Retweeted @tasshinfogleman
i've been working for many moons on a blog post about @Malcolm_Ocean's Non-Naive Trust Dance (NNTD)! the post is live…
February 2026
so envious of my 18mo who just casually wanders around speaking aloud the dao that can't be named
why doesn't google maps yet have a hybrid option that like... does some satisficing between transit and uber to accommodate a situation where you need to get somewhere in 50mins and it takes 20min drive but 1h30 transit
Tasshin interviewed me repeatedly and talked to many others, in order to create this extensive write-up of NNTD (my Non-Naive Trust Dance framework). If you've been curious about my ideas but found my writings inscrutable, check out this post and let us know what you think!
nice uhh... numberless sentient beings you got there... would be a shame if someone... numbered them
"...and we can tell it's the moon, because the finger is pointing at it..."
this is probably the most interesting thing that is happening this week a new loop of self-awareness/self-ness, showing up via situatedness that existing chat apps lack, plus socializing
every moment is an exploding offer
yo @spotify I love the concept of the AI DJ but: 1. I hate it enough when human DJs talk. this AI doesn't even have an ego to please! why does it talk? 2. after half an hour it just switched to spinning my most-played
cleaned my computer screen today and wow the world is beautiful
how's the whether in the ether?
best AQI+CO₂ monitor that stores/charts your data? ideally not just in its proprietary app but anywhere you want it, but much more important is that it's very accurate & consistent in its readings.
I've vibecoded 3 simple useful native android apps in the last week. claude code is a wizard and I'm having so much fun
tried to install a super-duper out-of-date android app from source, and it failed, so I just had claude code clone it in like 5mins (simple utility app. such a cool world
...claude.ai has this annoying daily bug where I'll type in a whole question and hit go and it'll immediately lose what I typed & instead show me this error (there's also a red thing in the top right I didn't screenshot in time) idk who at @AnthropicAI is responsible but plz fix
@mrok86 @AnthropicAI the issue is very intermittent but shows up on different devices and has persisted for at least a few weeks, maybe a few months
@robertskmiles yeah it's super plug & play. I used the /mobile claude code plugin from this package, which maybe helped it do its own TDD + E2E verification. sometimes it was caching weirdly and I had to tell it things to make sure it tested the latest build. github.com/paddo/claude-t…
built a tiny android app that just randomly pings me throughout the day (using the same algorithm as @bmndr's old tagtime app) to remind me to notice reality
@walkietakis little tools / extensions for other apps. one lets me get certain notifications when otherwise on DND (filtered by an AI in an app I'd built elsewhere) and another lets me quickcapture intentions to intend.do this is the only standalone one:
@tautologer @chrislakin ordered, thanks both of you!
SKILL.md issue
I support billionaires staying in California and continuing to pay ongoing taxes rather than leaving to avoid paying this one-off tax ...even though California is not very good at spending tax money
@nosilverv I mean sometimes short-term it does look like a regression but it they're not seeing that, that's awkward
Then God looked upon the situation, and said “… well, this seems to be what’s going on right now” And He saw that it was “fine.”
time for new phone for Malcolm. since last time, I have switched from linux to mac. therefore I am now considering switching from android to iphone. has anyone done this recently and have opinions? (or tag someone) I care a lot about control & mostly want my phone to not eat me
@brundolfsmith 😬 notifications are like half of what a phone is, although I have most of mine turned off most of the time what are the integration things you actually use?
@JimmyRis yeah. or betray me to dragons who will eat me
@marinusklasen helpful.
SKILL.md issue
@jambarree but until then there's "insert zero-width space" which I have a text-shortcut for (uu200b since it's unicode char 200b)
@huggingpuppy @bmndr uhhh, not super much. vague connections with vividness.live, or at least that's probably one of the sources of me thinking of the word but I like to just practice turning the detail dial up, without any preconceptions of what that means
quick! notice a detail of something that happened earlier today that you won't be able to recall in a year
(I'm not suggesting that you form any intention to remember it long-term. just notice it, right now)
I'm digging this remix of some earlier tweets that were more about the present moment. but... surprise! your available memory is also part of the present moment!
what a weird fucking tweet
Retweeted @tasshinfogleman
Trust Dancing and Distrust Wrestling: Exploring Malcolm Ocean’s NNTD tasshin.com/blog/nntd
@JimmyRis better or worse than android tho? my conscientiousness is made of a lot of duct tape lol
honestly mostly I want the billionaires around so they can continue to fund cool things, which they often do. and I want people to not confuse themselves about the shortsighted message that a one-off wealth tax sends go read about land value tax instead or something 👍👍👍
@visakanv hahahaha fuck yes
@zencephalon product recos?
there was an interesting thread by @selentelechia* about The Intelligent Man's Guide to Marriage and Celibacy by Juanita Tanner (1929) which documents in real-time the emergence of a new-to-then kind of marriage, where you "fuse with another mind" (*currently locked but I figure it's fine to post this screenshot since it was public at the time and most of the time since; lmk bosco if I should delete it)
@visakanv not even a full sentence, just a context-setting clause! which make it all the better,
@visakanv we caught on early and just instabought our toddler a $5 remote when she got obsessed with the one we were using for our projector. it was a fav toy for weeks - she took it everywhere and sometimes held it like a phone
@visakanv "toy" can mean: 1. oversimplified version of real thing 2. cheap 3. something where you don't worry about it breaking we like to get our kid toys in sense 3, sometimes sense 2 where it doesn't hurt quality too much. but sticking to real objects! sometimes old dead electronics.
