Long Now is a non-profit organization fostering long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years.
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Long Now Foundation retweeted
so excited for this! That's my article right there! Buy this book immediately!!
Issue 3 of Pace Layers, our print annual journal of long-term thinking, is out now. Get it here: shop.longnow.org/products/pa…
Long Now Foundation retweeted
once again honored to be so intimately involved --
20 + instances of custom art for this issue,
3 full-color double-page spreads
Issue 3 of Pace Layers, our print annual journal of long-term thinking, is out now. Get it here: shop.longnow.org/products/pa…
Long Now Foundation retweeted
Honored to have my Long Now Talk featured in Issue 3 of Pace Layers, The Long Now Foundation’s annual journal of long-term thinking.
We explore what it takes to build institutions that endure beyond their founders, a question central to stewardship and long-term thinking.
Get it here: lnkd.in/ge_fx3-C
Issue 3 of Pace Layers, our print annual journal of long-term thinking, is out now. Get it here: shop.longnow.org/products/pa…
Long Now Foundation retweeted
I recently hosted @blaiseaguera and @baratunde at @LongNow for a discussion on Interdependence.
From each of their unique vantages, we explored how we might move beyond what Blaise calls the "Cartesian wound," and colonial legacies of domination, to embrace a worldview rooted in mutual dependence, ecological stewardship, and belonging with both nature and technology.
Baratunde and Blaise approach AI not as a product or a neutral tool, but as a relationship that shapes our habits and our agency. They talk about how human intelligence has always been collective. And I ask them what it might mean to be human a hundred years from now.
It’s a conversation that’s generous in areas of agreement and generative when it diverges. It’s also something of an experiment for us: it’s going to feel a lot more like a lively back-and-forth between old friends in your living room, than it is a traditional Long Now Talk.
Enjoy: youtube.com/watch?v=CpNPzkKy…
Long Now Foundation retweeted
So thrilled @ninabegus is leading our Epistemic Cycles Lab @longnow.
Movie making, fiction, science come together to face the unknown.
Watch Dennis Villeneuve and @ninabegus discuss the Arrival, past, present, and future.
Long Now Foundation retweeted
This is an outstanding essay on the nature and prospects of AI.
I'm absolutely thrilled to have written this article for Long Now. It's about AI and time: how we got here, and what we can do now, when all of the pace layers are disrupted at once by an influx of new minds.
I wrote this over the summer. At the time, it seemed maybe too weird, like people wouldn't believe or understand what I was saying. And of course, everything changes so fast that it's hard to imagine writing something about AI that far in advance and have it still make sense. But I think the events of the last few months have only made it more relevant.
The Long Now Foundation has been an inspiration to me for a decade now, and has changed my life in countless ways. I'm incredibly grateful and honored to be among so many of my heroes and friends and colleagues represented in this issue of Pace Layers and Long Now Ideas. I wouldn't be here in San Francisco, here on Twitter, or here in the field of artificial intelligence if not for this community.
The conversation about AI has been fractious. It's very hard to think about how to fit this sudden, disruptive, technological change into the 10,000-year view. I hope I provide some insights, or at least some new angles for the conversation. It's scary to go on the record, especially about something that will affect everyone, and affect the rest of history. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong forever!
Please read and enjoy, and post quotes and screenshots, and buy Pace Layers Issue 3 so you can have a permanent hard copy. I have always wanted to be a part of the 10,000-year library, so I have to be serious for once and try to stand for something. Let me know what you think.
Long Now Foundation retweeted
An essay I wrote about @mruspace is one of 27 picked to be featured in the Long Now Foundation's upcoming Book of Time, due out next spring
Announcing our first Long Now Labs awardees in partnership with the Protocol Institute. We received 370+ exceptional submissions — and we’re thrilled to unveil the three awardees chosen to develop their concepts into prototypes. The awardees for Book of Time are:
▪️Matthew Caren and Anastasha Rachel Gunawan for “Lagu Hantu,” a handmade instrument installation that remembers everyone who has ever played it.
▪️Eirini Malliaraki (@irinimalliaraki) with “One Billion Clocks” a kinetic sculpture that tracks the metabolic time of soil
▪️Sarah Friend (@isthisanart_) for “Thermodynamic Clock for LLMs” which will test whether giving models access to different experiences of time will alter their behavior
Over the coming year, each team will develop its concept into a working prototype with $25,000 in funding and support from Long Now. Their work will appear alongside 27 selected submissions in the Book of Time anthology, coming in spring 02027.
For our second Lab, Epistemic Cycles, UC Berkeley scholar Nina Begus (@ninabegus) will serve as Lab Lead. She’ll convene an interdisciplinary working group to build an atlas of information ruptures (from writing to generative AI) and of how societies have repaired them.
