Uqbar & Jeff

@borgmamel.bsky.social

the great innovation of the digital computer was that the device's physical state was logically partitioned into discrete substates, which were robust against error and easy to reason about. it always does exactly what you tell it. what our company presupposes is: what if it didn't?

setting aside all critiques of it, how could anyone possibly be "left behind" on AI? you are not developing any special skills by using it, just the opposite. that is the entire selling point: anyone can do specialized tasks without specialized knowledge.

burning money as an offering to the spirits. when they are fully summoned, we will ask them how to make more money. we still need a bit more time to get them all the way summoned.

in the criminal justice system, there are two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crimes; and the crooks, who commit them. these are their stories