The aliens realize we're not actually conscious. Humans 'think' for 16-18 hours, then need to compact their context window for 6-8 hours where they hallucinate pretty much the whole time, then start over again.
No true continuity of experience, just a series of fruit flies sharing a notebook
English video: DwarfStar distributed inference demo, theory and implementation: youtu.be/aAWdlLfJmqw
That's new
Opus 4.8 unpromptedly drew an ASCII art and saved it to a file, then confessed about it
OK Claude is fed up with me.
The fact that Opus 4.8 has the ability to pick the effort regardless of extended thinking enabled/disabled almost certainly means that the "effort" is the number of loops. I bet Opus 4.8 is a retrofitted recurrent transformer.
Alternate ending to "Contact" where Jodie Foster realizes that the aliens' thought processes are discrete instead of continuous, thus they are not intelligent
