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We have officially left the “hand transcribed by monks” era of software.

We need to be treating anyone involved in cybersecurity right now like we treated healthcare professionals during the early pandemic.

New AI benchmark should be how many Unsolved Mysteries can it solve

If you’re in elliptic curves, pivot to hashes

Woke up with Terence McKenna hair

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’m into minmaxxing

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.

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.

No clankers in the kill chain.

History may never see an alcoholic more functional than Winston Churchill.

Pass on to any burners you know

AI is Uber for Googling.

Best merch I have ever made

Careful out there everyone.

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-...

This was great. Can’t wait to read the book.

Did anything interesting happen today?

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...

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...

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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.

Sure is crazy out there.

What do BlackRock and Bitcoin have in common? They are both reliant on stateless accumulators.

"Help me, help you. Help ME, help YOU." - Jerry Maguire

The economy is like a horse: if you feed it peanut butter it’ll look like it’s talkin’.

Everybody sick of thread yet? They do have GIF support though.

This place just got much cooler over the past 7 days.

Just thinking out loud, here.

Join us tomorrow (Tuesday) morning at 8am PST to chew on the UX of authz and permissions in a decentralized, eventually consistent world.

I like my inflation like I like my milk: way higher than 2%.

On one hand I like the name "Blue Sky" - the only problem is the abbreviation BS ;-)

Only designers are qualified to solve the problems with blockchains and AI, because we know the most about transparency and alignment.

I just need an LLM that can write an endless generative version of Symphonies of the Planets in ChucK that I can seed with long passages of text. Is that too much to ask?

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