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4️⃣there is no right way to do communication, where if you do it that way, you get to say “well, i communicated well, but…
March 2026
@__drewface @AskYatharth I feel both of these tbh, in spades. and recently hosted a "come over to my place and vibecode night" which was great and I'm defs gonna do it again (friends of Andrew in SF, DM me if you wanna come)
not sure if this connotation was intended but having recently gotten into Billy Joel's song Movin' Out via Vulfpeck's MSG II, I read into "cadillac" not just "overkill" but also "poor man's fancy car"
does anybody know how the military is actually using Claude? like LLMs for surveillance is obvious how that would work, but missiles? taking out heads of state? I'm having more trouble picturing the prompt/harness here
“On the eve of each war at least one of the nations miscalculated its bargaining power,” wrote the historian Geoffrey Blainey in his book The Causes of War. “In that sense every war comes from a misunderstanding. And in that sense every war is an accident.”
this is such a mood
also shoutout to Daniel for just casually replying in iambic verse
@mbateman @OschaSlings nope, all grown up!
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@cremieuxrecueil there's a very important difference between "free" and "very, very cheap" x.com/AskYatharth/st… https:/…
@m_ashcroft @babieswithb @graveunfurling we made minor modifications to various spots in the house* but otherwise nah we just let her roam and it's great. only three times has she put her hand in 🚽 *eg swapped some ceramics out of the low cupboard & put plastic containers in their place... kidlocks on other cupboards
@nosilverv I'd Request access on that doc 👀
@RichDecibels I have an essay on this, and about the different kinds of dynamics that can show up at each scale! "Coalitions Between are made by Coalitions Within" malcolmocean.com/2025/11/coalit…
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I still remember seeing this diagram in 2018 and having my mind blown permanently
"oh, the sun is setting", he muses as he notices his macbook adjusting its color theme from light to dark
So this therapist tells her client to start meditating: “you’ll feel better…” Two weeks later: “You lied to me! I've got all this STUFF coming up. All this anxiety… I don’t feel better at all?!” Therapist: “ah, yes. You're feeling your anxiety better. ALL emotions better!”
"This message was sent from a trusted sender" ...how I feel looking at this spam is basically how I feel literally any time anyone describes anything as "trusted" or "trustworthy".
there's both a "methinks thou dost protest too much!" and also an "I'll be the judge of that!"
occurs to me that this is proooobably trying to convince an LLM system (eg an openclaw or whatever) more than a human, actually LLM much more like to confuse this text at the very start of an email with some sort of tag on behalf of the messaging system
> General-purpose AI advances faster than any vertical product can keep up with.
this is your semi-annual reminder that you don't need to have a clear opinion about whether daylight savings time is good
have you tried enabling extended thinking mode on your own brain?
seems like I can do anything with @asana automations except exactly what I want to do. every time. I get 99% of the way, only to discover that eg I can auto-set a value to today's date and a time, but the time can't be relative, only '3pm' or whatever
lots of families who wouldn't own a car if there were readily available waymos-with-carseats
TIL: bacteria don't have a separate metabolic structure from their reproductive cycle
if we froze model progress today there'd be still 10 times as much possible as we've yet seen, just with better harnesses over the coming years
nice, someone vibecoded a cli for @IntendApp I've been upgrading the API to make it funner to hack on. about to ship temporary sandbox users for testing github.com/dsvolk/intend-…
""'funner' isn't a word" "it is, actually, and it's funner that way"
some of y'all don't believe "funner" is a word and it shows
is there a version of dangerously skip permissions where it still somehow locks the LLM into the folder it's in? or is that somehow impossible to track? macos has some stuff that can restrict terminal itself from accessing certain folders...
Burj Khalifa but air nomad
looked up Gematria and wow this site is not ambiguous about its political stance I like the vibe of "yes Israel, yes original people of Iran". steps out of the stance of treating the rulers/countries as the only noun
adjacent: --dangerously-skip-permissions still respects .claude/settings.(local.)json's ask list (and, I would assume, deny) that's sorta obvious and also dope! means you could run it with no web search access, which is way better in terms of @simonw's lethal trifecta
Retweeted @rabrg
for a little toy project i reproduced the quoted artificial life paper: a 2D grid of randomly generated Brainfuck programs breed…
@rabrg but then the goddess of everything else will come along and also win pure replicators lose long-run to replicators that also make friends and exhibit cooperation many generations out
the center is rising article on "pragmatic democrats" taking back the party from the socialists and other extremists. it's about fucking time. thedispatch.com/article/democr…
for sale: baby shoes. never worn because our baby would always remove them immediately and now she doesn't fit them
@RomeoStevens76 @Morphenius curious how you relate this with your hostile telepath antidote (which I'll gloss as "if you aren't willing to lie to others under certain circumstances, you'll need to lie to yourself. therefore...")
@RomeoStevens76 what's a true self? haha
@RomeoStevens76 (legit curious for your answer here!)
