adewale.bsky.social @adewale.bsky.social · 1hMaths as a field of endeavour is turning into the Truth Mines that Greg Egan wrote about in Diaspora. That's also including the questions about whether we want to organically understand things or just have the understanding 'grafted' onto us. 011
Reposted by @adewale.bsky.socialapenwarr @apenwarr.ca · 07/10/2026The reverse Pascal’s wager: if they build a machine god, it doesn’t matter what you do anyway. So act like they won’t build a machine god. 1246
Reposted by @adewale.bsky.socialgarrison @garrison.corporate.fm · 18hhow do you incubate unknown unknowns? 4102
adewale.bsky.social @adewale.bsky.social · 04/10/2026What makes something a good explanatory technical diagram? 100
Reposted by @adewale.bsky.socialJack Rusher @jackrusher.com · 01/10/2026"What if the cost of machines that think is people who don't?" — George Dyson 041
Reposted by @adewale.bsky.socialGoh_billy @gohbilly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Attaching Marco from Metal Slug to my fan to bring out some Heavy Machine Gun action. 211687435
adewale.bsky.social @adewale.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Currently: thinking about bringing Boswell back. 000
Reposted by @adewale.bsky.socialDan Finlay @danfinlay.com · 21/09/2026I had *NO IDEA* there was a video series of SICP! ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-00...ocw.mit.eduVideo Lectures | Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | MIT OpenCourseWareMIT OpenCourseWare is a web based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity 3319
Reposted by @adewale.bsky.socialMihai Parparita @persistent.info · 21/09/2026I've switched over Infinite Mac's classic Mac emulation to recently-released and awesome Snow, which unblocks A/UX emulation: infinitemac.org?filter=aux There's a behind-the-scenes blog post at blog.persistent.info/2026/09/infi... detailing this and other site updates. 48124
Reposted by @adewale.bsky.socialSarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026 64185094558
Reposted by @adewale.bsky.socialDavid Mimno @dmimno.bsky.social · 22/09/2026And I'm going to bet that a lot of what AI companies imagined as the potential exponential-growth big-model use cases aren't writing code or emails, but automating business processes. And Jev/Laya/whatever-comes-next are going to make that vastly simpler and cheaper. 1153
Reposted by @adewale.bsky.socialapenwarr @apenwarr.ca · 13/09/2026This is a good thread about about why AIs are unlikely to become single minded doom creating paperclip maximizers. Unfortunately no such reassurance applies to corporations 2313
adewale.bsky.social @adewale.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Interesting new pattern I'm seeing in multiple places: - Person has brilliant idea. - They use AI to write it up. - The write-up now contains so much indirection and so many AI tics that the only way to understand it is to talk directly to the person. - ??? 040
Reposted by @adewale.bsky.socialDan Finlay @danfinlay.com · 05/09/2026It does seem like making companies liable for their own containment breaches might introduce a useful level of caution into the industry. Like sure, we get that at the current speed you can’t avoid disaster. That’s why we’re asking you to slow down to the speed you can be responsible. 132
Reposted by @adewale.bsky.socialDan Finlay @danfinlay.com · 06/09/2026If your method of building smarter models quickly involves accidental hacks with growing and hard-to-detect external damage, then that may not be the ideal strategy to prevent accidental hacks with growing and hard-to-detect external damage. 001
adewale.bsky.social @adewale.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Thinking about Xanadu and Vingean Failed Dreams: gwern.net/xanadugwern.netProject Xanadu: Even More HindsightRetrospective on Project Xanadu’s success and failure: a lack of design iteration, meaningful use-cases, or practicality stopped a valuable vision from maturing into something useful. (And contrasted ... 030
adewale.bsky.social @adewale.bsky.social · 22/08/2026If you don't read the code then you'll have to find or create some other abstraction/notation that gives you legibility into the system and lets you change/guide the system. What will those things be? 020
Reposted by @adewale.bsky.socialapenwarr @apenwarr.ca · 16/08/2026Great article relevant to bill C-22 debates in Canada. The argument that backdoors only weaken your *own* systems because adversaries are likely to use someone else’s systems is even more relevant in Canada than in the US, simply because we’re smaller and most systems come from elsewhere. 0204
Reposted by @adewale.bsky.socialMatt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 17/08/2026chapter 1 of Greg Egan’s DIASPORA is the realest depiction of the birth of a continuous learning AGI that we’ll have until we actually have AGI and it can tell us he shared it for free on his website. Read it (then buy the book) Orphanogenesis www.gregegan.net/DIASPORA/01/...gregegan.netOrphanogenesis (excerpt) — Greg EganDiaspora by Greg Egan 021
adewale.bsky.social @adewale.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Currently: wondering what hardware an AI-native equivalent of teenage engineering would be making? 131
adewale.bsky.social @adewale.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Currently: thinking about the Pi ecosystem and horizontal gene transfer: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizon... in a world where anybody's agent can exapt/copy/be inspired by any aspect of anybody else's work.en.wikipedia.orgHorizontal gene transfer - Wikipedia 010
Reposted by @adewale.bsky.socialBrad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 13/08/2026On 2024-02-22 I reached out to @antithesis.com fanboying and wanting to use it for @tailscale.com. They were expensive & I couldn’t get people on board w/ buying their service. Instead, more time + money went to: tailscale.com/blog/sqlite-... Nerd sniped them and: antithesis.com/blog/2026/wa... 😅antithesis.comBreaking the WAL | AntithesisI did this from a lawn chair on the Sunshine Coast. 4537
adewale.bsky.social @adewale.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Theory: software used to be an evolutionary system. Software is now a cultural system. 000
adewale.bsky.social @adewale.bsky.social · 06/08/2026What are the disciplinary values in the craft of software? 000
