I met a guy at the Assembly 2021 afterparty who explained some things about Urbit to me that a lot of people don't understand. Touchy subjects like the Plunder debate and that Morlock thread from last year are hard to fully grasp when you don't have the real context behind them.

Anyone who thinks Auto-Regressive LLMs are getting close to human-level AI, or merely need to be scaled up to get there, *must* read this. AR-LLMs have very limited reasoning and planning abilities. This will not be fixed by making them bigger and training them on more data.

Remember, friends, there’s no need to get dressed up for Halloween. Your true monster is on the inside. And anyone who loves you will know it.

I lost my wife to cancer last month — our daughter lost her mother. I’ve hesitated sharing any of this, but there is something I want to record. Fair warning: this is mostly about love.

non aesthetic things Context/Details: A TikTok user shared a personal story about their father, who is serving a life sentence in prison at the age of 87. The user attempted to reach out to their father, hoping for a conversation. However, instead of engaging in personal dialogue, the father

im never going to the beach again 😳

i think he went a little too far

I did not see that coming

When the machines take over, these are the hero surgeons who will fight on the front lines. Teach the kids to study not just software but hardware as well.

Takes a special kind of evil to do this

Historic Vids we just witnessed the moment that Al first became sentient 🤖

In the movie 'The matrix' Neo's passport has an expiration date set to 9/11/2001

The first issue of Urbit Systems Technical Journal is at the proof stage. Expect seven articles comprising 150 pages on testing, runes, Urwasm, floating-point determinism, the Lick vane, and more. We are hyped to bring Volume One Issue One to you this month.

How close South Korea came to losing the war

The Simpsons in the 1950s

This is what it looks like inside a Temu warehouse…

The best video I've seen in a minute.

Dark thoughts

The most dangerous 77 seconds ever recorded by a psychiatrist just broke containment again. Thomas Szasz, the man the entire profession tried to erase, looked straight into the camera and said: “We do not have an epidemic of mental illness. We have an epidemic of psychiatry.”

Analog Cunningham's Law