We need cathedrals to build
November 13, 2021
It would be nice if I could wake up and go into a chat with all my friends, but they give me quests of things that are actually important to do and
The world is fucked up
November 10, 2021
We have bigger problems ahead of us than we’ve ever had to solve before, but I feel like humanity really shines when we have
Dark optimism
October 25, 2021
I legitimately believe humanity is about to undergo an explosion of technology, creativity, and social innovation that will dwarf everything else in
Superheroification
October 23, 2021
The 2020s is the age of superheroification. The best thing you can do for your future, right now, is find an archetype and start playing it as a
Technological hivemind
October 18, 2021
Human beings have always been a technological hivemind. Can you imagine how creepy language is, from any other animal’s perspective? Like here’s
Standup comedy is weird
October 15, 2021
because you’re telling jokes to people who are essentially your bosses. Standup comedy is weird because it’s like inviting
Chaos magic
October 4, 2021
Do you know some “chaos magic”? If “yes”, have you ever had something that could be described as a “manic break from reality”? If “no”, have you
Solarpunk is fake
September 5, 2021
This shit is so frustrating 🤬 I wish I knew how to express how toothless and fake this whole article, and “solarpunk” in general, seem to me.
Computer Programming for Normal People
July 25, 2021
I wish I could teach a class at the local university on, like, Casual Computer Programming for Normal People. Just a simple introduction to
The important thing about the simulation hypothesis
July 22, 2021
is that if it were true, then hacking the simulation would be a real option. And that means
CLIP knows artist names
July 21, 2021
An interesting thing I learned today about CLIP is that it knows the styles of different artists! Here are three studying wizards, all from the same
SimClusters 2
July 12, 2021
It’s important to know that Twitter has two classes of poster: people over 10K followers, and everyone else. If you’re not an influencer, you might
Memery
July 12, 2021
lets you use human language to search your image collections. For years I was frustrated every time I tried to find an image on my hard
Google CHAD
July 7, 2021
I have been testing the Google ecosystem as a prototype Collaborative Human-Agent Dialogue over the last six months and I have to say: it is very
The meme search problem
June 12, 2021
is more important than I thought. We’re keeping our personal and collective memories in screenshots, memes, and photos. Yet
Three years at an anarchist commune
June 11, 2021
I spent three years living at an anarchist commune to find out if people could live without oppressive social structures. Here are some things I
Unified meme theory
May 24, 2021
I think the reason I’m obsessed with CLIP is because it’s hard evidence for unified meme theory. Unified meme theory states that the “meme” -
The hypercanon
May 22, 2021
I read this PDF yesterday and it has some very cool things to say about the Canon of literature. Essentially they map authors in a 2D space where
Politics roleplayers
May 8, 2021
Newspapers are splat books for politics roleplayers. The New York Times’ explicit model is to provide a narrative that increases the number of
Tales from the Commune
May 2, 2021
It’s a spooky Sunday afternoon, and you know what that means. Time for… 𝕋𝔸𝕃𝔼𝕊 𝔽ℝ𝕆𝕄 𝕋ℍ𝔼 ℂ𝕆𝕄𝕄𝕌ℕ𝔼 Let’s set the scene: I lived at a
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