gordon.bsky.social
Everything around me was someone’s lifework.
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E.g. eyes have independently evolved many times, yet a compound eye and an eyeball and a camera have some differences in implementation. The parallels suggest something about the structure of the environment, more than they suggest a convergence in implementation.
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Thesis: groupchat as minimum viable polity on the network.
Discord/chat form the basis for networked peer production.
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Groupchat -> AI answer wiki is something on my mind.
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Thesis: groupchat as minimum viable polity on the network.
Discord/chat form the basis for networked peer production.
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Do you find it works well over time as the file fills more of the context? IIRC a general prompt engineering rule of thumb is “ask for what you want, not for what you don’t”.
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oh yeah i did this btw
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I’m one of those people. JS-brained “app guy” now writing Rust.
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Designing an Internet
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I've heard this referred to as a "free action" (which comes from Dungeons and Dragons). If a maybe-useful script would take me half an hour to write, I might write one or two of those a week. With LLMs, I can try ten in an hour. This leads to me experimenting with a lot more maybe-useful scripts!
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"Let's think step-by-step"
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$200/mo duck works even better
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content addressing… over http
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Once we can control something at a distance, we just can’t help ourselves, even when the result benefits no one. E2EE is the only path out of this trap.
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we should decentralize thermostats somewhat
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I also love Tal Yarkoni's post: talyarkoni.org/blog/2018/10...
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Hausmann is great
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header block for each message though
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- Easy to parse
- Human readable
- Supports additional metadata if needed, such as timestamps, reply headers, etc.
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I’ve been thinking about doing this with headers + markdown
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“The use of any kind of medium alters the patterns of interdependence among people, as it alters the ratios among our senses.”
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McLuhan’s Understanding Media
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Yes. I can’t fit it all in a tweet but Barabasi is in the op for those who want to dig deeper.
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Systems that survive find an efficient frontier between robustness to failure vs attack given the evolutionary pressures of the environment. These pressures and network effect are what define the exponent of the degree distribution of hubs.