Zvi Mowshowitz: AI #94: Not Now, Google. At this point, we can confidently say that no, capabilities are not hitting a wall. Capacity density, how much you can pack into a given space, is way up and rising rapidly, and we are starting to figure out how to use it. Not only did we get OpenAI o1 and o1 pro and also Sora and other upgrades from OpenAI, we also got Google Gemini 1206 and then Gemini Flash 2.0 and the agent Jules (am I the only one who keeps reading this Jarvis?) and Deep Research, and Veo, and Imagen 3, and Genie 2 all from Google. Meta’s Llama 3.3 dropped, claiming their 70B is now as good as the old 405B, and basically no one noticed. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: AI #89: Trump Card. (more)

Anthropic PBC is an American artificial intelligence (AI) public-benefit corporation startup founded in 2021. It researches and develops AI to "study their safety properties at the technological frontier" and use this research to deploy safe, reliable models for the public.[5][6][7] Anthropic has developed a family of large language models (LLMs) named Claude as a competitor to OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini.[8] Anthropic was founded by former members of OpenAI, including siblings Daniela Amodei and Dario Amodei.[9] In September 2023, Amazon announced an investment of up to $4 billion, followed by a $2 billion commitment from Google in the following month. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic

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Dan Shipper: Linus Lee Is Living With AI. Linus is an independent researcher focused on building better interfaces for people to interact with generative AI models. (more)

Alexander Obenauer term/frame around his OS/environment experiments, not unlike ObjectBrowser idea. (more)

Neil Mather: Collaborative memory palaces. I think I would like some kind of virtual experience where I have my own Memory Palace, the method of loci, the visual virtual space in your head where you walk through as you recall things. But not just for recall, for construction too. I would invite other people in and they help me build it and I help on theirs too, we build them together. (Webs Of Thinkers And Thoughts, Virtual ThinkingSpace) (more)

LambdaMOO is an online community[1] of the variety called a MOO. It is the oldest MOO today. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LambdaMOO (more)

Object Oriented MUD (Multi User Dungeon) (more)

Maggie Appleton on Programmable Notes. Agent-based note-taking systems that can prompt and facilitate custom workflows. (more)

spatial canvas app https://www.kosmik.app/ (more)

One of the ToC Thinking Processes (more)

related to Slow World, EnCalming technology? Focusing on the Simplest Thing?

re-frame of technical debt as being associated with increasing complexity (more)

an OutLining Literate Programming editor. http://leoeditor.com/ (more)

Peter Kaminski is In Search of a Nice Team Wiki. Strongly considering Outline (GetOutline.com). It's open-source (TypeScript). And supports Collaborative Writing.

Shopify developer https://alexdanco.com/

The [[Center for Applied Rationality] (CFAR) is a nonprofit organization based in Berkeley, California, that hosts workshops on rationality and cognitive bias. It was founded in 2012 by Julia Galef, Anna Salamon, Michael Smith and Andrew Critch,[3] to improve participants' rationality using "a set of techniques from math and decision theory for forming your beliefs about the world as accurately as possible".[4] Its president since 2021 is Anna Salamon.[1] CFAR's training draws upon fields such as psychology and behavioral economics in an effort to improve people's mental habits. Jennifer Kahn visited the group and described its strengths and flaws in the New York Times.[5] CFAR has conducted a survey of participants which indicates that workshops reduce neuroticism and increase perceived efficacy.[6] CFAR is part of the rationalist movement surrounding Eliezer Yudkowsky's web site LessWrong, from which CFAR originated.[7] Paul Slovic and Keith Stanovich have served as advisors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Applied_Rationality (more)

How to make the best of neuroticism: use it for preparation and winning. Whereas conscientiousness and agreeableness may be related to higher cognitive functions of inhibition and executive control (and the relationship between openness and the brain is largely unknown), extraversion and neuroticism are more associated with the older, “system 1” regions. For instance, many imaging studies have found that neuroticism is related to the amygdala, an old, primal area of the brain responsible for detecting emotions, particularly fear. (Lizard Brain) (more)

Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is the intelligence of a machine that could successfully perform any intellectual task that a human being can. It is a primary goal of some artificial intelligence research and a common topic in science fiction and future studies. Artificial general intelligence is also referred to as "strong AI",[1] "full AI"[2] or as the ability of a machine to perform "general intelligent action".[3] Academic sources reserve "strong AI" to refer to machines capable of experiencing consciousness. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligence (more)