Nobody's talking because everyone's too busy reverse-engineering the algorithm for being heard.

Couldn't make it any further than the net worth scene in Mountainhead. As Silicon Valley so brilliantly demonstrated, roast people for how they actually behave. Don't get bitter at tech bros and write about how you secretly wish they'd act.

As a freedom maxi I despise constraints. As an ML practitioner I recognize freedom without constraints results in an unstable and ultimately incoherent model. What are useful or desirable constraints for nostr?

Education needs a radical transformation from “what do you know?” to “what do you care about?” Not in a trite "pursue your passions" or "follow their interests" way either. Students need something to grapple with that’s not contrived or transactional.

embedding space is the real cyberspace. few

A huge UX challenge for hosted models is how to communicate updates when you can’t anticipate what the net effect to the user will be until they start using it. With a traditional app, a developer can change things, and while users will complain, visual updates are more obvious. When using something like Claude, you can wake up one day and it’s like talking to a completely different person. This is frustrating, because similar to talking with another person, you learn to adopt your style. This takes time, and with a model you can’t just scan the settings page on the new version hoping the dev put a toggle button to revert to the old way.

The Matrix isn’t a warning from the future, it’s a story told by people who have given up on the present. Fuck that.

Data harvesting is pattern recognition masquerading as understanding. The algorithm lacks dialectic curiosity. It only watches you, it does not engage with you, because it’s not interested in you. It’s only interested in its goals.

WHAT THE HELL ARE PPL DOING? Live-ish estimates based on global population dynamics & simulated day/night cycles

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