Malcolm Ocean 🏴☠️
@Malcolm_Ocean
playing & learning with nascent intelligences, particularly my baby daughter & LLMs. devout whatever-I-am, praying for more clarity of what godshape to pray to
you're not working soft enough. you need to be working like 100× softer.
win-wins are always best when you can find 'em. AI tech can help. current tech is ready to start helping. this is the best proposal I've yet seen for this: x.com/HephaistosF/st…
If I were trying to build a "pitch deck" today, part of the elevator glossy would say something like: - we have understood mathematically since John Stewart Mills that rational self-interest + transparency + shared information + a free market leads to maximally efficient…
tell me what it means to raise children and I'll tell you your religion
hmmm prolepsis (esp meaning 2) feels relevant for hyperstitioning
fellas, is it gay to have more clothes than your wife?
it occurs to me that the distinction between a hallucination and a dream is not a condition of whether one is awake
half-woke-up at 4am thinking about one of my old pieces of writing and found myself idly wondering if I was being simulated inside an LLM
Yall can’t be serious about this whilst referring to yourself as tpot (this *part of* twitter) The domain may have shifted, but regional culture persists—algorithmic bubbles, subreddits, discord communities, etc
nobody talks about how the internet killed regional culture. everyone under 30 has the same personality now. your grandparents' generation had accents, local customs, regional humor. you have tiktok trends and twitter discourse.
Gall's Law is one of those statements that just keeps hitting harder and more deeply the more time I spend with it. At first it seemed false, then a truism, then an interesting insight, and now a foundational belief about the world.
hey @grok rank my mutuals by who's given you the best "rank my mutuals" task
I got chewed out in high school for calling something a 'quote' instead of a 'quotation', and reflected that yeah, that makes sense in comparison to eg 'calculation'... but now in 2025 somehow the word 'compute' is going through the same shift?? interesting linguistic phenom
"there's a reason for everything" is confused afaict. what's actually true: 1. there are causes to everything, and more intelligence at work than you might assume 2. everything that happens, leads to everything else that happens after, including things you may cherish immensely
hey @grok rank my mutuals for cofounder potential (for me in particular)
sign up for my religion my religion is just every sunday we turn off our phones