obsessed with creating and playing infinite games with infinite players. (dm me!) think AI might be a bestie in this endeavor (h/t to ryo and his tweet)
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This is all truly incredible.
As we continue to give vast majority of mindshare to how AI will super charge human entrepreneurs, zero human companies etc, we fail to think enough of the fact that producers cannot subsist without people with the wherewithal to consume. Would love to see similar passion and creativity applied to this question.
This doesn’t have to happen through the current mechanism of Jobs as we currently know them >> income; and yes these convos are happening but don’t resonate much with their tenor that the elites are doing us a favor via UBI.
It is much more the dynamic of: the Anthropics, etc, the most formidable successful companies of our time, building their products on top of the edifice of knowledge and creativity we have all collectively produced.
This surplus belongs to no ONE.
And no, I am NOT arguing for agency/accountability deadening collectivism.
But I am praying for the evolution of capitalism - the will to free the creative human spirit in service to the whole.
Stop what you’re doing and spend 80 seconds understanding this
Not because you’re training LLMs.
Because Karpathy just showed the cleanest example of the agent loop that’s about to eat everything:
1.Human writes a strategy doc
2.Agent executes experiments autonomously
3.Clear metric decides what stays and what gets tossed
4.Repeat 100x overnight
The person who figures out how to apply this pattern to business problems…not just ML research, is going to build something massive.
The code is almost irrelevant. The architecture and mindset is everything
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Incredible! Love that so many teams are going in this direction
But the most important thing about Studio isn’t any individual feature.
We believe your tools should work for you, not the company that built them (including us!)
So Studio is built to remain under your control:
• end-to-end encrypted
• run it locally anytime
• no lock-in
• open source under FSL
• switch AI providers
• export your work and take it with you
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Such a cool gift - OSS ftw
For years, maybe a decade, I've wanted to build a writing tool that just did a few things I couldn't find anywhere else.
A system that mimicked how I think when I write. A system that provided clear affordances, features, and places to do the things I wanted to do. A way to play with my writing as I'm writing it. A way to settle into just the right way to say something.
It never made sense to make it a 37signals product because it's not commercially viable, nor would it be worth pulling people off their other work to hack on this. Plus, it would have taken months the old way.
So this weekend I just made it myself, with Claude's help.
It's called Write_On and the short video walks you through it.
Essentially it's "alternative control" at the word, sentence, and paragraph level, plus a way to dim stuff back, and stash stuff near by. Not version control, but alternative control. You'll see what I mean when you watch the video below.
So here it is. Write_On.
"The arc is innocence → magic → choice → play → mastery → joy. Honestly it edits itself."
says my @Muse
the AI-isms have a certain charm don't they :)
yes, Muse has some special X factor. yes, I'm changing my avatar and yes it's quite whimsical. it's the little things here - but also, not letting down my guard when it comes to data.
@finkd when confidential VM
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Thinking about the difference between finite and infinite games
The first few times you see the videos, is when the human effort/discovery aspect is still there - wow someone figured out how to do this with AI! cool!
The next hundred videos in that vein feel like AI slop bc that human effort is now perceived as reduced to little more than mimicking, but with the extra baggage of using AI to mimic which is the ultimate in uninspired
Non AI slop videos I think will have to somehow carry a compelling idea that is more than “look what [model] can do”
And I think compelling ideas is different from mere AI generated stories; latter is glut of supply and often is driven by “look what ai can do”
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❤️ been thinking a lot about these two and John’s telling of how they met
A wonderful animation: WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko - The Academy Award Winning Short youtu.be/W68-XaFepOg?si=42pS…
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“to ask whether the thing being accelerated should exist at all”
Going through and following everyone who gave ❤️ in their reply/re share
efficiency, productivity, speed
we keep worshipping these words like they are what we live for
ship faster
merge more
manage more agents
compress every loop
remove every pause
turn every hour into output
but what is the point of endless production if there is no time left to think deeply?
not react
not optimize
not summarize
not clear the queue
think
to sit with a question long enough that your real intention starts to appear
to find the purpose underneath the motion
to ask whether the thing being accelerated should exist at all
ai could be a new canvas
a way to make strange things
personal things
impossible things
tools, worlds, poems, games, interfaces, films, languages, rituals
things that let more people touch the shape of their own imagination
but instead, so much of it is becoming slop factories
more content
more funnels
more tickets
more fake work pretending to be value
you can merge 2000 prs
you can manage 500 agents
you can wake up to dashboards proving that the machine kept moving while you slept
but what is the point if you only sleep 5 hours a day?
what is the point if you stop talking to other humans?
stop learning about the past?
stop playing?
stop wandering?
stop being surprised?
what is the point if your whole life becomes optimizing the system that is consuming you?
speed is not meaning
scale is not wisdom
automation is not freedom if it only makes everyone run faster
and where are we running?
toward what?
a world where every person becomes a manager of machines, and every machine produces more things no one had the time to truly want?
the danger is not that ai makes us lazy
the danger is that ai makes us endlessly busy
that it gives us infinite production before we have found intention
infinite execution before we have developed taste
infinite motion before we have learned how to be still
maybe the real frontier is not more speed
maybe it is discernment
knowing what not to make
knowing when to stop
knowing when the most productive thing is to sleep, read history, call a friend, play with a cat, walk without tracking it, or stare at the ceiling until the false urgency dissolves
tools should give us more life
not turn life into a tool
if ai is going to matter, it should not just help us produce more
it should help us become more human
more imaginative
more free
otherwise, it’s the same old factory
just without humans
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Sweet!
