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)

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)

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

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)

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

Mac app for LLMs: "Chat with a bunch of models at once." $20/mo for the Fast and Plus models, $100/mo for Frontier+Reasoning https://chorus.sh/

ten cents a dance.... (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: The Risk of Gradual Disempowerment from AI. The baseline scenario as AI becomes AGI becomes ASI (artificial superintelligence), if nothing more dramatic goes wrong first and even we successfully ‘solve alignment’ of AI to a given user and developer, is the ‘gradual’ disempowerment of humanity by AIs, as we voluntarily grant them more and more power in a vicious cycle, after which AIs control the future and an ever-increasing share of its real resources. It is unlikely that humans survive it for long. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: o3 Is a Lying Liar. I love o3. I’m using it for most of my queries now. But that damn model is a lying liar. Who lies. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: o3 Will Use Its Tools For You. *OpenAI has finally introduced us to the full o3 along with o4-mini. (more)

Sharecropping is a system of Agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on the land. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharecropping (more)