Imagine you’re a neuron. Now, imagine you’re the being that neuron is a part of. What would they want you to do? Is that a reason to do that thing?

Not all heroes wear tiny hats. They watch so you don’t have to.

Playing Balatro (is like being Elon Musk on ketamine) bit.ly/3TWRunG

goblinAmerica is a computer game. It's remarkable. it's coming out on Steam

store.steampowered.com/app/1944040/go…

Looking forward to seeing localthunk walk around GDC wearing a mink coat and big gold chains

This is an extremely good piece that carefully & clearly traces the historical development of perhaps the most important idea in modern AI - the tension between atomism and holism - revealing some cool & surprising connections to analytic and continental philosophy along the way.

I only have one big idea and everything I write is about it. Here is how I came up with it

subpixel.space/entries/moral-…

Traces, 2022 traces.id

Axiom for young people:
No one (journalists, academics, managers, politicians, consultants etc.) ever, does their homework.
If you do the homework , you win: e.g. if you show up to a meeting having read the paper to the end, you will often be the only one who did.

Ok Balatro theory-crafters. Given perfect play and full unlocks, what is the winrate for Red Deck / White Stakes?

GeoGuessr is my new favorite eSport bit.ly/3Pacm8d

I cannot express in words how much I HATE the narrative that 'a single company will rule the age of AI'. (and to be clear, this is nothing against Pedro himself; he just happens to be falling into the same narrative trap I see others falling for)

AI is literally a transformation…

Here's some game theory about the weird property of 'Donkey Space' and the different way games behave when they get closer to being solved. Special thanks to Frank Lantz Frank Lantz on this.
youtu.be/x0FWBjv8UNA

#NewYoutuber #youtube #gamedev #indiedev #GameTheory

The fantasy of the all-powerful slave has legs: the genie bound to grant wishes, the golem that defends, the spell that animates a broom to clean on its own, the Mr MeeSeeks box.
They share a commonality: a deep intuition that this goes wrong somehow.

“Clouds are condensed vapor” Aha! You are positing the existence of an entity called a ‘cloud’ that can possess certain qualities and features, like density and moistness. Your premise assumes the phenomenon it purports to explain!

Gall’s Law states: a complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. But Demis Hassabis says the most valuable systems are the ones that don’t work at toy scale but do work at large scale. Does modern AI break Gall’s Law?