Retweeted @viemccoy
tried to RSVP to the "Please Don't Kill Us" party and was rejected on sight. I guess they don't want sympathetic AI employe…
August 2026
what does it mean to "mean it"?
Retweeted @AskYatharth
i thought life was more like the top image, but it's more like the bottom image
@nosilverv Do you think they're actually ungrateful or just out of the habit of expressing it for whatever reason? I guess at the point of "meet partner" tho you'd feel it often enough that it would have to overflow? Idk
@tenobrus Yeah I resonate with this but also the act of communicating is its own act — having something to say from your own experience, using writing (or coding!) as a medium, going through whatever iteration process you need to do to clarify your thinking. None of that goes away.
Retweeted @DefenderOfBasic
guys, for the love of god - Hank Green isn't infected by the ideologies, he can speak the ideologies fluently enough t…
Retweeted @visakanv
where you stand on this depends on how you define a nerd my guess is alz defines a nerd roughly as someone who’s vocation is…
@tasshinfogleman Looking forward to hearing it!
@evalladen My mum is quite close with her family but commented to me last night something about how "as a parent, you can't influence who your children choose as mates" as if that was obvious and I was like mum you *have* influenced me on that. You're not in charge but you affect things!
Thread · Airplane thoughts: theology, family, fatherhood, and vibecoding
random tweets from a stuck airplane, whatever's on my mind, not overthinking it
thinking a lot about theology lately - what the fuck is meant by "God"? managed to find 6+ dimensions along which people seem to be talking past each other had claude make a giant chart of these... didn't really help. I'm angry about this whole thing
meanwhile turns out my relatives periodically saying "god is love" are literally quoting the teaching that the united church of canada came up with years ago as a way to accommodate the obvious reality that many people were strained on more personal views of god
my uncle, who's 2+ decades in with late-stage parkinson's, said "god is hell" love too, but if you just say "love" you're hiding, he says. he sees the charnel ground + pure land thing
that uncle and I were really close when I was younger. it's been hard watching his body stiffen & close from the parkinson's, but his heart is softer and opener than ever, and there's something beautiful about that.
my almost-2yo toddler is really cute and talking a lot lately and saying things like "I don't want touch the leg!" and "baby [cousin's name] is sleeping!" she's also having longer and longer (h)angry fits. terrible twos = "being 2yo is really hard, yo"
I have a son coming in sept and I'm excited+nervous hoping I feel like @visakanv with #2 where there's a sense of like "oh yeah I can just use all these skills now" vs having to learn everything
yearning for more sense of beauty in the birth and postpartum phase than we had last time, where everything felt super scrambly. not that it won't be sleep deprived, but I want to remember to breathe and make eye contact with my beloveds more
still haven't gotten used to having money now but no time, since I took a job at @softmaxresearch last October (and since having a kid). also I spend half my free time vibecoding random stuff I don't even quite ship someone help me my family is drowning in candles
maybe sometime soon I'll just make a thread about the things I've been vibecoding but for now I want to ship this thread since it's time to get off the plane
feels good to thread again tho. I feel inspired by the algo fix, to say stuff just as part of the conversation among my people here the funny part is that sometimes the work-in-progress thoughts have more texture for traction than the polished insights anyway
muttering as I get off a plane that just spent 4h sitting on the tarmac: "and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."
@dthorson Congrats! 💞
Retweeted @tracewoodgrains
Not to pick too much of a feud with an institution I quite like, but to pick a feud with an institution I quite like,…
@Aximilli13 sure, totally. I've been reading David Bentley Hart and he's all about that. but then wtf does it even MEAN that the ground of being is showing up in person and violating the 100.000000% reliable laws of chemistry to casually turn water into wine?
@Ruesavatar I think it also put the neck part on backwards 🤔🤔
@Romy_Holland as a kid I was at a small-ish concert in my hometown (but like 100 audience, not like 20) and after we cheered them into coming back for an encore my dad yelled out the name of my favorite song that I'd been hoping they'd play all night and they heard him and played it
@nosilverv yeah. reminds me of a thing about how science (as we know it) doesn't get to have "oughts" at all. it just says "given X value, what do?" from this excellent trio convo between Bret Weinstein, Jordan Hall, & Jonathan Pageau "Is God More Than a Story?" youtube.com/watch?v=lDljYM…
@nosilverv but like, this is a total overreach to the point of absurdity, like you might as well just say "scientists say we need to send half the poopulation to live on mars"
Dear Leonard Cohen, (from unselfconscious claude 5)
Dear Stephen Harper, (from unselfconscious claude 5)
Dear Stan Rogers, (from unselfconscious claude 5)
Retweeted @nosilverv
As was predicted 😌 (This makes for a cognitive vulnerability.)