Retweeted @AnthonyNAguirre
(Long) PSA on using AI for hard intellectual work. At significant risk of being immodest: I've spend about 30 years as…
@RomeoStevens76 or as I put it, "the superegos have gone crazy" malcolmocean.com/2023/07/supere…
cathedrals everywhere
(digital 3D art by Hayden Clay Williams reddit.com/r/Art/comments…)
@6ixpool @rabrg in a sense, yes, but the replicators that like to have friends that are different from themselves create interesting worlds rather than hostile soulless monocultures turning everything into yourself is boring. pure replication is a self-defeating goal
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
dear Dog. I am your humble tail. wagmi.
@DefenderOfBasic according to whom? the someone? former bob? new bob? essay about how messy this gets: malcolmocean.com/2025/11/coalit…
this preview image has some slop nature, but because the thing I'm trying to evoke is quite literally schizo anyway, the incoherence kinda works in its favor anybody have other examples of this? malcolmocean.com/2023/07/supere…
if, in some deep nondual sense, you *can’t* be separate from God, then what is the pain that people keep calling “separate from God”? it's being mislabeled, but it's a real experience what is it an experience *of*?
is .archive a tld? if not why not?
if you can't tell my emdashes apart from LLM emdashes, that's a skill issue on your part
only hell can rescue heaven
"he really puts the 'berating' in 'liberating'!"
such a relief to be able to just SOLVE problems like this in as much time as it takes to describe them
absolutely incredible how these systems are simultaneously so sharp and so moronic
Let's envisage a series of children's books that are like a detective series but instead of a detective it's a systems thinker / cyberneticist. What might some of the stories be?
semiscrutable
you may not be into consciousness, but consciousness is into you
for many people, my naive mental model of them would just completely give up under the demands of parenting, but in fact basically nobody does. hence my model is wrong. people are capable of more than you'd think, when it is truly asked.
why ARE LLMs so addicted to the "not X but Y" framing? is there something in the latent space?
so excited for usb-c-powered mosquito-targeting lasers. the future is gonna be great.
it's not a priori obvious that eating too much food would cause weight gain. it could cause: - lower appetite - undigested calories in poop - higher metabolic rate / more energy / restlessness
anybody have a system they're satisfied with for dumping lots of audio as transcripts into an LLM system for querying to find specific moments or types of examples of something? local whisper? turboscribe?
wait insane clown posse is a real thing? I always thought it was just a cacophemism for a gaggle of toddlers
It's weird to me that the sensation of getting a sunburn isn't obviously more unpleasant or aversive. like it's a little bad but it's surprisingly easy to ignore
something trippy about vibecoding a talk-to-LLM-for-specific-purpose app, and knowing the broad purpose of the prompt you're talking to, but not actually knowing what specific inputs are steering it I guess the whole point of it all is that you never know really
I don't know who needs to hear this, but your phone is in the pocket of your bathrobe
me, halfway through explaining something: "this is according to a very small jpeg"
LLMs are great at making slide decks. I feel like there's gotta be a new version of slideshow karaoke possible where the slides are made up (aided by audience prompts?) as you go along
low-key unclear if this is real x.com/eigenrobot/sta…
is there an LLM-specific user-agent? that would be convenient. frankly it'd be kind of cool if an http-request could say 'prefer markdown'
motivated cognition gets a bad rap, but let me tell you, it's much worse if your cognition runs out of motivation
below plz share the epic concert or album that you listened to on repeat during the pandemic. thx. (for me, Vulfpeck @ MSG and Brian Culbertson Colors of Love in Vegas)
lowkey wondering if claude code will get nervous when I start checking /context
from an old slatestarcodex essay that I found when looking for SSC's references to "Elua". only the comments of this one mention Elua, but even in this paragraph there's a connection to how trying to win by making others lose predictably causes a downward spiral
why does the phrase "self-immaculating vibes" sound so bad when its meaning is so good??
Make Language Playful Again
win:won::sin: checkmate atheists
trust is both subjective and objective, it’s 0% arbitrary, it’s not purely reflexive, it’s perspectival, it’s not multistable tasshin.com/blog/is-trust-…
lion cub food coma adult lion food coma
photographer: Johan J. Botha people.com/wildlife-photo…
Duolingo is Farmville but for languages
2nd ideology was the one I made up to explain the first
classic oscillation effect of counteractive theories of change I'd be surprised if among his thousand wasn't IFS or something resistance-respecting, but maybe his attitude is still counteractive
"By the way, @IntendApp made me realize I should actively plan in terms of values + outcomes. Ended up implementing the goals, questions, values in my task system." — a quote from yet another person who tried my app and came out better despite never subscribing
@GreenBeans80277 so you've like, tried asking the red team why it would be bad if you actually changed? and then incorporating that into your plans to change?
