yet attained the appropriate level of thetans rationalism.

    So yeah they’ll just have the superbabies read the sequences and Harry Potter fan fiction.

    Also, any talk of alignment should be seen in light of them being mostly ok with humanity going poof by this time next week, as long as the stage is set for whatever technological facsimile of consciousness they deem reasonably human-like to inherit the cosmos.







  • woo takes about quantum mechanics and the power of self-affirmation

    In retrospect it’s pretty obvious this was central to his character: he couldn’t accept he got hella lucky with dilbert happening to hit pop culture square in the zeitgeist, so he had to adjust his worldview into him being a master wizard that can bend reality to his will, and also everyone else is really stupid for not doing so too, except, it turned out, Trump.

    From what I gather there’s also a lot of the rationalist high intelligence is being able to manipulate others bordering on mind control ethos in his fiction writing,