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”
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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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.
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."
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.
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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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
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? ...





