Reposted by @adewale.bsky.socialGordon @gordon.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Great lens. I often think of Gregory Bateson’s notion of “making circuit”. You want the important feedback loops to make circuit through you, or else it’s no longer your OODA loop. 062
Reposted by @adewale.bsky.socialncnvrgnt @inconvergent.net · 31/07/2026skynet does not have to be conscious for terminators to happen 0156
adewale.bsky.social @adewale.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Currently: thinking about agentic education. Example: pi-school.ziki.boopi-school.ziki.booPi SchoolLearn to use Pi, the minimal agent harness. 010
Reposted by @adewale.bsky.socialSimon Willison @simonwillison.net · 29/07/2026A new TIL on adding custom MCP servers to both the ChatGPT and Claude regular chat interfaces - it's a little less obvious than I had hoped, but I got there in the end til.simonwillison.net/llms/mcp-in-... 8521
adewale.bsky.social @adewale.bsky.social · 29/07/2026"A change of perspective is worth 80 IQ points."-- Alan Kay 020
adewale.bsky.social @adewale.bsky.social · 27/07/2026In 2026: how can we tell that the quality of our thinking is deteriorating? 000
Reposted by @adewale.bsky.social/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 17/06/2026“The primary feature for easy maintenance is locality: Locality is that characteristic of source code that enables a programmer to understand that source by looking at only a small portion of it.” #RichardGabriel 0172
Reposted by @adewale.bsky.social/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 06/07/2026“I think what's really important right now is for programmers to know what's worth making.” #HalAbelson gigamonkeys.com/code-quarterly/2011… 023
Reposted by @adewale.bsky.socialChris Ashworth @chris.ashworth.io · 26/07/2026some day, when I retire, I might catch up on the public ranting I wanted to do that would have been politically indelicate at the time. 021
adewale.bsky.social @adewale.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Keyboardia, my music synthesiser, now has MCP support: keyboardia.dev/mcp How should agents leverage it?keyboardia.dev 010
Reposted by @adewale.bsky.socialPicard Tips @picardtips.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Picard leadership tip: The larger your audience and the higher your position, the greater the need to communicate with care and precision. 113423
Reposted by @adewale.bsky.socialAndy Matuschak @andymatuschak.org · 25/07/2026I think this is a big gap in software design culture. There's lots of commentary on visual design and micro-interaction, but remarkably little explicating conceptual and structural design. This section from Magic Ink is lodged in my mind. buff.ly/Bl9JwTv 210618
adewale.bsky.social @adewale.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Do evals make more intuitive sense to you if I describe them as "benchmarks for quality?" 001
adewale.bsky.social @adewale.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Theory: it's not a "dark forest." We're just blind. If that's true then as we develop the tools and intellectual capabilities to 'see', the universe will come to seem like a rainforest teeming with life. 010
adewale.bsky.social @adewale.bsky.social · 16/07/2026I see this more in the wealthiest and most connected people not necessarily the smartest. 010
adewale.bsky.social @adewale.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Currently: Trying to stay out of the gravity well of Computational Aesthetics research long enough to ship this PR: github.com/adewale/agen...github.comComplete Section B brand primitives with executable evidence by adewale · Pull Request #172 · adewale/agentic-mermaidWhat Complete the mandatory Section B brand-primitives program (B0–B3 and B5) through the existing StyleSpec stack, while preserving authored Mermaid paint and deliberately leaving evidence-gated B... 120
adewale.bsky.social @adewale.bsky.social · 13/07/2026I wish people knew more about Game Theory than the Prisoner's Dilemma. So I (and Fable) made this to help people think through the other payoff matrices that are available: claude.ai/public/artif...claude.aiClaude ArtifactTry out Artifacts created by Claude users 041
adewale.bsky.social @adewale.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Heterophily happens when people form bridges from one monoculture to another. 000
Reposted by @adewale.bsky.socialGordon @gordon.bsky.social · 08/07/2026I think we all might need an exoself just to survive in the AI information economy. 361
adewale.bsky.social @adewale.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Trying to make the aesthetics of Agentic Mermaid extensible and emergence-provoking (in the language of Designing For Emergence by Kasey Klimes) require new tools for API design. 120
adewale.bsky.social @adewale.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Unless something drastic changes, our future looks more like Pluribus than Person Of Interest. 000
adewale.bsky.social @adewale.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Slowly watching all my favourite Youtube channels (from fitness to Star Trek) start to sound the same. 130
adewale.bsky.social @adewale.bsky.social · 26/06/2026#TIL about: bottosson.github.io/posts/oklab/bottosson.github.ioA perceptual color space for image processingFrom personal project to industry standard Introduction added in 2025 When introduced Oklab in 2020, I never expected it to reach as far as... 010
adewale.bsky.social @adewale.bsky.social · 25/06/2026I've been trying to find/remember this post about the hypersurface of future lightcones for over a decade: petafloptimism.com/2009/02/18/e...petafloptimism.comExporting the past into the future, or, “The Possibility Jelly lives on the hypersurface of the present”Warning – this is a collection of half-formed thoughts, perhaps even more than usual. I’d been wanting to write something about Google Latitude, and other location-sharing services that… 000
adewale.bsky.social @adewale.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Finally figured out how to explain compositionality: julesh.com/posts/2017-0... A system composes like bricks when its properties can be extrapolated from those of a single member. However the properties of a single cell don't let you extrapolate the emergent properties of a collection of cells.julesh.comJules Hedges - On compositionality 010
