“How rare to be born a human being!”
We are so lucky to have evolved the level of intelligence that we did. Our species is so incredibly fortunate. I hope we don’t blow it!
This is *the* book on that topic. It goes very deep into the motivations and moral struggles of the physicists involved. It is one of the best history books ever written, in my opinion.
predictions are worthless until acted upon
Iiinteresting... LGPL library copied by pointing AI to the project’s test suite. Relicensed as MIT.
Free Software is definitely a religion, but I agree. Open Protocolism needs to graduate into a broader ideological stance. Protocols are network society's version of Weberian bureaucracy. Weber++
I am convinced we are on the verge of the first "AI agent worm". This looks like the closest hint of it, though it isn't it quite itself: an attack on a PR agent that got it to set up to install openclaw with full access on 4k machines grith.ai/blog/clineje...
This also explains the scaling advantages of the modern state (impersonal, bureaucratic) vs patrimonialism (personal loyalty networks).
Evolutionary selection pressure toward the emergence of Big Gods/Big Ideology.
principled actors can coordinate acausally, while actors that merely align based on loyalty must negotiate
“DART was the first hypervelocity impact experiment on an asteroid at size and velocity scales relevant to planetary defence, intended to validate kinetic impact as a means of asteroid deflection. DART kinetic impact was highly effective in deflecting the asteroid Dimorphos.”
Use git-annex to manage sample library (does approximately this), and wish there were a nice GUI.
What I wish existed: tag files instead of placing in folders.
Impl like: files stored by hash, symlink human-readable names, tags displayed as folders... as a generalizable Finder-like view.
Is an intuitive understanding of nonlinear improvement even possible?
grateful to be alive in a time when we can reach out and touch other planets
"In a nonlinear world, what works in the short run may have the opposite consequences over the long-term."
I think this might be a general pattern we'll see repeated at the edges of the jagged frontier. Ai crosses a good-enough threshold, then...
How did AI disrupt your industry? "Slowly, then all at once."
exponents come at you fast
6mo ago: "riddle me this... if AI is so great then where are all the AI-generated pull requests?"
Now: "halp my open source project is being inundated by AI-generated pull requests!"
...as I was saying bsky.app/profile/nrem...
a technology’s disruptive potential is proportional to the amount of cope it generates
just realized that jupyter is probably dead as a concept. it's all md+scripts now.
Claude Code has HyperCard energy
Text models are all millennials, but video models are gen Z.
Skyreader now supports RSS reading from the command line!
npm install -g skyreader
then you can do cool things like:
skyreader feeds --all --json | jq '.feeds[].items[].title'
or
claude -p "summarize today's feeds using skyreader"
github.com/disnet/skyre...
The transition from unicellularity to multicellularity almost always dumbs down (reduces the variety of) individual cells.
In retrospect, this feels like a darkly obvious attractor for a network society. If we're all neurons in a network, then the network will want to condition us to fire reliably when poked. Gambling is a crude conditioning mechanism.
the synth guy singularity is near bsky.app/profile/bren...
Maybe last refuge for tactile interfaces.
ai may lead to an exponential increase in the number of synth guys
few will admit this