Our third Lab, Interspecies Protocols, launches in 02027.
Thank you to everyone who applied, to our partners at the Protocol Institute, and to our review panel. Read the full description of these incredible projects on Ideas here: na2.hubs.ly/H08xGzF0
Long Now Foundation retweeted
What kind of Clock is an LLM?
I wrote about this in Spring, but since then my questions has deepened and become Cartesian - I think therefore I am, but how does an LLM assess claims made by it's own infrastructure?
excited to dig into this with @longnow over the next year :)
Announcing our first Long Now Labs awardees in partnership with the Protocol Institute. We received 370+ exceptional submissions — and we’re thrilled to unveil the three awardees chosen to develop their concepts into prototypes. The awardees for Book of Time are:
▪️Matthew Caren and Anastasha Rachel Gunawan for “Lagu Hantu,” a handmade instrument installation that remembers everyone who has ever played it.
▪️Eirini Malliaraki (@irinimalliaraki) with “One Billion Clocks” a kinetic sculpture that tracks the metabolic time of soil
▪️Sarah Friend (@isthisanart_) for “Thermodynamic Clock for LLMs” which will test whether giving models access to different experiences of time will alter their behavior
Over the coming year, each team will develop its concept into a working prototype with $25,000 in funding and support from Long Now. Their work will appear alongside 27 selected submissions in the Book of Time anthology, coming in spring 02027.
For our second Lab, Epistemic Cycles, UC Berkeley scholar Nina Begus (@ninabegus) will serve as Lab Lead. She’ll convene an interdisciplinary working group to build an atlas of information ruptures (from writing to generative AI) and of how societies have repaired them.
Our third Lab, Interspecies Protocols, launches in 02027.
Thank you to everyone who applied, to our partners at the Protocol Institute, and to our review panel. Read the full description of these incredible projects on Ideas here: na2.hubs.ly/H08xGzF0
Long Now Foundation retweeted
For those who can’t join us in person tonight, the talk will be livestreamed on @longnow's YouTube channel: youtube.com/watch?v=FPx_TTG3…
Friends in San Francisco: Join me at @longnow on October 22 for a conversation on interdependence with @baratunde.
We'll explore cooperation as the core governing principle of nature and synthetic minds, why intelligence is inherently collective, and what this means for our shared future.
Get tickets here: eventbrite.com/e/on-interdep…
Long Now Foundation retweeted
I'm absolutely thrilled to have written this article for Long Now. It's about AI and time: how we got here, and what we can do now, when all of the pace layers are disrupted at once by an influx of new minds.
I wrote this over the summer. At the time, it seemed maybe too weird, like people wouldn't believe or understand what I was saying. And of course, everything changes so fast that it's hard to imagine writing something about AI that far in advance and have it still make sense. But I think the events of the last few months have only made it more relevant.
The Long Now Foundation has been an inspiration to me for a decade now, and has changed my life in countless ways. I'm incredibly grateful and honored to be among so many of my heroes and friends and colleagues represented in this issue of Pace Layers and Long Now Ideas. I wouldn't be here in San Francisco, here on Twitter, or here in the field of artificial intelligence if not for this community.
The conversation about AI has been fractious. It's very hard to think about how to fit this sudden, disruptive, technological change into the 10,000-year view. I hope I provide some insights, or at least some new angles for the conversation. It's scary to go on the record, especially about something that will affect everyone, and affect the rest of history. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong forever!
Please read and enjoy, and post quotes and screenshots, and buy Pace Layers Issue 3 so you can have a permanent hard copy. I have always wanted to be a part of the 10,000-year library, so I have to be serious for once and try to stand for something. Let me know what you think.
In 02025, @deepfates helped throw a funeral for an AI. The power went out mid-ceremony, and the crowd hummed it back to life.
In “Attention is All You Need,” deepfates tells the story of that night, their backstory on a hippie commune with Whole Earth Catalogs on the shelf, and how they got here: in San Francisco on the eve of another technological disruption.
Civilization runs on shared human attention, they argue, and AI has just made attention cheap, endless, and on tap. So what happens to the slow pace layers — culture, governance, nature — when everything starts to speed up? And what could we finally accomplish if we had enough attention to spare?
Read the essay online here: na2.hubs.ly/H08ySWy0
Or, hold it in your hands: pre-order Pace Layers, Long Now’s annual print journal, launching this November. New annual subscribers also get a free copy of Issue 2, while supplies last.
Artwork by @caseycripe
Long Now Foundation retweeted
What if a clock told us not what time it is, but how the world is becoming? Beneath our feet, billions of organisms keep time through metabolism, decay and renewal.
Thrilled that my project One Billion Clocks, a kinetic sculpture of soil’s living rhythms, was selected for Long Now Labs by the @longnow !
