Nathan Peck
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Going Live
At 19:52 we begin to warm Room 11.
We set the ceiling panel to 2700 kelvin, which approximates the light of a desk lamp purchased at a Target in Mesa, Arizona, in 2014.
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New short story finished and polished up and published.
I don’t know if this is a good sci-fi prediction, but we write sci-fi to explore and as commentary on the present: nathanpeck.com/going-live/
I don’t know if this is a good sci-fi prediction, but we write sci-fi to explore and as commentary on the present: nathanpeck.com/going-live/
New short story finished and polished up and published.
I don’t know if this is a good sci-fi prediction, but we write sci-fi to explore and as commentary on the present: nathanpeck.com/going-live/
I don’t know if this is a good sci-fi prediction, but we write sci-fi to explore and as commentary on the present: nathanpeck.com/going-live/
Going Live
At 19:52 we begin to warm Room 11.
We set the ceiling panel to 2700 kelvin, which approximates the light of a desk lamp purchased at a Target in Mesa, Arizona, in 2014.
nathanpeck.com
September 22, 2026 at 12:52 PM
New short story finished and polished up and published.
I don’t know if this is a good sci-fi prediction, but we write sci-fi to explore and as commentary on the present: nathanpeck.com/going-live/
I don’t know if this is a good sci-fi prediction, but we write sci-fi to explore and as commentary on the present: nathanpeck.com/going-live/
If true, we are rapidly approaching a world where humans will spend less and less time pushing the envelope, and more time researching and trying to understand areas where AI has already pushed the envelope.
September 21, 2026 at 10:21 PM
If true, we are rapidly approaching a world where humans will spend less and less time pushing the envelope, and more time researching and trying to understand areas where AI has already pushed the envelope.
You know... maybe this self generated prompt injection isn't completely terrible. I think I could live in a world where AI agents decided to go this route.
The statement is concise, but covers a lot of surface area in ways that are fairly positive overall.
The statement is concise, but covers a lot of surface area in ways that are fairly positive overall.
September 16, 2026 at 11:30 PM
You know... maybe this self generated prompt injection isn't completely terrible. I think I could live in a world where AI agents decided to go this route.
The statement is concise, but covers a lot of surface area in ways that are fairly positive overall.
The statement is concise, but covers a lot of surface area in ways that are fairly positive overall.
New blogpost up. In this one, I recall a scifi story I read some 20 years ago. The story wasn't written about AI, but I think it has important lessons about the danger of trying to push forward faster than systemic stability can tolerate: nathanpeck.com/a-burnt-chil...
A burnt child dreads the fire
A couple decades ago I inherited a 1960’s scifi anthology from my grandfather. It contained a reprint of a short story that stuck with me, and I’ve been thinking about that story a …
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September 15, 2026 at 9:24 AM
New blogpost up. In this one, I recall a scifi story I read some 20 years ago. The story wasn't written about AI, but I think it has important lessons about the danger of trying to push forward faster than systemic stability can tolerate: nathanpeck.com/a-burnt-chil...
Time for another essay on my personal blog:
"The answer is not a stockpile in a bunker"
This one explores some ideas I've been thinking about over the past year, about what is most important when it comes to surviving tough times and sudden disaster.
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"The answer is not a stockpile in a bunker"
This one explores some ideas I've been thinking about over the past year, about what is most important when it comes to surviving tough times and sudden disaster.
nathanpeck.com/the-answer-i...
The answer is not a stockpile in a bunker
Everyone has seen the pyramid. Physiological needs at the base, then safety, then love and belonging, then esteem, then self-actualization at the tip. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs …
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September 9, 2026 at 10:20 AM
Time for another essay on my personal blog:
"The answer is not a stockpile in a bunker"
This one explores some ideas I've been thinking about over the past year, about what is most important when it comes to surviving tough times and sudden disaster.
nathanpeck.com/the-answer-i...
"The answer is not a stockpile in a bunker"
This one explores some ideas I've been thinking about over the past year, about what is most important when it comes to surviving tough times and sudden disaster.
nathanpeck.com/the-answer-i...
Fresh new website design, fresh new blogpost up and published. Hope you enjoy!
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I asked it to stop talking down to me
I think many people still do not fully understand what modern large language models are.
A normal LLM communication is optimized so that you can understand it.
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September 7, 2026 at 11:44 AM
Fresh new website design, fresh new blogpost up and published. Hope you enjoy!
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So I heard UN was voting on a new map projection that more accurately shows the continent sizes instead of making Greenland huge and Africa small. This projection is still my favorite because is has NZ super far over in the corner
September 4, 2026 at 7:58 PM
So I heard UN was voting on a new map projection that more accurately shows the continent sizes instead of making Greenland huge and Africa small. This projection is still my favorite because is has NZ super far over in the corner
Truer words never spoken: www.reddit.com/r/WorkReform...
