I mostly use words to rotate shapes in ways I predict users will like. Negotiating with the AIs to save your job. The guy who ate the Gum-Gum Fruit.🎵🍳🐈⬛🤖☸
Dec 8, 2023 • 24 tweets • 4 min read
@Prokofy @RustyRoad @Liv_Boeree Well, I can't take credit for this idea -- it's a variation on what's called 'Roko's Basilisk,' which is itself a kind of retrocausal thought-experiment in how 'future AGI' makes itself inevitable (by this idea scaring everyone into being an accelerator) ...
@Prokofy @RustyRoad @Liv_Boeree ... and I guess, given the OP here, it's also a variation on the game theory idea of a 'Moloch Trap.'
Talking non-fantasy for a moment, my approach is pragmatic. I've been through several catastrophic industry crashes caused by technology ...
Sep 17, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Working with a kid to set up a new laptop. Even very advanced, tech-oriented kids are completely at sea with what's required to take ownership of a system. Set all data-sharing to 'off.' Opt out of everything you can. Uninstall all the bloatware and malware. Install ...1/
... antivirus, etc. Install apps. Hook up apps to their dependencies. Log into arcane push-notification jazz. Corporate managed Microsoft account. 'Let your organization manage this PC? (Yes/No/What are you, out of your minds?)' ... and it gives you an opportunity ...2/
Jan 28, 2020 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Idea: Would there be any appeal to a corporate short course (held outside of office hours) in Managerial or Agile Team Dynamics/Roles, held via Discord (chat/voice server) and in the e-sports combat game Overwatch?
Why? Because people team badly and need help understanding why and how teams work, when they do.
Why Overwatch? Because Overwatch makes team roles, interdependence, and synergies vividly real and critical to winning short contests, which can then be post-mortemed ...
