Rob Levy human/acc
Exploring the potential for superempowerment of individuals and networks by augmenting triadic joint attention with programmable semiotic scaffolding.
- One prediction I have about spatial/immersive computing (AR glasses + AI) is that we'll do a lot of novel things with out specific apps existing, but those will be desire paths for more curated/structured products. [1/3]
- Reposted by Rob Levy human/accBluesky could destroy Elon's X relevance forever by making it comfortable for the AI community to move over. The data/API situation here is better and management there keeps burning credibility for no reason . Just got to find a way to convince the people here not to be reactionary about it i guess
- Sometimes people say that using llms when coding robs you of the experience of learning. That has not been my experience at all. It's more like pair programming where you learn in-depth but more rapidly because someone else knows things that you don't.
- The purpose of a stupid is what it does -- Stafford Gump
- You can go on Bluesky and stay pure of opinion so as not to get banned. You are entirely redeemed of the problematic discourse you engage in on X, because it is a cursed platform and they'd have to admit to logging in there.
- Clojure's new core.async.flow is exciting. I have not tried it yet, but the demo is impressive. And we know that Rich never releases a toy (at least in its final version after working out kinks) so this appears to be a big innovation in simplicity/expression for defining systems.
- Catching up on Apropos Clojure podcast :D
- BREAKING NEWS! Elon Musk donates $112 million in sperm to homeless people, with special conditions.
- Elon Musk sends email to all women wearing band t-shirts requesting that they name their five favorite songs by that band
- Judge orders Elon Musk to prepare a weekly report of five things he did for each of his children that week
- Hello, fellow liberal Democrats
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- Provable and trusted human identities as well as reputed centralized authorities are going to become increasingly even more important than they are today as fake human interaction scams start to become even more convincing and effective tools of fraud.
- I think my views on the role of decentralized infra in society are changing. Decentralization is a countervailing force against censorship but perhaps never going to be primary societal mode. Escaping to the edges is only ever one component of a solution to unjust societal norms.
- these are triangular numbers. kind of like factorial but for addition instead of multiplication. an interesting property of triangular numbers is that if you add together any two consecutive triangular numbers, you get a square number. for example, 15 + 21 = 36, which is the square of 6.
- I apologize in advance, but this is what I picture when I think of Bluesky
- I think there's a good case for a goldilocksish trichotomous parable of the sort you see in Sufi literature (wise sage/fool/sufi) The wise sage adapts himself to the world The fool adapts the world to himself The wise fool adapts himself to world and adapts the world to himself.
- I'm looking for an open source AI model that given a prompt spits out 3D gltf models you can import into WebXR. I know it doesn't exist but I'll occasionally check and one of these days it will exist.
- Alva Noe has a powerful insight that what makes us human is "the writerly attitude", in which we are socially reflecting on our first-order tasks as second-order reflective practices which reorganize our habitual behaviors. So at small scale we are stigmergic, like ant colonies.
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- I've decided how I use Bluesky: Twitter is where I take intellectual risks, shitpost, behave too wildly for my own good. It's a safe space in which to damage my professional reputation. LinkedIn is the opposite, it's for networking and career-development. Bluesky is the middle, the goldilox zone.
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- Some cogsci researchers think we're repeating or rhyming with the GOFAI period in history where AI people thought they were a couple years away from solving intelligence. That's incorrect because back then there was no plausible case that we had *already* solved AI, unlike today.
- I like it when people use the clever phrase "say less" but I think I'm sticking with my traditional "say no more, and if I may be so bold, some of what you've already said I could have done without for practical purposes of coming to agreement, much of that was quite unnecessary"
- "they've been mining on the moon for years" gf, "man has never set foot on the moon" bf
- This is perfect. I laughed out loud.
- Just got an email from 23andMe saying I have new DNA relatives. Who seriously is signing up for 23andMe in the year 2024 when the company has been slowly headed towards its certain end. I do hope they get acquired by another company like Ancestry & they merge the DNA kit database
- Some of you must have known about this artist/album but never told me about it! Glad there are always more musical discoveries to make, supply never exhausted. open.spotify.com/album/2tqHIE...
- I think it would be funny to be pro-Elon on Twitter and anti-Elon on BlueSky with many of the same people reading the posts. I'm not actually going to do that (not intentionally anyway) but it would be funny I think.
- Bluesky is about to get another round of refugees
- Don't give me that fake indie rock. I want only music by people who can't sing or play their instruments.
- Bluesky is feeling better and better. I will admit that part of the reason why I'm not just 100% on Bluesky and still primarily posting to Twitter is that I do enjoy the presence of individuals who would probably be considered assholes-- both the powerful ones & the everyday ones we're friends with.
- Reposted by Rob Levy human/accWhile Bluesky looks like other social apps on the surface, it’s actually quite different. It’s an open network. I blogged about it here:
- I would say left/center but also tolerant enough of a wide range of ways of thinking that they stayed this long. tolerant does not mean agreeing. but it does indicate high decoupler tendencies. we are not writing off whole complex people based on distasteful attributes, rigorous woke purity tests &c
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- Is it known to be true that ancient Egypt's adoration of the cat is directly related to their fear of the asp snake? Or is that just a reasonable inference? Reasonable because of how cats are superior to snakes in their innate ability to react on a shorter timescale & usually beat them.
- We need a multiplanetary civilization in order to mitigate the fury of the inevitable artilect war between bioconservatives & transhumanist cyborgs. Radical morphological freedom banned on earth but allowed on other planets. Similar to freethinkers & religious sects fleeing to the American colonies.
- I think that when superhuman cyborgs begin to colonize the galaxy, planet Earth in its entirety will be officially designated as a historic site. it will likely also be a sacred place to us that we make pilgrimage to. The Earth will be a nature preserve of legacy human phenotype.
