1) courts have ruled that anything purely created by a machine can’t be copyrighted 2) newest AI models are increasingly being written by the newer models 3) they were all created by massive copyright infringement All AI should in the public domain, it’s not piracy, it’s our moral duty.

I've decided to write up a few things that I have been thinking about on hexagons and maps.. again: blog.vandesande.design/a-defense-of...

Maduro is a terrible dictator and the Chaves regime destroyed Venezuela, but as a South American, I can tell you I can't think of a better propaganda for them than an American president saying they will go to war and take their oil. It's as if their main boogeyman made a speech confirming it exists.

Sometimes I go to the other site because there’s i get a lot more replies. But then in a few minutes I am reminded why I left it.

What I love about the drake equation is that it includes all main branches of knowledge in a single fundamental question. It’s basically: Physics x chemistry x biology x anthropology x history x tech = are we alone?

So Netflix did become HBO faster than HBO could become them in the end.

Re-read The Hobbit for the first time since high school and I’m like WTF? So (SPOILER) they just walk for 90% of the book, with no provisions, decent weapons or even a plan and then in the end a random guy just shoots the dragon and they weren’t even there?!

Proposal 32 has been put forth, to donate 13.7 ETH (over $45k) to Build Guidl. It will be ready to be executed Friday, November 14, when it will be open to be executed by anyone.

Who would win in a fight: one Tesla Optimus versus one hundred cheap drones. Both are allowed to use any weapon they can carry. This isn’t a hypothetical, it’s going to be a real scenario someday and it’s another reason anthropomorphic robots is a dumb idea.

Adobe: that's not what it means to "update" an app on my computer.

I don’t understand how Apple giving $1B per year to google for renting is better than them buying a few billion of anthropic and owning the models outright.

People who think the super rich are also super intelligent or super productive hasn’t met a wealthy person in their life.

It’s funny that in the last few years the word “liberal” in the US converged again to the same meaning as in Europe. Republicans are now the protectionist-interventionists, while Democrats are the free-trade neoliberals, such that no Bush era policy would feel out of place in their platform.

I wouldn’t say I’m becoming more conservative with age but, as an eternal optimist, I’ve noticed I’m slowly moving more from “let’s try to make the world better” mode into “let’s try to make the world not worse” mode.

Flying cars dreams were never about the flying but about cars. People don’t want tiny helicopters, they wanted the suburbs and highways urbanism but without having to think about the infrastructure needed or the harms caused on the ground.

Taylor didn’t discover a hack to avoid social media. We all used to have hobbies and then Zuck & Co figured how to have us give all that up on them and replace with dumbscrolling.

Found some comics I drew in 2021, during lockdown. Always liked the text but didn't like how the art came out. They were satirical jokes on tropes from fantasy, sci-fi and super hero movies.

I'm surprised Polymarket doesn't present these different markets in a single unified and custom made interface. Maps showing expectations for the wars, a single bar chart with market expectations about the FED or Bitcoin, etc

I was lucky to see an advance screening of Code is Law, featuring interviews with Griff, Christoph, Fabien and others. It's a really good snapshot of The DAO hack, the Indexed Finance and Kyberswap. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhYy...

Of the 10 years Ulisses spent coming home from the Odissey, only 2 were in actual tribulations. The other 8 years were spent having sex with an Enchantress and then a Nymph. A prisoner, he claimed. Yeah sure dude, we believe you.

Started reading a great book about Zeno’s paradox, but I don’t think I’ll ever be able to finish it.

my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls

My kids discovered the perfect RPS 5-variant: it’s rock, papers, scissors, dinosaur and astronaut. Dinosaur eats astronaut. Astronaut lands on rock. Rock killed the dinosaurs. Astronaut uses scissors. Scissors stabs dinosaur. Dinosaur eats paper. Astronaut program cancelled by paperwork.

I wish more men understood that just like evolution tricked us in having sex by adding tons of sensory receptors in weird parts, so it has done with child-raising. Seeing your offspring growing up healthy releases all sorts of life satisfaction chemicals in our brain.

This is what happens when engineers main worry is to not the product, but to make the boss happy.

Yet another proof American companies don’t understand being multilingual is not about switching the one language, but speaking many languages at the same time in different contexts.

Apple already has its “post iPhone” platform. It’s Apple Watch + AirPods. But it has to have a proper AI for it to work and whatever it has now is not that. They’re skating towards where the puck was last year.

"I can't stand my useless husband, so why would anyone else ever want theirs to be a real father?" www.spectator.co.uk/article/plea...

Asked Apple intelligence a simple question. It responded by calling my sister in law for some reason (I guess her name vaguely sounds a word I said?). Apple is furiously skating where the puck used to be a few years ago.

It’s not that I don’t believe in the possibility of a future artificial super intelligence. I don’t believe in super intelligence. There’s no such thing. IQ is a dumb myth. We’re not that much smarter than apes, we just figured out how to retain ideas over generations.

Gay sin paradox: homosexuality is a modern phenomenon but also it’s explicitly mentioned multiple times in our five thousand year old book.

I used to joke, long before having kids, that one day we would be all old bigots complaining "NO DAUGHTER OF MINE IS DATING A ROBOT!" It used to be a joke on the inevitable progress of social norms, not a prediction of the current reactionary dystopia we are living.

Europe’s choice is clear. To put science at the heart of its economy. To become the home of scientific freedom and collaboration. And to welcome talent from all over the world. I’m glad to present the first elements of our Choose Europe Initiative. → europa.eu/!TTbWbJ

My kid just referred to “The Wizard of Oz” as “Wicked 2” and I think that’s wonderful.

If instead of developing the perfect humanoid robot, we focused on making sure our society is accessible by smaller legged or wheeled robots, you know who else would benefit? Everybody. Kids, small people, wheelchair users, parents with strollers, prosthetics users, etc etc.

This is the shit Black Mirror S7 should be talking about and instead they ask “but what if AI knows it’s an AI?” a thousand times.

@iwriteok.bsky.social just binge listened the four zizian episodes + the other two on AI cults. That should be a book + Netflix show. Great work!

Been obsessed with this podcast about the Zizians lately. I've always felt that the AI-god stuff was basically christianity reinvented for rationalists, but had no idea there were already six people dead because of the Roko's Basilisk. open.spotify.com/episode/4QEm...

It’s true.

@gruber.foo Your post comparing ChatGPT to Siri reminded me of this classic from dilbert (way back when Adam Scott wasn’t an ass)

In a fair world that cares about science, James Web finding a biosignature would be the biggest story of the century www.npr.org/2025/04/16/n...

I think I'd be read to ditch my phone for a ChatGPT only device. Something that can replace an Alexa when standing on a kitchen table, but also can be carried in a pocket, take a look at your surroundings, send emails, do scheduled tasks, program its own little widgets etc

Checking some tools for tax reporting... uh, apparently I have 10 quadrillion dollars in "USD"?

Technically speaking, zombies, vampires and most undead are very much alive by any reasonable definition of “life”.

this is a good post and "decadence" is a good way to think about a lot of things. true decadence is, eg, thinking you could let an insurrection go unpunished and the country would just keep chugging along nbd

I made this helpful chart which I hope can clarify some questions about common Trans questions by either they're complicated or not.

Something very weird about the show white movie that nobody is talking about is that they have an actual dwarf on the cast, and it interacts with the CGI dwarves and it’s just unsettling. I guess they were trying to make the point that the seven dwarves are magical creatures but it makes it worse.

Severance makes a good point that maybe allowing big corporations to remotely control our brains isn't a great idea.

When you accidentally do the right thing for the completely wrong reasons.