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timelets @ 2026-02-07T14:28:00

2026-02-07T22:31:01Z

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timelets @ 2026-01-28T10:17:00

2026-01-28T18:21:21Z

When we talk about AI as a technology platform, the current discussion about alignment looks particularly deficient because it fails to address the enshittification problem.

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timelets @ 2025-07-20T14:43:00

2025-07-20T21:54:03Z

“the way we usually behave when we interpret: that is, we usually assume that a narrative, like a sentence, comes from someone bent on communicating. The novelist Paul Auster put it simply: “In a work of fiction, one assumes there is a conscious mind behind the words on the page.”

--- Abbott, H. Porter. “The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative (Cambridge Introductions to Literature).”

>> this aasumption is no longer true. Copernicus showed that humans are not at the center of the universe. Darwin showed that humans are not at the center of biological world. LLMs show that humans are not at the center of the world of communications.

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timelets @ 2024-12-07T22:04:00

2024-12-08T06:15:39Z

How do we measure fitness of a technology startup as a function of time/stage? Rapid positive changes in fitness would be considered value inflection points.

Also, rapid changes in fitness due to new entrants can be easily detected. For example, in the Three Little Pigs story, the appearance of the wolf impacts fitness distribution and as a result changes ROI of house-construction tech.

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timelets @ 2024-05-15T22:56:00

2024-05-16T05:59:36Z

BEIJING—Microsoft is asking hundreds of employees in its China-based cloud-computing and artificial-intelligence operations to consider transferring outside the country, as tensions between Washington and Beijing mount around the critical technology.

...700 to 800 people, who are involved in machine learning and other work related to cloud computing, one of the people said.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/microsoft-asks-hundreds-of-china-based-ai-staff-to-relocate-amid-u-s-china-tensions-b626ff8c

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timelets @ 2023-10-08T13:37:00

2023-10-08T20:47:38Z

...материалы по хтоническому змею у народов, не достигших государственности, чрезвычайно скудны. У них его еще нет. У них преобладает змей водяной, но перенесен- ный в фантастическую даль.

...[более поздние] греческие материалы очень интересны. Они дают дальнейшую ступень превращения водяного змея в хтонического и доброго в злого.
...[следующий шаг] змей переносится не только в земную глубь, но и на небо.
... Это перенесение имело ряд последствий. Во-первых, меняется объект поглощения. Змей поглощает уже не людей, он поглощает солнце, и он убивается как поглотитель солнца. С другой сторо- ны, он иногда сам представляется солнцем.
...четвертое последствие этого перенесения: все, окружающее змея, и сам он принимают огненную природу и окраосу. Река становится границей царства живых и мертвых и вместе с тем она становится рекой огненной. Огненным становится и озеро, огненным становится и сам змей.
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Происшедшая со змеем перемена вполне объяснима. Если техни- чески беспомощному охотнику прежде всего нужна была власть над волей животного, то скотоводу, управляющему животными по своей воле, такое стремление совершенно чуждо. Ему нужны солнце, дождь и реки.
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Полного развития достигает змей в солнечном царстве мертвых только при развитии земледелия, при умении наблюдать солнце, при зависимости от солнца и его сезонного возвращения и урожая. ...древний Египет действительно дает нам, может быть, наиболее полную форму змея, за исключением змея, дающего дождь, так как урожай в Египте зависит не от дождя, а от ежегодного сезонного разлива Нила.

--- В. Пропп. Исторические корни волшебной сказки.

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timelets @ 2023-07-18T19:26:00

2023-07-19T02:33:03Z

A good checklist:

“... modules are task specific, problem specific, or opportunity specific as often as domain specific, if not more often. Still, ontology is a terrain that inferential modules typically exploit.”

--Dan Sperber. “The Enigma of Reason: A New Theory of Human Understanding.”

I guess, "task" here is synonymous to "routine."

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timelets @ 2023-06-06T16:08:00

2023-06-06T23:10:04Z

...the creative advance of the world is the becoming, the perishing, and the objective immortalities of those things which jointly constitute stubborn fact.
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There remains the final reflection, how shallow, puny, and imperfect are efforts to sound the depths in the nature of things. In philosophical discussion, the merest hint of dogmatic certainty as to finality of statement is an exhibition of folly.

--- A.N. Whitehead, Process and Reality, 1979, 2nd ed.

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timelets @ 2022-06-17T22:26:00

2022-06-18T05:38:44Z

TxM -> TxM

Here we have an endofunctor and a topos (if we consider this structure as a dynamical system).

Truth object for this dynamical system:

True: {1,1} -> {0,1} -> {0,0}

False: {1,0} -> {1,0}

Note: the coordinates are in TxM phase "becoming" space wrt novelty, novel/emerging = 1, existing/established = 0.

https://youtu.be/o-yBDYgUqZQ?t=6008

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timelets @ 2022-05-14T16:38:00

2022-05-14T23:39:24Z

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TIL: hunter-gatherers and semi-natural selection in agriculture

2020-05-24T17:08:31Z

1. Farming leads to reallocation of person's time from leisure to work (mostly for women).

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-019-0614-6

2. People seem to have an unconscious bias toward larger seeds, even when it doesn't translate into larger crops, e.g. in vegetables. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/evl3.6

I wonder whether this explains why bigger pills have greater placebo effects.

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timelets @ 2020-02-04T11:20:00

2020-02-04T19:28:24Z

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Humans & cats

2019-06-18T04:57:14Z

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