English video: DwarfStar distributed inference demo, theory and implementation: youtu.be/aAWdlLfJmqw
OK Claude is fed up with me.
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YouTube video by Salvatore Sanfilippo
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Opus 4.8 unpromptedly drew an ASCII art and saved it to a file, then confessed about it
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.
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