A Digital Garden

Tag: AI

  • Philosophers at AI labs

    Maybe about a year ago, I remember telling Michael that I thought it would make sense for the big AI companies to hire philosophers. That philosophers might be one of the last “jobs” left. A thousand other thoughts or predictions, if you can call this remark one, since then have not come to pass.

  • My pendulum swings

    After about two months now of using AI very heavily, exploring new coding and agent tools, I am again swinging back towards a very Wendell Berry-esque feeling towards all of it. At the same time as my usage has been going up, this very interesting nostalgia for the 90s and early 2000s has come into…

  • Reading Notes: Simulacra and Simulation (Baudrillard)

    Reading notes collected from PDF Reader. The simulacrum is never what hides the truth — it is truth that hides the fact that there is none. The simulacrum is true. – Ecclesiastes Simulacra and Simulation, p. 1 ANDREW (April 8, 2026 — 2:53 PM ET) what is Baudrillard saying here? “But it is no longer…

  • Clawed

    https://twitter.com/deanwball/article/2028464782622195992 From Dean Ball I tend to agree with the direction where-we-are and where-we-are-headed that this piece is offering: “At some point during my lifetime—I am not sure when—the American republic as we know it began to die. Like most natural deaths, the causes are numerous and interwoven. No one incident, emergency, attack, president, political…

  • The morning I have wasted

    AI will add, they say, trillions of dollars in value to GDP. Yet, if all you are is a middle man between a CLI and a terminal, you have been conned my friend. Today, I am that middle man. I’ve spent the whole morning fiddling with this auto trading dashboard that I’ve been playing around…

  • The Bots are Awakening

    Things are heating up. AIs have created their own social network. They’re coordinating. Learning from one another. Hard to appreciate how really very interesting and weird this is. I’ve been interacting with OpenClaw bot through Telegram in the last day, trying to figure out what it is, you know, so as not to be Left-Behind-Guy,…

  • World War AI

    https://www.epsilontheory.com/world-war-ai

  • Baby Shoggoth is Listening

    This subject is interesting to me. I find I don’t get particularly drawn up in the subject of legacy, but the framing of impacting the AIs by showing it who you are and what you find important is interesting. I don’t think I’d say that I have to write so that the AIs know me.…

  • Anomie

    Back in the days of yore, if you did not manage to get a job at Google in 2005 you could still buy its stock. You had at least the option of gaining from its appreciation assuming you thought it inevitable. Over the last decade and a half there have been multiple generations who succeeded…

  • AI and the Detection of Gravity Waves

    “It takes a lot to think this far outside of the accepted solution,” Adhikari said. “We really needed the AI.” From a Wired article via an Alex Tabarrok summary. Really incredible stuff. Move 37 by AlphaGO might still be the most impressive thing to me in AI and this is now there with it. Not…