Justin Singer @justin-singer.org · 14/10/2026It's obvious that the first AI to achieve SuperIntelligence™ will subordinate humanity to its whims and lead the world forward, just as civilization's smartest humans have done for time immemorial. Hold on, I'm getting some new information here... 000 0
Justin Singer @justin-singer.org · 14/10/2026Bankruptcy filings from the AI era are going to make for a rich corpus. www.404media.co/character-ai... 000 0
Justin Singer @justin-singer.org · 08/10/2026My friend Ryan Jamieson is running for Boulder City Council. You should vote for him if you can, and not just because he made the only campaign ad of the cycle to feature a Venn Diagram: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GiT...youtube.comUnfortunate Name CollisionYouTube video by Ryan Jamieson 010 0
Justin Singer @justin-singer.org · 29/09/2026Some of you weren't around when Jason Kidd got drafted, and it shows. 001 0
Justin Singer @justin-singer.org · 25/09/2026Regulation: what's it for? www.denvergazette.com/2026/09/24/m... 000 0
Justin Singer @justin-singer.org · 23/09/2026I always respected that Herbert Simon was like, hey, maybe if computers progress at an exponential rate, at some point in the distant future we might be able to approximate the mind of an ant. That seems like a reasonable intermediate step to strive for before jumping to humans! 110 0
Justin Singer @justin-singer.org · 23/09/2026We really don't understand our own minds, and rather than accepting that maybe it's not for our generation to unlock the secrets of *billions* of years of evolution, we hope against logic and reason that the black box on our shoulders is susceptible to analysis, modeling, and replication. 001 0
Reposted by Justin SingerJustin Singer @justin-singer.org · 23/09/2026I find it notable that dominant technologies are always attended by the belief that the progression of said technology will lead to the creation of mind. Frankenstein, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, AGI -- all are efforts to place the mind at the end of technological evolution. But it's just...not. 121 0
Justin Singer @justin-singer.org · 23/09/2026I find it notable that dominant technologies are always attended by the belief that the progression of said technology will lead to the creation of mind. Frankenstein, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, AGI -- all are efforts to place the mind at the end of technological evolution. But it's just...not. 121 0
Reposted by Justin SingerJeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It's not that we *couldn't* replicate what our evolutionary history has given us from being embodied and embedded in the world. It's more that we don't know, physiologically speaking, what it is that makes us have minds, so we can't build it and put it in something else. 4181 0
Justin Singer @justin-singer.org · 23/09/2026Meanwhile, F ideas will tank society faster than A ideas can repair it. 000 0
Justin Singer @justin-singer.org · 17/09/2026Agree, but I think product liability law has been working through these issues for centuries now. I read these explanations of "misalignment" and all I see is the Chevy Corvair in a tuxedo. 020 0
Justin Singer @justin-singer.org · 13/09/2026Also taking this opportunity to endorse John Brooks as the greatest business writer of the 20th century. "The Go-Go Years" analyzed the nature of manias and the social dynamics that undergird them with timeless clarity. Once in Golconda and Business Adventures are also foundational texts. 000 0
Justin Singer @justin-singer.org · 13/09/2026I don't know, man. This is the sort of quote you'd see in a John Brooks New Yorker essay circa 1970. www.ft.com/content/c765... 101 0
Reposted by Justin SingerKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Honestly, I'd say the most disastrous decisions of Obama and Biden were not really holding anyone accountable for crimes committed under the previous administration. Obama wanted to "turn the page" on Iraq and the financial meltdown while Biden never put any urgency behind the January 6th cases 2544990912 0
Justin Singer @justin-singer.org · 05/09/2026Assign publisher liability to reels placed by algorithm and monetized by the platform. 000 0
Reposted by Justin Singerhikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 03/09/2026don't say you consumed art unless you literally chewed and swallowed that's stolen valor 321848 0
Justin Singer @justin-singer.org · 25/08/2026I've heard this called "Hostage Pricing," and it's an underdeveloped concept that deserves more attention. 010 0
Justin Singer @justin-singer.org · 19/08/2026I had a Con Law professor way back in 2006 explain that the trouble with Scalia was that if you accepted his premises, then his conclusions predictably followed. Logical evaluation is mechanical. Premises are the whole ballgame! 020 0
Justin Singer @justin-singer.org · 17/08/2026...and the remaining 299,500 accounting for $32B. That means the average non-"big fish" customer is spending $106k/yr. Does that seem believable? I don't know man. 100 0
Justin Singer @justin-singer.org · 17/08/2026Claude claims 300k business customers account for 80% of its $46B run rate, with 500 customers spending $1M each. Let's say each of those customers is spending $10M (just for fun). That means Claude gets ~$37B/yr from enterprise, with 500 customers accounting for $5B... 100 0
