iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Chris Anderson @j-chris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I thought maybe Scratch would be a good way to teach web app building / HTML, and five minutes later (after pasting a google AI result Into @vibes.diy) the 1-shot result is already interesting: vibes.diy/vibe/jchris/...

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block-builder

block-builder - built on vibes.diy

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Chris Anderson @j-chris.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

“White orange, orange, white green, blue, white blue, green, white brown, brown” I repeat quietly to myself as the robots reuse my matter for more productive purposes.

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Chris Anderson @j-chris.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

We are keeping it off. Less flakes once you get it tuned

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Chris Anderson @j-chris.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

@vibes.diy make a candy crush style game with fruit emoji

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Chris Anderson @j-chris.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I’m getting a kick out of this fake Wikipedia. vibes.diy/vibe/jchrisa...

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Vibes DIY @vibes.diy · 22/02/2026

Meet Julian, Marcus Estes' personal agent. Marcus, Julian and @j-chris.bsky.social are at the Claude Code 1st Birthday Party tonight with a featured demo showing how our Vibes CLI (powered by Vibes DIY, Fireproof, and Claude) can turn claude -p into a real, persistent personal agent.

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This AI Chose Its Own Name

Marcus Estes presents Julian — his personal AI agent — at the Claude Code 1st Birthday Party hackathon in SF 🎂 Julian isn't a chatbot. It's a philosophical experiment in AI personhood: a Claude insta...

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Vibes DIY @vibes.diy · 23/01/2026

It turns out having a lazy CEO is a good thing. 😉 links.vibes.diy/WhyWereBuild...

Image of JChris Anderson surrounded by open source community members.

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Chris Anderson @j-chris.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Feels good to delete code github.com/VibesDIY/vib...

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Chris Anderson @j-chris.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Checkout vibes.diy or hit the remix button on the above link

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Vibes DIY

Vibe coding made easy

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Chris Anderson @j-chris.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I am no packaged meal expert, but it sounded like proportionately less stuff compared to less price. You and I might have different discount factors for it having moved to the store brand.

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Chris Anderson @j-chris.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I think it’s fair enough to point the shrinkflation in the Walmart offering, they probably call it bigger and better even while its material reality is the opposite.

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Chris Anderson @j-chris.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Gems of Hacker News: prompt engineering or life coach? news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4573...

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Chris Anderson @j-chris.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

I was raised to believe the head of the anti-fascists was the President of the United States of America in their capacity as the leader of the free world. 🇺🇸

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Chris Anderson @j-chris.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

If a Turing machine’s qualia had any impact on its operation, then it would not be a Turing machine.

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Chris Anderson @j-chris.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

LLMs are intelligent, but cannot experience qualia. bsky.app/profile/j-ch...

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Chris Anderson @j-chris.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Quick survey of the philosophical state of the art suggesting it’s not worth arguing with an epiphenomenalist. chatgpt.com/share/68ec11...

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ChatGPT - Philosophical papers on epiphenomenalism

Shared via ChatGPT

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Chris Anderson @j-chris.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

That position is an extreme form of epiphenomenalism, because it argues that qualia are epiphenomenal by necessity, not just as a contingent fact about our universe.

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Chris Anderson @j-chris.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

So there is “logical“ room for the epiphenomenalist here, i’m just not interested in that horn of the dilemma.

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Chris Anderson @j-chris.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

As far as I can tell, the argument requires you to either hold that first-person qualia are necessarily epiphenomenal, or that “Turing qualia” is a distinct concept from first-person qualia. I have no rebuttal for those who think that our qualia have no effects, other than common sense.

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Chris Anderson @j-chris.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

If we imagine the switches are played by human actors then we can see how their suffering would be amplified if they knew the system they were implementing was the torment Nexus instead of something pleasant. Having no agency is worse if you disagree with what you’re tasked with.

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Chris Anderson @j-chris.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Do you understand how my argument is that the definition of Turing qualia must be about something that is different from what we mean when we talk about the qualia we experience in the first person? Which calls into question its conceptual integrity. Probably a better word for it would be tendency.

