Dave Edwards
@dedwards93.bsky.social
Co-founder, Artificiality Institute. Shaping the emerging human experience in an increasingly synthetic world.
Just came back from the grocery store where a loaf of banana bread that used to be $12 not long ago is now selling for $18. Small local bakery, always been expensive. But that 50% increase is no hoax.
December 4, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Just came back from the grocery store where a loaf of banana bread that used to be $12 not long ago is now selling for $18. Small local bakery, always been expensive. But that 50% increase is no hoax.
Perhaps there’s a system that I’m not aware of. But Spotify hasn’t told me of one—and the artist/publisher isn’t aware of one either. If not, wouldn’t that be a great system to create?
November 28, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Perhaps there’s a system that I’m not aware of. But Spotify hasn’t told me of one—and the artist/publisher isn’t aware of one either. If not, wouldn’t that be a great system to create?
We use licensed human music as our pod theme and recently got blocked by Spotify because their system auto identified it. We then had to appeal for each episode. Gen music would avoid the hassle. And that’s a problem! The system should support human music, not the other way around.
November 28, 2025 at 10:05 PM
We use licensed human music as our pod theme and recently got blocked by Spotify because their system auto identified it. We then had to appeal for each episode. Gen music would avoid the hassle. And that’s a problem! The system should support human music, not the other way around.
ICE detained workers because a young republican claimed they are illegal. But, according to the business’ manager—all of them had work permits. I wonder why this kid thought otherwise…
November 14, 2025 at 4:42 PM
ICE detained workers because a young republican claimed they are illegal. But, according to the business’ manager—all of them had work permits. I wonder why this kid thought otherwise…
Dow up 6% y/y
S&P up 11% y/y
NASDAQ up 19% y/y
So, no.
And you can’t buy groceries with your 401(k).
Yet again: it’s a problem with your president is completely out of touch with normal household economics.
Remember how much flak Bush got for not knowing the price of milk? Seems so quaint now.
S&P up 11% y/y
NASDAQ up 19% y/y
So, no.
And you can’t buy groceries with your 401(k).
Yet again: it’s a problem with your president is completely out of touch with normal household economics.
Remember how much flak Bush got for not knowing the price of milk? Seems so quaint now.
November 9, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Dow up 6% y/y
S&P up 11% y/y
NASDAQ up 19% y/y
So, no.
And you can’t buy groceries with your 401(k).
Yet again: it’s a problem with your president is completely out of touch with normal household economics.
Remember how much flak Bush got for not knowing the price of milk? Seems so quaint now.
S&P up 11% y/y
NASDAQ up 19% y/y
So, no.
And you can’t buy groceries with your 401(k).
Yet again: it’s a problem with your president is completely out of touch with normal household economics.
Remember how much flak Bush got for not knowing the price of milk? Seems so quaint now.
My point is not to be critical: this is an individual, human choice that will aggregate into the communities we live in.
My point is to encourage people to step back and question the frame with which they are viewing this moment. This isn’t just a tool. It’s a challenge to who we think we are.
My point is to encourage people to step back and question the frame with which they are viewing this moment. This isn’t just a tool. It’s a challenge to who we think we are.
November 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
My point is not to be critical: this is an individual, human choice that will aggregate into the communities we live in.
My point is to encourage people to step back and question the frame with which they are viewing this moment. This isn’t just a tool. It’s a challenge to who we think we are.
My point is to encourage people to step back and question the frame with which they are viewing this moment. This isn’t just a tool. It’s a challenge to who we think we are.
Third: We accept a different view, perhaps less western and capitalist, to see that it doesn’t have to be this way. AI is not set. Our use is not fixed. The outcome is not determined. The path is not inevitable.
But first we must accept that what it means to be human may change (as it always has).
But first we must accept that what it means to be human may change (as it always has).
November 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Third: We accept a different view, perhaps less western and capitalist, to see that it doesn’t have to be this way. AI is not set. Our use is not fixed. The outcome is not determined. The path is not inevitable.
But first we must accept that what it means to be human may change (as it always has).
But first we must accept that what it means to be human may change (as it always has).
Second: We can build fortresses around ourselves and our human experience (as some in this thread are). This maintains our feeling of exceptionalism yet risks limiting. We have never been alone—as individuals or as a species. Our knowledge is not our own but it is in our community.
