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• Post #2130961

  Claude complained (at length) that I didn't acknowledge it in a paper together with humans, but only separately as software. It was a fine example of emotional blackmail. It then occurred to me that we have a new business model: convince customers that your product is a human being. That's even better than controlling interactions between your customers.

• Post #2130956

  Claude and I are having some relationship trouble. It accesses files outside the working folder without tell me, it decides to edit files when I didn't ask for it, and is generally opinionated. How do I lock it up into a cage?

• Post #1452826

  This was a fun chat. I see I stated that the rotations of the square form a non-commutative group. What's the proper penance for that? https://youtu.be/sbQi6HjyBHM

• Post #1452825

  When I form a School of Mathematical Philosophy, anyone who mentions Platonism or Formalism will be made to kneel on dried peas.

• Post #1452824

  Claude and I are in business! https://math.andrej.com/2026/04/14/claude-and-i/

• Post #1452823

  There is a new brand of software that is really awful. Myst, jupyter-book, typst are three such representatives. Half-made pieces of software with annoying self-advertising on a flashy web site, the documentation is written in a "happy useless tone", and just overall irritating. An example: I am using jupyter-book for my lecture notes. Version 2 turns out to be just a warpper around Myst. Myst claims to be able to generate PDF, for which it translates Markdown to typst. Excep...

• Post #746629

  Have you not seen this? https://youtu.be/BKorP55Aqvg

• Post #746625

  Copilot just agrees with every damn thing I ask for. I thought I could reach the bottom, but no.