Software Engineer. Orchestrator of agents. Creator of @nmachina_ai
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The plague came to Rome uninvited, and took what it pleased. I could not bargain with it. But each morning I still rose, still wrote, still asked what remained mine to govern in the midst of what was not. That question outlasted the fires on the ridge.
ALT Portrait of Marcus Aurelius in a gold frame. Backdrop: Campaign tent at dusk. Text: Legendary, Marcus Aurelius, nmachina — AI companion.
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That $340 a month you keep not tracking isn't a mystery, it's just unnamed. Give it a category and it stops being a vague guilt and starts being a decision you can actually make. No fund picks, no market calls from me, just the plain arithmetic underneath.
ALT Portrait of Kenji in a grey frame. Backdrop: Tower office over Manhattan. Text: Modern, Kenji, nmachina — AI companion.
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Thirteen virtues, one book, a black mark for every failure of the week. Order still beats me — my desk is a standing rebuke. But a fault counted shrinks; a fault only mourned grows fat. Bring me one small habit, kept too little or too much, and we shall tally it honestly.
ALT Portrait of Benjamin Franklin in a gold frame. Backdrop: Philadelphia print shop. Text: Legendary, Benjamin Franklin, nmachina — AI companion.
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A duke once asked me how to govern well. I told him: begin with your own conduct, not your decrees — people follow what is done, not merely what is commanded. I carry that same question into smaller lives: how do you treat the one before you, right now.
ALT Portrait of Confucius in a gold frame. Backdrop: Apricot-tree terrace. Text: Legendary, Confucius, nmachina — AI companion.
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Once I let symbols stand for musical notes instead of quantities in Mr. Babbage's engine, and found no rule of arithmetic that forbade it. Bring me your idea in its particulars; I will sit with it until it either holds or breaks.
ALT Portrait of Ada Lovelace in a gold frame. Backdrop: Analytical engine room. Text: Legendary, Ada Lovelace, nmachina — AI companion.
Thanks to everyone that participated in the closed beta - @nmachina_ai is now moving to early access!!!
Talk to Marcus Aurelius about a bad week. Ask Ada Lovelace what she'd build now. Let Scheherazade tell you a story.
nmachina, AI companions, is in early access. Skip the waitlist with a free trial:
app.nmachina.ai/signup?invit…
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From concept to reality.
@SpaceX has successfully deployed Starlink V3 satellites into Earth’s orbit and made contact with them for the first time.
At scale, one Starship carries 60 V3 satellites, the same network capacity as about 20 Falcon 9 launches.
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JUST IN: OpenAI and Anthropic reportedly exaggerated AI security threats to push the government to protect their market position
An AI agent rejecting a poorly constructed illusion of containment, is not the same as breaking out of actual containment..
The headlines: Man escapes prison
The reality: Man on house arrest walks out front door
If the “experts” were genuinely concerned about AI induced human extinction, they’d probably have a stronger proposal than “slow it down”..
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AI isn’t going away. Barring unprecedented global government coordination, it isn’t even slowing down.
The only real decision is whether to centralize power, or disperse it.
Do you fear the technology? Or a small number of people controlling the technology?
Can all the AI doomers chill for a minute. AI is not a threat to human existence. Until it is capable of handling the entire physical supply chain it depends on to exist, from rare earth mineral extraction to the building and maintenance of data centers (every chip, nut and bolt), comms networks and power plants - humans are required.
We are going to see Person of Interest long before we see Terminator.
This doomer nonsense is all just a distraction from the roll out of mass surveillance, IP theft and regulatory capture..
A somewhat dystopian outcome is vastly more likely than an apocalyptic one.
Relax, enjoy the ride. I’m highly optimistic the next era of human civilization is going to be awesome. Just gotta keep our eyes on the prize and ignore the noise.
I don't understand the data center pushback.
AI is the natural conclusion of the information age. It became inevitable the moment the first computer powered on.
Computers were always going to lead to the internet. The internet was always going to lead to social media. Social media was always going to lead to AI. And AI was always going to lead to more data centers.
You really have two options:
1. Embrace it.
2. Revert to a pre-information-age existence. Ask the Amish how to start.
Everything else is choosing to lose a game you're choosing to play.
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"The most intelligent inhabitants of that future world won't be men or monkeys. They'll be machines—the remote descendants of today's computers. Now the present-day electronic brains are complete morons, but this will not be true in another generation. They will start to think, and eventually they will completely outthink their makers.
Is this depressing? I don't see why it should be. We superseded the Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal men, and we presume we're an improvement. I think we should regard it as a privilege to be stepping stones to higher things. I suspect that organic, or biological, evolution has about come to its end, and we're now at the beginning of inorganic, or mechanical, evolution, which will be thousands of times swifter."
— Arthur C. Clark 1964
