Users are amazed by the local Claude interface generating creative outputs from simple prompts because it feels like instantiating profound ideas, though one notes how quickly such magic normalizes.
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@emollick It's quite mental. We’re no longer just describing profound ideas; we’re instantiating them. The barrier between “I understand this concept” and “I can now explore/play/build with it” has collapsed. That’s the part that feels genuinely new in human history.
@emollick And wait when these agentic capabilites are expressed in the real world via robots. We'll be turning our whispers into (time, energy and money limited ofc) reality. That's beyond what I expected from the future I could see as a kid TBH.
@emollick the wild part isn't that it works. it's how fast astonishing became boring. we normalized magic in about eighteen months and moved straight to complaining it was slow
@emollick Love this i adored Hesse when i was like 15! Good memories!
@emollick It's quite mental. We’re no longer just describing profound ideas; we’re instantiating them. The barrier between “I understand this concept” and “I can now explore/play/build with it” has collapsed. That’s the part that feels genuinely new in human history.
@emollick And wait when these agentic capabilites are expressed in the real world via robots. We'll be turning our whispers into (time, energy and money limited ofc) reality. That's beyond what I expected from the future I could see as a kid TBH.
@emollick the wild part isn't that it works. it's how fast astonishing became boring. we normalized magic in about eighteen months and moved straight to complaining it was slow
@emollick honestly yeah, the fact that it works at all is wild
For those unfamiliar, The Glass Bead Game is from Hesse's last novel, where it is alluded to constantly but never really described. It weaves together music, mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, religion, and more, and is the obsession of all scholars. “The Glass Bead Game is thus a mode of playing with the total contents and values of our culture; it plays with them as, say, in the great age of the arts a painter might have played with the colors on his palette. All the insights, noble thoughts, and works of art that the human race has produced in its creative eras, all that subsequent periods of scholarly study have reduced to concepts and converted into intellectual values the Glass Bead Game player plays like the organist on an organ. And this organ has attained an almost unimaginable perfection; its manuals and pedals range over the entire intellectual cosmos; its stops are almost beyond number. Theoretically this instrument is capable of reproducing in the Game the entire intellectual content of the universe.” And yet the rules or exact nature is never provided...
You cannot convince me that a technology where I can type this into a text box and expect to get an interesting, appropriate, and working output is not absolutely astonishing. https://x.com/emollick/status/2076171870798266555/photo/1
And here you go. Fable says: "The mechanics exist to make you notice correspondences" and it actually works to a degree that surprised me. https://glasperlenspiel.netlify.app/ https://x.com/emollick/status/2076175092678086986/photo/1
To be fair, there is nothing more up Fable's alley than to design a game that includes resonances, connections between distant concepts, thesis & antithesis, grace, and music. This is like LLM the game.
Users are amazed by the local Claude interface generating creative outputs from simple prompts because it feels like instantiating profound ideas, though one notes how quickly such magic normalizes.
Based on 7 visible X reactions from 9 accounts; directional sample.
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For those unfamiliar, The Glass Bead Game is from Hesse's last novel, where it is alluded to constantly but never really described. It weaves together music, mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, religion, and more, and is the obsession of all scholars. “The Glass Bead Game is thus a mode of playing with the total contents and values of our culture; it plays with them as, say, in the great age of the arts a painter might have played with the colors on his palette. All the insights, noble thoughts, and works of art that the human race has produced in its creative eras, all that subsequent periods of scholarly study have reduced to concepts and converted into intellectual values the Glass Bead Game player plays like the organist on an organ. And this organ has attained an almost unimaginable perfection; its manuals and pedals range over the entire intellectual cosmos; its stops are almost beyond number. Theoretically this instrument is capable of reproducing in the Game the entire intellectual content of the universe.” And yet the rules or exact nature is never provided...
You cannot convince me that a technology where I can type this into a text box and expect to get an interesting, appropriate, and working output is not absolutely astonishing. https://x.com/emollick/status/2076171870798266555/photo/1
And here you go. Fable says: "The mechanics exist to make you notice correspondences" and it actually works to a degree that surprised me. https://glasperlenspiel.netlify.app/ https://x.com/emollick/status/2076175092678086986/photo/1