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Published: April 12, 2025 19:40

Final weekend to enter the Terminological Twists protocol sci-fi contest. Deadline April 14. https://protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/terminological-twists Select a term for a technical or procedural concept with protocolish connotations and write a…

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Published: April 12, 2025 18:49

My theory of how AI is changing us https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/autoamputation-flow

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Published: April 12, 2025 00:55

I’m too old to deal with any UX other than asking an LLM for stuff

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Published: April 12, 2025 00:07

@egg.computer what’s this extract from? https://x.com/ctbeiser/status/1910845424589787328?s=61&t=Z7ogL5oXQlE-zjAQ_mFVBw

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Published: April 11, 2025 23:51

10,000 AD On a lifeless earth powered by a fragment of a Dyson sphere, the remnants of a derpy society of stalled AI bots is still in a desultory hobbessian search for “AGI” One bot asks “what’s tpot?” Another replies tagging my zombie upload bot A…

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Published: April 11, 2025 21:03

I’m really pleased with how this experiment with AI-coauthored fiction worked out. I worked with chatgpt to transpose the idea of a classic Lovecraft story to a different key and theme and it worked unexpectedly well.…

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Published: April 11, 2025 18:15

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Published: April 11, 2025 06:14

Bluesky political dissent and resistance content is so niche and obscure I have no idea what people here are even talking about 90% of the time.

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Published: April 10, 2025 17:46

I’d like to commission a solid nonfiction piece for Protocolized on MCP (model context protocol) by someone who has played with it hands-on, and has a sense of the philosophical and design issues around protocols for AIs. Submission guidelines. …

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Published: April 9, 2025 16:13

On now @nayafia.bsky.social and @tmbr.bsky.social talking about Nadia’s new antimemetics book https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze9pqaIrebY

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Published: April 9, 2025 03:34

From friend who is unwilling to say this publicly in “free speech” American era: “[democracy is] the theory that the common oligarchs know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard”

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Published: April 9, 2025 00:52

“Dire wolves” being de-extincted right now is a bit on the nose even for these tasteless simulators

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Published: April 9, 2025 00:02

Dammit 😖 [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: April 8, 2025 23:36

If 4 republicans voted with democrats, the house could pass some sort of containment measure right?

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Published: April 4, 2025 20:26

Substack note

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Published: April 3, 2025 17:01

TensTorrent dev day livestream tenstorrent.com/developer-day https://tenstorrent.com/developer-day

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Published: April 3, 2025 01:53

This talk in 7 minutes... I'll be doing a monologue type thing, then talking to a few guests, talk show style. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: April 2, 2025 21:07

The liberal equivalent of a meaning crisis is memory crisis

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Published: April 1, 2025 17:40

Wrote up my LLMs as index funds idea with chatgpt help https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/llms-as-index-funds

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Published: April 1, 2025 03:36

New theory of effect of LLM use on language at maturity: It will be like passive investing through index funds on the stock market. Foundation models are like big S&P trackers. Writing your own raw text is like shilling penny stocks. Releasing a major…

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Published: March 31, 2025 22:15

Wrapping up my weekend trilogy on education. Please share with any educators you know. https://open.substack.com/pub/contraptions/p/what-makes-a-good-teacher

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Published: March 30, 2025 01:53

Watching a very cheesy horror show. It’s a Muenster of the Week format

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Published: March 30, 2025 00:03

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Published: March 27, 2025 20:01

To ask for proof is to deny faith To ask for definitions is to deny vibes

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Published: March 27, 2025 16:15

My general relativity theory of digital culture (soon to be: all of civilization) Memes tell vibes how to bend, vibes tell memes how to move With apologies to J. A. Wheeler I’m very proud of my GenAI homage to xkcd here.

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Published: March 26, 2025 15:45

Summer of Protocols 2025 town hall series kicks off in 15 min with @wang.social https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQrETS1JnAw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQrETS1JnAw&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

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Published: March 25, 2025 02:37

Yay. https://www.npr.org/2025/03/22/nx-s1-5336792/european-countries-canada-travel-warnings-us

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Published: March 25, 2025 00:42

Non-US-citizens: Have you altered or canceled planned travel to the US since Trump 2.0 took over?

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Published: March 23, 2025 15:49

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Published: March 22, 2025 18:44

🫡 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/kanzi-the-bonobo-who-learned-language-and-made-stone-tools-dies-at-age-44/

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Published: March 19, 2025 23:53

“One Weird Trick discovered by a quadrantologist summarizes all of Chinese philosophy. Chinese people hate him”

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Published: March 19, 2025 23:13

We call it almost-Friday in Delvish now [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 18, 2025 22:09

The trivial case of Goodhart’s Law is confusing winning for being right

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Published: March 18, 2025 18:37

ChatGPT basically solved the meaning crisis The answer is 80% Viktor Frankl and 20% Daoism. All other options are either nonsense copes or preludes to authoritarianism. https://gist.github.com/vgururao/c40115340adc1fcfab4067612a8f5934

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Published: March 18, 2025 17:08

Came up with a new pick 2 of 3 triangle for governance: - Inviolate rules - Bounded duty cycle (no "surges" of effort amplitude or frequency ever needed) - Non-trivially bounded worst-case performance

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Published: March 14, 2025 19:40

I'm pleased to announce the third year of the Summer of Protocols program. This issue of Protocolized contains a full program overview and several grant and prize opportunities. Please circulate widely, especially to educators and SF writers. …

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Published: March 14, 2025 17:16

I thought premium mediocre died around 2018, but then sweetgreen introduces ripple fries, which might be the most premium mediocre thing ever. Looks amazing. Tastes like crap basically. If you have an air fryer, you can make a much better version yourself.