Venkatesh Rao ☀️

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The face eating leopard is now a face eating doge

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Starting in a couple of minutes. @Arvind Narayanan on the @Protocolized town hall, talking about his AI as Normal Technology philosophy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6SRoqp1vJQ

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Lots of action in the latest issue of Protocolized. This really is turning into a magazine now. Provocative summary of a distributed-AI future called south beast Asia Also: a talk in an hour by Arvind Narayanan and a new fiction bounty protocol. https://protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/a-sea-of-distributed-ai

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Clearly Zorro was involved

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Interesting eth wallet experiment over on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/piss.beauty/post/3lsutfcshek22

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If you attack someone for the AI they use rather than the substance of what they say, it’s called an ad botinem.

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🧐 no protein?

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Tragedy is about what you can’t undo. Horror is about what you cannot unsee. Terror is about what you cannot prevent.

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Kicking off rn in the SoP discord, the Spannungsfeld (tension field) Special Interest Group (SIG). We’re figuring out how to manage the tensions latent in all protocols. https://discord.gg/nPkq6Ukz?event=1385257235424346215

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The biggest emerging blocker to using AI for public stuff for me is the growing species of people who will critique my choice of model if I declare it, and demand to know it so they can critique it if I do. It’s worse than being around wine people or indie movie watchers. It’s like being in a damn Seinfeld episode. 99% of the time it makes zero difference for me. And if you care that much you should stop reading me 🤬

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Yesterday ended up even worse than it started. Stuck for hours in traffic due to 405 closure we hadn’t properly anticipated but should have. Today is off to a better start but only because my expectations are really low. Batch of dosa/Idli batter I didn’t think would come out well, didn’t. But it wasn’t worse than I expected, which is a win. The breakfast was edible. Plans for rest of day built around similar low expectations around highly suboptimal preconditions. Forecast for next week is slow recovery. Whether I have a good or bad day is 90% a function of the enshittification level of domestic and neighborhood systems. A kind of protocol weather. Right now it’s fragile and low-potential with a chance of messy breakdowns.

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Update, second day in a row off yo a terrible start. Entire damn bag of trader joe teeny avocado was bad. My own fault for buying a suspiciously too-ripe bag that was the last one left (I normally buy them green and ripen them in a paper bag for a few days and then put them in the fridge…100% yield usually). Also several others things of the same sort going wrong lately 😡 Low-level crap going wrong in a hundred different minor ways really throws you off your game. Enshittif8cation of life systems.

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I have not had a good day 😡

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In 20 minutes (10 AM PT), I’ll be hosting the second session of SIGFPT (Special Interest Group in Formal Protocol Theory) on the Summer of Protocols discord. We’ll be discussing Observability for protocols. https://discord.com/events/1082444651946049567/1383903252646592603/1388202216652800000

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Fuck I was right ChatGPT o3 thinks The Bear is the most popular Blue America show. And Yellowstone the most popular Ref America shows. I can’t really stand either. And I’ll bet these shows aren’t just popular but their fans view them as realistic positive depictions of the way the world is. Ugh.

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The Bear I think is the TV show contemporary Democrats think the world is like 🤔 It’s kinda like The West Wing for 2025

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Ext: Judgment day “So what did you do with the power of AI in your life?” “Err.. I compared candy bars” “7th circle of hell for you”

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I need a Permian Park movie https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250624-the-bloodcurdling-permian-monsters-that-ruled-the-earth-before-dinosaurs

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Starting now. Memory research group kickoff with @keikreutler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYTfwgZAvQ8

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