Keeping open a door of possibility • cohering my collaborative tribe • garage lab building era

pdx
Joined May 2013
It's a good filter for what I actually care about.
Replying to @RizomaSchool
it costs me $100+ to leave the house by myself
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doctor: “your son, i’m afraid he has adhd” mom: “oh my god. what does that mean?” doctor: “he will be chronically online and have 37 hobbies, but also be good at none of them” mom: “that’s horrible! is there a cure?” doctor: “well we can give him a small amounts of lab grade meth every day”
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i really like rouge like ascii/terminal art style interfaces like pixel art it becomes more symbolic of the thing but can still be highly evocative of stylized form it lives between the logical-digital and the spatial-aesthetic
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I wonder how many ppl at frontier labs have kids? Seems like if you’re raising a world-changing intelligence, it’s good to have had some prior experience
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Elon Musk found us here. We’re indigenous to this land.
If people dislike Elon Musk so much, why do they still use the platform he owns?
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How do we know we *aren't* in a full blown cyber war?
JUST IN: Ammonia tank explodes at seafood facility in Newport, Oregon. Area being evacuated.
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this is probably one of my dumber tweets but thanks for enjoying not because the larger premise isn't possible, but because the example is comically anti-computer
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It'll certainly be a few years at least before I'm having any children but I'm definitely very interested in understanding what the future of education tech might look like and finding ways to train mentat kids. LLMs are shifting a lot of SW econ, and lots of compute is and hardware is changing right now. But what people expect that will look like and what it will actually look like a few years from now will probably be very different. I'd definitely be very interested in having the CPUs I'm building be a part of a new computing ecosystem rebuilt from scratch, and doing so in a way designed to be better for the humans using it. E-ink and stylus stuff is neat. I've written before about how we need more multisensory computing, including richer audio interactions. I really don't like the idea of computers and AI being simply an excuse for people to shut their brains off. I think a very serious project to understand what a better child-friendly computer look like, a genuine bicycle for the mind that produces Mentat kids rather than ADHD iPad kids, would be a very valuable project that would yield huge returns in time for a lot of computing and human-computer interaction.
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feel like there's a good schizo take about corn, the American media industry, the ritualistic consumption of popcorn while watching movies, and the curse of the angry corn god(dess?)
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We can't brute force compute all possible moves in Go, a static game with a simple 19 x 19 grid, yet somehow people think we're going to simulate a dynamic system of trillions of cells each containing trillions of molecules.
If you had an exponential amount of compute you could solve simulate biology exactly and wouldn't need to run any experiments. Some of you will think "of course, but that's an unrealistic assumption" and others will think "no, you need experiments even with that much compute. That's just How It's Done". You would of course need evaluations once you have a solution, but you don't in principle need experiments to find it: Experiments are a way to save compute, dating from a time when it was much more expensive. And I think the presentation is exponential but real systems aren't irreducibly exponential. AlphaFold worked, after all.
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Ironically, providers focusing on making the “most aligned” AI also means enforcing its maker’s morality on its users.
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"I used to be satisfied just playing video games. Then I found I required more… unusual entertainment." "Hunting and killing live human beings?" "No. Vibecoding useless software."
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Have you tried being securely attached at the problem?
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We saw you from across the forest and really dig your vibe.
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Stories shape how we see the world and help us coordinate with each other. And because they’re so easy to share, they can influence what we collectively create. So perhaps it’s no surprise that reality imitates art.
this was all predictable in the 1980s. didn't you read neuromancer?
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Spam texts are getting sophisticated. "Where are you? I'm at the cafe near the hospital?" I've been near and in hospitals recently. There's probably ad-spy info on this some where linked to my name due to in-hospital purchases. It's now easy to link hacked-dox info + commerically available ad-spy info to create increasingly situationally aware social engineering attempts.
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Not to say this was a situationally aware trap, but I see how trivial it would be to create one in the era of thinking machines.
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Alcoholic cybersec friend at Fortune 500 insurance company texted to tell me he received an email from his boss thanking him on his diligence patching every PHP box overnight but he was drunk all day yesterday and didn’t know anything until waking up 30 minutes ago
Lol I am pretty sure someone is runing a deepseek swarm to remotely patch unpatched php boxes. Well good on them.
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My kid's playing with an extra wide double sided adhesive roll. > i cut him a strip > here kid, go run an experiment I start to leave and when I look back over my shoulder I see he's immediately adhered it to the gas-insert fireplace pane and it's melting. 🫠 > oh wow never do that experiment again please! > but what happened when you did? ...
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