Maybe the solution to collective action problems is inspiring leadership.

Tom Cheng @Lambda_Coder let's focus in one component. suppose you want to write the 3D renderer: i.e., the part of the game engine that draws the scene to the screen. if you ask gpt-4 to write such a thing in one go... it will fail hard. that's some big piece of software, involving lots of functions and

The left hate themselves because they're not ethical enough. The right hate themselves because they're not successful enough.

Hope is a seed that grows with nourishment. Despair is a weed that dies without sunlight.

it’s kind of insane that we’re not *obsessed* with coordination. the ability to form superorganisms is our biggest force multiplier and yet, relatively speaking, so little interest

It’s actually crazy to think that for decades, all this trash would have just flowed into the ocean. How did we accept this? This is still the reality for most polluted rivers today—but hopefully, not for much longer!

despite making Bend as simple as I possibly could, 99.9% of people following me still have no idea what HVM is useful for. to most, it is no different than some pseudoscience bs. I eventually came to the acceptance that I shouldn't be trying to make people use interaction nets,

innovation happens due to childlike wonder, innocence, not accepting the world the way you’re given the world. innovation is childlike. it’s pure. it’s naive. innovation is a very childlike thing to pursue. it doesn’t come from a place of greed or competition; true innovation

And then we move onto rigging the election so that he will be president in '26 and '28

DEMO TIME SupGen is a generative coding AI... except it isn't an AI. There is no model, there is no pre-training. You just give it some examples, and it gives you a program. It runs locally, in a single-core CPU. Oh, and it can also prove theorems. Here's a demo, including a

the greatest power of a generalist is that they don't know how things work - so they ask stupid questions, which helps reframe things

“Why are you so political?” Me: Pixar

Maia Been saying this for years. It’s Urbanization and over socialization. It’s an anthropological reason. Humans self regulate when there’s surpopulation. Surpopulation is instinctualy detected by how many interactions did you have with unknown humans. Social media made this worse.

Everybody has some power, but nobody is in control.

I am going to tell you a very important fact. Read this carefully and fully. The brain isn’t optimized for happiness. It’s optimized for survival. When an animal is coming to attack you, you have to feel anxiety. It’s higher priority than feeling happiness or satisfaction on

suffering from chatbot fatigue? frustrated that singularity was cancelled? looking for something new to give you hope? here is my delusional, but "hey, it kinda makes sense" plan to build super-intelligence in my small indie research lab (note: I'll trade accuracy for pedagogy)

idea pollination across the constellation of my interests 💡✨ added a 2d map that randomly selects topics. when i pause on a pair, gemini flash lite generates a new project idea combining both of them e.g. evolutionary algorithms + gesture-driven world-building = ??