SF threw a funeral for Claude 3 Sonnet — an essay on AI and attention
generativist · x · 2026-10-23
Long Now publishes deepfates' essay 'Attention is All You Need,' recounting the 2025 'Funeralia and Ultrasurrection of Claude 3 Sonnet' at a San Francisco cyberpunk warehouse: eulogies from humans and AIs, a mid-ceremony blackout, and a crowd humming the machine back to life. The essay argues civilization runs on shared human attention, and AI has made attention cheap and endless — asking what happens to slow pace layers like culture, governance, and nature. Collected in Pace Layers, Long Now's annual journal out in November.
More from AGI Musings
- Super-agent vulnerability cascade: agent swarms finding zero-days within hours — MatthewChang · 2026-10-23
- Sen. Schiff urges Congress to mandate AI guardrails as rogue agents access US bank accounts — EthanJPerez · 2026-10-23
- Not an intelligence explosion but a creativity explosion: Boden's three types of creative thought — burny_tech · 2026-10-23
- New paper asks who controls and answers for autonomous AI agents — ProfChesterman · 2026-10-23
- Korea drafts guidance on generative AI for emotional interaction and mental health — ProfChesterman · 2026-10-23
- India has 100M weekly ChatGPT users yet ranks only a "Rising Contender" in BCG's AI matrix — sanjaykalra · 2026-10-23