bogna

🥷 prof of computer culture @ nyu shanghai. now book on ai + east europe, R&D on tech futures & post-war transitions. based in china + ukraine.

[nicole @digitlartifacts]

women hand weaving memory for the early computers used on apollo lunar missions

[bogna @bognamk]

dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or dark ships

[Tenobrus @tenobrus]

we're getting so insanely fucking lucky with all of these warning shots and then we're just fucking ignoring all of them and ploughing ahead

[bogna @bognamk]

bringing back personal sites
https://t.co/YUha51tzL6

[Max Hunder @Max_Hunder]

Proud to share this: after months of reporting and conversations with dozens of sources, our Reuters team takes you inside Ukraine's "kill zone" — where drones have turned the front into one of the most dangerous places on earth

https://t.co/ZOBvM2UtPg

[bogna @bognamk]

@mateusz_piotrow @johnmilbank3 jestem z polski! :)

[bogna @bognamk]

@carlorovelli we're sat

[bogna @bognamk]

@PlaybhaiKhardi the essays are quite diverse, but we wrote the introduction in a way that should give you knowledge about the history and current (as of last year) state of ai approaches in china - so i'd say the intro chapter!

[bogna @bognamk]

https://t.co/JA2FjSDU5y

[Jen D. @HumanLevelJen]

One thing you really notice when talking to Chinese AI people (or regular people about AI) is that they're totally uncontaminated by the LessWrong Apocalypse Amdram. If you try to bring it up they look at you like you are insane (correctly so).

[bogna @bognamk]

@EHuanglu @Restless_Egg the competition ain't sleepin

[bogna @bognamk]

organizing a two-day mini accelerator in Kyiv 🇺🇦, for culture-first founders, together with @Restless_Egg
apply -> https://t.co/jmIVL1PjFj

[bogna @bognamk]

@front_ukrainian ‼️‼️‼️

[Mykhailo Fedorov @FedorovMykhailo]

It has been a great honor to serve the Ukrainian people as the Minister of Defense.

Here is what our team managed to achieve:

1. Disabled Starlink access for Russian forces.

2. Took over a Ministry of Defense with zero budget, took a risk, reallocated funds from payroll from the end of the year, and effectively invested them in mid-strike capabilities, fiber-optic FPVs, low-cost reconnaissance, ground robotic platforms, interceptor drones, and deep-strike drones.

3. Launched "Logistical Lockdown", this cut off enemy logistics and initiated the isolation of Crimea.

4. Continued the funding program for the Drone Line.

5. Launched a support program for modern drone-assault units that rely primarily on advanced technologies in combat.

6. Introduced a 70% advance payment policy for procurements made via e-Points on the Brave1 Market portal.

7. Fundamentally overhauled the procurement system.

8. Procured thousands of pickup trucks, buggies, and ATVs for the military for the first time—and did so through open tenders.

9. The drone interception rate rose from 83% to 91%, and the cruise missile interception rate soared from 47% to 87%.

10. Contracted Patriot PAC-2 GEM-T missiles for the first time, and submitted an application through an EU loan to purchase PAC-3 missiles.

11. Launched a baseline drone supply system for brigades and corps.

12. Launched a massive grant program for manufacturers of explosives and missiles.

13. Initiated an unpopular but vital transformation of the military.

14. Conducted three UDCG meetings, where we successfully broke through the Russian information trap claiming our defeat, restoring partners' faith in Ukraine. This secured $40 billion in support announced for this year (excluding the EU loan).

15. Launched the mechanism to utilize the EU loan for our military priorities.

16. Found a way to scale cheap missiles against jet-powered Shaheds and signed a record-breaking contract.

17. Our domestic ballistics. We radically revised the technical specifications, maximized accuracy, and reduced the cost by 30%.

18. Signed a contract to procure Gripen fighter jets.

19. Collaborated with the military to plan and execute Operation Auchan, which halted the enemy's mechanized offensive for six months.

20. Opened up exports under the Drone Deal program to attract investment and scale up domestic defense-industrial complex (OPK) production.

21. Launched the Trophy Lab, providing partners with the opportunity to study captured Russian military technologies.

22. Launched the Defense AI Center A1 to accelerate the integration of artificial intelligence on the battlefield.

Thank you to my entire team for their relentless 24/7 service. A special thank you to my family for their patience.

Thank you all for your support!

I will continue to work toward the mission I originally brought to the Ministry of Defense: defeating the enemy through asymmetry, the speed of innovation, and the power of organization.

To be continued.

[bogna @bognamk]

‘We should play a war game, where one person larps as the market, one person as the emergent meta-cognition, and one person as the new anthropic model’

[bogna @bognamk]

@melanchochlik Introduction to this edition of The Cloud of Unknowing https://t.co/ginemZ0neg

[bogna @bognamk]

reading medieval theology, thinking about LLMs, and how language came to bind humans and machines

[bogna @bognamk]

@feedfracture @Liv_Boeree @nemocentric yes, dm!

[bogna @bognamk]

an argument for conspiratorial, rather than public, intellectuals https://t.co/N5GI12eg34

[Judith Dada @DadaJudith]

Full scenario: https://t.co/mmYFQnFiXc
Executive summary: https://t.co/YxJGJEMYnK
Pdf: https://t.co/DBh1eZ7SNg
Audiobook: https://t.co/nQVk19dvGg

[bogna @bognamk]

@DahliaOhara Fable said, "the great image has no form." Art should not separate itself from the continuous flow of reality, but rather point toward the formless, infinite Dao. 👀