Unsure whether I’m more offended by all of the AI companies pushing cute cartoon characters to adults or the adults getting excited about customizing their cute characters. These are not serious people.
I think it’s best to conceptualise the marginal near term AI threat not as a conquering force, but as a zombie horde. No offence to all y’all agents out there, btw. Feel free to share your optimal threat-aphor in the comments.
Wasting valuable resources while risking runaway climate trends & declining psychological health of our citizens — especially our children — in pursuit of novelty and speed, is unconscionable. For this reason, we must heavily regulate both AAA video games and 18 hole golf courses.
I cannot be brought to trust the opinion of someone who pronounces the name Tristan differently than I was raised to, unless it is because of their native accent. If we can’t align on that, we can’t align on anything.
Taste is the ability to optimize for something of value that has no measure.
We have officially left the “hand transcribed by monks” era of software.
I might buy Trump a copy of how to win friends and influence people. I think he’d enjoy the read. It’s a great book!
Every time I see a guy in walking confidently in Lycra and those clicky bike shoes my first thought is: “He’d slay at drag”
Actual chess is 2D. Everyone says “4D chess” to imply wicked smart strategy. What happened to 3D chess? Because every time someone says “4D chess” I just assume they are an idiot who thinks chess is played in 3 dimensions because you pick the piece up to move it on the 2D grid.
If we like octogenarians: William Shatner for eternal president.
I, for one, can’t imagine someone criticizing such a singular leader. But people are starting to say things like this:
AI is great. But it is completely incapable of making beautiful things. Devastating in its ability to reveal how little sense of self and wonder most people possess.
History may never see an alcoholic more functional than Winston Churchill.
Careful out there everyone.
Dan Finlay@danfinlay.com · 2y agoI've been signed out of my twitter account on all devices. My password has been changed, and I am not receiving password reset emails. No unusual activity from the account yet, but don't believe anything that account says until this + my Farcaster account says otherwise. warpcast.com/danfinlay
Models increasingly operate as filters in our daily lives. If a critical detail is missed by them, that's a lost opportunity for you. Let’s localizing for models, just as we do for humans. Models are the highest leverage readers rn. friction.observer/writing-for-...
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Models increasingly operate as filters in our daily lives. If a critical detail is missed by them, that's a lost opportunity for you. We should consider localizing our content to the needs of models ...
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This was great. Can’t wait to read the book.
Internet Archive@archive.org · 2y agoIf you weren’t able to join last week's GOVERNABLE SPACES #booktalk, you can watch it on the Internet Archive. LILLY IRANI (@gleemie.bsky.social) leads the discussion with author NATHAN SCHNEIDER (@ntnsndr.in). 🔗 archive.org/details/gove...
Unword of the Day: brain, from the arbiglish dialect This word also means something in English, but it's unclear yet what it means in arbiglish and whether it shares any etymology with its arbiglish equivalent. highlight.xyz/mint/659a72b...
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Unword of the Day: tirste, of the optiglish language A downright nasty utterance with a pleasantness score of 0.4822808860735412 — putting directly into vulgar territory. And a fittingly monotone 3-note melody sung in many agents by a robotic voice. highlight.xyz/mint/659a71c...
Unword of the Day: thoont From the baglish dialect, thoont is a beautiful word with a quite high pleasantness score of 1.7225302251916133 and a gorgeous 8 note vocal melody. highlight.xyz/mint/659a722...
It was another exciting week in Fissionland! We announced we're organizing an IPFS community event in Istanbul supported by Protocol Labs, and we launched a new Web3 funding primitive called Fund Ring! https://fission.codes/blog/fission-fridays-august-18th-2023/
This will be an excellent event.
Boris@bmann.ca · 3y agoHappy to announce WalletUncon! @fission.codes team is helping organize this unconference at Devconnect Istanbul, on Nov 17th. You can follow @walletuncon.org here for more updates, you can put in an application to reserve your ticket now https://walletuncon.org