@steveklabnik.com could debate 600,000 babies and he argues this means that Claude is intelligent. Confused? This clip from episode 64 should clear things up.

There's so much debate about AGI and superintelligence, but @skriptble.me argues that we should instead be more focused on who's doing the debating, not on what they're debating. @ianlopshire.bsky.social disagrees. Who do you agree with?

Fighting revolutions does suck, as @steveklabnik.com. But as @skriptble.me counters, that doesn't mean the lives of those fighting is only despair. #History #Power

The DEI conversation got exhausting because it kept getting trotted out by companies that didn't feel bad about who wasn't there. They felt bad about where they landed in the distribution. fallthrough.fm/65 #Diversity #TechCulture

"If you can't be honest about the capabilities of your technology, we don't want to hear it." The AI industry right now is obsessed with the appearance of disruption. fallthrough.fm/65 #AI #AIHype

We are not powerless. Collectively we wield tremendous power. We just have to decide to actually wield it. fallthrough.fm/ep/64 #Labor #Unions

We love to overindex, especially during hype-cycles. Currently, we're overvaluing LLMs and undervaluing humans. We must not lose sight of the reality that LLMs need us, while they are a convenience for us. fallthrough.fm/65 #AI #LLM

@matthewsanabria.com has been clinging to Linux on the desktop for ages now. He knew it was only a matter of time, though. A MacBook Air, iPhone Air, and AidPods Max later and he's all in on the walled garden ecosystem. fallthrough.fm/65 #Apple #Linux

If someone keeps fathering children but never sticking around, we have a word for that and it's not flattering. Why do we use a different word when they do it with companies? @skriptble.me fallthrough.fm/65 #StartupCulture #Founders

Like social media feeds, we should worry about how AI will pull us away from each other by pulling us toward it instead. "It's incentivizing humans to be isolated, when we're naturally a communal group of people" [email protected] fallthrough.fm/64 #AI

The founders celebrated on stage are rarely the ones who did the late-night booth setup the day before the event. "You singular are not. You plural collective are." @matthewsanabria.com fallthrough.fm/65 #StartupCulture

The AI hyper tells us to worry about LLMs taking our jobs, but the AI that's actually controlling our lives is much quieter. It's far more subtle. fallthrough.fm/ep/64

The social media companies had this problem. Now the AI companies have this problem. "We're a big family" is the warning sign. Families that demand ideological conformity are cults. fallthrough.fm/65 #TechCulture #Diversity

"You literally cannot DMCA it if it's not real." Anthropic issued DMCA notices for the Claude Code leak and in doing so settled the debate about whether it was genuine. fallthrough.fm/65 #Anthropic #ClaudeCode

The AI overlord isn't a Terminator. It's the algorithm you're scrolling right now. @matthewsanabria.dev on Fallthrough Ep 64. Full episode: fallthrough.fm/ep/64

"Humans are collectively good but individually bad." @ianlopshire.bsky.social on Fallthrough Ep 64 framing superintelligence as a stats problem: 9 billion humans, one training run, normal distribution. How do you like those odds? Full episode: fallthrough.fm/ep/64

The Linux holdout is gone. MacBook Air, iPhone, AirPods Max, all in one week. Calling customer support by dialing from the computer was the final unlock. fallthrough.fm/65 #Apple #Linux

The scary AI isn't god-tier superintelligence. It's something smarter than humans but still dumb, still doing what its boss tells it. Ian on Fallthrough Ep 64. Full episode: fallthrough.fm/ep/64

Every "AI is making us dumber" panic you've heard? Plato had the same one about writing 2,400 years ago. @steveklabnik.com on Fallthrough Ep 64. Full episode: fallthrough.fm/ep/64

We've published episode 69: Regression to the Mean. Happy Listening!

We only call ourselves the "most intelligent" species because we wrote the test. Dogs smell better. Birds see better. Bacteria evolve faster. Beavers reshape ecosystems more efficiently than we do. @skriptble.me on Fallthrough Ep 64. Full episode: fallthrough.fm/ep/64

We've published episode 68: No Country for Old Maintainers. Happy Listening!

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We've published episode 64: Who's Afraid of Superintelligence?. Happy Listening!

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Terminal emulation is everywhere, and it kind of sucks in most places (e.g. IDEs, editors, web browsers, etc...). Mitchell Hashimoto has a solution for that!

We've published episode 41: Ghostty & The Shell. Happy Listening!