Nas saying Jordans was like having a lightsaber is a Top 5 doc moment.

ADHD folks in tech, how many domain names do you own?

~All cultural formation in our time is now the development and propagation of memes that battle their way through a supply chain in cyberspace. Most die; some thrive. The memes that make it through encode deep meanings. This is as serious a process as has ever existed.

dropping my post on the wordcel v rotator history. there's a lotta newcomers so i want to give them context (and also stake my claim). for the love of god don't take this too seriously, and the document is a work in progress roonscape.substack.com/p/a-song-of-sh…

"Would it shock you to know that two people, one with the traits of Extreme-Altruism (X-Altruism) and the other the traits of a sociopath, could be related? Even siblings? And that their personality traits are very similar, with only a few features to distinguish them?"

A tangle of regulation prevents the most obvious things from being built in biomedicine. The app for ordering your coffee is better than the app for your critical care.

Collab with Lex

Worldviews are built around maximizing coherence. Establishing coherence over rationality, experience and instrumentality is so hard that most people decide whether they are rationalists, phenomenologists or pragmatists, and almost everybody is incoherent

Mathematical models by Andrew Perfors @AndyPerfors.bsky.social

This exists actually. Quantum computer + quantum sensor combo can run a sort of quantum neural interferometry where you can process fractional photons incident on a sensor array. It's what I called Quantum Machine Perception

It’s not that LLMs can’t do logic, there’s no logic going on IN HUMANS. Logic is a very slow, conscious process, and very prone to error and “hallucination.” The “feeling of” being correct/logical is a vibe, only loosely correlated to actual valid reasoning.

If your main characteristic is being smart, pivot to rizz. Human-level AI is here.

Reminds me of Radar.

In software, the first 90% of the work takes 90% of the time, the last 10% takes the other 90% of the time.

How legacy code tends to feel:

To sell a piano, don’t tell them to buy one. Show them people enjoying a music parlor in their homes and make them want that. They will buy a piano of their own volition. That’s what Edward Bernays did in 1928 when he was inventing modern PR. Sell not a thing, but emotion.