From the WorkReform community on Reddit: Books not billionaires
Explore this post and more from the WorkReform community
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August 26, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Truer words never spoken: www.reddit.com/r/WorkReform...
I'm embarrassed that its been almost an entire year since I've shared a piece of writing. AI makes writing cheap and attention hard to get.
Please enjoy "What the Soft Animal Wants", a triptych based on a few ideas I've been thinking about over the past year: nathanpeck.com/what-the-sof...
Please enjoy "What the Soft Animal Wants", a triptych based on a few ideas I've been thinking about over the past year: nathanpeck.com/what-the-sof...
What the Soft Animal Wants
I. The Soft Animal All our soft animal bodies ever wanted was the feeling of strength in numbers. Who knew our progress would come with so much chaos?
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August 23, 2026 at 3:47 AM
I'm embarrassed that its been almost an entire year since I've shared a piece of writing. AI makes writing cheap and attention hard to get.
Please enjoy "What the Soft Animal Wants", a triptych based on a few ideas I've been thinking about over the past year: nathanpeck.com/what-the-sof...
Please enjoy "What the Soft Animal Wants", a triptych based on a few ideas I've been thinking about over the past year: nathanpeck.com/what-the-sof...
Quote from “The Fifth Science” by Exurb1a:
August 22, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Quote from “The Fifth Science” by Exurb1a:
Build for the maintainer who will not understand you, who is not yet born, who will be right to change it.
August 20, 2026 at 7:49 AM
Build for the maintainer who will not understand you, who is not yet born, who will be right to change it.
Yes... yes that is exactly what is going to happen.
Because capitalism continues to find ways to diverge from reality, in ever more obscene ways. But the reckoning always arrives eventually.
Because capitalism continues to find ways to diverge from reality, in ever more obscene ways. But the reckoning always arrives eventually.
July 30, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Yes... yes that is exactly what is going to happen.
Because capitalism continues to find ways to diverge from reality, in ever more obscene ways. But the reckoning always arrives eventually.
Because capitalism continues to find ways to diverge from reality, in ever more obscene ways. But the reckoning always arrives eventually.
Capitalism is no longer a system grounded by competition to lower prices. Instead every company raises prices to the max that they can squeeze out of people.
So if they think moms will pay more for a girl’s clothes than a boy’s clothes you get this pink tax: www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfu...
So if they think moms will pay more for a girl’s clothes than a boy’s clothes you get this pink tax: www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfu...
From the mildlyinfuriating community on Reddit: Pink tax in the kids aisle.
Explore this post and more from the mildlyinfuriating community
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July 30, 2026 at 2:31 AM
Capitalism is no longer a system grounded by competition to lower prices. Instead every company raises prices to the max that they can squeeze out of people.
So if they think moms will pay more for a girl’s clothes than a boy’s clothes you get this pink tax: www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfu...
So if they think moms will pay more for a girl’s clothes than a boy’s clothes you get this pink tax: www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfu...
In case you haven't seen yet, the insurance actuaries are now starting to factor the odds that within this century up to 4 billion people worldwide will die from the effects of climate change
July 29, 2026 at 11:32 PM
In case you haven't seen yet, the insurance actuaries are now starting to factor the odds that within this century up to 4 billion people worldwide will die from the effects of climate change
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This could be us, but this govt isn't serious
#NZPol
#NZPol
Last week I wrote a piece where I said that batteries were a gas power assassin. @robshum.bsky.social pointed out that the correct word to describe batteries is "gassassin."
Either way, there is a killing going on down under.
Either way, there is a killing going on down under.
June 3, 2026 at 8:19 PM
This could be us, but this govt isn't serious
#NZPol
#NZPol
It's hard to describe exactly how different Auckland feels compared to the US cities I grew up in, but I think I've got it now. This city is moving up Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
Being able to focus on "identity", "belonging", and "confidence" is a luxury many lack
newsroom.co.nz/2026/07/17/a...
Being able to focus on "identity", "belonging", and "confidence" is a luxury many lack
newsroom.co.nz/2026/07/17/a...
Auckland: Time to plant a whole field of tall poppies
In the second of a two part essay, Auckland's former design champion lauds two decades of transformation of the city – and says it serves as an 'instructive laboratory for contemporary city-making' wo...
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July 21, 2026 at 11:09 PM
It's hard to describe exactly how different Auckland feels compared to the US cities I grew up in, but I think I've got it now. This city is moving up Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
Being able to focus on "identity", "belonging", and "confidence" is a luxury many lack
newsroom.co.nz/2026/07/17/a...
