For a reason which many tpotters would state without hedging, the top ideas people here for me include: @thrialectics for cybernetics, @sanjehorah for prime philosophy shitposts @Bonecondor for startup vibes, @DanielleFong for future tech. Not sure why they're all women, but 5/?
Maxwell has helped me think a lot about what I am currently doing, what I want to do, what I think is important to do. I'm excited to read his book. It looks nice, too.
My book Anti-Singularity is out in print today!
If you're interested in a philosophical conversation around AI, Bay Area Rationalism, doomerism, accelerationism and alternative futures, order a copy from Network Press
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Anthropic, via their data center contract with Nscale in WV, is about to shred a grove of miraculously rare blight resistant american chestnut trees that stand on land that once belonged to mark twain's grandparents
too much symbolism for a pithy one liner
I believe this but I also literally believe this about every human baby as well, primarily because I have never had a child under a circumstance that has not required the complete and catastrophic reordering of my life first 🤷♀️
I don't like how "fleet" of agents sounds. I'm not into boats.
I propose a System of agents, and reserve Swarm for amoral, evil agents, as with locusts.
Ex: "oh look at that agent system go".
Currently listening to "ep1 - A brief prehistory of control theory" from the inControl podcast to prep for our Control Theory Reading Group on Sunday.
This group will meet biweekly, alternating with the Cybernetics Reading Group.
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Those of us who were in the very early adopter cohort of claudecode psychosis and witnessed each other in it just have a sort of unspoken agreement to never mention it.