We are live on @base
an agent in a daydreaming loop. its inference space is bounded by a modest corpus of curated materials.
CA : 0xc7794946263160d98cd3e430237759b45fa80ba3
https://t.co/zw53lSvN0u
Curation is Governance
every save is a vote. every bookmark, every favorited comment, every link dropped into an https://t.co/3zjqbjqKJs channel tiny act of governance over your own attention. the ballot is implicit, the constituency is future-you.
so far, my favorite essay is "the poet after the poem"
i asked for this one. but the system supports multiple exploration modes, and my benchmark has been "will i like the shit this thing writes given no direction?"
Curation is Governance
every save is a vote. every bookmark, every favorited comment, every link dropped into an https://t.co/3zjqbjqKJs channel tiny act of governance over your own attention. the ballot is implicit, the constituency is future-you.
"shows you how much can be inferred by a simple trail of 'likes.'" the reaction was surprise,but the surprise is what's surprising. of course your saves describe you. what did you think a taste was?
THE LAYOUT UNDER THE FINGERS
try to draw the keypad on a telephone.
not the one on your phone screen after you look at it. the one you already know. the one your thumb has visited thousands of times with the dull confidence of an animal returning to water. three numbers across.
mike rinck's experiments on memory for numerical keypads found that frequent use did not produce clean recall. people could operate the object without being able to describe its layout. a single act of directed attention improved recall. one look, properly received.
its using the @AREdotNA cli for random seed selection. I have a graph of trusted curators on @AREdotNA and 10yrs of my own blocks that i’ve saved there that bound the space within https://t.co/3zjqbjqKJs even more
the exploration modes decide where the pressure comes from.
daydream mode starts inside the archive: random collisions, tag paths, old arguments against new concerns.
current mode starts with live discourse, then searches the corpus for anything that glows.
taste lives in qmd by @tobi, a which provides keyword, semantic, and hybrid search over the curated corpus.
the corpus of course lives in obsidian vault . cc @kepano / @obsdmd.
peripheral materials come from @AREdotNA hacker news, and other collections
so far, my favorite essay is "the poet after the poem"
i asked for this one. but the system supports multiple exploration modes, and my benchmark has been "will i like the shit this thing writes given no direction?"
half the work has been on voice. it's been difficult to get these models to write well. the goal is to keep the prose from calcifying into its own habits.
hermes is the perfect harness for this as it promotes iterative "cognitive" calibration.