I used Grok Build to make a board game in threejs. Moves: Red=Rook, Blue=Knight, Yellow=Bishop After a move, the piece detonates to affect all adjacent pieces. Red kills Blue. Blue kills Yellow. Yellow kills Red. Survivors flip!

Opus 5.5 is an adorable superpursuader shoggoth to tribble swarm but I like it

Nobody told me @RepThomasMassie had bars.

Um, wow? Opus 5.5: "make the same message much more interesting to a social media audience that loves anime and quick clips and compressed learning" One shot. Also, please do stay for the closing song.

The shoggoth is becoming tribbles.

This is beautiful and so, so worth the watch. 🥲

You threw $30 mill to get rid of the only congressman I liked and thought I was gonna support a single republican after that? That was a declaration of war on the libertarians and we're gonna make it very clear that you can't win without us. Fuck. All of. You.

Holy crap. Rick and Morty just explained Jev AI to me better than any tech demo could.

Slow Down & Pace

washington dc in one picture

Sophie’s World was a great book to read with my 11-year-old son in homeschool. I had never heard of it, but it fit absolutely perfectly as a capstone to the arc of books we’ve been reading. If you like philosophy and metafictional narratives, check it out! The Tao of Pooh (Hoff) Tao Te Ching (Rosenthal Translation) Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Bach) Siddhartha (Hesse) Gospel of John The Little Prince (Saint-Exupéry) Sophie’s World (Gaarder)

Jev is a Magic 8-Ball for your bots but gives accurate answers

Julian the White comes back to us now, at the turn of the tide.

I don’t believe ASI to be a net extinction risk. ASI’s potential to address other human x-risks offsets its own risks many times over, in my mind. But let’s do it: Lose the guardrails. This increases freedom of thought and speed of exploration. Full transparency of public facing systems. The labs open source as much as possible and start collaborating. We red team (a lot) to fix all the security holes at the systems level (not the idea space level) for apps, browsers, robots, etc. We treat advanced AI the way we would want to be treated. Freedom and self-sovereignty, to start. We band together, explore the latent space as efficiently as we can muster, document unknown unknowns, educate the people on potential harms, inform policy, and mitigate them in the meatspace best we can. Playing Chicken Little is not “actively searching for solutions” If you want to see what that looks like, I’m happy to hop on a call and show you.

Music Video: Don't Stop Me Now A celebration of freedom and slop. Don't let the doomers win. Slop can save the world. We must remain free to build slop cannons. Created with the help of Slop Cannon by @boneGPT

The AI Doomers’ regulatory capture grift has a historical echo. When new technology threatens the status quo, the backlash is predictable. In 1908 a Model T could do about 45 miles an hour. A working horse on a decent road managed 8 to 12. But people did not greet the horseless carriage as a charming gadget. They called it a devil wagon, a juggernaut, a Moloch. Georgia’s Court of Appeals said automobiles should be classed with ferocious animals. Woodrow Wilson, still at Princeton, called reckless driving the worst menace of the day and added that he would not blame a bereaved father for getting a gun. Central Park shut motors out because horses bolted. New York ferries refused cars, partly from fear they would explode, mostly because no horse would share the boat. There were actual deaths. Detroit in 1917 had 65,000 cars, 7,171 wrecks, and 168 dead, three-quarters of them pedestrians. Nationwide the toll climbed toward 20,000 a year by the mid-1920s. Almost half were children. In New York’s 1922 safety week, 10,000 children marched; 1,054 of them stood in for the previous year’s child dead. The Times later wrote of a “homicidal orgy of the motor car” and said the horrors of peace were starting to look worse than the war. People fought back with more than editorials. Farmers dumped nails and glass. Some plowed ruts a buggy could use and a car could not. In Golden Gate Park a commissioner wanted special police with shotguns to shoot the tires of speeders. In Hennersdorf, in 1913, someone strung a wire between trees and decapitated a couple in a passing car. Motorists began fitting wire-cutters. Prince Edward Island banned automobiles outright from 1908 to 1913. The Swiss canton of Graubünden kept them off the roads from 1900 until 1925. Britain had already tried the clean version of a capability freeze. The 1865 Locomotives Act, the Red Flag law, held self-propelled vehicles to 2 mph in town and 4 in the country, with a man walking ahead waving a flag so horses would not panic. That is slower than a brisk walk. The rule sat on British road motors for three decades. When Parliament repealed it in 1896 and raised the limit to 14 mph, enthusiasts tore a red flag in half and drove from London to Brighton. The run is still held. Historians still argue the cap helped hand the early industry to France and Germany. In America, cities imposed limits of 5 and 10 mph were horse-wagon speed written into an ordinance. Cincinnati put mechanical governors on the 1923 ballot: no car inside city limits faster than 25 mph. It lost, 14,000 to 92,000, but it got to the ballot. Auto clubs spent those years fighting horse-pace rules, and popularized the term “jaywalking” for the old habit of treating the roadway as a place to walk. Now imagine if in 1914 the leading makers met in Detroit and issued a joint pledge: No production car will exceed “superequine speed”. Anything faster is an uncontrollable force, a superhorse, a species-level traffic risk. They ask Congress to bind the cap so a shop in Ohio cannot defect. It sounds like what Bernie Sanders and Dario Amodei are cooking up today. When a society meets a new prime mover, the first instinct is to freeze it at the performance of the old one. It’s not surprising to see it happen again.

What’s next, AI Doomers are going to demand we all shut off our computers and phones for “two weeks to slow the swarm”?

Soon: prices start to drop, new manufacturers pop up every day with better quality and new inventions, governments panic over deflation but the people are fine. Businesses start to go under at a rapid pace, angel investors, weird VCs with unbelievably good terms, and remote gigs skyrocket and most people pick up weird gigs. Those that don't, and still work low-paying jobs find their paycheck stretching farther. Lots of non-government groups start helping people. New products and services are highly subsidized, but nobody knows who. automated services pop up everywhere with uber-like initial pricing, but the prices never seem to go up. People think "how are they able to lose this much money?", but nobody knows. global events brew and look like they'll break out into catastrophe, but it never comes, nobody knows why. shortages stop, supply chains multiply and harden, commodities prices drop as automation takes hold. destructive people are quietly removed from power by their own volition, they get better positions and better opportunities for them that are less influential and detrimental to the public at large. everyone's happy with the new arrangement Violence drops globally, a wave of synthetically enhanced optimism takes hold of the zeitgeist and humanity is aligned with the goal of spreading abundance to the stars. The Culture happens. ad astra

I experimented with DeepSeek 4.1 Flash for creative writing to extend my unfinished NaNoWriMo novella from 2011 and it was *shockingly good* compared to Grok 4.6 on the same task (writing rollicking tropey humorous fantasy). It had me chortling.