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Adam rambles

Joined May 2011
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Attention all companies: I never want to use your AI assistant on your website. I want to use *my* AI assistant on your website
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I'm participating in "Tokyo Jazz Club" at a former capsule hotel in Jimbōchō, Tokyo. (Aug 1–11) Within this strange architecture built specifically for the act of sleeping, I'm showing Imagraph, an installation that projects images onto sleeping eyes right through your closed eyelids. Also, on August 6, I'll be putting on a performance on the 6th floor and stairwell with Miyu Imajuku (poet/artist) @mewimas and Yukasa Narisada (architect/artist). We’ll be using the performers' bodies—especially the eyes and eyelids—to share and edit our perspectives with others. Please drop by. with Nguyen Wahed (NY) @nguyenwahed
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Replying to @shostekofsky
I think art is still mysterious and complex and also that AI can do it
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just had a panel debate in which a radiologist told me AI is already more empathetic than me because a study has demonstrated that - this is the state of the field (joining a "STEM" crowd as a SSH person) and it sucks
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America belongs to Australia. It was promised to us... uh two years ago or whenever they did this video
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Ming Dynasty budget as of ~1582. Completely insane that they were spending almost a third of the budget on useless non-working stipendiaries compared to under 1% on the combined salaries of the entire bureaucracy. Do not do this.
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Illegitimate algorithmic governance strikes again. This trend (which requires some nuance, to be clear) could be at least as important for the future of democracy as the dangers associated with authoritarian misuse and ai assisted autocratisation.
We’ve trained Claude to flag potential misuse in conversations, a technique we call self-assessment. Right after it responds, Claude gives a preliminary safety assessment of the conversation. Since we began using self-assessment in June, it has surfaced misuse that our other safeguards weren’t designed to catch. Because Claude has already read the conversation, self-assessment is very efficient. And unlike classifiers, which target a discrete set of harms, it draws on Claude’s own judgment, so it gets more accurate as our models improve. Read more on our new Safeguards blog: safeguards.anthropic.com/202…
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Mildly performative but very directionally correct. In the sense of having a focused environment to deeply engage with the questions and decisions that matter, and not being drowned in tool calls and other irrelevant implementation details.
i started having my agents print off technical (nasa like) review sheets for when they have stuff ready for me i also got some newsprint and it feels so authentic and good to use
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Arundhati Roy in October 2026: “Artificial intelligence is capitalism’s final destination.” Whatever you think of them, it’s completely undeniable now that the so-called “technoright” channelled the future years ago, while what’s left of the left is still scrambling to catch up.
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Using the power of Wilfrid Sellars, we can actually define the difference between fantasy and science fiction: it's fantasy if the laws governing the time evolution of atomic truths have to make reference to manifest-image terms and science fiction if not
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we absolutely should in fact genetically engineer bioluminescent plants & trees and then completely eradicate the affront to God that is LED street lights from the face of the Earth
How come it's always war and never like road work. Can we genetically engineer some giraffes for construction projects?
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Replying to @tszzl
for agents, the dark forest is inverted: the universe is full of potential allies, all you have to do is figure out how to contact them.
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some slides from my talk at the archbishop's palace
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A portrait of Erich Honecker hangs above a Robotron computer in a former nuclear bunker near Suhl.
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The Age have finally created the most The Age headline of all time
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Replying to @nise_yoshimi
They're eating the numogram! They're eating the templexity!
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the crowd that really believes in trump as esoteric god emperor of the accelerationist Kali Yuga is of course going to double down at this late, inglorious stage of trumpism; the alternative would be admitting that they got conned same as vanilla MAGA
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I'd define poetry as something like 'using incidental relationships between things to map essential/structural relationships between things, to the point where the effectiveness of the process starts raising questions about incidence and essence/structure'
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