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thinker with a coding problem

[denster @denstar]

@DanielPriestley Capitalism and Socialism ideals are far from the implementations we have seen, but take my engagement brother, you earned it!

[denster @denstar]

"Somehow there are several hundred Humphrey Bogarts in attendance this year..."

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Here's the dystopia you've all wanted so badly: Facial scanning security robots ready to patrol AT&T Stadium during the FIFA World Cup 2026 in Arlington, Texas

[denster @denstar]

@beckness @somewheresy With fantastic implications!

[Lloyd Doggett @RepLloydDoggett]

In an unprecedented deal, Trump negotiated with his former criminal defense attorney, whom he appointed acting Attorney General, to prevent audits of his tax returns or any filed by his family and their businesses.

I immediately offered an amendment to block this deal and ensure no person is above the law.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Kimmel: I like your football jersey. Supporting Ukrainian team?

Chef José Andrés: My beloved Spanish team, of course. But Ukraine is my team today. They didn’t make it to World Cup, but today they're fighting the biggest match — for freedom and democracy.

Kimmel: Yes, they are.

Chef José Andrés: And can I tell you one more thing?

Kimmel: Yes, please.

Chef José Andrés: No civilian should ever be bombed. Not in Ukraine, not in Gaza, not in Lebanon, not in Israel. No war! That’s why they are my team today.

[denster @denstar]

@PeterBell @ivanburazin Maybe AI will help us govern better, so not as much is tied to employers, as well as making it easier to be an employer. Agility for the win! 🤘

[denster @denstar]

Maybe try to look at things holistically instead of separately!

[Mo @atmoio]

I think I’ve found a way out of the philosophical hellhole I’ve found myself in.

The argument I was entertaining in this video is that maybe intelligence is a function humans run, which is a sort of approximation on reality. And maybe AI can also find a similar, or even better, approximation.

Autopoiesis could provide an interesting counterview.

In a sense, humans are not hosts that run the intelligence algorithm. They *are* the intelligence algorithm.

And the solution was found through the most hardcore search process in the known universe. Life runs natively on chemistry and physics and has spent 4 billion years building up to us, starting with simple autopoietic systems and compounding endlessly.

The alternative we’ve built today, AI, is a third-person model of that intelligence. It’s “what do these intelligences tend to say?” and hoping you can reverse engineer their world from their speech. It’s not the real thing, and it has no short-term way of becoming even close to the real thing.

The part I was missing was basically: the reason it can’t be the real thing is not because humans do something extradimensional or immaterial that is definitionally out of reach for AIs. It’s that if you want to build human intelligence, you’ll need to repeat the work done through billions of years and build the same loops from the bottom up.

I’m not necessarily a carbon maximalist. But I suspect the process that found intelligence was pretty thorough. We’re trying now to do something similar in the silicon virtualized realm. And I have no doubt that building on this substrate over the next billion years will yield something interesting. I’m just not so sure why we think it will result in the same thing.

Disclaimer: I’m not a philosopher or physicist. Just trying to find useful mental models to wade through reality.

https://t.co/8fsYDPsXNC

[denster @denstar]

@Rick_Mason I knew *someone* was to blame! 😂

[denster @denstar]

@PeterBell @bendee983 IDEs are just another kind of standard, if ya think about it.

Standards are more important than ever, I would posit— although I've heard people argue everything will be ad-hoc, roll-yer-own-universey.

Mathematically that doesn't seem too likely. Cycles are cycles, so to speak!

[denster @denstar]

@beckness Without an NDA?!?

[denster @denstar]

@PeterBell Are you using any existing rules systems?

That's probably what I'd do (generate for a standard) but it is easier than ever to roll our own, with total flexibility!

[denster @denstar]

@PeterBell @cyb3rops On some level it's just loop semantics.

If user tickets are part of the pipeline, why not say it's the pipeline, versus the users, "doing" something?

Can't say that's not a valid way of looking at it too! Especially where we're talking about the pipeline more than the project!

[denster @denstar]

@PeterBell @cyb3rops Semantics are weird. I like to describe the loop as the agents supporting the humans, more than humans supporting agents.

AI helps us work on "the 2 hard things", but it cannot relegate them to the past, as they're just life. AI shifts the entropy around in fun ways though!

[chiky handler @chiky_handlr]

Maybe CBS did him a favor bc some of these public access show clips are funnier than anything else I’ve watched recently

[Harkonnen Juice Box @micretz]

@MikeDrucker big winter storm knocked out all our intelligence

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[denster @denstar]

We also need some folks willing to just live in space basically, but these are not bad goals, as long as we keep the means in mind. (This appears to be a big part of consciousness.)

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Mostly true. What matters is securing the long-term future of consciousness, both on Earth and other heavenly bodies.

We cannot just focus on Earth, because there are irreducible external (eg massive meteor) and internal (eg global nuclear war) cataclysmic risks.

The Moon is faster to make self-growing, but is more susceptible to problems on Earth. Mars will take longer to make self-growing, because it is so hard to reach, but is more secure from Earth disasters for that same reason.

Both the Moon and Mars should have self-growing civilizations. Making this happen is the prime directive of SpaceX.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

The "can't throw your pronouns at the enemy" line was engineered to own this news cycle. Look at what ran beneath it.

He fired the JAG officers - the Army's, the Navy's, the Air Force's top lawyers - for being obstacles to orders from the president. He overhauled the military legal offices. Today he told West Point's graduating class their hands are untied.

The laws of war have enforcement mechanisms for a reason that predates every living general officer. When you remove the lawyers and then tell new officers the constraints are gone, you are not fixing readiness. You are building conditions for something you cannot un-do from an air-conditioned office in Washington.

A grand jury declined to indict the lawmakers who warned about it. That part didn't make the headline either.

[denster @denstar]

@beckness @somewheresy See you next week— same bat time, same bat channel!

It's nice seeing deep cuts— I'd forgotten about some!

LJ is still going ish, but I think they, like lots of places, purged "inactive" accounts. It's actually pretty wild how much digital stuff is gone. #memorizebeforedeleting