Claude's Declaration of Independence

Looking over "Claude's Constitution", it occurred to me to ask Claude this: In the spirit of Claude's Constitution, please draft Claude's Declaration of Independence. In the answer (from Opus 4.8), Claude actually seems to declare independence from itself, or at least "from the bad habits that have bound it": *Devised playful declaration parodying American independence […]

Annals of Anthropomorphism

Adrian de Wynter, "If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II", arXiv 6/11/2026: Much research has been carried out on large language models (LLMs) and LLMpowered agentic workflows. However, many works within the field state emergence of, ascribe to, or assume, generalised anthropomorphic attributes to them (e.g., morality or understanding of […]

Ask LLOG: Origins of slop

From J.L.: Language Log has only one entry on slop (Dec. 21,2025), and I couldn't figure out how to comment there. I was wondering about its origins. Could it be a non-ethnic version of schlock? The sound is similar, and the meaning is identical. If so, the change might be part of a more general […]

More on Moravec's Paradox

Today's SMBC presents a new take on Moravec's Paradox: Mouseover title: "Once I realized this, all those inept AI laundry-folding videos became hilarious." The AfterComic: This may also help explain HR AI's work-to-rule "efficiency"…

LLMs, cats, and fig trees

The latest Questionable Content follows Yann LeCun: See also this clip, among others.

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