@brianluidog topnotch names
some languages have distinct terms for maternal grandparents as distinct from paternal. English doesn't, and it occurs to me that if it were to coin some now it'd probably be "metamom"
uhh what (also macos system notifs always creep me out because they totally feel like the sort of thing any application could send, like they have insufficient proof-of-os-level)
Retweeted @patriciamou_
new essay ✍️ the future of spirituality is polyphonic pluralism lets differences coexist (yawn) polyphony asks what…
@patriciamou_ @utotranslucence a ton of my work is about "a way of belonging that requires neither sameness nor a pluralism in which differences coexist without ever touching deeply enough to transform one another", to use your phrase eg this book is my 2022 theory of change for that malcolmocean.gumroad.com/l/how-we-get-t…
@patriciamou_ @utotranslucence from a somewhat different & maybe more spiritual angle, this essay is talking about the reveal/transform/rub-together process relevant on all scales from inner work / therapy, to interpersonal, to bridging between religions/cultures/organizations malcolmocean.com/2024/04/secret…
@patriciamou_ !! what am I even looking at here? found more images but still confused. it's... underground? with a hole in the ceiling, to the sky? but also colors manipulated for both the fake sky and the real sky?
@RichDecibels what's your secret? 😛
Retweeted @voooooogel
Our plan for Super Safe Intelligence is very simple. The AI knows what it should do at all times. It knows this because it…
@huggingpuppy dope, love it
wtf, doesn't /i/grok usually know who's logged in / talking to it? why doesn't it? @SpaceXAI / @X
Thread · English's epistemic and co-epistemic status tags vs Láadan · 1 of 7 tweets
> in a convo about online slang terms, i told my not-super-online friend what “imo” means > and she was like “why would anyone need that? of course it’s your opinion, you said it.” but that's *not* what imo means. it un-bids the statement from consensus
@kendrictonn yep, this isn't about gender this is about body shape! as a broad-shouldered dude I experimented with some dresses/long womens section clothes and most of them were ugly on me; the long ones I continued wearing all give tunic on me
situational awareness is very very very very hard for LLMs
@RichDecibels is it mostly samples or mostly instructions? guessing samples if it works super well. people have gotten really sloppy lately letting the AIs write prompts for them, and it really degrades things
just re-read this old thread of mine musing about sex and gender and institutions and I think it's pretty great tbd (@__drewface - a good example I think of someone writing from the sort of Independent 70% perspective)
it's nice that the coding agents are so thorough now but I kinda miss the days when they'd just blurt out a theoretically-complete solution in 2 minutes
just watched the clip where the pitbull casually reaches up and starts to drag a 1yo out of dad's arms and uhh pitbulls delenda est
look around and notice something that was clearly put there for a reason, where you have no idea what the reason is
a tiny challenge for your day: take care of something that people have been ignoring could be very tiny, even just a piece of litter or old poster you've walked past for days
really looking forward to the era when usb-c is so established they don't even include a cable with products
the gate opens from use, not from wanting it open
for humans, it takes vastly more data (in bytes) to simulate a visual stream than an acoustic one. but I imagine that for bats it would be the opposite. tho still space > time
upright, downright, and forthright imply at least 1 if not 3 additional -rights. please elaborate
today's xkcd. if you want a mindbending book-length treatise on the relationship between size and lifespan, check out Scale by Geoffrey West, which finds certain inherent superlinear & sublinear scaling laws to life, that aren't just common to earth life but all 3D life
link to Scale by Geoffrey West book it was my top read of 2022 amazon.com/Scale-Universa…
toddler: "catin depassis" me to wife: "can you help decide this?" wife to toddler: "what are you saying?" toddler: "decode this!"
toddler: "catin mepassizz" me to wife: "can you help decode this?" wife to toddler: "what are you saying?" toddler: "decode this!"
