“One hears of you solely
as a man who abhors the world.
I can only hope
your mind is not detained
by this transient lodging.”
- Attributed to a Courtesan of Eguchi
Late Heian Period, ref. 不動智神妙録
Military theorist Antoine Bousquet discusses the "analogue revival" in computing, reflects on the concept of "hyperwar" and what "hypercamouflage" and "becoming-imperceptible" entails in the wake of LLMs and ubiquitous surveillance.
https://t.co/VYLFjJbwa5
the current fear is is that AI homogenizes culture and turns humans into passive consumers
one counterpoint: in Go, human play showed very little improvement from 1950 to 2016 until alphago beat lee sedol - then human decision quality jumped. players started developing moves that were distinct both from previous human moves and from the novel moves introduced by machine intelligence
this seems more likely to me - fun times ahead
Over the almost 6 years developing the visual style for Marathon I put +100 boards like this together, directed at various areas of the game & tone. In this example: Winter olympics, NeoTokyo (the game), Koji Morimoto, Nike Move to Zero, and a chip design.
After flying swords, Dude and team made a remote control robot... or the arm of a robot😂 I think the inventions from China civilian douyin sector is enough to take back Taiwan...
Tennessee republicans voted unanimously to advance an anti-trans bill to create a public list of trans people located in the state.
House Bill 754 would force medical providers to provide information to the state and identify them.
(https://t.co/Szl2y8ahsm)
linus was the original vibe coder before it was cool. dude just posts an angry email on the mailing list describing what he wants and thousands of engineers worldwide implement it for free. zero tokens consumed, zero API costs, infinite context window (30+ years of kernel knowledge). openai and anthropic are basically trying to replicate what linus has been doing with human contributors since 1991 except linus's agents dont hallucinate and they work for free @sahill_og
what you're looking at is a fuel depot burning in the middle of a megacity of 9 m people & nobody is talking about what this smoke actually contains
when refined petroleum burns at this scale it releases a cocktail of particulate matter, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, benzene, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, heavy metals & volatile organic compounds, these particles are small enough to bypass bypass your lungs entirely and enter your bloodstream directly…
we're talking PM2.5 concentrations that can spike to 50 to 100 times safe levels within a 20km radiu
right now in tehran people are breathing this in, eyes burning, throats closing, children coughing, asthmatics flooding emergency rooms & outside acid rain is falling on the water supply, the soil, the crops…everything that sustains daily life in a city of 9m
but the real damage comes later, years later, elevated cancer rates, leukemia clusters, respiratory disease, cardiovascular failure, neurological damage, reproductive issue
this is what happened after the Kuwait oil fires in 1991, after the mosul refinery burns in 2016, after every single conflict where fuel infrastructure was deliberately targeted, the medical literature on this is extensive & devastating
deliberately bombing fuel infrastructure insidde a civilian megacity knowing full well what the toxic fallout does to the population over decades is chemical warfare without the label, you achieve the same mass casualty outcome over a longer timeline and somehow it stays legal because the weapon is fire instead of sarin
these people are being sentenced to cancers they will develop in 2035 by bombs dropped in 2026 & they call it liberation