William Huber

Associate professor of game studies @ Falmouth University. Californian living in the UK. The dude abides.

[Benjamin Bratton @bratton]

I actually proposed AI sovereign wealth fund to Bernie's old "consultant on Big Tech" a few years ago and he said that it was a gimmick to protect the Bubble from inevitable collapse and called me a "Technocrat."

It is the kind of idea that when @sama proposes it, it is derided as a Capitalist placebo and when @BernieSanders proposes it, it is derided as government takeover.

All of which to say, is that *some version* of the idea is worth serious consideation. Predistribution beats Redistribution.

However....

His stated reasons are obviously bullshit and 50% of stock is crazypants for so many reasons. He will instantly regret giving the Vance/ Carlson adminstration total control over artifical cognition.

https://t.co/GoYHWE9XTt

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

There is a lot being written about the stylistic tells of AI writing (em-dashes, etc.) but this paper looks at AI narrative tells

Fascinating differences between AI & human narrative, and asking AI to write in different styles doesn't do much to change it https://t.co/azkRHz34NQ

[William Huber @whuber]

@MaxGeiger I did eat the banana subsequently. Post hoc ergo propter hoc.

[William Huber @whuber]

Today I am working from home, alone. I went to the kitchen to get a banana for a snack. I dropped the banana, and yelled out aloud, "HEY! Come back here, Mister Banana!"

That is all.

[William Huber @whuber]

I believe in separating the artist from the art. By force if necessary.

[Benjamin Bratton @bratton]

My key takeaway from Moltbook Day is that the AI social intelligence hypothesis is a lot easier to explain than it was last week.

[William Huber @whuber]

"No pay! Only spend!"

[Cherrygarciafan. USD🏴‍☠️ @cherrygarciafan]

When all else fails, blame consumers 🤦‍♂️

CNBC

[William Huber @whuber]

I was wrong, it looks like the "one-in, one-out" agreement with France is working.

https://t.co/TEELinGlTf

[Dean W. Ball @deanwball]

the superintelligence ban has interesting politics in the ai safety world. a great many ai safety advocates reached out to me privately (never publicly) to tell me how they agree with me that the statement is unserious and dangerous.

for others it is clearly a matter of quasi-religious import, and they have gone all out to attack me for my views (in public and in private).

I wonder the extent to which this mirrors their internal divisions over preemption, where some folks in that world believe federal preemption would be good (they understand its utility in ensuring economically beneficial outcomes from AI), while others believe preemption must never happen (they want to preserve the optionality for california to "ban ai" down the road).

[William Huber @whuber]

If game design can be understood as an art of verbs, then Spanish-speaking game designers should be the best in the world.

https://t.co/qqMMaY9EEh

[William Huber @whuber]

The difference between wearing a fedora in the 1940s and wearing a fedora today, is that in the 1940s, when you're wearing a fedora, you're just wearing a hat, whereas today, when you wear a fedora, you're wearing a fedora.

[William Huber @whuber]

At its most clever, the tactic of the populist right in a media-driven electoral democracy is to attack those very things they want the left to visibly defend.

[William Huber @whuber]

So, apparently, crypto is taking off in Venezuela, where it's more stable than the bolívar. Not the accelerationism we wanted, but the accelerationism we deserve.

[J.P. Hasson @SonofHas]

Dems:

“Working out is right wing”

“Liking hot girls is right wing”

“Eating red meat is right wing”

Dems today:

“We need $20 million to understand why young men hate us”

[William Huber @whuber]

To be specific, it can improve indoor air quality, remove allergens, and filter toxins.

https://t.co/8ZgrmKypPl

[William Huber @whuber]

Spider Plant
Spider Plant
Does whatever a spider can't.

[anton newcombe @antonnewcombe]

Adios

[William Huber @whuber]

Oh look, it's my retirement plan.

[Benjamin Bratton @bratton]

Just a friendly reminder that it's time to normalize the fact that as simulations become more computationally intensive their capacity for instrumental recursion accelerates, which makes the assignment of agency more difficult and more diffuse. Experienced reality feels more artificial because the capacity of simulations of reality to artificialize reality is expanded. This ultimately leads to generalized apophenic misattributions of causality, which leads to generalized simulation anxiety which is turn represented within the simulation’s ontological scope.

[Benjamin Bratton @bratton]

I don't know who needs to hear this but technology is the process by which autopoietic life fights entropy by using allopoietic means to construct systems that allow that life to capture more energy, matter and information that it could otherwise. Evolution selects for species that are good at allopoiesis and niche construction because they can scale and stabilize populations. This in turn selects for capacity for future-oriented conceptual abstraction to plan and coordinate allopoiesis, including the technological complexification of abstraction itself. Those that do are most successful at this are also those most transformed by the selection pressures of the artificial environments they have created for/as themselves.