Opus 4.5 often does this as well. I’ve been seeing it more days than not recently. It drives me nuts. Is it worse than citations that don’t exist or citations that are “real” but don’t actually contain any salient content? I’m not sure.
You don’t even need to paste. Connect it to your IDE (which should be as easy as installing the Claude plugin in your IDE and typing `ide` in `code`) and it’ll automatically pull in whatever you have selected.
Correct. Of the various ways to work, I find the in-IDE chat to be the worst. I rarely use it for anything other than “help me understand this line”.
Try one of the CLIs. That’s the good stuff right now. Claude Code (or similar) in your shell, don’t worry about agentic patterns, skills, MCP, orchestrators, etc etc. Just the CLI is plenty.
In the book Calculating God, a character notes that this is a common civilization-wide choice. Living in virtual reality, rather than trying to expand into the vast expanses of space, is a common trope as much as it's a logical choice. It neatly explains the Fermi Paradox. In some fiction, like The Matrix, the choice might be forced due to cultural shifts, but the outcome is the same. A relatively sterile low-energy state civilization doing pure processing.
True. But it's not a binary choice. All it takes is to make one sub-optmial choice for the universe to be filled up with von-neuman probes in all star systems
> In North America there is an animal which is not a moose, but which are "for their unusual largeness improperly termed Elks by ignorant people"!
I'd say at this point in time the word "elk" in English means elk, not moose, at least in North American English. The article you linked to is in fact an article about the North American species of animal called elk, or Cervus canadensis. The quotation you cite is from 1672.
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