🚧 building indie apps 🌻 caring for the land ☸️ trying to stay heedful
Valdivia, Chile
Joined February 2013
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New intro:
I live in a rainforest, make indie software, practice syntropic farming, and help run my rural council.
Back here because it’s one of the few places discussing the ongoing shifts in societies and minds.
Let’s see how not to get crushed by them.
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Logging off, will be back with many cool things to share 🌻
Mental model I use for learning is a hyperbola: approaches the axis fast, then slows into infinite approximation. Helps me know when to stop burying in and step back.
I feel I’m past 4 on this iteration of absorbing things online. Gotta switch to embodied learning until 2027 👋
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The mind is the forerunner of all things
Did you know attention help regulates your immune response?
"Our findings therefore establish a causal
link between attention and immune regulation in vivo, suggesting that processes often considered autonomously regulated, such as inflammatory responses, are influenced by the voluntary allocation
of attentional resources."
nature.com/articles/s41562-0…
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It truly feels like some kind of depleted mana bar
When I’m fully charged, I can project myself into a hypothetical future and then move toward the projection
But it consumes both brainpower & willpower, so by evening I’m more like a cat, living in the moment and future-blind
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Like that guy who was caught 30 years ago for using “You can’t eat your cake and have it too”
Speech patterns and overall thematic focus can surely triangulate a person, the only problem before was pattern-matching, so it’s better to assume that anonymity doesn’t exist anymore
not many OOMs of compute/storage away from a bored individual prompting
"scrape every defunct 2000s forum post, do a stylometric analysis of every anon poster with every named poster from the 2020s, identify everyone with % confidence"
hopefully i wasn't too cringe back then
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"AI uses resources" – sure, so do inefficient agriculture, fast fashion, planned obsolescence & advertising feeding into human desires
Also, maybe don't use AI for petabytes of slop videos to sell slop
Civilization as a whole is an energy/resource hog that needs optimization
I live in nature, grow food, and think we're inside a catabolic+ecosystem collapse
I don't believe in the singularity or that consciousness emerges from matter
Yet it's obvious that a pattern-matching machine is useful for sorting through the mess that humanity has accumulated
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I live in nature, grow food, and think we're inside a catabolic+ecosystem collapse
I don't believe in the singularity or that consciousness emerges from matter
Yet it's obvious that a pattern-matching machine is useful for sorting through the mess that humanity has accumulated
Ivan Mir retweeted
periodically people like to pontificate on how it is that smart people can be very stupid. thinking itself is a kind of controlled hallucination, it is about generating and holding onto mental content that does not correspond to what is present. raw intelligence among other things is about having more raw ability to do this. thinking well involves having the discipline to check whether your thoughts correspond to anything real, otherwise raw brainpower just means you can sustain much more detailed, complex, seductive delusions than other people
Someone said that game dev is building a universe to bake a pie, and then being judged on the pie
I've been vibe coding a few games recently and it has given me SO much respect for game designers
Churning out something that looks like a game is pretty easy now. Building a game that's actually fun to play is still way beyond me (and beyond Claude and GPT-5.6, too)
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Propaganda works because people make a choice to believe in its lies, they’re betting on desired outcomes in a political casino
It has never been about the facts, but only wishes & fears, so there’s no need to make the pipeline more complicated
A significant update for me over the last 2-3 years has been to downgrade the dangers of deepfakes to public discourse. In 2023 I thought deepfake video, images, and audio would have a big impact on elections and such but so far the impact seems quite modest.
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Modernity has that “Science, fuck yeah!” progressivist bias baked in
Which leads to perceiving everyone before Renaissance and outside of ancient Greece/Rome as dumb & superstitious
Remedy: read some ancient literature, people back then were often more perspicacious than we are
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There’s that cursed loop of seeing something often and increasing inner importance weights as a result, which leads to more attention to the topic
Monitoring the situation becomes parasocial, starts feeling like a part of your identity
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Hacker News has lost its value as a random seed for learning about unrelated stuff
Humanities-leaning front-page submissions have basically disappeared from it, it's just another tech forum nowadays
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One more example of holding AI horribly wrong
This is the golden age of self-hosting, there's plenty of good open-source software you can quickly deploy with agent holding your hand, so why reinvent the wheel?
quick update on how this is going: they have gone back to linear because maintaining their internal tool that they vibecoded was taking away from their actual work’s bandwidth.
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