"this part of twitter"; there may be multiple parts now, but first one was heavily post-rat: (2022-04-24) Rival Voices Tpot Is Littered With Postrats (more)

Magic: The Gathering (colloquially known as Magic or MTG) is a tabletop and digital collectible card game created by Richard Garfield.[1] Released in 1993 by Wizards of the Coast, Magic was the first trading card game and had approximately fifty million players as of February 2023.[2][3][4][5] Over twenty billion Magic cards were produced in the period from 2008 to 2016, during which time it grew in popularity.[6][7] As of the 2022 fiscal year, Magic generates over $1 billion in revenue annually. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic:_The_Gathering (more)

Venkatesh Rao: Lands of Lorecraft. In the last couple of years, I’ve become aware of some genuinely fresh management thinking from an emerging cohort of thinkers on the margins of the landscape of traditional institutions. (more)

Mark McElroy: A Metaphysican Looks at Algorithms of Thought. I enjoyed Cortex Futura’s latest post on algorithms of thought (2020-11-27 CortexFutureTrueAlgorithmsOfThoughtHaveArrived). In reflecting on the role algorithms of thought have played in my own life and work, I’d agree that new technologies for sharing algorithms of thought have arrived (especially with the advent of Roam Research). But the algorithms of thought themselves — and ways to share them — have actually been around for quite some time. (more)

improve the system (not focused on human behavior/motivation) of a process. A continual improvement process, also often called a continuous improvement process (abbreviated as CIP or CI), is an ongoing effort to improve products, services, or processes.[1] These efforts can seek "incremental" improvement over time or "breakthrough" improvement all at once.[2] Delivery (customer valued) processes are constantly evaluated and improved in the light of their efficiency, effectiveness and flexibility. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continual_improvement_process

mobile app LLM chatbot: An ally that actually gets you. Auren is an emotionally intelligent guide built for people who care deeply about their growth, relationships, goals, and emotional well-being. Auren offers grounded insight, warm encouragement, and gentle accountability on your terms.... Seren offers pushback, strategy, hard truths, and tough love to help you grow and keep your promises to yourself. https://auren.app/

Decentralized identifiers (DIDs) are a type of globally unique identifier (GUID, UUID) that enables an entity to be identified in a manner that is verifiable, persistent (as long as the DID controller desires), and does not require the use of a centralized registry.[1] DIDs enable a new model of decentralized digital identity that is often referred to as self-sovereign identity or decentralized identity.[2] They are an important component of decentralized web applications. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_identifier (more)

Portable Identity for ActivityPub. I want to focus on: portable digital identity. The idea that I should be able to take all of my data, everything that my identity consists of, and move wholesale to a new instance/server/PDS/whatever you call it. Bluesky permits this. Mastodon and most (all?) other ActivityPub implementations do not. But that doesn’t have to be the case, nothing about ActivityPub—architecturally speaking—is incompatible with this vision. (more)

idea of a variation/subset of the World Wide Web which has fewer of the ugly bits (Small World) (more)

a SmallWeb variant that focuses on passing just Markdown. See (2023-11-14) The Markdown Web. (more)

atjson is a living content format for annotating (annotation) content https://github.com/CondeNast/atjson

Rival Voices Tweet: LessWrong is structurallly analytic, you see? It suffers from the same problems which is why it leads to meaninglessness. Now, TPOT is littered with post-rats, ex-rationalists from LessWrong, that reached stage 4.5 (more)

Divination (from Latin divinare 'to foresee, foretell, predict, prophesy')[2] is the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of an occultic ritual or practice.[3] Using various methods throughout history, diviners ascertain their interpretations of how a querent should proceed by reading signs, events, or omens, or through alleged contact or interaction with supernatural agencies[4] such as spirits, gods, god-like-beings or the "will of the universe" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divination (more)

Anna Gat: I’m now fully sold on new ChatGPT 4o + memory becoming everybody’s therapist in like the next 2 minutes. Just based on 4 days of interaction, it is astounding: 1) It can give you as good a Big 5 analysis after a few conversations as an official test.* (mental health) (more)

a version of Claude

From the Great Depression through now. 2 separate Economic Transitions. (A Brain Fart started in 2009.) (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: AI #112: Release the Everything. *OpenAI has upgraded its entire suite of models. By all reports, they are back in the game for more than images. GPT-4.1 and especially GPT-4.1-mini are their new API non-reasoning models. All reports are that GPT-4.1-mini especially is very good. o3 is the new top of the line ChatGPT reasoning model, with o3-pro coming in a few weeks. Reports are that it too looks very good, even without us yet taking much advantage of its tool usage. If you have access, check it out. Full coverage is coming soon. There’s also o4-mini and o4-mini-high. Oh, they also made ChatGPT memory cover all your conversations, if you opt in, and gave us a version of Claude Code called Codex. And an update to their preparedness framework that I haven’t had time to examine yet. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: AI #113: The o3 Era Begins. Enjoy it while it lasts. The Claude 4 era, or the o4 era, or both, are coming soon. Also, welcome to 2025, we measure eras in weeks or at most months. For now, the central thing going on continues to be everyone adapting to the world of o3, a model that is excellent at providing mundane utility with the caveat that it is a lying liar. You need to stay on your toes. This was also quietly a week full of other happenings, including a lot of discussions around alignment and different perspectives on what we need to do to achieve good outcomes, many of which strike me as dangerously mistaken and often naive. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: AI #111: Giving Us Pause. Events in AI don’t stop merely because of a trade war, partially paused or otherwise. (more)

co-founder of stripe.com with his brother Patrick Collison