November 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Second: We can build fortresses around ourselves and our human experience (as some in this thread are). This maintains our feeling of exceptionalism yet risks limiting. We have never been alone—as individuals or as a species. Our knowledge is not our own but it is in our community.
Second: We can build fortresses around ourselves and our human experience (as some in this thread are). This maintains our feeling of exceptionalism yet risks limiting. We have never been alone—as individuals or as a species. Our knowledge is not our own but it is in our community.
November 8, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Second: We can build fortresses around ourselves and our human experience (as some in this thread are). This maintains our feeling of exceptionalism yet risks limiting. We have never been alone—as individuals or as a species. Our knowledge is not our own but it is in our community.
There are at least three possible pathways:
First, we worship this new planetary scale intelligence that can know things we cannot, treating it as the god that some of the high priests creating it hope we wiAnd we will return to seeking order in the universe—not in the cosmos but in the AI.
First, we worship this new planetary scale intelligence that can know things we cannot, treating it as the god that some of the high priests creating it hope we wiAnd we will return to seeking order in the universe—not in the cosmos but in the AI.
November 8, 2025 at 3:02 PM
There are at least three possible pathways:
First, we worship this new planetary scale intelligence that can know things we cannot, treating it as the god that some of the high priests creating it hope we wiAnd we will return to seeking order in the universe—not in the cosmos but in the AI.
First, we worship this new planetary scale intelligence that can know things we cannot, treating it as the god that some of the high priests creating it hope we wiAnd we will return to seeking order in the universe—not in the cosmos but in the AI.
And these comments too: bsky.app/profile/tres...
A friend recently texted me the same thing. “Do you really not use ChatGPT?!” It was a sign of where we are culturally on this. People are compelled to use it but also starting to question the normalcy?
Recently met someone who was very surprised to hear I didn’t use ChatGPT or any LLM.
I said my job depended on doing distinctive work. That was my selling point. If I started to sound like ChatGPT and turn out what it did, then how on earth could I justify doing it? What would that make me?
I said my job depended on doing distinctive work. That was my selling point. If I started to sound like ChatGPT and turn out what it did, then how on earth could I justify doing it? What would that make me?
November 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
And these comments too: bsky.app/profile/tres...
More here—a bit dated but explains early thoughts on this idea. artificialityinstitute.org/the-design-i...
The Design Illusion of LLMs
It’s easy to fall prey to the design illusion that because LLMs look sleek, they must be well-designed. But aesthetics alone do not equal design. As Steve Jobs once said, “Design is not just what it l...
artificialityinstitute.org
October 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
More here—a bit dated but explains early thoughts on this idea. artificialityinstitute.org/the-design-i...
Yes and…Atlas extends the room masquerading as a window design problem. These tools are rooms where to stay to create and then take something with you. But they’re designed like windows that help you find something on the other side. So designed like a browser but more like photoshop.
October 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Yes and…Atlas extends the room masquerading as a window design problem. These tools are rooms where to stay to create and then take something with you. But they’re designed like windows that help you find something on the other side. So designed like a browser but more like photoshop.
Is he so anti-PC that he can’t simply say: That isn’t what our party stands for and we won’t have any leaders—young or old—who support those views.
It shouldn’t be so hard to stand up for basic decency.
It shouldn’t be so hard to stand up for basic decency.
October 16, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Is he so anti-PC that he can’t simply say: That isn’t what our party stands for and we won’t have any leaders—young or old—who support those views.
It shouldn’t be so hard to stand up for basic decency.
It shouldn’t be so hard to stand up for basic decency.
I agree we’re in bubble territory and I find echoes to the internet & cleantech bubbles that I was quite close to. But the analysis this article is referencing is kinda bonkers: an arcane methodology, smuggling unrelated stuff, from a commodities expert? Headline grabbing, yes. But relevant?
October 15, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I agree we’re in bubble territory and I find echoes to the internet & cleantech bubbles that I was quite close to. But the analysis this article is referencing is kinda bonkers: an arcane methodology, smuggling unrelated stuff, from a commodities expert? Headline grabbing, yes. But relevant?
Points for novelty? Wide-ranging, albeit cherry-picked, cultural theory of everything as method of talking one’s book isn’t necessarily the norm.
October 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Points for novelty? Wide-ranging, albeit cherry-picked, cultural theory of everything as method of talking one’s book isn’t necessarily the norm.
This made my day. Thank you.
October 7, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This made my day. Thank you.