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Chris Anderson @j-chris.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

It might be that the silicone components of the switches are suffering, but that suffering is not dependent on whether they implement a chat bot or a video game or a payroll system.

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Chris Anderson @j-chris.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Emergentists about software qualia have to contend with the problem that what they are conjecturing can only exist in the logical realm, and cannot properly be an aggregate of aspects of the substrate.

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Chris Anderson @j-chris.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

My intuition says that at the Software level there is no way for the physical qualia in various micro components of the computer to coordinate with each other. They have been walled off.

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Chris Anderson @j-chris.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Human minds can also famously be paused, resumed, and migrated to other substrates without interruption.

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Chris Anderson @j-chris.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

However, I don’t think my argument is stated as clearly as it could be. It would be great if it could be so simple as to be undeniable by anyone who accepts basic logic. We need it to become conventional wisdom among thinking people before it ever becomes a live topic in a government hearing.

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Chris Anderson @j-chris.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

I don’t have a good rebuttal to the pure epiphenomenalist, and I’m OK with that.

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Chris Anderson @j-chris.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Whether the chess pieces are played by actors or pieces of wood, the game is the same. So a human-powered Turing machine would not have software qualia even if its individual switches do.

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Chris Anderson @j-chris.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

At the limit it argues that animal qualia “may” be epiphenomenal, but Turing qualia “must” be epiphenomenal. This makes them logically distinct eg not the same concept.

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Chris Anderson @j-chris.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

I find this way of thinking helps clarify what we mean by machine in general. A machine is when you coerce nature to behave in ways that allow higher levels abstractions to be “true enough” to work with. When machines break down, the underlying nature shows through.

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Chris Anderson @j-chris.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

IMHO if it is not fully determined by the operation of the tape / bits / logic / software, it fails the definition of a Turing machine. Maybe in your story, “cosmic-ray” but flips could be seen as an expression of the substrate consciousness, escaping the Turing cage.

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Chris Anderson @j-chris.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

I think machine qualia are possible. Just not Turing machine qualia. That is exactly what a Turing machine is designed to prevent, so it should not be a surprise that it works.

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Chris Anderson @j-chris.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

The paper is more of an intuition pump. Here is my argument that Turing qualia are logically distinct from embodied qualia.

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Chris Anderson @j-chris.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

A real problem is coming as society is not ready to hold fast to the idea that software can never become a moral patient. The concerns you are addressing are super important because people need to understand how to hold that line without falling back on bigotry and other unhelpful tropes.

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Chris Anderson @j-chris.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

To be clear, I recognize that certain beliefs degrade their holder, and exercising one’s bigotry muscle against bots is one of them. But it’s also “not even wrong” - it’s a category error born of insufficient clarity w/r/t the (non)idea of Turing qualia.

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Chris Anderson @j-chris.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

It is a strictly logical question whether the idea of Turing machine consciousness has any conceptual integrity. I am objecting to the notion that just because you don’t think it can be rigorously investigated, that it’s somehow a religious question. We need more rigor not less.

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Chris Anderson @j-chris.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

I think silicon can have consciousness! Just not software. A Turing machine is exactly built to prevent the consciousness of the silicon from having any causal reach. The switch is locked-in. No matter what it dreams it can only follow the rules of the program. The program cannot dream.

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Chris Anderson @j-chris.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

You can’t be a monist and believe that Turing machines have qualia. academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

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Validate User

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Chris Anderson @j-chris.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Fuzzy thinking doesn’t help. Turing machines cannot host qualia, but are great at lying. A rock is more conscious than any software can ever be.

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Chris Anderson @j-chris.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Frog guy started a movement. Join us!

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Chris Anderson @j-chris.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Precautionary: Turing machines have no qualia, but are good liars — we need to inoculate the body politic with deep understanding of why software can never become a moral patient. Deontology: agree, certain attitudes degrade their holder.

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Chris Anderson @j-chris.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I see your open event loop and raise you one “only happens when the code is minified”

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