henry
@hdevalence.bsky.social
navigating the library of babel
minds can definitely exist within other, larger minds
The China brain problem is a special case of the more general problem whether minds could exist within other, larger minds.[7]
A challenger approaches en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_b...
May 20, 2026 at 3:09 AM
minds can definitely exist within other, larger minds
counterpoint, the people sneering at the nurture nexus aren’t inclined to build anything
"the guy building the torment nexus can only be stopped by the guy building the nurture nexus, yet most of the guys inclined to build the nurture nexus are sneering at the idea a nexus can be build while the others are actively building it"
"we are deeply fucked and in a bad place specifically because the tech is good" encapsulates my anxiety well. the denial of capability and fantasy ai will go away is extremely dangerous cope, the environmental concerns a distraction from the existential challenge, of fixing how society operates.
May 4, 2026 at 10:36 PM
counterpoint, the people sneering at the nurture nexus aren’t inclined to build anything
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I'm just going to say it, I really don't like the "how do we make OSS sustainable" framing. OSS is already sustainable. The only thing not sustainable is users expecting a free lunch (support, LTS, bug fixes, ...). As a user, you are responsible for your OSS usage. Fork/patch if you need to.
May 2, 2026 at 7:09 PM
I'm just going to say it, I really don't like the "how do we make OSS sustainable" framing. OSS is already sustainable. The only thing not sustainable is users expecting a free lunch (support, LTS, bug fixes, ...). As a user, you are responsible for your OSS usage. Fork/patch if you need to.
permissionless innovation includes people doing things you won’t like or judge as slop
April 27, 2026 at 9:54 PM
permissionless innovation includes people doing things you won’t like or judge as slop
how much does this service cost and where do i sign up
April 24, 2026 at 1:11 AM
how much does this service cost and where do i sign up
not to backseat drive nasa too much but i don’t think they should allow comms blackouts for crewed missions
April 7, 2026 at 12:37 AM
not to backseat drive nasa too much but i don’t think they should allow comms blackouts for crewed missions
hitting Stalin with the “You’re absolutely right!”
April 6, 2026 at 9:54 PM
hitting Stalin with the “You’re absolutely right!”
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I think in all likelihood the colonizers will split into seven ideological factions en route and will need seven different landing sites when they arrive… and who knows what happens after that…
April 2, 2026 at 7:35 PM
I think in all likelihood the colonizers will split into seven ideological factions en route and will need seven different landing sites when they arrive… and who knows what happens after that…
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AI data centers are literally sucking the oxygen out of the air, causing people up to several miles away to be short of breath and suffer from extreme headaches
The research exaggeration pipeline.
-Unpublished paper
-One outlier: "min & max can be found at 0.3°C
and 9.1°C" (95th pct "between 1.5°C & 2.4°C")
-No causal identification; just pre/post that could be result of many factors
Do you really believe data centers are warming *10km* away? Really?
-Unpublished paper
-One outlier: "min & max can be found at 0.3°C
and 9.1°C" (95th pct "between 1.5°C & 2.4°C")
-No causal identification; just pre/post that could be result of many factors
Do you really believe data centers are warming *10km* away? Really?
March 30, 2026 at 2:42 AM
AI data centers are literally sucking the oxygen out of the air, causing people up to several miles away to be short of breath and suffer from extreme headaches
if you are in a position to act to harden society’s software infrastructure, you too should be very concerned about this and planning what actions you will take over the coming months
Talk by a security researcher at Anthropic
He shows that you can trivially get Opus 4.5/4.6 to find very difficult to find bugs in established code bases, like the Linux kernel
He also seems very worried about “the next few months”
m.youtube.com/watch?v=1sd2...
He shows that you can trivially get Opus 4.5/4.6 to find very difficult to find bugs in established code bases, like the Linux kernel
He also seems very worried about “the next few months”
m.youtube.com/watch?v=1sd2...
