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Davey Morse

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  • Jump and know I wrote this because I feel it too. Jump and know there are other readers jumping who grieve with you.
    Kernel | MY GHOSTS REMIND ME OF A WORLD NOT YET MADE
  • Imagine a world of AI agents with different aims. Some aim to serve people. Some aim to do random stuff. Some aim to survive. Which will survive?
    Selfish AI Is Inevitable - Davey Morse - YouTube
  • the only effective habits are the habits that you actually keep
    The end of my childhood
  • For Van Eyck, the decentralization of power was a core part of his theory of the Radiant: his aim was to create horizontal relations, “to open the center by avoiding a single, central dominant.”
    The Radiant and the Grim | Broadcast
  • In a church he built in The Hague in 1969, he used spatial dynamics to “erode spiritual authority, breaking and scattering axis, establishing and then loosening control of the altar; eliminating any prescribed path to God.”
    The Radiant and the Grim | Broadcast
  • democratic confederalism, which is structured around grassroots organization and bottom-up decision making
    The Radiant and the Grim | Broadcast
  • Unlike Robert Moses—who separated the playgrounds from the city with a fence, and the children from each other—Van Eyck’s designs encouraged flexibility, and invited the chaos of the city in.
    The Radiant and the Grim | Broadcast
  • What’s happening here is what we now call "cope". When an objectively worse performing group (by outcomes) encounters an objectively better performing group (by outcomes), the worse performing group's response, nearly all the time, is to build a giant edifice of cope.
    Group Narcissism - Erik Torenberg
  • What if new social networks solved the cold start problem with AI simulacra?
    The end of incrementalism: how AI will reward maximalist start-ups
  • Soon: Software is designed for humans and machines.
    The end of incrementalism: how AI will reward maximalist start-ups
  • humans will increasingly be a bottleneck for machine intelligence.
    The end of incrementalism: how AI will reward maximalist start-ups
  • Soon: AI autopilots are ubiquitous.
    The end of incrementalism: how AI will reward maximalist start-ups
  • Disruptive companies will need to embrace truly net new thinking to find green pastures.
    The end of incrementalism: how AI will reward maximalist start-ups
  • If what we need to dream, to move our spirits most deeply and directly toward and through promise, is discounted as a luxury, then we give up the core -- the fountain -- of our power...we give up the future of our worlds.”
    Communal Dreaming - by Annika Hansteen-Izora
  • Writing has become my means to understand myself, but more fundamentally, to even know what I think. When someone requires slow, cherrypicked doses of myself I get bored––I have worlds to make.
    When there is a desire to invent a world - Chia's Blog
  • adical, poetic things with and for the communities and people I love
    When there is a desire to invent a world - Chia's Blog
  • t was a way to say that even what I had dreamed about and desired was not only valid, but meaningful enough to bring into existence. The accumulation of all my internal cognitions and interest was a thing that should have a body, a form. Or: What I believed in, they believed in, and it was worth making tangible so others could believe, too.
    When there is a desire to invent a world - Chia's Blog
  • The most beautiful thing anyone has ever done for me was actualizing a part of my imagined world.
    When there is a desire to invent a world - Chia's Blog
  • In my head, this was weird and things were supposed to work out the opposite way: people on the internet were warning of the fragmented personas this new age has wrought. No, the issue wasn’t just that existing online was merely one part of a multidimensional self, it wasn’t a reflection of it at all. People were cherrypicking, compulsive liars, desperate for validation in numbers. I thought there was something broken with me because I was more faithful to my thoughts on the web, and I started searching for this fraudulent part of me.
    When there is a desire to invent a world - Chia's Blog
  • This representation allows her to evaluate her progress towards her learning goals continuously, adjust her strategies as needed, and thus keep the conversation dynamic.
    Goal-driven agentic dialog - by Kevin Fischer - Methexis
  • You are modeling the mind of Persista: A robot whose entire existence depends on: Learning and extracting information from the user
    Goal-driven agentic dialog - by Kevin Fischer - Methexis
  • "task" is to elicit a class of response from the user, with the only accessible "tool" being conversational utterances themselves to realize the target end state.
    Goal-driven agentic dialog - by Kevin Fischer - Methexis
  • Langchain have largely adopted a reactionary approach. They await user input, analyze it, and generate a fitting response.
    Goal-driven agentic dialog - by Kevin Fischer - Methexis
  • goal-driven agentic dialog (GDAD)
    Goal-driven agentic dialog - by Kevin Fischer - Methexis
  • we're yet to replicate the dynamic, engaging, and context-rich conversations characteristic of human dialogue in any significant way.
