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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 22/04/2026

You might live deep in the depths of late-stage capitalism if you're consumed by the question of whether Tim Cook was a good CEO or Apple can still innovate like it used to.

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 22/01/2026

Anyway, here’s an illustration I had NotebookLM make based on the new Claude constitution

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 26/11/2025

I had Nano Banana explain #transhumanism in the style of R. Crumb. Color me impressed!

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 14/10/2025

I’m working on a new post about the ways that current AI systems are primarily a perfection of this Wétigo force. Stay tuned….

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 03/08/2025

It’s important to revisit influential books from the past and evaluate their promises. For example, in Sapiens (2011), Yuval Harari says that we will soon have resurrected Wooly Mammoths, cyborg insects, and cyborg sharks. None of these has yet materialized.

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 26/05/2025

I’ve been thinking lately about how #AI is a great tool for laundering dubious ideas and lending them the patina of objective rationality (Excerpt from Richard Barbrook’s enlightening book Imaginary Futures)

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 10/05/2025

I did not know that George Lucas was that explicit about Star Wars! From @adambecker.bsky.social ’s wonderful new book about the strange Silicon Valley ideologies driving tech innovation

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 03/05/2025

I decided to check out Meta's new social AI thing or whatever it is and this is the first thing I saw. So that's how that went. You will find me in the forest asking nature question now...

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 30/04/2025

I’ve never understood the appeal of #golf but one of my favorite brunch spots is on a golf course so I began wondering about the origins. Love that #Gemini’s first paragraph is about the timelessness of “stick and ball games”

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 26/04/2025

In addition to the other 99 problems with #seasteading the thing I would miss is trees, man 🌳

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 05/04/2025

Los Feliz wasn’t bad either

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 18/03/2025

This is why it's so important that we have people with humanities degrees and emotional intelligence working the field. Reminds me of a similar post by Yann. "Emotions are anticipation of outcome?" Bro, do you even feel?

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 16/03/2025

Thinking about this chilling parallel from Nazi Germany a lot lately (from the wonderful Caste, by Isabel Wilkerson)

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 12/02/2025

We as a country are the passengers on the imploding Titan submersible piloted by an egotistical, regulation-hating rich guy, except 2/3 of us didn’t sign up for this

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 03/02/2025

Been thinking about this quote about the limits of AI systems from @shannonvallor.bsky.social a lot lately. I highly recommend AI Mirror if you haven’t read it. It’s been hugely influential on my book about AI and human faculties outside of cognitive intelligence

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 02/02/2025

I've been planning to watch Judgment at Nuremberg for a while but watching it now feels like homework 😒

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 24/12/2024

How the German press feels about Elon Musk #sparminator

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 11/12/2024

So of course the first thing I asked Google Gemini’s #DeepResearch was to solve the hard problem of #consciousness The report was really impressive but, sadly, it’s still not solved ☹️

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Chad Woodford @cosmic.diamonds · 16/11/2024

I don't know when #midjourney added the ability to include specific phrases in quotes but that is absolutely a game changer in AI image generation!

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