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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 48m

I too dream

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 1h

Everyone has their own path. I can respect the way of the command line.

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 1h

There's also a story (myth?) that they survived an early round by maxing out every credit card they could get their hands on. Terrifying levels of hustle.

depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 1h

very random that they funded Airbnb with $40 boxes of political breakfast cereal back when it was AirBed & Breakfast because you literally slept on air mattresses

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 1h

Oof ok so this is just an aqua appreciation thread now. Great IA, visually balanced, with a professional and inviting voice. So tasteful. This is a high bar to clear.

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 1h

I mean aqua was also a little bit extra, but I love it. I'll probably feel the same way about this in a month.

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 1h

the glass effect is a lil corny but the design system coherency pass is A+

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 2h

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 2h

I suspect we’ll see more AGPL (or underrated CAL) for not-commercial software produced by and for communities. For commercial open source, Fair Source.

Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 2h

Although I mostly see MCP as a clever tactical move by Anthropic because it concentrates power around the LLM and commoditizes the context provider. MCP = LLM owns and mediates the user relationship.

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 12h

Fair Source fsl.software

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 13h

web : CompuServe :: ??? : OpenAI

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 14h

And AGPL. A barbell.

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 14h

Fair Source fair.io

Software Sharing for Modern Companies | Fair.io

Fair Source is an alternative to closed source, allowing you to safely share access to your core products. Fair Source Software (FSS) can be used with minimal restrictions, and becomes Open Source aft...

fair.io

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 15h

the unreasonable effectiveness of gradient descent bsky.app/profile/adew...

adewale.bsky.social @adewale.bsky.social · 16h

s/the right/better/
That way we can hill climb our way through the problem space.

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 16h

Metacognition and experience. Wisdom is learning to ask the right questions.

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 17h

Learning to ask the right questions is a crazy high-leverage skill. Now even higher leverage.

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 23h

Autocorrelation: symptom of system approaching critical point. pdodds.w3.uvm.edu/files/papers...

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 1d

Feels like we keep trying to smuggle in a little woo by confusing our language.

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 1d

“woOo but what’s an agent??” Agency is a feedback loop. A thermostat is an agent. Cybernetics solved this.

“but does it have a WORLD MODEL tho??” All feedback builds up some kind of model. All models are models of *some* world… the umwelt sensed through feedback.

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 1d

Ok Wittgenstein was kind of cooking when he said all philosophical problems are just language problems.

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 1d

coopetition + end-user controlled data = adversarial interoperability www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 2d

IMO ATProto will really succeed if it can unlock a new coopetitive landscape
"competing entities work together toward a common goal or share resources while still maintaining competitive interests in other areas"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coopeti...

Coopetition - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking about Amara's Law. "We tend to overestimate the effect of technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run."

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 1d

a cartoon character with a duck and a fox

ALT: a cartoon character with a duck and a fox

media.tenor.com

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feynon @ankeshbharti.com · 1d

best podcast I’ve ever listened to on this subject, period.

Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 3d

This talk is absolutely tremendous. AI, cellular automata, how to define intelligence, how life emerges from building blocks, symbiogenesis… Incredible. overcast.fm/+AAhjRoBRgM0

Blaise Agüera y Arcas: What is Intelligence? — Long Now

overcast.fm

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 1d

don't tempt me...

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