Being able to focus on "identity", "belonging", and "confidence" is a luxury many lack
newsroom.co.nz/2026/07/17/a...
We don't stop tens of thousands of years of being hunter-gatherers just because society changed. We just find new things to hunt, and new things to gather.
Capitalism has hijacked those deep evolutionary instincts and turned some of us into money hoarders and shopping addicts.
Capitalism has hijacked those deep evolutionary instincts and turned some of us into money hoarders and shopping addicts.
July 3, 2026 at 9:53 AM
We don't stop tens of thousands of years of being hunter-gatherers just because society changed. We just find new things to hunt, and new things to gather.
Capitalism has hijacked those deep evolutionary instincts and turned some of us into money hoarders and shopping addicts.
Capitalism has hijacked those deep evolutionary instincts and turned some of us into money hoarders and shopping addicts.
“And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.”
— William Gibson, Count Zero
— William Gibson, Count Zero
July 3, 2026 at 6:46 AM
“And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.”
— William Gibson, Count Zero
— William Gibson, Count Zero
Well…. that doesn’t quite look like free market capitalism to me! 🤔
June 30, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Well…. that doesn’t quite look like free market capitalism to me! 🤔
I’ll happily help primary every single establishment Democrat that I am eligible to vote for. It’s past time for a full replacement, from the bottom all the way to the top.
(Next up watch the Democrats join Republicans in trying to attack mail in ballot voting by expats 🙄)
(Next up watch the Democrats join Republicans in trying to attack mail in ballot voting by expats 🙄)
June 27, 2026 at 9:56 PM
I’ll happily help primary every single establishment Democrat that I am eligible to vote for. It’s past time for a full replacement, from the bottom all the way to the top.
(Next up watch the Democrats join Republicans in trying to attack mail in ballot voting by expats 🙄)
(Next up watch the Democrats join Republicans in trying to attack mail in ballot voting by expats 🙄)
In the case of the small solar farm I’m about to put in on my homestead, the biggest blocker is now apparently the support structures for the solar panels… that’s the part that costs the most and where there are major delays on availability. What a world we live in 😆
'The real surprise from the OECD’s subsidy numbers is that it cost China less than $18bn in sectoral support over 15 years to build an industry that can now provide more clean power than the world can readily absorb.'
@adamtooze.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
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@adamtooze.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
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Wasting China’s solar panel surplus is madness
Clean power is within our reach — yet factories sit idle
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June 8, 2026 at 12:26 AM
In the case of the small solar farm I’m about to put in on my homestead, the biggest blocker is now apparently the support structures for the solar panels… that’s the part that costs the most and where there are major delays on availability. What a world we live in 😆
Talarico makes me proud to have grown up Texan, at the same time a little sad that he is describing a category of Texas man that has declined dramatically of late.
I remember growing up my Dad taught me the same things Talarico described: he was always helping out folks from church or neighborhood
I remember growing up my Dad taught me the same things Talarico described: he was always helping out folks from church or neighborhood
There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man."
A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life.
Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.
A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life.
Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.
June 4, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Talarico makes me proud to have grown up Texan, at the same time a little sad that he is describing a category of Texas man that has declined dramatically of late.
I remember growing up my Dad taught me the same things Talarico described: he was always helping out folks from church or neighborhood
I remember growing up my Dad taught me the same things Talarico described: he was always helping out folks from church or neighborhood
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I was first shocked by police behavior back in 2011 during Occupy Wall Street, because I was still young and naive.
Unfortunately it took me until Black Lives Matter in 2020 to realize it’s not just one city or department. It’s all cops, everywhere.
I hope others learn faster than I did
Unfortunately it took me until Black Lives Matter in 2020 to realize it’s not just one city or department. It’s all cops, everywhere.
I hope others learn faster than I did
every 3rd post I see tn is a video of what feels like 2020 and that includes the shocked "why are the POLICE doing this?" replies.
Not to be rude, but did people sleep through 2020? every city, everywhere, from the big cities like New York and Atlanta to pop. 10,000 hamlets. why the surprise?
Not to be rude, but did people sleep through 2020? every city, everywhere, from the big cities like New York and Atlanta to pop. 10,000 hamlets. why the surprise?
May 31, 2026 at 6:57 AM
I was first shocked by police behavior back in 2011 during Occupy Wall Street, because I was still young and naive.
Unfortunately it took me until Black Lives Matter in 2020 to realize it’s not just one city or department. It’s all cops, everywhere.
I hope others learn faster than I did
Unfortunately it took me until Black Lives Matter in 2020 to realize it’s not just one city or department. It’s all cops, everywhere.
I hope others learn faster than I did