Retweeted @AuronMacintyre
Victory has been achieved, war is over Send the troops home now
have you been wondering "what is Malcolm on about?" have you heard me be on about something but you're not sure if I've written anything about it? check out my new post, which organizes a half-decade of thinking into a single piece of prose malcolmocean.com/2026/03/what-m…
@kenthecowboy_ Ethnic Tension and Meaningless Arguments highlights interesting parallels between the culture war tribes and ethnicities slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/04/eth…
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
below plz share the epic concert or album that you listened to on repeat during the pandemic. thx. (for me, Vulfpeck @…
> [they] emblematize the contemporary viewer's belatedness ... they belonged precisely to an earlier epoch, one before the advent of landscape; and thus their portrayal as Romantic Rückenfiguren represents less a continuity with Rome than a rift between present and past"
what famous quote is this illustrating?
Retweeted @IntendApp
ok for now you can use intend.herokuapp.com to access the intend app. main site should be up again by tomorrow serves m…
@YanqingCheng ........I mean it's like 10k hours
@HetkeBrian idk man, sometimes I feel really out of it
@speedprior totally agreed
@forthrighter gross
@mykola I'd love a longer unpack of this, even just a full 280 chars
what TLDs do you think should exist? also how hard would it be to get some friends together to make a new TLD? could we make .fetch happen?
@tommyrockerrr I literally just mean "open a blank document and make words come out before you attempt to actually produce whatever final thought you're attempting to have" I do this sometimes but probably not as often as would be optimal
@paws4puzzles how much does it cost after that though? clearly it could be a money-maker if you picked a good domain and marketed it well
@Oszillate huh say more?
@SP1NS1R right but why? what experience(s) caused a generalization into that fear?
@CoastalFuturist right—that's also a real thing. but it's not literal aloneness, so what is it?
@Shane380 sure but like why would one do that? what causes it to seem like a viable move?
@MateriaMundi oh this is good. nice.
@MateriaMundi really highlights the sense of like... in systems terms, what it means to be desperately grasping for a wholeness you have some sense of but can't coherently perceive and/or can't reach (cc @DefenderOfBasic)
@MateriaMundi @DefenderOfBasic also cc @mykola
@mykola wow fucking epic. infernal wisdom indeed (this is some of my writing on the subject) malcolmocean.com/2025/03/hell-i…
@mykola also @Morphenius check this out
when is quebec time not quebec time? (answer in next tweet)
answer . . . . when it's winter. quebec time zone, in nato/military, is UTC-4, which IS the time in quebec during daylight savings time (eg now) but not in the winter. always neat to notice which of my riddles claude gets immediately vs totally botches
@AskYatharth & @meaning_enjoyer, you've both tweeted the quote
Retweeted @SarahAMcManus
Bay Area friends, I'd love help finding paid gigs & collabs while I'm in town April 13-30! - Facilitation, event/volunt…
@kramerposts naming my band Brass Tacks so that every time a couple gets down while listening to my music
Retweeted @kramerposts
Fact check: true, true, so true
Headings of my latest post: What Malcolm Is On About (as of early 2026). it's a dense piece that organizes nearly all of my writing from the last six years and some that's yet to come. if you've ever wondered what I'm on about... this is what I'm on about! Background: the Upstart Collaboratory Non-Naive Trust Dance & the meta-protocol Turning outward: the meta-team Internal Trust-Dancing & integration Non-coercion Blame and the victim mindset A new Collaboratory? Gnosis - “I can tell for myself” …and collective descriptive epistemology The evolution of consciousness and ego We-ship, we-spaces, the emergent “we”: organic alignment Trust in terms of life Courtship - “The Mating Dance” Religion, God, Christianity, game theory, prayer Grappling with mindset choice Coalitions within and between people Reflexivity and meta-reflexivity Trust and Faith (link in next tweet)
@tasshinfogleman @HeidiPriebe1
PSA: if you can't find something with twitter search, use the xcancel.com/search mirror, which isn't hobbled you can also in general use xcancel.com to view tweets+replies while logged out. just add "cancel" to the domain of any twitter url.
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"english doesn't have this word" not for long
hmm maybe it's an experience of hijar instead 🤔🤔🤔
@AskYatharth @meaning_enjoyer it's a 2×2, in the order they're referred to in the quote ie the quote is describing adjective1 noun1, adjective2 noun1, adjective1 noun2, adjective2 noun2.
@mykola @Morphenius moreso than just reading Blake directly?
@YanqingCheng "lots" haha
beatsync.gg lets you instantly synchronize a bunch of devices to play the same music. just tried it and it worked so perfectly I didn't think it was working at first this is so cool
@patcon_ @freemanjiangg @CivicTechWR super here for this crossover episode
@freemanjiangg @beatsyncgg wow dope. I guess the lights kinda have to be programmed in per song? but it wouldn't be that hard to make something akin to those old winamp music visualizers
@melissa black hole
@AbstractFairy I found this table quite helpful for this vividness.live/sutra-vs-tantra
@suntzugi right but they weren't motivated by money anyway!
@suntzugi this is supposedly just about the payment algorithm, not about the virality algorithm
@PaulaGhete this is why I don't rawdog the egregore
you don't need to be consistent except where, according to you, you do
job title: Thought-wrangler at Global Workspace
cars that are allowed to drive themselves but only if nobody is in them
cars that are capable of driving themselves but only if nobody is in them