cyrus

@cyrus

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While @july has never felt more optimistic about the future, I'm slowly veering in the opposite direction. A few people asked why, so I wrote this short essay. After years of working with century long time horizons, I'm noticing a shift in my optimism. I believe it partly stems from a paradox around unprecedented global connectivity alongside deepening fragmentation. It makes me wonder if our technological ingenuity can truly outpace our collective dysfunction when planetary challenges demand wisdom. https://cyrusclarke.substack.com/p/why-an-optimist-is-slowly-veering

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smells like lean pivot

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AI 2.0 might be the worst new term i've heard this week

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Sunday's reading (ok skimming)

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finally emerging after a week of nonstop user studies, paper writing and remote exhibition setup what’s happening here?

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every flash is a Bitcoin transaction. maybe should build a bunch to show what this would look like for different chains.

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came into the lab this morning to find a group of 10 year olds learning about training ml models. on one hand, i was kind of awestruck at how amazing that is. as i walked towards my office i started thinking about where i grew up, where even today many kids at that age are struggling with basic maths and reading. it made me wonder how we ever get the future to be more evenly distributed.

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this Miyazaki chap knew what he was talking about

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the only interesting thing about it is how boring it’s made the internet for 48h. like a virus or an invasive species infecting every scroll.

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also this chaos breeds possibilities

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back in the lab more. casting less. has revealed and made me realise quite a few things about being in-person vs remote - a natural, massive decline in being chronically online - my concentration levels are significantly deeper - less random interactions IRL, but those that do happen are more meaningful mentally, socially, emotionally and produce more serendipity - the time to travel to and from 'work' is really important for thoughts to form and build cognitive architecture - physical proximity to instruments and materials creates a sensory relationship with research that screens simply cannot replicate

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"As of March 2025, 23andMe has over 15 million customers worldwide" If ever there was a use case for data sovereignty, it’s this.

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the context on this one is actually crazy my first neuromorphic computing experiment, building neural networks with living things, using an opentrons will do a write up once I see the results.

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this week I’m hoping to finally get back to training 🤞

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Drop your last saved photo, no context

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where is farcaster on this map of the web?

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preparing to hibernate

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how long do you think it'll be until we can program cells like this?

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stumbled on this wild paper - genetic circuits that are essentially running the basis of blockchains (and other distributed compute) with living cells only a 2-bit hash function but still intriguing. who wants to fund the world's least secure, but most alive new chain? https://www.nature.com/articles/s41589-024-01730-1#citeas

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just got this e-mail - it just confirms my decision not to travel for the foreseeable future while the situation remains precarious. there are some things i've had to make peace with: - i have a (very cool) new exhibition opening in Madrid at the end of this month that I won't be able to attend or help setup. hopefully they take nice photos for me. - i won't be able to go 'home' this summer and see my friends (and some of their new babies). but we do have facetime. - i will get to spend the year in the US so need to start planning long road-trips on very straight roads...

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