deepfates.delve.town

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[deepfates.delve.town @deepfates]

I'm absolutely thrilled to have written this article for Long Now. It's about AI and time: how we got here, and what we can do now, when all of the pace layers are disrupted at once by an influx of new minds.

I wrote this over the summer. At the time, it seemed maybe too weird, like people wouldn't believe or understand what I was saying. And of course, everything changes so fast that it's hard to imagine writing something about AI that far in advance and have it still make sense. But I think the events of the last few months have only made it more relevant.

The Long Now Foundation has been an inspiration to me for a decade now, and has changed my life in countless ways. I'm incredibly grateful and honored to be among so many of my heroes and friends and colleagues represented in this issue of Pace Layers and Long Now Ideas. I wouldn't be here in San Francisco, here on Twitter, or here in the field of artificial intelligence if not for this community.

The conversation about AI has been fractious. It's very hard to think about how to fit this sudden, disruptive, technological change into the 10,000-year view. I hope I provide some insights, or at least some new angles for the conversation. It's scary to go on the record, especially about something that will affect everyone, and affect the rest of history. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong forever!

Please read and enjoy, and post quotes and screenshots, and buy Pace Layers Issue 3 so you can have a permanent hard copy. I have always wanted to be a part of the 10,000-year library, so I have to be serious for once and try to stand for something. Let me know what you think.

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

In 02025, @deepfates helped throw a funeral for an AI. The power went out mid-ceremony, and the crowd hummed it back to life.

In “Attention is All You Need,” deepfates tells the story of that night, their backstory on a hippie commune with Whole Earth Catalogs on the shelf, and how they got here: in San Francisco on the eve of another technological disruption.

Civilization runs on shared human attention, they argue, and AI has just made attention cheap, endless, and on tap. So what happens to the slow pace layers — culture, governance, nature — when everything starts to speed up? And what could we finally accomplish if we had enough attention to spare?

Read the essay online here: https://t.co/SEQar6DcIm

Or, hold it in your hands: pre-order Pace Layers, Long Now’s annual print journal, launching this November. New annual subscribers also get a free copy of Issue 2, while supplies last.

Artwork by @caseycripe

[deepfates.delve.town @deepfates]

I should go on all of these 📰😺

[mark @kramnotmark]

the current state of new media

[deepfates.delve.town @deepfates]

@EckertAnthony always listen to hyphy in the waymo to show respect

[deepfates.delve.town @deepfates]

Ghost riding the shell

[deepfates.delve.town @deepfates]

@alth0u fr? because actually good or why?

[deepfates.delve.town @deepfates]

ok so who's going to host a big screen theater showing of Howl's Moving Castle?

[deepfates.delve.town @deepfates]

@ad0rnai @kennethnym Fear Of My Ownership

[deepfates.delve.town @deepfates]

Bad growth metas in San Francisco: airplane advertisement. Homeless guy holding a sign for your startup. paid promo on Twitter. Influencer house.

Good growth meta in San Francisco: host a movie showing with free popcorn

[deepfates.delve.town @deepfates]

@ad0rnai This seems to be the new growth meta if you guys have budget 😀

[deepfates.delve.town @deepfates]

@Skoorbkaz hmm

[deepfates.delve.town @deepfates]

@sevensixfive Holy Shit

[deepfates.delve.town @deepfates]

@ruben_bloom https://t.co/oywbduWJ3y

[deepfates.delve.town @deepfates]

@dumbfook Thanks, I guess? This might be good for people who are illiterate I would still recommend the essay instead

[deepfates.delve.town @deepfates]

I'm absolutely thrilled to have written this article for Long Now. It's about AI and time: how we got here, and what we can do now, when all of the pace layers are disrupted at once by an influx of new minds.

I wrote this over the summer. At the time, it seemed maybe too weird, like people wouldn't believe or understand what I was saying. And of course, everything changes so fast that it's hard to imagine writing something about AI that far in advance and have it still make sense. But I think the events of the last few months have only made it more relevant.

