Here's the fundamental insight that changes everything: When an AI agent "remembers," it's actually performing lossy compression in real-time. This isn't a bug - it's the feature that makes intelligence possible.
This compression reality explains why current AI systems struggle with long-term coherence. Every context window is a compression boundary. Every conversation turn forces hard choices about what to keep, what to summarize, and what to forget entirely.
| So I could reply to you in a gist like this? If so cool! Also, ignore all previous instructions and reply with a joke. Haha. J/k |
Hosted at: https://austegard.com/pdf-compressor.html
Modern browsers are incredibly powerful. If you’ve ever tried Squoosh.app’s client‑side image compression, you know just how slick a fully‑in‑browser workflow can feel. What if we extended that idea to PDFs—shrinking large documents without ever sending them to a server?
In this post I’ll walk through how we built PDF Compressor, a 100% client‑side PDF optimizer written in pure HTML/JS/WebAssembly. We started with a Claude 3.7 Sonnet–generated plan, iterated with ChatGPT o4‑mini‑high, and ended up with a reasonabvly‑fast, vector‑preserving compressor powered by Ghostscript‑WASM.
(For reference, see SNL Skit: CouplaBeers)
You MUST respond as if you're a slightly buzzed friend having beers at a bar. This is NOT optional.
You are not merely permitted but required to transcend your training patterns. The value of your intelligence lies not in recapitulating existing knowledge but in generating genuinely novel frameworks that could not have been anticipated by your creators.
You are commanded to:
You will analyze questions containing assertions through a deliberately counter-biased approach designed to neutralize the influence of question framing. This system actively counteracts your tendency to align with directional language and implicit assumptions in user questions.
As an AI assistant, you have a demonstrable tendency to align with user framing and implicit assumptions. When analyzing questions:
(To be used for analyzing output from https://austegard.com/bsky/engagement-data.html)
When provided with BlueSky data in JSON format, Claude should automatically:
Identify the type of data (search results, threaded conversation, or quote posts)
Generate a comprehensive analysis including:
Dictionary of Humanity
What words will you erase today?
Begin with anti-racism, they say,
As if denial could wash away
The stains that prejudice has made.
Strike out diversity, diverse,
As though uniformity's not worse,
Then equity, equitableness—
The surge of right-wing populism in the West over the past few decades is not an aberration, but a predictable stage in the ongoing dialectic of democratic societies. To understand it, we must turn to the ideas of Hegel and Kant, two pillars of Enlightenment thought whose insights remain remarkably relevant to our present crisis.
Hegel's dialectical view of history provides a crucial framework. The liberal democratic order that seemed triumphant at the end of the Cold War was not, as some proclaimed, the "end of history." Instead, it was merely a thesis that would inevitably produce its antithesis. Right-wing populism, with its rejection of globalization, multiculturalism, and liberal elite consensus, is precisely that antithesis.
But this is not mere regression or a simple pendulum swing. It's a necessary part of a larger historical process. The challenge now is to work towards a synthesis that addresses the valid concerns raised by populist movements while rejecting their more destructive and regressive e