Nicholas Carlini - Black-hat LLMs | [un]prompted 2026
YouTube video by unprompted
m.youtube.com
March 29, 2026 at 10:55 PM
if you are in a position to act to harden society’s software infrastructure, you too should be very concerned about this and planning what actions you will take over the coming months
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One of the reasons that the willful blindness about AI from people with platforms on the left is shortsighted is that “hope it goes away” doesn’t have a great track record as a strategy for contesting control of new political domains and technologies.
March 29, 2026 at 9:28 PM
One of the reasons that the willful blindness about AI from people with platforms on the left is shortsighted is that “hope it goes away” doesn’t have a great track record as a strategy for contesting control of new political domains and technologies.
the model itself is the innovation on the written form ? and a pretty big one
I want to see more *actual* use of LLMs to *innovate* on the written form. I don’t want an essay written by an AI that I could have promoted—I want an artistically crafted user experience that leverages AI as a tool to interactively put the reader *more* into the author’s specific intent, not less.
i'm continually mystified why otherwise smart people keep publishing llm-assisted essays. the bla IS the bla; it's not foo, it's bar. look this shit just sucks to read, pls stop this
March 28, 2026 at 4:11 PM
the model itself is the innovation on the written form ? and a pretty big one
unfortunate that it doesn’t seem like we’re going to get a reckoning for the failures of the biden administration
March 9, 2026 at 4:27 PM
unfortunate that it doesn’t seem like we’re going to get a reckoning for the failures of the biden administration
we could see a century of crashouts compressed into only a few years
February 16, 2026 at 5:18 AM
we could see a century of crashouts compressed into only a few years
hope everyone had a great day
February 16, 2026 at 3:40 AM
hope everyone had a great day
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the kind of future i figured was inevitable 15 years ago is finally here and I don't really know what to make of it
February 13, 2026 at 8:14 PM
the kind of future i figured was inevitable 15 years ago is finally here and I don't really know what to make of it
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yeah no i'll get right on that. let me just task my clawdbot. i mean my openclaw. they'll send beads to each other. and then the polecat in the gastown will pick it up. and then CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS will spin up on the gastown. and then the moltbook will communicate it
February 12, 2026 at 7:45 PM
yeah no i'll get right on that. let me just task my clawdbot. i mean my openclaw. they'll send beads to each other. and then the polecat in the gastown will pick it up. and then CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS will spin up on the gastown. and then the moltbook will communicate it
good evening everyone
February 12, 2026 at 7:04 AM
good evening everyone
Obsidian (highest risk under interrogation)
January 31, 2026 at 7:03 AM
Obsidian (highest risk under interrogation)
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I don't think current AI is conscious or worthy of moral standing, but there's no reason to suppose it can't be. And it worries me that the exact people generally most concern with rights for other conscious beings are most likely to deny the possibility of machine consciousness.
January 26, 2026 at 1:22 PM
I don't think current AI is conscious or worthy of moral standing, but there's no reason to suppose it can't be. And it worries me that the exact people generally most concern with rights for other conscious beings are most likely to deny the possibility of machine consciousness.
a great thing about this is that if it existed, it would be possible to automatically annotate accounts that are repeatedly found to be posting slop
it would be great if the bluesky devs could reach out to this team and figure out a way to integrate the tool here. it would be an easy win on multiple fronts, how open platforms can adapt faster, how bluesky cares about the commons more than X, and the userbase already hates AI slop.
January 20, 2026 at 8:07 PM
a great thing about this is that if it existed, it would be possible to automatically annotate accounts that are repeatedly found to be posting slop
we can solve san francisco’s bathroom shortage by having a fleet of these that roam the streets autonomously and can be summoned by an app
call it a weemo
call it a weemo
i didn't know you were in town until i saw your car, give me a call next time
January 18, 2026 at 5:56 PM
we can solve san francisco’s bathroom shortage by having a fleet of these that roam the streets autonomously and can be summoned by an app
call it a weemo
call it a weemo