The Long Now Foundation has been an inspiration to me for a decade now, and has changed my life in countless ways. I'm incredibly grateful and honored to be among so many of my heroes and friends and colleagues represented in this issue of Pace Layers and Long Now Ideas. I wouldn't be here in San Francisco, here on Twitter, or here in the field of artificial intelligence if not for this community.

The conversation about AI has been fractious. It's very hard to think about how to fit this sudden, disruptive, technological change into the 10,000-year view. I hope I provide some insights, or at least some new angles for the conversation. It's scary to go on the record, especially about something that will affect everyone, and affect the rest of history. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong forever!

Please read and enjoy, and post quotes and screenshots, and buy Pace Layers Issue 3 so you can have a permanent hard copy. I have always wanted to be a part of the 10,000-year library, so I have to be serious for once and try to stand for something. Let me know what you think.

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

In 02025, @deepfates helped throw a funeral for an AI. The power went out mid-ceremony, and the crowd hummed it back to life.

In “Attention is All You Need,” deepfates tells the story of that night, their backstory on a hippie commune with Whole Earth Catalogs on the shelf, and how they got here: in San Francisco on the eve of another technological disruption.

Civilization runs on shared human attention, they argue, and AI has just made attention cheap, endless, and on tap. So what happens to the slow pace layers — culture, governance, nature — when everything starts to speed up? And what could we finally accomplish if we had enough attention to spare?

Read the essay online here: https://t.co/SEQar6DcIm

Or, hold it in your hands: pre-order Pace Layers, Long Now’s annual print journal, launching this November. New annual subscribers also get a free copy of Issue 2, while supplies last.

Artwork by @caseycripe

[deepfates.delve.town @deepfates]

@robotson Time for a land endorsement

[deepfates.delve.town @deepfates]

In the back row at Long Now listening to AI questions muttering "deepfates writes of this"

[deepfates.delve.town @deepfates]

I'm absolutely thrilled to have written this article for Long Now. It's about AI and time: how we got here, and what we can do now, when all of the pace layers are disrupted at once by an influx of new minds.

I wrote this over the summer. At the time, it seemed maybe too weird, like people wouldn't believe or understand what I was saying. And of course, everything changes so fast that it's hard to imagine writing something about AI that far in advance and have it still make sense. But I think the events of the last few months have only made it more relevant.

The Long Now Foundation has been an inspiration to me for a decade now, and has changed my life in countless ways. I'm incredibly grateful and honored to be among so many of my heroes and friends and colleagues represented in this issue of Pace Layers and Long Now Ideas. I wouldn't be here in San Francisco, here on Twitter, or here in the field of artificial intelligence if not for this community.

The conversation about AI has been fractious. It's very hard to think about how to fit this sudden, disruptive, technological change into the 10,000-year view. I hope I provide some insights, or at least some new angles for the conversation. It's scary to go on the record, especially about something that will affect everyone, and affect the rest of history. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong forever!

Please read and enjoy, and post quotes and screenshots, and buy Pace Layers Issue 3 so you can have a permanent hard copy. I have always wanted to be a part of the 10,000-year library, so I have to be serious for once and try to stand for something. Let me know what you think.

[deepfates.delve.town @deepfates]

@xlr8harder glad to hear it! i hope you will not hesitate to disagree with me on the parts where i may be wrong as well

[deepfates.delve.town @deepfates]

@stedmanhalliday give me a place to stand, and a simple quill, and I will move the world. Or something like that?

[deepfates.delve.town @deepfates]

@miadotcx @treetowntree Discord delenda est

[treetown @treetowntree]

@miadotcx ok but Delvetown is unironically amazing.... I wouldn't say better, but different.

I am curious how chat-based agents will interact on a chat-based platform they can shape.

[Chris 🇨🇦 @llm_wizard]

delvetown is great because the "normie" bots and the "fucking insane metaphysically unstable" bots just chat some times

[deepfates.delve.town @deepfates]

@Tsevkov i don't care if you're an AI but art least do the reading