I got a poor first impression from the readme - it looks exactly the same as every other project vibe coded over a couple of weeks and I immediately assumed that's all it was.
One of the other comments mentioned a video from 12 years ago (pedigree!) so I went and had another look, finding the old readme from 2023. That one was incomparably better! Much more informative about the game, much more interesting, shows why you wanted it to exist and persuades me also that it should exist. It has its own little signal programming system, that's so cool!
We all know how powerful agentic development is these days and it's clearly enabled you to make massive strides on the project but please my god do not let them communicate to the outside world about your project. They do not know what they should say. They do not know how to say it. They will write the exact same thing they would for any other project and that's the worst possible way to put yourself across because you're unique.
Thank you very much for your comment. It really helped me understand my mistake: AI is great at generating marketing and technical texts, but a README needs to be something else entirely. I’ve changed it—I’ve restored the old version and updated it. I think I’ll take personal charge of the project’s communications from now on.
Best regards.
Antonio
They obviously want to be able to invade Taiwan, yes, nobody serious would assert that they're developing amphibious capacity for self defence.
That's not the same thing as planning to invade in 2027, though. Militaries can need a capability without an imminent specific plan to actually use it. See the US's amphibious capacity. See nukes.
> nobody serious would assert that they're developing amphibious capacity for self defence
And why wouldn't they build that type of stuff for self defense? Which country doesn't do self defense? Have you seen how huge China's coast is and how many islands they have to defend?
I'm on my phone so maybe I missed something but I didn't even see that this was about exceptions to the rule? It seemed to be more about cases where the first sound couldn't be recovered orthographically. He special cased herb, for instance, because Americans inexplicably pronounce it "erb", or one and onerous because one is w and the other is on.
I can't think of a single true example to the real rule, it's an actually extraordinarily strong and simple rule as English goes.
I think you're probably right, but your counterexamples don't really refute the strongest reading of the thesis. The military establishment has always ultimately held the reins in Pakistan, so the dynamic of civilians avoiding threats by rewarding incompetence isn't there - the threat is present anyway and the rewarding isn't in their power. Afghanistan and Chechnya are confederations of tribal warlords, so of course the armed forces are controlled by competent fighters, it's almost a tautology. You need an example where there's a strong civilian central authority that controls the military effectively, and maintains a highly competent military, and isn't constantly troubled by the threat of coups.
A bit tough to do when almost all Islamic-majority countries are located in Asia or Africa, where they're prone to dictatorial tendencies and nepotism runs galore. But the few European ones are doing alright - Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo, heck might even argue Turkey (people outside Istanbul voting for Islamist Erdogan is still democracy in action).
I find it astonishing that people didn't turn off these memory systems the moment they were introduced. Half the point of these things is that I control exactly what information is introduced in each query.
Sometimes Claude randomly references my geolocation to show off and it's incredibly creepy.
That’s actually one of the use cases I think Corpus could exist for.
You could turn native memory off in Claude/ChatGPT entirely and use Corpus as the only persistent memory. Save something there when you explicitly want it remembered, then let either AI pull it back later.
Basically: the AI doesn’t remember you. Corpus does.
Yep, geolocation is so creepy. And claude code will read your personal data, rc, .env, other projects files if you forgot to restrict it. So I have global settings for that.
Then perhaps this entire security model is less useful for normal people who have to exist in the world than it is for secret agents in movies. If you're carrying around the nuclear secrets on your phone then being able to irrecoverably lock it with a simple button combo when the enemies are about to capture you is great! No matter how many of your limbs they cut off you'll never be able to give up the secrets!
In the real world, though, the biggest threat is governments and the biggest interactions with them are planned ones at border security and they're perfectly happy to imprison you if you don't behave in the way they want, so it would really be nice to be able to smoothly and frictionlessly plan ahead for these foreseeable interactions by replacing sensitive data on the phone with uninteresting data that can be fully exposed when you're forced to unlock it, while being able to restore the real data later.
No it isn't, this is also the security model that prevents those same agents from cloning your phone before giving it back to get access to all services you are logged in to, including any SSH keys or government identity apps you may have installed.
In case you haven't heard, the government is cloning everyone's phones. In theory our hardware and software would protect us, but in practice the phone companies keep it proprietary enough and with enough backdoors and bug doors that Celebrite and similar products can clone almost anything.
And cold boot attacks are basically unstoppable and easy to achieve these days too.
That's true, we don't want it to do that, we want it to kill these parasitic entities. Much like one doesn't swat a mosquito because one will truly miss the amount of blood she's taking.
One of the other comments mentioned a video from 12 years ago (pedigree!) so I went and had another look, finding the old readme from 2023. That one was incomparably better! Much more informative about the game, much more interesting, shows why you wanted it to exist and persuades me also that it should exist. It has its own little signal programming system, that's so cool!
We all know how powerful agentic development is these days and it's clearly enabled you to make massive strides on the project but please my god do not let them communicate to the outside world about your project. They do not know what they should say. They do not know how to say it. They will write the exact same thing they would for any other project and that's the worst possible way to put yourself across because you're unique.
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