Nico
@nico-encounter.bsky.social
Writer interested in theory of the state, political economy, AI and semiotics.
Substack: https://nicolasdvillarreal.substack.com/
Substack: https://nicolasdvillarreal.substack.com/
there are some metrics that don't look nearly as good for this, however.
November 30, 2025 at 3:33 AM
there are some metrics that don't look nearly as good for this, however.
I thought that was the poetic license thing, so it was as wide as a normal bed. But I could be wrong.
November 28, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I thought that was the poetic license thing, so it was as wide as a normal bed. But I could be wrong.
Related to this section of my book. Also some background on the AI tab of my blog. nicolasdvillarreal.substack.com/t/ai
November 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Related to this section of my book. Also some background on the AI tab of my blog. nicolasdvillarreal.substack.com/t/ai
Oh yeah, we're cooking with gas.
November 25, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Oh yeah, we're cooking with gas.
Cooking something with gemini pro tonight.
November 25, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Cooking something with gemini pro tonight.
Pre-history of an encounter reaches over 1,000 followers!
November 24, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Pre-history of an encounter reaches over 1,000 followers!
Gemini breaks down the average Pre-History of An Encounter enjoyer. Alarmingly realistic lmao.
November 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Gemini breaks down the average Pre-History of An Encounter enjoyer. Alarmingly realistic lmao.
People will say stuff like this on bluesky and still act like the only thing that can fix this is the Democratic party.
November 18, 2025 at 11:02 PM
People will say stuff like this on bluesky and still act like the only thing that can fix this is the Democratic party.
Quite the admission
November 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Quite the admission
Share of income isn't as important as price here as people get priced out of the market, the explosion in housing prices is 70% greater than general inflation since 2000. Its not like renters are doing great either at over 25% higher than inflation.
November 18, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Share of income isn't as important as price here as people get priced out of the market, the explosion in housing prices is 70% greater than general inflation since 2000. Its not like renters are doing great either at over 25% higher than inflation.
CSIS saying Russia may now have the edge in drone innovation
November 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
CSIS saying Russia may now have the edge in drone innovation
I don't believe this argument holds up, we can very easily understand qualia as a physical process as I write here.
nicolasdvillarreal.substack.com/p/materialis...
nicolasdvillarreal.substack.com/p/materialis...
November 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I don't believe this argument holds up, we can very easily understand qualia as a physical process as I write here.
nicolasdvillarreal.substack.com/p/materialis...
nicolasdvillarreal.substack.com/p/materialis...
This mischaracterizes the UC study being cited, which, unlike the Eugene chatbot, the users weren't told of the persona, and which produced perfectly intelligible responses on a range of topics, it was not "the same old tricks".
November 18, 2025 at 12:21 PM
This mischaracterizes the UC study being cited, which, unlike the Eugene chatbot, the users weren't told of the persona, and which produced perfectly intelligible responses on a range of topics, it was not "the same old tricks".
It seems like Trump spoke to Epstein in 2016 and said something that disturbed him, difficult to find via just word searches because they called him mcgyver as a joke.
November 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
It seems like Trump spoke to Epstein in 2016 and said something that disturbed him, difficult to find via just word searches because they called him mcgyver as a joke.
Still reading through that report but this is the first time I'm hearing of GPU backed loans and that shit is crazy. This could easily blow up.
November 13, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Still reading through that report but this is the first time I'm hearing of GPU backed loans and that shit is crazy. This could easily blow up.
November 11, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Reading through this now, I will say this point about no one predicting LLMs isn't /entirely/ true, just that the correct predictions were largely forgotten. Here's Umberto Eco describing how a machine fed a lot of artifacts of human culture could learn our "semantic field".
November 11, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Reading through this now, I will say this point about no one predicting LLMs isn't /entirely/ true, just that the correct predictions were largely forgotten. Here's Umberto Eco describing how a machine fed a lot of artifacts of human culture could learn our "semantic field".
Some more thoughts about this. Even with continuous training, an LLM based AI would always be equally good at mimicking the text of its conversation partner (as measured by training loss) as its own past outputs, before post training.
November 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Some more thoughts about this. Even with continuous training, an LLM based AI would always be equally good at mimicking the text of its conversation partner (as measured by training loss) as its own past outputs, before post training.
called this two years ago, feels like it could happen any day now. cosmonautmag.com/2023/05/arti...
November 8, 2025 at 1:14 AM
called this two years ago, feels like it could happen any day now. cosmonautmag.com/2023/05/arti...
Seems like the Ukrainians are basically encircled around Pokrovsk.
November 6, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Seems like the Ukrainians are basically encircled around Pokrovsk.