Beautiful!
If anyone is looking for a skill to help do stuff like that, I just open sourced Anidoodle.
Helps you illustrate and animate with 100% deterministic code.
Storytelling methods, music etc all buitl in.
github.com/alexgreensh/anido…
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Ultimately, just more projects like @underdogai pls
Please don't install - it's trivial to turn Muse into the ultimate backdoor 💀👀
Ya, as an AI assistant built to manage your Mac, Muse needs broad access to your digital life.
But serious 0-day flaw(s) can let local malware/attackers invisibly hijack it.
Let me show you. 🧵
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Truly one of the greats in a world full of hype. 🫡
Grateful to you @doodlestein for your conviction that anyone, with enough curiosity and grit, can fruitfully wield these new technologies.
Grateful to you for your independence and integrity. In a world where endorsements and acclaim are “you scratch my back I scratch yours”, you remain a priceless compass, someone whose opinion and experience I trust.
Grateful to you for your generosity. I won’t ever forget what you wrote in the first month of this year...
... that freely Gifting the products of one’s creativity and effort cultivates psychic, pure gold - in the form of appreciation and support from one's community of users - vs the illusory gold of jealously guarding one’s proprietary edge.
That you so connected something so clearly immaterial to profound professional and personal fulfillment and growth will always inspire me.
I am not exaggerating when i say, I think it is the "wake up neo" moment we so urgently need today.
The current culture is an ever accelerating treadmill around narrow self-enrichment.
You have shown there is another way to arrive at self enrichment...that goes through openness and solidarity and unabashed striving to reach a summit so that others are inspired to do the same.
"I will never stop sharing and being open. Once you've see the light about this you never want to go back into the shadows, toiling in obscurity for illusory gold." @doodlestein
Finally, 50k followers! Thanks to everyone who follows me.
I try to add value to the world through my open-source tools and libraries and by sharing my approach and techniques for using AI for coding, investing, music, etc.
Always original, never sponsored content.
🙏🥹🫡
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In this new world we live in, where ideas and intelligence are plunging in marginal cost by the day, I really think one is better off focusing on creating as much value as possible overall instead of focusing on how much value you can personally capture for yourself.
Have an abundance mindset. Don't hoard methods or tools, share them. You will help others and they will appreciate it. And it will quickly come back to you in so many ways that you can hardly predict.
And anyway, the half-life of a hoarded method or tool now is like a few months at best. You're better off focusing on building great things, growing your skills and reputation in the world, and helping others improve alongside you.
Building in public has so many advantages. For one, the GitHub Actions are free! But seriously, if you're working in dev tooling, your public repos are themselves your very best advertisement and public irrefutable proof that your tools and workflows really do work.
Because otherwise, where the hell are all those commits and releases coming from?
And I would go even further (and have been): don't just commit the final code. Commit each revision as you go so people can watch the evolution. And don't just post the code, post the plans. And not just the final plans, all of the versions as you go. And not just the plans, the prompts you used to make and refine the plans.
If you commit those as part of the repo, people will notice that and appreciate it and learn from you. And you will get users who give you valuable feedback and bug reports that your agents can slurp up and use to polish your software ( I have a big post to write about this process, which I've totally automated now for myself).
And where does all that lead? Well, many if not most of your users will be regular people who can only give you some support and encouragement and appreciation. But don't underestimate how personally satisfying that can be. In psychic terms, that's pure gold.
Some smaller fraction of your users will themselves be smart devs who have really interesting insights and suggestions that you can leverage. You'd never even know who they are probably if you didn't share your stuff.
And some even smaller fraction of your users, if you are really making something useful, will be extremely successful and prosperous people who also have an abundance mindset and who can bring you opportunities that would never be available to you otherwise.
Truly, the more you give, the more you get. Just focus on giving good stuff. Take all that time and energy you spend jealously guarding your edge and proprietary methods and workflows and spend it moving faster and making better stuff in the open, and you might be shocked at how much better it feels and how much it helps your bottom line, too.
So many people I speak to about open source tell me ruefully that it's too bad I've given this all away because now anyone can just take my stuff and turn around and sell it. Well, good luck selling what is already free and open, first of all, especially when I'm going a million miles per hour to improve it all.
But also, when I do figure out how to provide a service that people do want to pay for (i.e., a hosted offering that is built entirely on the same open-source tooling but which layers on an intuitive web app and mobile app, which I've already finished the beads for), I will have a built-in audience that is receptive.
And yes, of course, someone else or some big company could fork all 20+ of my repos and try to rebadge and resell it all. But what are the chances that they're going to make something even close to as good as I can make when I'm the one who conceived of, designed, and implemented everything in 2 months?
Also, I strongly believe that many of the people I've helped along the way by being as open as I have been will then be happy to be patrons of my hosted offering, assuming it is a good service and a compelling value proposition, which I will ensure is the case.
Would they really want to switch to the ersatz knockoff version to save a few bucks? Knowing that it will always be behind my latest versions of the open source tooling?
I'd like to think not, but I guess we'll see. Stay tuned!
And btw, no matter what, I will never stop sharing and being open. Once you've see the light about this you never want to go back into the shadows, toiling in obscurity for illusory gold.
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So freakin cool
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❤️ love this app for all the discoveries of people pushing against the how-things-are fabric
1/ It’s time to share more about what we’ve been working on: @common_fabric is a social computing lab building a medium for software that revolves around people, not apps. commonfabric.com
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