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Our democracies, economies, and legal systems weren’t built to absorb AI at the rate it’s advancing. In a new essay for @noemamag.com, our Reverse Alignment coalition map out the investments needed for society to flourish with AI: www.noemamag.com/what-humanit...

What Humanity Needs To Flourish In The Next Decade | NOEMA

We are headed toward a world of productivity without prosperity, execution without verification and capacity without constraint. But this outcome is not inevitable.

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Collective intelligence is increasing so fast that individuals can no longer keep up, except processing that fact in blog posts.

Such a peculiar paradox: adding to the endless flow of information the longing for simplicity. Information diets. Showing off minimal app setups. Seven days without a smartphone. Finally happy without Instagram! And yet the flow never ends. The doors that lead back are irreversibly closed.

On the train from Vienna to Grünau im Almtal. Five days ahead, half work, half fun, while the toddler plays with grandparents. I guess it would be a shame not to share some Alps photos.

Sunday morning. Started the day dancing off everything that bothers me, admiring the genius of a song — clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, stuck in the middle with you — while simultaneously trying to forget the scene where I first heard it. ♫

Great convo, in which Fenwick McKelvey recounts the history of efforts to simulate politics by building models of elections, voters, and international relations. ("SimPolitics" is available #openaccess here: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205319...) Interview here: newbooksnetwork.com/simpolitics

Saturday morning. Woke up at 5 to continue setting up my new laptop. Homebrew, nvm, Oh My Zsh, SSH keys, Hetzner storage via rclone... Ohh well, Homebrew's rclone doesn't support mounting on macOS. Official binary fixes it instantly. Good morning.

It's Friday night, the baby girl is sleeping, and I'm installing #Steam just to see how the M5 Pro chip performs. Just for benchmarking reasons. @steampowered.com

My new MacBook Pro M5 is a few stops away and I feel like a boy getting his first machine. Good moment to share how I got my first computer.

If it weren't for a newsletter from Vienna Business Agency I almost ignored, I'd have no idea Nir Eyal is coming to Vienna on July 30. I like listening to this guy. #Vienna #NirEyal #startups viennabusinessagency.at/events-works...

I've been using Resend for emails and it works great, but looking for alternatives. Anyone using Brevo? How's the deliverability, developer experience? #email #webdev #buildinpublic

I've become completely fascinated by the VRAM viewer in bgb. Watching how these carefully packed pixels come together to make an adventure, seeing them get carefully swapped out as you explore. So cool!

I have so much work to do, so many videos to edit, things to adjust. Instead I'm reading Nick Bostrom's 2003 paper "Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?". What a curse and a beauty it must be to use the internet? That's a post, I guess.

I'm so happy I discovered Remotion after days of trying to edit some videos using DaVinci Resolve. Now I'm animating with React and TypeScript. Life is great again.

I finally regained access to my old Soundcloud account soundcloud.com/nenadmarinko.... If you're up for some mostly electronic music, there's a decade of listening history there. I use Spotify more these days, but Soundcloud is still great for discovering great music.

Strange to live in three languages daily. German and Serbian at home, English for work and media. My toddler already mixes them in quite a funny way. Step outside and hear five more languages in the first five minutes. I guess she's handling it better than I am. #Vienna

We are investigating an issue with our CDN origin, which is occasionally failing to load media assets. status.bsky.app

+1 on #eurosky

Present-day LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude can write poetry and solve algebra problems. Some researchers call this "emergence," but not everyone agrees. A new paper by SFI's David Krakauer, Melanie Mitchell, and John Krakauer proposes a framework to clarify whether AI capabilities are truly emergent.

Does intelligence ‘emerge’ in large language models?

Present-day LLMs, such as ChatGPT and Claude, can perform complex tasks, such as writing poetry and solving difficult algebra problems, with astounding speed and precision. Some researchers have refer...

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When is the best time to start building in public? When you create the repo? When you have a working beta? Genuinely asking.

A quiet daily appreciation for not having to think about regular expressions anymore. Thanks, LLMs.

I would appreciate AI that finds where my washing machine leaks water, instead of GitHub reminding me to try Copilot.

Programming is indeed theory building. But what if we built our theories through programming? Why write 3,000-word essays nobody reads when you can run the theory as code and watch what happens?

Highly recommend this recent essay, "AI as Social Technology," by Henry Farrell (@himself.bsky.social) and Cosma Rohilla Shalizi knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a...

AI as Social Technology

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Apparently the whole internet is now flooded with AI-generated opinions criticising AI-generated opinions.

The BUNT compilation came out as a necesity to support those who lead the protests for justice, against corruption, for a better future - led by students in Serbia. on.soundcloud.com/qKrgk5SZXSqB...

It seems we are moving into more and more complexity, but keep shouting simplify, simplify.

I miss the internet of small imperfections.

There's something spiritual about how we talk about technology. Once gods lived in the sky and clouds. Now that's where we put our servers. Praying to machine gods via API calls.