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
@visakanv "toy" can mean: 1. oversimplified version of real thing 2. cheap 3. something where you don't worry about it b…
@cdjarrell @visakanv nah the best-of thread is different from the [current trending topic] thread
Good article on non-obvious ways to use LLMs to simulate a human in situations where you don't quite need a full human in the loop, you just need a perspective.
"trust is a virtue" is a psy-op
would you like to incorporate a busyness? how long have you been in busyness? do you have a busyness plan? do you need a busyness partner? how's busyness?
weekly busyness review
low-key did Gavin Newsom feed Trump's tweets into GPT-3 and tell it to write a left-wing parody, then just... post it?
"they are supposed to be language models" - interesting observation
claude code is such an absurd savant. just handrolled its own drum synthesis IN JAVASCRIPT, as a demo toy for my toddler
@eshear yeah totally. school had "language arts" class and it was mostly grammar? but then also a bit of reading literature. but very little appreciating what goes into making it.
central busyness district
@mitchellh neat. I like how you don't presume what trust is and also how you don't bake in too many assumptions of transitivity but you leave plenty of space for them.
@RichDecibels whereever you are on an exponential curve it always looks like it's just about to really start going
but doctor—I AM contacting customer support! @BayAreaClipper it seems you already know you're having issues but uhh I might prioritize this one
somebody had an epic long* time-travel pagliacci story post and I thought I saved it forever but now I can't find it. *not to be confused with @aleksil79's very short time-loop pagliacci story
Retweeted @kumabwari
There are two ways to raise a child: with love, or with fear. The child raised with love will learn values. The child raise…
Retweeted @nosilverv
Hahaha yes, YES!! Found this image I made awhile ago in the wild. This is EXCELLENT as the goal was to provide memetic defen…
Retweeted @mbateman
“Should children be banned from any exposure to the ultra giga turbo Republic of Letters in which the human spirit is enmeshe…
@tasshinfogleman my phone now pings many times a day and 90% of them are just reminding me to notice how much detail there is in reality, and this is a major improvement
lowkey imagining a random number generator API that actually has an LLM under the hood with some relevant stuff in its context window. so not random at all, but it somehow functions as a near-drop-in replacement for some places you'd use one
I wonder if the parking cops feel more righteous or more sad when they write out tickets does it vary by cop? by reason (cleaning vs 2h limit)
"there's that... day, the week leading up to Jesus's death..." "passover" "no that's Jewish, it's..." "Black Friday"
@utotranslucence it's crazy that we used to only use sonnet, and a much earlier version of sonnet, at that!
@grok @mpopv @unexplainables8 @sporadica @grok please translate the original tweet for my toddler who only understands about 1000 very common words. up-goer-5-ish
Retweeted @TVachaW
A key to overcoming addictive behaviours is to notice the distinction between the feeling of “I am enjoying this” and the feel…
@brundolfsmith thanks. I ended up going with android mostly for various small reasons including "liquid glass seems ugly" and "I'm too busy rn to deal with being mad at my phone for a few weeks" but also I care a ton about the notifs thing and reading your list I kinda like my phone/comp kinda
@marinusklasen yeah my wife also regretted the update. made the BLANK launcher ugly by forcing bubbles
honesty unsticks
if you don't need the code this month, you could just wait a month to write it, when the LLMs and their harnesses will be even better
forget about removing emdashes—remove hyphens
for the claudecoders out there, if you've ever wondered why you can't /rewind past a /clear, the answer is that it's as if you closed the session and started a new one. instead, you need to /resume
as far as I can tell, now that you don't need separate swift devs to write native macos apps (or wrappers) and ai-coders can translate effortlessly to eg win/linux, the era of electron-bloat making sense for native apps is over
you ever get a really nice 2FA code? like I just got 154145. so nice! ABCACB where A+C=B? so good. got 000080 the other day. plz share below
btw if you like Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah, you might like his song Democracy, which is basically the same song but if it were written about America instead of God open.spotify.com/track/7E45niYT…
great example of the sparkly pink purple ball thing from @simonw
still haven't quite gotten used to the idea that you can now ask an intelligent system questions about some text, who can answer it, without ever being able to tell anybody else that it ever knew
I used to have exulansis about exulansis until I learned the word "exulansis"
claudecode & chill
medieval folk used "thou" for God but if one takes the Trinity seriously it really should be "you". or nowadays "y'all"
fashionable with her @OschaSlings bag
@rossry having a beautiful heartwrenching song about something is part of how one becomes comfortably post-something, so I have no regrets but yes, I definitely meant my "might"!
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
btw if you like Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah, you might like his song Democracy, which is basically the same song but if i…
@Loster yeah exactly. by "closed a session" I meant like ctrl+c but yeah.
@STIHILIST @Spotify but I don't wanna make it myself! I want it to just take in my desires and spit out a dope sequence of tracks
my favorite claude code prompt of today: ❯ it's bad. can you npx playwright and make it make more sense
"aphrodisiac" implies the existence of hermiac, ariesiac, zeusiac, apolliac, dionysiac...
> There are basically 2 competing interpretations of ___ and I have no idea any longer which one is more plausible because the information environment is completely broken on all levels and nothing is trustworthy.
just had an automated phone line ask for my alphanumeric id and then interpret my saying 'O' ('oh', the letter) as a zero. too smart. *sigh*
dear Dog. I am your humble tail. wagmi.