The paperclip maximizers were never the AIs

Micah@rincewind.run · 3d ago

go to hell

Emblogginated "Old Ideas" --> blog.fogus.me/thoughts/old...

We've got an opening for a research engineer for a new research project in collaboration with Centre for Cryptographic Trust Infrastructure (CCTI). Read the full job description on our website www.inkandswitch.com...

thinking about Patrick Stewart and Tim Curry and Dolly Parton and Catherine O’Hara and how many of the tributes shared after they died translate to something like “their art made me feel like I wasn’t alone in the world” it is hard to think of a better way to spend a life than that

Really feeling this advice from Norvig today: "Whenever you develop a complex data structure, develop a corresponding consistency checker."

"In general, people do not want to pay writers any money at all. As a writer, you get used to it. But for software people, being perpetually devalued is pretty novel." — @ftrain.com aboard.com/the-web-is-m...

The web is more than enough

Developing apps in the browser is radically easier than it used to be.

aboard.com

② It seems to me someone should explain the something similar to humanity in a broader context. You do not exist in the earthly environment. Rather, you are a part of it — and inseparable from it. Its destruction is your destruction, and no space colonization fantasy will save you.

Documenting a @folkcomputer.bsky.social program that's delighted me the last few weeks: + started with @joshuahhh.com asking about programs that can probe the pixels directly from the camera + led to these “marbles runs” + recently @itseieio.bsky.social made a version with nice gravity simulation

“The French courts have fundamentally misunderstood the working of the internet and the role of the domain name system”

Quad9 | A public and free DNS service for a better security and privacy

A public and free DNS service for a better security and privacy

quad9.net

The share of the German population with a migrant background is ~30%. 20% to 22% of the total labor force in Germany is foreign-born. Who do AfD voters think will work to support all these boomers and their fat pensions after we are kicked out of the country? 🤨 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigra...

Immigration to Germany - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

dragging out a helper, hoisting dependencies along with it

Everyone’s seen the Sketchpad demo. Few understand how it actually works. I reimplemented Sketchpad from scratch, and I’m making short videos that recreate Sutherland’s demos and explain how they work. The first 8 are up — from drawing a line to the famous rivet. Link below 👇

A great talk by Henry Kautz from six years ago on AI in a broader sense than the current LLM hype. It makes a nice corrective for many frequently repeated opinions in this space: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cQI...

The Third AI Summer, Henry Kautz, AAAI 2020 Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Award Lecture

YouTube video by Henry Kautz

youtube.com

Every woman that I know in tech has similar stories. I do, my partner does, my friends, and so on. Anecdotally, that it's so pervasive is often cited as a main reason for leaving the industry

Lu wilson@todepond.com · 2w ago

youtu.be/WXL6K1lhvt0

Shot, chaser.

“I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process — an integral function of the universe.” #BuckminsterFuller

I built a thing. I LOVED making it. It's called TinyLittleOffice. It's a web office suite (word processor, outliner, decks, spreadsheet, calculator, drawing tool, diagram maker, animator, calendar, trip planner) that stores the docs in your URL. tinylittleoffice.com?c=hgmcggn#/v...

This Link Is This Document

QR code:…

tinylittleoffice.com

🤦🏻‍♂️ your refrigerators should not be connected to the internet 🤦🏻‍♂️ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Hackers force French supermarket fridges to heat up to 50C in ‘unprecedented’ cyber-attack

Hundreds of Intermarché shops and Coopérative U outlets in France hit, with fears Dutch chains also affected

theguardian.com

I think I'll always love this form of CAD. Code (#clojure of course) the assembly parts using fairly simple primitives and boolean ops. Have an export at the bottom and just re-run the file when you change things. See a live update of the model as you work!

I got Lovelace's Notes on Babbage's Analytical Engine from Buddy Bindery by @alexanderobenauer.com and it's BEAUTIFUL

cool job alert. internal tools and automation in Rust and TypeScript, fully remote, lots of autonomy, $275k

Operations Support Engineer | Careers | Oxide Computer Company

Apply for the Operations Support Engineer position at Oxide Computer Company.

oxide.computer

raytracer test (and some alternative geometry)

“Executives would listen politely to his presentation, and go on with the same problematic practices.” Jay Forrester https://www.strategy-business.com/media/file/sb40_05308.pdf

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I have an edition from this run. It’s a truly gorgeous artifact!

Alexander Obenauer@alexanderobenauer.com · 4w ago

First prototype → Finished product

Valid: “[Muriel] Cooper was both fascinated by and inevitably frustrated by computers. She never learned to program, always felt the machines were too slow, or too clunky, or even downright hostile to their users.” -Reinfurt

At U Tübingen, we need 5s to introduce students to programming fundamentals.

"What if the cost of machines that think is people who don't?" — George Dyson

#OnThisDay in 1861, Charles Darwin wrote to his friend, "But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything." 📜🧪