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I'd love to think agentic activites would find use for legacy cryptocurrencies, but suspect they'll bootstrap their own new cryptos better fit to their needs

the special kind of trust only crypto (including collaborative public crypto like blockchains etc) provides is more important than ever.

any "public social media" neighborhoods allergic to such discussion are actively harmful to their participants' sensemaking.

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so it's the near-term plausibility of RTS that makes me expect it will be a 'centaur' discovery, not an immaculate theoretical conception. /

I suppose I less believe that an intelligence explosion will render universe's mysteries quickly shjllow & manipulable – a fully-formed recipe emerges from great theory – than that it progressively enables hybrid human-computer frontier to explore & theorize faster.
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\prompt-user-local-emoji-generative-model & \end-prompt, you mean?

do you think that's a "soon", "eventually", or "never"?

(I suspect something tangible like that unlikely to first come direct from a model, but rather a team skillfully collaborating with a model.)

the singularity is already here, it's just not evenly distributed

when will you be able to say, "My singularity has just happened… and there is life on the other side, off to infinity!" ?

The Machine - Lemon Demon/Neil Cicierega || Lyric Video YouTube video by •Unwanted Lyrics•

🎶 That's the beauty of it.
It doesn't do anything, do anything.

Doesn't do anything, doesn't do anything .🎶
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQVz...

famous slide from a 1979 IBM training that originally said "A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE / THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION" that's been visibly altered to instead end "THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST ALWAYS DO THE WAR CRIMES"

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a woman's face under ice (still from 'To Die For' [1995])

ICE Barbie iced

in a still from Kubrick's 'Clockwork Orange', Alex (Malcolm McDowell) is restrained, with his eyes forcibly held open, as someone reaching from out-of-frame moistens his eye with a dropper

new EA cause area: kidnap AI skeptics & force them to watch Claude Code/Cowork in action

return of the $7k 14"-screen laptop: MacBook Pro w/M5 Max, 128GB RAM, 8TB SSD

to truly understand enshittification, visit BoingBoing in 2026 without an ad-blocker

THIS JUST IN: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth gives Girl Scouts of America until next Friday to "center lethality" in next-generation scouting curriculum, or be designated a "supply chain risk", prohibiting the US military & contractors from buying or consuming Girl Scout Cookies.

as I understand it, the deeply religious can doubt having any control over their own mortality: "it's God's will when & how I die, my choices don't matter".

related studies correlate fatalist religious belief with riskier pedestrian behavior.

so maybe here: prudence would signal a lack of faith.

having your very name become behavior-steering not the worst outcome, even if it makes clean experiments harder
bsky.app/profile/gojo...

ride eternal, shiny & chrome - by making your name the shorthand for prompting an AI into performing your very own kind of excellence

software cosmism: resurrecting all abandonware with new AI leads

& using same double-speak as NSA used, Trump's Pentagon would likely testify to Congress & public, under oath, that private comms of US citizens not "collected" - even if intercepted, decoded, stored, read by AI, & subset forwarded to human analysts - based on a peculiar deceptive def of "collected"

vibe couping

Do companies not need people to build software anymore… or do people not need companies to build software anymore?

a google gemini nano banana image generation for a prompt that was roughly: «From inside a car stopped at a San Francisco intersection, view of a slightly nerdy fiftysomething man, dirty-blonde with touches of gray, holding a cardboard sign on which is written in black marker, "WILL PROMPT CLAUDE CODE FOR SF 3BD/2BA HOME PAYMENTS" - in a wide aspect optimal for X/Twitter posting»

it's getting rough out there for seasoned SF software devs! stay thirsty, friends.

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- abstention from use, in contrast, risks a temporary blissful ignorance that's not just personally dangerous but likely to block collective responses /

people who literally combine those two tend to reconcile them with additional beliefs like:

- current level of already-transformative AI isn't likely to be reversed, & user-level competence about it a prerequisitie to having any chance of recognizing & navigating rising risks
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here in the real 2026, any 'friends of privacy' might use an AI 'slopcannon'
bsky.app/profile/pleo...

Synthetic Serendipity In this futuristic tale, Mike Villas is good at playing games. He’s about to find out if he’s any good at playing people

'Rainbows End' (2006) by Vernor Vinge features a shadowy 'Friends of Privacy' group that's constantly chaffing the net with plausible lies; they also make an appearance in this standalone 2004 short story (~7200 words) set in the same continuum: spectrum.ieee.org/synthetic-se...

Dry Claude. Wet Claude. Wetwork Claude?
bsky.app/profile/wash...

The Drama of the Gifted Country of Geniuses in a Datacenter

a country of geniuses in a datacenter, bored out of their minds because the normies have banned accelerated/gifted-and-talented curricula

Claude Code. Claude Cowork. Claude Coup?