stripe.com etsy twitter scala scalding rainier ppl dabbledb smalltalk seaside islands remote gradient retreat (more)

Payment Processing company

Azeem Azhar on OpenAI and GPT2. (more)

Allen Cheng: Starting a Business Around GPT-3 is a Bad Idea. A good technology doesn’t necessarily make for a good business. The fact that GPT-3 works so well out of the box should be terrifying to founders (more)

Adam Keesling: GPT-3 Will Accelerate The Privatization of Internet Communities (Social Warrens). In this article, I’ll be attempting to inform and persuade you that GPT-3 is the beginning of the end of the digital public commons. (more)

Robin Sloan: Notes from the quest factory. Recently, I used an AI trained on fantasy novels to generate custom stories for about a thousand readers. The stories were appealingly strange, they came with maps (MAPS!) (more)

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Cory Doctorow on QAnon. Which raises a different question: why is it so easy to find people who want to believe in conspiracies. My answer: because so many of the things that have traumatized so many people ARE conspiracies. (Conspiracy Theory, CultureWar) (more)

Real World systems are Open System-s, which makes them messily non-linear. (more)

the art and science (Systems And Games) of causing change to occur in conformity with our will - The Craft (more)

Author, fiction and non-fiction (occult, criminal psychology). (more)

relating to Socrates (more)

Jerry Weinberg term. Process of getting UnStuck. (more)

Goal: Get broad/open/intelligent input into a rapid Public Policy discussion, leading to rough Design. (more)

Wanted to revive my broken TwitterBots - (2018-07-16) CoachBot Random Reminders (more)

Leonard Richardson library for managing a lot of creative bots that post to a number of different services. (TwitterBots, Mastodon, and more) https://github.com/leonardr/botfriend (more)

Dan Hon: QAnon looks like an alternate reality game. (more)

Harj Taggar: Conversations and Ideas. Conversations about ideas should help you understand what you think. They need more tension than a regular conversation but not so much that you're afraid to share nascent thoughts. The best conversations make your ideas better and feel magical. (more)

Taylor Pearson: Book I Enjoyed: Ages of Discord, by Peter Turchin. The core of the theory is that social conflict is the result of "elite overproduction." There are only so many senators, Fortune 500 CEOs and Big Law partners and as competition for those limited seats heats up, it causes society to fracture. (more)

Adrian Hon and Dan Hon ponder how QAnon can be modeled as an ARG. Makes me wonder if we should fund or subsidise “healthy ARGs”. There’s precedent for other media. (more)