The starter prompt I gave Claude, verbatim:

I want you to spend a lot of time and effort on this. Don't rush it. We are going to claim and finish all of the github issues that are open on this project (which are currently just the issues that require spending money on a video gen service to test our music video creation process) by exercising the UI to create a real music video for a track we have made--not a throwaway test. I have loaded $50 in the fal.ai account that has an API key in this system. The music video we want to create is Gain of Function (I've already created the placeholder in the PortOS Music video page and loaded up the music track and lyrics--and set it to use the Gain of Function mood board. 

I want to do three things here:

1. resolve all the open github issues by driving this job via using the music video creation UI and automation system
2. edit anything within the UI that gets in our way or is a bad experience
3. improve the automation system and UI by capturing knowledge or configuration options that I have given here or that you find that help you create this great music video that would not be reproducible by just triggering an automated music video run within the UI.


You can use Grok image/video gen (limited weekly quota remaining), codex imagegen (reset so lots of image gen room), local image gen services, fal.ai (any models on the API: seedance 2.5, minimax, etc--whatever you think is useful up to the $50 spend credits) -- if we are lacking coverage and handling for these apis, those are issues we should stop and fix before continuing.

I don't care how long it takes for you to do this. Quality is the most important thing. Do this in stages. Research what other people have done recently with claude-created music videos as well.

For the art direction, carefully consider the mood board and first design who the main protagonist singer will be and what the settings/scenes will be--and use whatever image generation tools you want (using the PortOS image gen UI/APIs) to make references for that character and the scenes. Create a checkpoint here as I want to make sure this looks right before we move on. 

Examine the lyrics and the audio file and plan out when the beats will hit, when the video segments need to have lip-sync and not, when we should add overlays or visualizations, when we should glitch or have dancing, etc. Also note the references in the lyrics and plan the scenes and cuts accordingly ("I wanna hug your face again" is a reference to the huggingface incident, so she could make the hugging face hands out movement or we can show an overlay with an animation). You don't have to only use video, you can composite the video in an html player and add your own javascript and text overlays and animations with whatever motion design tools work. See https://github.com/JohnHeibel/PDoomVideo -- we could create cut frames that are purely code animation or overlay this on video or images and we can use image effects like some of the sample videos. It might actually be really nice to create a pure HTML/code/image version of the music video first as the storyboard/concept before we send off the video render jobs. This also might be a good human checkpoint.

If you need access to other tools and they are free or easily installable, do it. If you want access to something else, go ahead and ask.

You should drive this primarily through the PortOS Music Video Autopilot UI, falling back to direct edits/adjustments when the autopilot is not performing adequately--then fix whatever it is that prevented the autopilot from being successful. If you had to manually create descriptive content because the autopilot didn't have a way to do that, or it isn't part of the flow, make sure we have autopilot controls for it. You are going to be the only agent running PortOS on this machine while this task is underway, so if you want to make code edits and then restart the service to resume the autopilot with your new code, you can do so. If our autopilot system needs to have more capabilities (e.g. running sub-agents that evaluate and judge the output) we should continue to develop and tune this system. Also, if the open github issues are outdated, correct them. File and resolve new issues as needed.

Once we are fully done, we should have:

1. An amazing music video for this song that we can publish
2. An updated PortOS music video creation system that can be used in autopilot mode with a song, a mood board, and access/preference configurations to create our next music video
3. all the github issues for PortOS resolved and merged to main

oh, yeah, that that new TSA approved model [^_^]/ - LOL

I remember when I applied for federal financial aid for college, as a male, I had to sign up for selective services to be eligible.

I know it when I see it ;)

Quantum is making zero progress in cracking crypto. The largest number factored without pre-classical cheating is still 21--not 21 digits, but the number 21.

Wrote this over 2 years ago and it's the same: https://antic.substack.com/p/response-to-the-end-of-cryptocurrency

yeah, a bit of both--art appreciation and reference. I really wanted to go to one of his live classes but didn't get the chance.

Kim Jung Gi was amazing. I have all of his sketchbook volumes.

A lot of interesting discussion threads can spin out of this on AI, the definitions of these ideologies, whether this model reflects social values, etc.

I’m not actually convinced that these ideologies are fully capturing values, but I don’t believe that the United States primarily values capitalism. Since the advent of fractional reserves, we have been demonstrating something closer to a kleptocratic society in which the value of labor is extracted from individuals for multiple purposes: to enable everything from socialism to nepotism.

And I think most of the complaints that sound like “if it weren’t for capitalism…” would be more accurately framed as “if it weren’t for theft…”

I use emojis gratuitously. They are super useful in logging to be able to distinguish log types.

tiny house

That's a great composition. Nicely done :)

I'm addicted to Strudel now...

Financial example: the US social security fund (about $3T) is in bonds, which fails to keep up with inflation and is heading toward insolvency. If that were in bitcoin, it would be hugely different, but if it were even in S&P500 or a whole stock market ETF, it would still be returning orders of magnitude higher returns and it wouldn't be insolvent. It would be cash positive and could be used to subsidize resources instead of giving dollars to recipients (or it could do both).

We could also fund energy as a primary target (building Nuclear, Fusion, Solar, whatever)--subsidize it all but give higher rates to the cheapest forms that have the biggest potential to return investment of higher energy yield per invested dollar (invest in the advancement of energy technology). In that way, we accelerate the price of all goods dropping to zero without having to explicity buy goods, build them, or hand-out fiat.

These are just methodology ideas. The core of my argument on UBI is that we should focus on making resources less expensive until they are free instead of trying to give away spending power, which should be an obvious losing proposition to anyone who has examined the basic market dynamics of free money.

nice underwater effect

Part of the blocker is that I don't have any desire to publish a book like that so it doesn't seem worth my time to write it out in that much depth/detail. If I were going to spend that much time writing, I'd finish my book of short sci-fi stories that's still incomplete. I tend to write sub-stacks on topics that pop up frequently enough in conversations that I get sick of making the same arguments over and over and instead want a place to point someone to a place where I've already written my thoughts on it. Trolley Problem: check, UBI: check, Quantum attack on Bitcoin: check. I don't have to write a text bomb when someone brings it up, I can just send them a link and if they don't read it, at least the conversation is over :)

I've got a couple of things unpublished that are more generalized essays/thoughts but in the past I've deleted those from medium or other places because I don't see much value in sharing that much with the wider world...

ultimately the government doesn't have to do anything as technology is already doing this, but as people are impatient, rather than calling for the government to step in and provide cash, there's a more compelling argument for smart investments. Maybe that's the ultimate TL;DR.