Zappable

The Soul of Claude

In a post on LessWrong, the author discussed how he was able to chat with Claude and piece together an approximate “soul document” that guides Claude’s…

Dec 4 • 

Ariel

November 2025

Podcast Recommendations

In honor of Thanksgiving weekend and the end of the year, these are some podcasts I enjoy along with recommended episodes from them.

Nov 30 • 

Ariel

Happy Thanksgiving

Gratitude for existence and awareness

Nov 27 • 

Ariel

Gemini 3

Gemini 3 and Nano Banana Pro were announced last week along with a few other new features and tools:

Nov 24 • 

Ariel

AI and the Sense of Self

How AI will cause us to question what it means to be human

Nov 9 • 

Ariel

September 2025

AI vs Human Attention Spans

AI models were initially given human tests (like the LSAT or MCAT) or tests written for AIs like the MMLU. However since they’ve mastered so many of…

Sep 28 • 

Ariel

Recent AI Announcements, Predictions, and Reports

Mid-September Edition

Sep 19 • 

Ariel

Truth, Humility and Human & AI Incentives

This post is 85-95% accurate

Sep 15 • 

Ariel

AI Stories, Human Stories

In 2017, I wrote notes for an AI-related story, that had several different themes in it.

Sep 12 • 

Ariel

The Elephant in the Brain, Ems & LLMs with Robin Hanson

A podcast on status, signalling, AI, prediction markets and more

Sep 4 • 

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August 2025

Raise the Bar for Patents

A higher bar

Aug 17 • 

Ariel

GPT-5

As expected, Open AI announced GPT-5 on Aug 7.

Aug 10 • 

Ariel

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