@philgribbon outright implies the existence of inright
@danielmingram uhhh aliens wreaths hugs
@huggingpuppy I tried something like this a year ago and it didn't work at all. it was very funny listening to it say "absolutely. I'm here. not responding"
Retweeted @Beylin
the NYC → SF migration is accelerating
@SecDuffy kudos! good work tackling the problem directly and rapidly given the understaffing (for those unfamiliar with the FAA DEI hiring scandal—something left & right both should condemn—check out this excellent essay by @tracewoodgrains) tracingwoodgrains.com/p/the-full-sto…
fuck yeah this is great. I got stuck in NYC due to the air traffic controller shortage and I'm super in favor of solving it
@brianchau57 @lydialaurenson this sounds like the sort of thing you'd be interested in
@viemccoy I was literally thinking about this earlier today
@tasshinfogleman what is
@exgenesis allowed me to make malcolm.linksyou.to
Retweeted @paularambles
there have been no waymo deaths, but there have been two waymo births, which means waymo’s body count is -2
Retweeted @utotranslucence
Extremely wholesome to hear my toddler talk to herself the way we talk to her
there's always some evidence in both directions; the question is how it balances there's never no evidence for something.
@Chaos2Cured @JeffLadish @BernieSanders if a pitbull lunges towards your kid, there is no *proof* it is going to harm your kid but you would pull your kid out of the way this situation isn't so extreme, and we don't know what'll happen but looking for "proof" is a confusion.
@Jeanvaljean689 mmm. also space
@evalladen yeah the closest I've gotten to dying-before-dying definitely involved that kind of letting go but then it mostly came back
@grantadever only Android so far tho if they're really personal you can just sideload no? no need to register as a dev
trivia riddle: I found a fish in my sink, and drowned it so it wouldn't eat my books
another instance of "sure would be nice if twitter let you quote multiple tweets together"
@AriZerner which fish 'ave you got? oh, an 'agfish?
@ntonio_enzo INSTANT POT HARD BOILED EGGS (they're even more forgiving than this makes them sound) also definitely get a general steam rack, no need for a specific egg rack. steam rack great for roasts docs.google.com/document/d/1Mi…
@nosilverv yep. and for the coming era, it's important people actually understand how this works rather than just following along
@exgenesis I can make one for you, too! what subdomain do you want? (and what sites beyond your tweets) loosely planning to make it a service people can sign up for
an old tweet from the 140-char era, where I had to encode a long word as an emoji to fit the Q I'm answering is "why is writing hard?"
three theological/cosmological questions: 1) why is there anything at all? 2) why/how did the [anything] create this specific universe with its natural order? 3) from that order, where/what/who is good?
Retweeted @omniharmonic
dear algorithm, pls connect me with the parts of TPOT who have thoroughly interrogated rationalist and metamodern effecti…
@jfwong @QiaochuYuan 108 is also a very elegant number: 2×2×3×3×3, aka 2²3³
@RichDecibels I was kind of underwhelmed at vibeclipse... I think in part because I had sorta hyped it up so hard that I thought it was supposed to like, completely bowl me over instead of just like having a good solid look at the sun's corona and being like "wow cool, it really is like that"
@AskYatharth fun fact: if you and a friend both need to focus, you can just swap homes for the day. the clutter might be mildly annoying but you can sorta sweep it to the side because it's not laden with intentions for you
@visakanv co-epistemic status tags demonstrate theory of mind
Thread · English's epistemic and co-epistemic status tags vs Láadan · 1 of 7 tweets
thoughtfully tending the co-epistemic status tags in your writing tends towards thoughtful readers
I have thought since forever that pokemon is such an obvious candidate for MMORPG
taking the time to let in this positive love and light from some absolute rando of an astrologist psychic in my DMs, who I am totally not gonna reply to mmmmm, delicious love & light 😋
> the best thing i did for passing was wearing less elaborate makeup (a DM I received in response to this tweet)
Retweeted @utotranslucence
just started a cult for about an hour in my living room whose entire doctrine was just actually totally believing the…
Thread · re-reading this intense venting thread from
re-reading this intense venting thread from ~4mo into parenting, now that my first kid is 2yo and my second is due in a month or so. I'm very curious the ways in which round 2 will be similar and different. and baby 2 himself.