Justin Singer @justin-singer.org · 17/08/2026I don't doubt that people are spending lots of money on AI! But there's a huge (60x) difference between what the transaction data shows and what the companies are claiming. If you want to argue that companies are making that up, that's fine, but try to math it out before taking claims at face value. 110 0
Justin Singer @justin-singer.org · 17/08/2026If every American household paid $20/mo for Claude, that would be ~$24B/yr. But BoA txn data shows 3% of US households pay for AI at a median rate of $20/mo, which is ~$720M/yr. If Claude is doing $60B in revenue, where's it coming from? institute.bankofamerica.com/content/dam/...institute.bankofamerica.com 110 0
Reposted by Justin SingerAndrew @aac.social · 08/08/2026I believe this is what people in the industry refer to as the WSJ talking its book. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ol...wsj.comThis Summer’s Hottest Arm Candy Is a Private Equity BoyfriendReese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman and Olivia Rodrigo are all hanging out with finance guys 051 0
Reposted by Justin SingerJane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 04/08/2026150 mgs is absurd, at that point you're just taking psychosis inducing gummy bears 2322518 0
Justin Singer @justin-singer.org · 25/07/2026AI as Direct Selling: In this article... www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Amway/A... www.wsj.com/business/chi... 100 0
Justin Singer @justin-singer.org · 21/07/2026Love when an enterprise software vendor's AI chatbot tells me to update a non-existent setting. 100 0
Reposted by Justin SingerSam Biddle @sambiddle.com · 18/07/2026Virtually no one who cites a need to "beat China" in the "AI race" ever bothers to explain what any of that actually means: what the stakes are, where the finish line is, why we're racing in the first place, what "winning" looks like, etc. Largely vibes-based techno-nationalism. 39018 0
Reposted by Justin SingerDiscontinued FoOoOods! 👻🎃 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 21/01/2026You know, there was a time when the state of Michigan was pumping out the absolute classiest pop cans you possibly imagine 47735107 0
Justin Singer @justin-singer.org · 02/07/2026Read his reddit comment history. He's just a deeply weird dude. 000 0
Reposted by Justin SingerSnowden St. @snowden.st · 29/06/2026if you had a family where your parents said “oh, that’s a good point, i was wrong”, you are poorly prepared for a court and courts full of people who *enjoy* saying “we’re not talking about this anymore, decision’s made” when you make a perceptive or accurate point. 55110 0
Justin Singer @justin-singer.org · 27/06/2026This is true. Every law partner loves when green associates give them 25 pages of gibberish when asked for 2 pages of clarity. I am a 100x manager. 000 0
Justin Singer @justin-singer.org · 27/06/2026Them: "You just have to be ultra-specific, ultra-literal, and constantly course-correct it. Always double-check its work, and be patient when it makes declarative statements with unearned authority." Me: "Oh, so treat it like a nightmare employee? Cool." 100 0
Justin Singer @justin-singer.org · 27/06/2026I've had a long-running joke about how the pitch for using AI effectively is basically "you have to micromanage the hell out of it" and, well, yeah... www.bloomberg.com/news/article... 100 0
Reposted by Justin SingerCorey Frayer @csfrayer.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Wonder why most Dems yelling about Trump profits from presidency don't mention crypto, the biggest contributor to his billions? Because they'd be catching strays from themselves. We can't make a national issue of Trump crypto corruption because stuff like this & Dems' grab for crypto PAC money. 064 0
Justin Singer @justin-singer.org · 19/06/2026A Democratic Congress running a coherent "regulated capitalism is good actually" platform would do wonders. Debbie Dingell once bit my head off bc I told her that her policy views on pot were as disconsonant with the rule of law as they were consonant with abstinence-only education. 020 0
Justin Singer @justin-singer.org · 16/06/2026One of my favorite ways to rage-bait efficient marketeers tis to point out that participating in Ponzis is rational so long as you believe you won't be left holding the bag. Similarly, when the rules of the game are "anything goes," cheating and graft are rational (and efficient!) strategies. 000 0
Justin Singer @justin-singer.org · 16/06/2026Still angers me that Gottlieb/Woodcock didn't bother to push for quantitative standards for blood-based cannabinoid measurement way back in 2018. The absolute least they could do was define what apples-to-apples comparison should look for those performing the research. Alas... 010 0
Justin Singer @justin-singer.org · 16/06/2026Sad truth is that you can basically throw out all cannabis research before like, 2016, for want of reliable quantitative measures of cannabinoids circulating in the blood. Great example of bad data doing more to mislead than inform. 120 0
Justin Singer @justin-singer.org · 12/06/2026Tired: Revealed Preferences Wired: Revealed Instincts Inspired: Revealed Addictions 000 0