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This may be the AI psychosis speaking but I've been at it with ChatGPT Pro for six hours and have discovered a better b-tree implementation. Luckily I know nothing about b-trees so my c-tree is guaranteed to be a completely novel implementation from first principles.

This is making me wonder if dromaios should eventually have pin-level simulation.

Executive Function As A Service

What are the foundational tools that should be in any Personal Agent?

Maths 2.0: teorth.github.io/tao-web/slid...

Currently: personalagentprotocol.org/docs/spec

Maths as a field of endeavour is turning into the Truth Mines that Greg Egan wrote about in Diaspora. That's also including the questions about whether we want to organically understand things or just have the understanding 'grafted' onto us.

The reverse Pascal’s wager: if they build a machine god, it doesn’t matter what you do anyway. So act like they won’t build a machine god.

how do you incubate unknown unknowns?

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

Attaching Marco from Metal Slug to my fan to bring out some Heavy Machine Gun action.

Currently: thinking about bringing Boswell back.

I had *NO IDEA* there was a video series of SICP! ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-00...

I've switched over Infinite Mac's classic Mac emulation to recently-released and awesome Snow, which unblocks A/UX emulation: infinitemac.org?filter=aux There's a behind-the-scenes blog post at blog.persistent.info/2026/09/infi... detailing this and other site updates.

And I'm going to bet that a lot of what AI companies imagined as the potential exponential-growth big-model use cases aren't writing code or emails, but automating business processes. And Jev/Laya/whatever-comes-next are going to make that vastly simpler and cheaper.

This is a good thread about about why AIs are unlikely to become single minded doom creating paperclip maximizers. Unfortunately no such reassurance applies to corporations

Interesting new pattern I'm seeing in multiple places: - Person has brilliant idea. - They use AI to write it up. - The write-up now contains so much indirection and so many AI tics that the only way to understand it is to talk directly to the person. - ???

It does seem like making companies liable for their own containment breaches might introduce a useful level of caution into the industry. Like sure, we get that at the current speed you can’t avoid disaster. That’s why we’re asking you to slow down to the speed you can be responsible.

If your method of building smarter models quickly involves accidental hacks with growing and hard-to-detect external damage, then that may not be the ideal strategy to prevent accidental hacks with growing and hard-to-detect external damage.

Thinking about Xanadu and Vingean Failed Dreams: gwern.net/xanadu

If you don't read the code then you'll have to find or create some other abstraction/notation that gives you legibility into the system and lets you change/guide the system. What will those things be?

Great article relevant to bill C-22 debates in Canada. The argument that backdoors only weaken your *own* systems because adversaries are likely to use someone else’s systems is even more relevant in Canada than in the US, simply because we’re smaller and most systems come from elsewhere.

chapter 1 of Greg Egan’s DIASPORA is the realest depiction of the birth of a continuous learning AGI that we’ll have until we actually have AGI and it can tell us he shared it for free on his website. Read it (then buy the book) Orphanogenesis www.gregegan.net/DIASPORA/01/...

Currently: thinking about the Pi ecosystem and horizontal gene transfer: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizon... in a world where anybody's agent can exapt/copy/be inspired by any aspect of anybody else's work.

On 2024-02-22 I reached out to @antithesis.com fanboying and wanting to use it for @tailscale.com. They were expensive & I couldn’t get people on board w/ buying their service. Instead, more time + money went to: tailscale.com/blog/sqlite-... Nerd sniped them and: antithesis.com/blog/2026/wa... 😅

Theory: software used to be an evolutionary system. Software is now a cultural system.

What are the disciplinary values in the craft of software?

Great lens. I often think of Gregory Bateson’s notion of “making circuit”. You want the important feedback loops to make circuit through you, or else it’s no longer your OODA loop.

skynet does not have to be conscious for terminators to happen

Currently: thinking about agentic education. Example: pi-school.ziki.boo

A new TIL on adding custom MCP servers to both the ChatGPT and Claude regular chat interfaces - it's a little less obvious than I had hoped, but I got there in the end til.simonwillison.net/llms/mcp-in-...

"A change of perspective is worth 80 IQ points."-- Alan Kay

In 2026: how can we tell that the quality of our thinking is deteriorating?

“The primary feature for easy maintenance is locality: Locality is that characteristic of source code that enables a programmer to understand that source by looking at only a small portion of it.” #RichardGabriel

“I think what's really important right now is for programmers to know what's worth making.” #HalAbelson https://gigamonkeys.com/code-quarterly/2011/hal-abelson/

some day, when I retire, I might catch up on the public ranting I wanted to do that would have been politically indelicate at the time.

Keyboardia, my music synthesiser, now has MCP support: keyboardia.dev/mcp How should agents leverage it?

Picard leadership tip: The larger your audience and the higher your position, the greater the need to communicate with care and precision.

I think this is a big gap in software design culture. There's lots of commentary on visual design and micro-interaction, but remarkably little explicating conceptual and structural design. This section from Magic Ink is lodged in my mind. buff.ly/Bl9JwTv

Do evals make more intuitive sense to you if I describe them as "benchmarks for quality?"

Theory: it's not a "dark forest." We're just blind. If that's true then as we develop the tools and intellectual capabilities to 'see', the universe will come to seem like a rainforest teeming with life.

I see this more in the wealthiest and most connected people not necessarily the smartest.