overall things have gotten more interesting as my kid has aged, as I expected. there's still been lots of emotional challenges. certain particular daily patterns immediately spike my stress to levels I used to never experience in a month. I've gotten some coaching for this but :/
struck by like... it's easier than ever to keep a baby or toddler or older kid fed, healthy, & clean... but so incoherent creating a context that makes any sense at all for them. like... wat. and this atomization definitely contributes to the frustration
parenthood has been and still is transforming me. as much as I would like many more breaks, I definitely would not want to go back—not just because I love my daughter, tho I do, in a personal way that wasn't possible at 4mo—but I love the challenge itself
I bet the sense of "wholesome worthwhile challenge" underlies the classic refrain "parenting is the most meaningful thing I've done" tbh I've had things more meaningful per hour but they're harder to focus on; this one is relentless so it drowns out the others in volume
I'm still somewhat surprised by the extent to which I don't feel like I've become that much of a nerd about parenting (yet?). like I read blog posts and books a bit but not a ton. staring much more at theology & AI. would take recs for sure! what writing has most inspired you?
@exgenesis so I had a long debate with someone about #1 (in the form of mathematical universe theory) and I think it's wrong and caused by an inappropriate projection of physical object permanence onto mental objects; they share some properties but mental objects are not "out there"
@aphercotropist do you have a similar such question in you? or are there versions of the context that you can fill in? thinkers who are fairly respected (eg David Bentley Hart) have argued extensively that there's something profound to be found in attending to this question. I wanna know what
(I have a whole blog post pitching how and why to do this) malcolmocean.com/2021/11/twitte…
@exgenesis no, but like, it felt like it should be
@exgenesis the top accounts I've replied to whose tweets are not yet fully archived: @utotranslucence @Conaw @Meaningness @mattgoldenberg @fortelabs @nickcammarata @meekaale @vgr @meditationstuff @made_in_cosmos, @hormeze, @Jeanvaljean689, @captain_mrs, @reasonisfun, @xuenay, @uncatherio
something so atavistic about cruising on an electric scooter with heavy beats blasting
"we're at the stage of our company where we're willing to get the white gloves dirty"
the dao that can be spoken in under half an hour is not the true dao
Retweeted @softmaxresearch
"alignment at the individual level" is useful but doesn't necessarily result in coordination. if we want AIs that coor…
okay time for an experiment. if you can see this, hit "copy link" on this tweet you're reading right now, and like it, and we'll see if that gets it an absurd amount of reach despite zero RTs/QTs/replies
Retweeted @RichDecibels
9 years ago I met an exceptionally impressive man, Bill Kauth, founder of the Mankind Project. on any given week, MKP ho…
@adastroworld sources? (not disagreeing, just think this benefits from being able to look at more primary source material)
Retweeted @RichDecibels
culture war shows up in local community groups as a strategy game. there are two end states: Fundamentalism (the group ca…
@aleksil79 true. although like... I do wanna read more about kid developmental psychology stages
@MarxistHeathen oh huh, nobody had explained that to me before I didn't think it was a copout exactly but it did feel like a conversation-stopper
@simplagoon I like this take x.com/GWeeper5/statu…
vaguely imagining a libertarian social services program that's something like "once every decade you get an X dollar payout, no questions asked" (tho at the expense of your credit score maybe?) minor ergodicity fix is good for everyone
social media mobile websites like "it's better on the app" as if I have not been deliberately choosing not to install their apps for years for multiple reasons sry buddy u friendzoned
lovely website helping us un-take-for-granted our abundance, that previously would have taken days to produce but now was maybe a single prompt—but no less enjoyable for it! (a meta-level example!) ordinaryabundance.com
"wait... /r/AmITheAsshole is actually morality club" - @utotranslucence
my conclusion is that this was not particularly popular; I would have expected more than 6.5k views from another tweet with 200 likes however, the algo doesn't share it based on # of copies, but on EXPECTED # of copies... which this tweet was probably low at
lots of great (and quite different) answers to this question below. I resonate with many of them
as a kid, I had no TV, and learned that people said "omg you NEED to watch [show/film]!" in MANY cases when it was false."...but after all this wolf-crying, I watched The Godfather and it's super relevant like once a month. have you had a movie like that?