Announcing our first Long Now Labs awardees in partnership with the Protocol Institute. We received 370+ exceptional submissions — and we’re thrilled to unveil the three awardees chosen to develop their concepts into prototypes. The awardees for Book of Time are:
▪️Matthew Caren and Anastasha Rachel Gunawan for “Lagu Hantu,” a handmade instrument installation that remembers everyone who has ever played it.
▪️Eirini Malliaraki (@irinimalliaraki) with “One Billion Clocks” a kinetic sculpture that tracks the metabolic time of soil
▪️Sarah Friend (@isthisanart_) for “Thermodynamic Clock for LLMs” which will test whether giving models access to different experiences of time will alter their behavior
Over the coming year, each team will develop its concept into a working prototype with $25,000 in funding and support from Long Now. Their work will appear alongside 27 selected submissions in the Book of Time anthology, coming in spring 02027.
For our second Lab, Epistemic Cycles, UC Berkeley scholar Nina Begus (@ninabegus) will serve as Lab Lead. She’ll convene an interdisciplinary working group to build an atlas of information ruptures (from writing to generative AI) and of how societies have repaired them.
Our third Lab, Interspecies Protocols, launches in 02027.
Thank you to everyone who applied, to our partners at the Protocol Institute, and to our review panel. Read the full description of these incredible projects on Ideas here: na2.hubs.ly/H08xGzF0
Long Now Foundation retweeted
whoa “Thermodynamic Clock for LLMs” has a neat ring to it
Announcing our first Long Now Labs awardees in partnership with the Protocol Institute. We received 370+ exceptional submissions — and we’re thrilled to unveil the three awardees chosen to develop their concepts into prototypes. The awardees for Book of Time are:
▪️Matthew Caren and Anastasha Rachel Gunawan for “Lagu Hantu,” a handmade instrument installation that remembers everyone who has ever played it.
▪️Eirini Malliaraki (@irinimalliaraki) with “One Billion Clocks” a kinetic sculpture that tracks the metabolic time of soil
▪️Sarah Friend (@isthisanart_) for “Thermodynamic Clock for LLMs” which will test whether giving models access to different experiences of time will alter their behavior
Over the coming year, each team will develop its concept into a working prototype with $25,000 in funding and support from Long Now. Their work will appear alongside 27 selected submissions in the Book of Time anthology, coming in spring 02027.
For our second Lab, Epistemic Cycles, UC Berkeley scholar Nina Begus (@ninabegus) will serve as Lab Lead. She’ll convene an interdisciplinary working group to build an atlas of information ruptures (from writing to generative AI) and of how societies have repaired them.
Our third Lab, Interspecies Protocols, launches in 02027.
Thank you to everyone who applied, to our partners at the Protocol Institute, and to our review panel. Read the full description of these incredible projects on Ideas here: na2.hubs.ly/H08xGzF0
Long Now Foundation retweeted
Friends in San Francisco: Join me at @longnow on October 22 for a conversation on interdependence with @baratunde.
We'll explore cooperation as the core governing principle of nature and synthetic minds, why intelligence is inherently collective, and what this means for our shared future.
Get tickets here: eventbrite.com/e/on-interdep…
How do we co-create a future with tech that actually serves humanity and the planet? On Oct 22, join @baratunde (creator of How to Citizen & Life With Machines) alongside Google VP @blaiseaguera for "On Interdependence": a 10,000-year look at civic action, Indigenous wisdom, and human survival.
More information and tickets here: na2.hubs.ly/H082rvS0
Long Now Foundation retweeted
Nearly every phone and computer on Earth relies on one plain-text file to know what time it is.
When a country changes its clocks with a few weeks’ notice, or Morocco pauses daylight saving for Ramadan, someone has to update that file. Since 02005, that someone has been Paul Eggert, a computer science professor at UCLA, who does it as a volunteer.
Take a look at this great data visualization to see the full story:
na2.hubs.ly/H08qtQC0
Long Now Foundation retweeted
ICYMI: Author @nealstephenson joined @zander on Wide Margins, a series by @wordpressdotcom, to dig into his new novel D: Heavy Water yesterday.
Grab a coffee for this one and catch the replay: xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1nJOLQZBA…
Long Now Foundation retweeted
They say if you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room. Um, this is definitely the right room… The Long Now Foundation, November 10.
Long Now Foundation retweeted
18 years ago Gary Wolf @agaricus and I launched the Quantified Self (QS) movement, which is still going. Gary finally wrote a book detailing what we have learned so far, and on Thursday, October 8, 5:30 PM at the Book Passage in the Ferry Building San Francisco, he and I will introduce his book and do a classic QS show and tell session. Sign up here: quantifiedself.com/events/co…
