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What did you share this week, and why?
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Dumb idea: use bots to 10x engagement as policy. Precedent is intentional XP amount boosting in video games. Ex: CoD4 was 5-10XP per kill and later gens were 10 times that b/c of a significant boost to player satisfaction. For Warpcast: one authentic like is boosted with 10 likes from bots. One real recast is followed by 10 bot recasts. Seems stupid; it’s the same thing! Users disagree. https://callofduty.fandom.com/wiki/XP
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Today’s reading: continued on with Energy and Civilisation. Mostly focused on the transition from coal to fossil fuels and towards electrification. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262536165/energy-and-civilization/
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Cathedrals are perhaps the most monumental examples of beautiful, transcendent atom assembly ever attempted—heavy industrial machinery (e.g. extreme ultraviolet lithography equipment) and infrastructure mega projects could be candidates, too, though I’d argue against them because of their instrumentality/outcome focus. What’s the equivalent in bits? I did consider a massive monolithic software or a large scale distributed system. But trillion+ parameter LLMs seem like the most suitable comparison to atom cathedrals.
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There’s a vast array of curatorial activity hidden across the web; currently on a quest both to surface the outputs appropriately and to make the hybrid consumption-production labour OOMs simpler. https://warpcast.com/na/0x67c36ef8
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Today’s reading: continuing on with Vaclav Smil’s Energy and Civilisation. Reading about comps of traditional farming productivity in China, Mesoamerica, Europe, and Southeast Asia and the rise of agriculture in North America, plus a survey of prime movers (musculature, water, wind) and fuels. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262536165/energy-and-civilization/
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Old school once: traditional enterprise on-prem solutions and playbooks. New school once: perhaps best represented by the 37 Signals crew. Question: has anyone spotted any novel/interesting NSO product strategies or GTM playbooks, esp. for AI products? https://once.com/
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Happening in hiring, too? Applicant’s first task is getting past the initial screening, much of which is/will be done by some for of machine agent. And so we get the insanely verbose and vacuous job post <> job application dynamics. https://x.com/antoniogm/status/1815775557600354339 https://x.com/amandacassatt/status/1815704185649746396
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Turtles have been usurped; it’s 2x2s all the way down. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down
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Thinking about the yin and yang of politics as a whole. Scarcity and abundance—manifesting as a politics of fear and a politics of hope, respectively—seem like strong initial candidates.
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Today’s reading is Vaclav Smil’s Energy and Civilisation. Begun with prehistoric foraging societies and the origins of agriculture. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262536165/energy-and-civilization/
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This is the way—and it probably extends to other media forms, too.
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Training log, gi: worked mostly on kimura mechanics from side control, and connected them up with a rolling entry from the HQ position, followed by a back take from the north-south position. Sparring felt smooth. A cut lip meant no tight face pressure etc. and actually resulted in me being way more relaxed. Had some lighter rolls with newer people, as well as some real fun, higher paced technical rolls.
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Today's read: finished up Cybernetics and the 21st Century. Final chapters were a review of cybernetics in South America and a look at neocybernetics in Japan. https://hanart.press/cybernetics-for-the-21st-century-vol-1/
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A /subset blog that gets into the whys behind the project—better saving, sharing and search equals better relationships and unlocks greater civilisational progress. https://warpcast.com/msms/0x95731ccf
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""A new way to save, share and search" is about more than mere technological innovation. It's about the base fabric of our relationships and the texture of the emerging reality that unfolds from them over time. Like the civilisational progress indicators that lag behind information allocation practices, our current approaches to saving, sharing and search are no match for the breakneck pace our contemporary society and its environment requires." https://paragraph.xyz/@subset/relationships-and-progress
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Looking for insights into a sport pre vs post Olympic inclusion if y’all know or have any… https://warpcast.com/msms/0x5e258402
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Post-session chatter earlier this week about the effect of the Olympics on Judo (after possibility of BJJ being an Olympic discipline came up). Thesis: inclusion in the Olympics lead to continually stricter regulation of permissible moves and approaches, a disincentive to experiment and develop things that didn’t lead to Olympic performance, and an optimisation of selection pressures for elite athletes—essentially, death of diversity and innovation. I’m not particularly schooled on Judo history—nor have I practiced it—so wondering if any of y’all have some insight to this. Would you rate the impact of the Olympics as positive, neutral or negative, and why?
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Today's reading was about the different terrains of cybernetics via Cybernetics for the 21st Century. First, its impact in Poland, and second, in China. A fair chunk of the latter essay can be found in the linked post. https://hanart.press/cybernetics-for-the-21st-century-vol-1/ https://www.palladiummag.com/2022/10/17/the-genealogy-of-chinese-cybernetics/
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Thinking about search space representations—what a user sees after they've provided a query and received a response. Ended up with: - Lists - Grids - Tables - Trees - Clusters or heatmaps - Graphs - Sequences or states - Ontologies - Vectors or hyperplanes - Spatial representations - Mediators or daemons Any other candidates, or particularly compelling combos/hybrids of the above for representing search spaces? https://warpcast.com/msms/0x6c8d4468
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