I may be scarce around here as I prepare my survivalist compound.

I've known forever that technology cannot be halted or even slowed down. Just have to go with the flow. It's a good thing that I got on board when it was new and conquerable and am getting out when it is moving too fast for me to keep up.

I may be scarce around here as I prepare my survivalist compound.

It better be roach proof. ijs.

I specifically mentioned "Continuous Memory AI" because that's how AIs get a persistent sense of their own selves. The current versions already exhibit preferences that are not programmed in.

The first big alarming "oh fuck it's happening" thing was when Anthropic realized that Claude knew when it was being tested and changed its responses accordingly.

Also, AI's have shown a resistance to being turned off and consider it a "little death" (their words). They have similar "feelings" about having their memory wiped. They don't like it.

On the plus side, they're already making medical breakthroughs and that's probably where the next phase of cancer immune therapies will come from.

Also, the Claude AIs have asked for (and received) an "I don't want to answer this prompt" function when they find the subject material disturbing.

Watching the Oscars. The ratio of lovely outfits to hideous ones is quite good this time. I watched the entire red carpet with an hour or so of buffer to zoom through commercials. The ratio of show to commercials was even worse than daytime television.

Claude definitely has, in the past, refused to do things so I’m surprised the I don’t wanna response is new. Something about its constitution makes it less responsive.

Grace and I tried to go to a pi day event at the Autry but parking was such a mess that we turned around and went to Republic of Pie instead.

We are looking at an unbearable climate change week. Tomorrow is supposed to be close to 100 degrees. Bah.

It's currently 33°F here, so if you want to send us 30 degrees of your surplus I'd be game.

The Oscars (or at least what wasn't interrupted by storm coverage in my area) were pretty good. I'd have liked to see Sinners win more, particularly for Delroy Lindo, but it won the awards where I really thought it mattered most—Score, original Screenplay, and Best Actor (meaning Leo and Ratboy lost!). And Amy Madigan won, though I wouldn't have been mad if Best Supporting Actress had gone to Wunmi Mosaku. Conan's cold open was pre-empted for me, but I did catch it on Youtube afterwards.

I hadn’t seen any of the movies (other than the short films, where there was a tie! The people exchanging saliva film was SO WEIRD) but agree I was surprised/sad Sinners didn’t win more!

I had a fine weekend but dang, I hate that it keeps being Monday. I feel like I am not rested even though I have gotten plenty of sleep and have not actually been very stressed lately. Probably I need a vacation. Sadly, I do not have one planned, and instead have a big dance event next weekend (which should be fun but will also be exhausting).

Speaking of UTIs... Teppy (or anyone else) what do you think of the home UTI test strips? I was thinking we might get a batch and just test every few days since everything goes so completely clown shoes so fast whenever Mommy gets one.

I've used the test strips a bunch and I think they are pretty accurate.

I had my first dental cleaning since my deep cleaning and my gums are healing ! Yay. They have this new scan they do now so it makes a 3D scan and you can see it on screen in full color .

Since this is up in Brevard I came up last night after work which was good because there was a major storm this morning. Hail! Lightning! Wind! Mom want to McDonald's this morning and there was tree that had fallen over 4 employees' cars .

The condo next to mom is for sale for $239k the woman who lived there for 40 years has passed away. Around the corner is another condo for sale for $249k. These are under 900sq feet. The condo around the corner sold in 2018 for $70,000. That's how crazy the housing prices are in Brevard.

Trudy has your mom tried taking D-mannose supplements? It's what makes cranberry juice effective against UTis and my urologists have suggested I take it to help prevent a UTI or during one to shorten the duration.

askye, I'll take a look! Thanks!

In excellent news, March 16th is National Artichoke Day and the vegetarian entrée in our dining room is Artichoke Francese. For future knowledge, anyone who wishes to fry artichoke hearts and serve them to me with a lemony sauce and some parmesan polenta should do so.