iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Chris Lengerich @chrislengerich.com · 14/01/2026

RIP Scott, one of the brilliant. 68 is far too young, wish you could have seen how far we'll go.

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Chris Lengerich @chrislengerich.com · 03/09/2025

Also, no excuse anymore to miss important global trends (via universal translation + summarization):

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Chris Lengerich @chrislengerich.com · 17/07/2025

Short social. Partially a product of its own success (there are no more eyeball-hours to harvest), partially a product of the fact everyone can just poll a personal summarizer that doesn't read ads (you really only care about a thin slice of news in your Markov blanket, but you care about it a lot).

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Chris Lengerich @chrislengerich.com · 22/10/2024

Absent chokepoints and adversarial behavior, horizontally integrated stacks tend to outperform overall. However, these also tend to have longer, more complex supply chains, and be vulnerable to adversarial disruption.

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Chris Lengerich @chrislengerich.com · 10/10/2024

We need to accelerate innovation, but also spend $ securing our critical semantic infrastructure:

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Chris Lengerich @chrislengerich.com · 01/10/2024

A great product with limited financeshed may take decades to grow, if at all (hence, movement may be more important than product dev).

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Chris Lengerich @chrislengerich.com · 21/09/2024

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Chris Lengerich @chrislengerich.com · 19/09/2024

Similar (Great Pacific Garbage Patch) - anyone know of a live view for this?

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Chris Lengerich @chrislengerich.com · 19/09/2024

Any know good visualizations of spam/unverified public posts on the Web, similar to astria.tacc.utexas.edu/AstriaGraph/ for pollution in space? (the grey dots)

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Chris Lengerich @chrislengerich.com · 30/08/2024

Human networks are often more iterative than one would like them to be (arxiv.org/pdf/2408.16629)

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Chris Lengerich @chrislengerich.com · 27/08/2024

Especially in AI and AI safety, claims of "X is hard to understand" or "X has evaded the understanding of scientists" are often more a reflection on the speaker than the topic.

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Chris Lengerich @chrislengerich.com · 27/08/2024

Chatting with @verificationgpt.context.fund re: which environments favor what type of firm structure:

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Chris Lengerich @chrislengerich.com · 26/08/2024

Level 0: A logagram of time (heptapod-style), generated from replicate.com/meghabyte/ar...

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Chris Lengerich @chrislengerich.com · 17/08/2024

Any sufficiently efficient predictive model is indistinguishable from magic.

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Chris Lengerich @chrislengerich.com · 17/08/2024

(and related, camouflage, like science, is at least partly a psychological phenomenon, not just a physical one)

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Chris Lengerich @chrislengerich.com · 17/08/2024

(it's helpful to think of consciousness as a self-learning iterator running contrastive distillation. Without the iterator model, little makes sense (you only feel different parts of an elephant). With it, a whole lot of disconnected pieces snap together (the full elephant)). See the elephant.

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Chris Lengerich @chrislengerich.com · 13/08/2024

Concretely, conflict and climate change is much better visualized using resources like FIRMS and Ventusky than stories:

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Chris Lengerich @chrislengerich.com · 13/08/2024

The Internet, as opposed to the real world, creates arbitrary representations which dramatically change truth and reward functions. Rough attempt at a ranking, and where to spend your time (hint: it's not on social, just being a reaction-bot):

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Chris Lengerich @chrislengerich.com · 13/08/2024

Rough feeling on the predictive accuracy of different sectors of the economy. Rough sketch, don't take it too seriously :)

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Chris Lengerich @chrislengerich.com · 07/08/2024

Also, kinda contrastivist: (cardinalnews.org/2024/07/25/o...)

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Chris Lengerich @chrislengerich.com · 05/08/2024

Simple thing you can do w/ personal AI: Social media, but only filter builder accounts that post once/month and post asynchronously. Curve is timeless, but 2010s online culture mixed the RHS and middle distributions together (and the middle dominated due to volume).

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Chris Lengerich @chrislengerich.com · 31/07/2024

When you only see the wave, it feels choppy and uncertain. When you focus on the boat, the veil of obscurity cast by uncurious and click-seeking incentives drops away, and it feels calm and predictable.

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Chris Lengerich @chrislengerich.com · 12/07/2024

Gotta love the founders that put their startup's names on their cars :) Disclosure: Angel investor in Second

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Chris Lengerich @chrislengerich.com · 28/06/2024

The vertically integrated technopolitical stack:

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Chris Lengerich @chrislengerich.com · 21/06/2024

Clear example of the degradation of thought in real time. Common pattern for PMs to oversimplify "complicated" classic UIs (think the Mac dongle-boondoggle). The more contrastive our glance, the deeper-order generative models we can intuitively work with.

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Chris Lengerich @chrislengerich.com · 09/06/2024

When you weren't looking, Brave Summarizer become a best-in-class therapist: search.brave.com/search?q=Wha... Free, fast, compact results and handles hard personal questions that Wiki misses (Reddit is good, but slower). Now to figure out monetization and paying the websites it summarizes.

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Chris Lengerich @chrislengerich.com · 05/06/2024

Although admittedly #2 has a hilariously bad graphic to illustrate how IEX was trying to slow down HFT traders. Most races on tracks (except the 100m) start on a stagger to compensate for the different radius of the track in each lane. So IEX really would be adding a stagger, not removing it.