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🔮 Notion warlock at notionmastery.com 🧱 Product maker at weareokidoki.com 🤠 Latest at typeoneerror.com 👨‍🚒 Volunteer firefighter (Lt.) 👨‍💻 Hacker (rb/js/ios/php) 🎹 Producer (soundcloud.com/hacynth) 🎧 DJ (mixcloud.com/hacynth) Avatar by Vic Nguyen
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Promethean fire is actually the perfect myth for AI. Prometheus didn't develop the devine; he stole it. The better mythology for developing critical cognition may be the similarly-named Protean mythology. Proteus, a shapeshifter, develops fluid, adaptive responses to context. Also my latest track ✌️

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The hard question being "what am I, exactly?" Is there a distinct me in here? Sure seems like it! But then you look for that place and you end up finding a line of bene gesserit witches looking back at you.

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

My primary complaint with BlueSky at the moment is the video upload quality is still really poor. Audio sounds really bad, so it's not fun to share video here at the moment. Have to upload to unlisted Youtube or something.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

You'll be blessed, indeed, but no one will see you as a god. You'll be seen like any class of religious outlier that eschews technology. You'll probably live outside society. And I will be incredibly jealous and haunt you from whatever sleeve my cortical stack is downloaded into. Ugh, let me die!

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Training AI systems on the same dopamine-driven feedback loops that already capture attention, then asking them to help us think. Designing systems that excel at the cognitive patterns that make us vulnerable to manipulation, then position them as thinking partners. TL;DR: self-radicalization.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

A lot of folks that were "AI skeptics" are starting to come around after seeing examples of "agentic" AI in the last month. What’s interesting is how we are all—zealots and skeptics alike—evaluating it based on the question: *Is it good?* But what does “good” mean? For what/whose definition?

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

This week @meighanotoole.com asked Notion to stop adding " (1)", " (2)" to duplicated pages. It can be helpful to make it obvious to users that pages are distinct by adding numerical counters like this, so I don't think removing them is the right call. But it got me curious: how might we do both?

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

A DOGEr with no government or contracting experience used an LLM to identify contracts for cancelation — or “munching,” in his terms — at the VA. It did not go well. We have the scoop: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

One of my firefighters asked me why I hadn't applied for the new full-time Deputy Chief position that is open rn and, I have to admit, it's been banging around my skull all week. Firefighting or a mindless disassociated computer-brain future. Hmmm. 🤔

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

My new program is 90% written with a few videos. Many people prefer video lessons, but unfortunately for them, I don't. By the time I'm done I assume you'll be able to drop it in AI and say "make me a video lesson version of this taught by a chimp that kinda looks like typeoneerror" so 🤷‍♂️

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

🌶️ Bit of a spicy take on the NM blog this week: What is Notion not so good for? The use-case I often try to steer folks away from?Bookkeeping. Spreadsheets are just better! Notion's a power-house when it comes to synthesizing data, planning, and reporting, but should you do everything in Notion?

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

How do you accept an apology from that which cannot feel regret, nor understand harm, nor learn or adapt—does not "know"? Who originated the harm implied by the apology? The company that built the model? Self-inflicted? We might want to consider what "I will strive to do better" means. Who strives?

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Why "I'm just guessing here..." when you can "I ran the numbers and worked with an AI model to help synthesize public benchmarks and run a directional analysis..."

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

zooming out a little bit, it does feel alarming to me that a lot of people whose stated politics are progressive or socialist or both are willing to give huge tech companies an easy ride for fully seizing the means of production for everyone, no matter where you personally work

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

The deer antler velvet was particularly delightful.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Architecting Workspaces, my nerdy Notion workspace-building toolkit and guide is starting to feel a little more real with some Notion Mastery-style design from @mariepoulin.com in place.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

I find the demand that we need "better AI criticism" to be so funny. Like, what do you want us to do, do less historicizing? Focus more on the tech and not structural forces which lead to the tech? My friends, that's how we got into this mess to begin with.

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

I just got my first pair of prescription glasses. Q for you long-time glasses ppl: do you get vertigo when you move your head around? Super blurry vision when taking them off. Normal stuff I need to get used to?

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments