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dame @dame.is · 6h

"AI-coded projects are not going to be maintainable" is cope

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 6h

what I've been building newsletter.squishy.computer/p/deep-future

Deep Future

AI-driven scenario planning

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 13h

“You can’t do just one thing.”
(Kauffman, Systems 1)

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 13h

how many layers of hyperreality are you on my dude?

Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 18h

Contact m.youtube.com/watch?v=EWwh...

Contact - Opening Scene (HD)

YouTube video by 21Milosz21

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 1d

What is it about social media that encourages clinging to views? Something about there is a large invisible unsympathetic audience waiting to pounce. Constant threat of status loss.

Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 1d

“And what bhikkhus is clinging? There are these four kinds of clinging: clinging to sensual pleasures, clinging to views, clinging to rules and vows, clinging to a doctrine of self. This is called clinging.”

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 1d

I think Elm makes this clearer because it can't cheat.

fn(state) -> [ui, effects]

Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 1d

this too is intelligence. intelligence is getting information and doing something about it, for the purpose of survival

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 1d

oops me too!

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Tim Kellogg @timkellogg.me · 1d

[2023] this is a great blog post defining agency from the perspective of cybernetics: it receives and responds to feedback

i love it. very simple and clean. yes, it’s a little unsatisfying bc now thermostats are agents, but it’s very crisp

Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 1d

I think it’s right from both a practical and theoretical perspective. We know from cybernetics that feedback is all you need for agency to emerge. newsletter.squishy.computer/p/feedback-i...

Feedback is all you need

...for LLMs to gain agency.

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 1d

I think it’s right from both a practical and theoretical perspective. We know from cybernetics that feedback is all you need for agency to emerge. newsletter.squishy.computer/p/feedback-i...

Feedback is all you need

...for LLMs to gain agency.

newsletter.squishy.computer

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 1d

an organism is a hyperdimensional reflection of its environment

Fernando T. Maestre @ftmaestre.bsky.social · 1d

In #drylands, plants don’t grow randomly — they self-organize into disordered hyperuniform patterns that help them use water wisely & endure extreme aridity. A beautiful hidden logic of nature, revealed in a new @pnas.org study doi.org/10.1073/pnas... including #Maestrelab alumni

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 1d

many such cases!

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 2d

deepfuture.now

Deep Future - AI scenario planning

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 2d

cooking

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 2d

10 years of B2B SaaS has turned "UX" to an overspecialized discipline fixated on gluing together design system widgets. Actual UX/HCI/Design is a way of thinking you can bring to any medium. It's time for designers to rip the brief and reimagine AI UX from the ground up.

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 2d

power user or

stellz @piss.beauty · 2d

power used

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 3d

“Don't fight forces, use them.”
(Buckminster Fuller, Shelter
May 1932)

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 3d

"One conversation that has already produced results focused on making it easier to publish content privately by packaging a web server with a Tor onion service." Heck yeah.

willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 5d

Last week we assembled a bunch of people to talk about what technical interventions can move the needle on privacy. I’ve written up my take on the projects the group conglomerated around.

www.protocol.ai/blog/threads...

Threads From the 2025 Cypherpunk Retreat Draft

Key takeaways from the Cypherpunk Retreat, where 100 leading builders advanced privacy-tech coordination.

www.protocol.ai

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 3d

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Signal @signal.org · 6d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 5d

Today in Totally Foreseen Unforeseeable Consequences.

Discord says users' government IDs used for age checks stolen by hackers

Thanks to age verification laws, expect more data breaches of users' government-issued passports and driver's licenses.

this.weekinsecurity.com

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 4d

wow yeah, this seems to fit with other models I’ve read about, where densely-connected clusters with a few long ties *really* accelerate contagion. The long ties act as a vector for new contagions. E.g. the one guy who travelled last week bringing rona to the church choir meeting.

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 5d

I haven’t used it but it’s a cool idea

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