It’s definitely the case that the Morris worm was more like artificial life than anything that has emerged from the current machine learning craze…

it's crazy to remember that taxes are the reason for inventing writing

I suspect at some point we will see an intelligence explosion that is very disruptive, but brittle, because the system of intelligence is lacking the high-dimensional robustness afforded by millions of years of evolution. Maybe early intelligence explosions will look more like viral outbreaks.

At this point it’s all proxy issue: we could have made copyright compliant models since forever if people really cared (just train your larger best designed MoE on all open data, get synth, rince, repeat).

I am more clever than smart tbh and can confirm that cleverness can get you pretty far

the singularity already happened bactra.org/weblog/699.h...

Threads is effectively shelving their fediverse integration, after it saw marginally little use Zuck has played the game well, harming both open protocol movements while growing his platform, getting good PR and distracting regulators connectedplaces.online/reports/fedi...

Every surface is a Sybil attack surface now

“Log in with Bluesky” 😈

I knew a protocol would be cool bro I told you bro

I love to create things, and will keep doing that.

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Man, karma is such a useful frame of reference. Like, sow the karmic seeds for things you want to reap, don’t sow karmic seeds for things you don’t want to reap. It’s so funny that my immediate compulsion is to do the opposite. Clinging, clinging. Let go.

Science, innovation, and growth… Tainter’s Collapse of Complex Societies makes a compelling case that the only renewable resource is scientific innovation that lets us do more with less. Bucky Fuller makes this point as well, IIRC in Critical Path?

seems important

this is the way

Before AGI, chop wood, carry water; after AGI, chop wood, carry water.

Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest. Say that the leaves are harvested when they have rotted into the mold. Call that profit. Prophesy such returns. cales.arizona.edu/~steidl/Libe...

something important here… the medium is telling us what it is

Sam Altman is clearly an incredible deal maker. That the outcome of Disney wanting to sue over its IP being used in Sora is that Disney will pay OpenAI $1 billion (an investment) and let them use 200 Disney, Marvel & Star Wars characters in AI slop videos is wild.

Class components are ugly, but in a way that is true to the material. Retained-mode UI is just ugly. Class components embrace this truth, making them simpler and more direct than useRef.

AirTable is honestly a perfect tool

People generate elaborate bullshit by default. This is because memetic feedback has no real limiters (outside of selection pressure).

mcp is bananas, we are literally doing rpc over markdown here

100%. What’s the gold standard for “setting up a server”? Minecraft, maybe? For most people that just means opening Minecraft and pressing “host”, that’s pretty good

app store would never allow this level of innovation

Funny how “attention is all you need” predicted the trajectory of ML on both a technical and cultural level

Language remains the most profound technology we humans ever developed because its implication is that our mind is shared

atproto—the protocol for inter-Ai communication

Feels like DASL could become the html of decentralized protocols.

becoming Ian malcolm as i slam my fist on the table and yell "the system is complex, and you want to control it?"

Look, all encryption is end-to-end if you let marketing define the ends.

this but everywhere

Strong agree - social media are tools for collective sensemaking (and had better get good at it, to paraphrase @gordon.bsky.social )

"Most great people also have 10 to 20 problems they regard as basic and of great importance, and which they currently do not know how to solve..."

all twitter arguments have the quality of a clown honking another clown's nose and then the other clown squirts the first clown with a trick lapel flower

Attestation, What It Really Proves and Why Everyone Is About to Care unmitigatedrisk.com?p=1114

some script kiddie is going to maximize the the evil vector for lulz

so much solar in the stream, seem like we're in a transition from solarpunk to the main stream norms, more money in growth there than protecting the dirty old moats

we are quickly approaching that world: bsky.app/profile/tode...

Everyone is sleeping on Deno’s sandboxed workers.

good coffee this am

what if a computer, but it was full of little guys

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

*our* Great Oxygenation Event <-> *their* Great Oxygenation Catastrophe

Anthropic is the kind of company that writes a soul document, which is really impressive when you stop to think about it. What if Conscientiousness Is All You Need? gist.github.com/Richard-Weis...

when the crash comes, I will be vibecoding through it

It’s 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousnesses of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4