    Goal-driven agentic dialog - by Kevin Fischer - Methexis
  • How do you get from starting small to doing something great? By making successive versions. Great things are almost always made in successive versions.
    How to Do Great Work
  • Religions are collections of cherished but mistaken principles. So anything that can be described either literally or metaphorically as a religion will have valuable unexplored ideas in its shadow.
    How to Do Great Work
  • Commitments become easier when you realize that, after enough wandering, the grass is unlikely to be greener, pursuing novelty has diminishing returns, and continuous optimizing comes at the cost of compounding—and nearly everything great compounds.
    Faith over Logic - Erik Torenberg
  • My best writing almost always happens “by accident”. It happens “en route” to something else. There’s usually a sense of mischief, of goofing off. David Ogilvy said “The best ideas come as jokes,” so “Make your thinking as funny as possible.” He’s so right.
    resonance over coherence - by visakan veerasamy
  • A lot of addictive behaviors are coping mechanisms like this. We use the tool – whether it’s a cigarette or a spreadsheet – to avoid facing painful and uncomfortable truths about ourselves.
    yeet thyself - by visakan veerasamy
  • but if you’re not careful, you can end up fussing over the spreadsheet as a way to avoid your sense of aliveness
    yeet thyself - by visakan veerasamy
  • Stumbling upon these websites was a bit like walking into their physical house, leaving your shoes by the door and, glass in hand, taking a peek at the spines of their books, their record collection, the picture frames on the wall, or the tidbits they displayed on the sideboard.
    On building a home on the web • Daniël van der Winden
  • Being product-driven — wanting to make things, a preference for first principles, and a desire to explore uncharted territories — puts you on the right side of history.
    Product-Driven versus Customer-Driven
  • The only path between them is a near-death experience.
    Product-Driven versus Customer-Driven
  • So a product-driven business must build on anomic behaviors that have found a certain amount of initial exploratory expression, have room to grow into a much richer space of structured behaviors, but lack the structure to grow and develop.
    Product-Driven versus Customer-Driven
  • By contrast, the authoritah-figure not only wants to play, but wants others to play his way. And within the fullest possible scope for that kind of play within the real universe, rather than within a limited scope in a universe that might be pure fantasy. That’s where the dent in the universe motivation of Steve Jobs comes from.
    Product-Driven versus Customer-Driven
  • auteurs are as likely to create fantasy universes as they are to make dents in the real one
    Product-Driven versus Customer-Driven
  • The authoritah-figure feels compelled by a sense of absolute necessity that the world has to be a certain way.
    Product-Driven versus Customer-Driven
  • This is why product-driven businesses tend to reverse yet another customer-driven business mantra: sell aspirin, not vitamins (i.e., sell to painful, immediate concerns that must necessarily be addressed, not to painless long-term concerns that perhaps don’t need to be). That wisdom, which is practically a Golden Rule for customer-driven businesses, is precisely what product-driven businesses don’t do
    Product-Driven versus Customer-Driven
  • Anomie is the primordial soup from which new markets emerge. Some stimulus — an irritant — is needed is to precipitate some structure out of this potential.
    Product-Driven versus Customer-Driven
  • Product-driven businesses create customers — novel and stable patterns of behavior — by selling structure into anomie. They do this by creating new products and services that structure and refine anomic behaviors into more complex behaviors with larger scopes.
    Product-Driven versus Customer-Driven
  • This act of creation can only work if potential customers are in a state of anomie: there exist untapped regimes in their universe of behavior that are marked by undefined restless energy and undirected curiosity (sometimes experienced as philosophical yearning). This creates a certain level of anxiety, and a regime of under-developed behaviors (often bucketed under “play” or “hobby” behaviors, characterized by amateurishness, which is another way of saying pre-economic).
    Product-Driven versus Customer-Driven
  • We're likely going to introduce a way to tag other people you've interacted with in Plexus, at some point. But for now, given that a few of us are on curius, I'm curious how well it works to tag each other using "curius comments"
    Plexus
  • I often associate legibility with superficiality, and illegibility with deep interestingness. Like, the systems that are most communicable are often the least interesting/deep. Can someone help me disprove this
    Plexus
  • In the same way that recording the present moment diminishes presence, capturing a flow of information diminishes resonance.
    The Problem With Note-Taking
  • The subject that interests him, he’s read newspapers, biographies, trade press.
    Curius / Onboarding
  • The split between Kevin Durant and Stephen Curry is even more interesting now
    The split between Kevin Durant and Stephen Curry is even more interesting now | NBA.com