Karola
@karola.bsky.social
Interested in metascience, tools & protocols for thought, and the intersection of technology & culture.
http://www.wutbot.com
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When TV-famous biologist Ben discovers an ancient fungus hyperlinking minds, he thinks he's finally found plot armor against the AI eating science—until it locks him out. Now he and his lab must outwit a recursively self-improving tech CEO to break in and use it against her AI hegemon. #DVpit #A #SF
September 30, 2026 at 8:55 PM
When TV-famous biologist Ben discovers an ancient fungus hyperlinking minds, he thinks he's finally found plot armor against the AI eating science—until it locks him out. Now he and his lab must outwit a recursively self-improving tech CEO to break in and use it against her AI hegemon. #DVpit #A #SF
The glowing green threads of an ancient fungus have hyperlinked Ben's coauthor, student, and best friend—but not him. Now the biologist with a Batman fantasy must outwit a CEO building an AI hegemon to discover whether he's found humanity's antidote to obsolescence—or a death cap. #DVpit #A #SF
September 30, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Biologist Ben is staying comfortably detached while AI swallows his job. When he discovers an ancient fungus hyperlinking minds, it takes his postdoc, his coauthor, his best friend … but not him. Now, with a tech CEO stalking the network, the man on the outside has to find a way in. #DVpit #A #SF
September 30, 2026 at 6:22 PM
An ancient fungus is secretly linking minds—but not Ben's. A Shanghai samizdat tells him why: he's the strange attractor at the mycelial network's center. Now the biologist must hack in before an alignment-obsessed tech CEO kills the only intelligence she can't control. #DVpit #A #SF #Thriller
September 30, 2026 at 5:17 PM
MOUNTAIN IN THE SEA x RED TEAM BLUES
Glowing green tendrils lure biologist Ben from Budapest bathhouses to Shanghai safehouses, hunting a fungus that links minds but won't link with him. A CEO building an AI panopticon wants to kill her organic rivals: the fungal network—and Ben. #DVpit #A #SF
Glowing green tendrils lure biologist Ben from Budapest bathhouses to Shanghai safehouses, hunting a fungus that links minds but won't link with him. A CEO building an AI panopticon wants to kill her organic rivals: the fungal network—and Ben. #DVpit #A #SF
September 30, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Nerd-famous biologist Ben is outrunning the AI eating science and running out of ironic detachment when he finds a fungus hyperlinking minds—except his. Now he must hack the mycelial network before a CEO with alignment issues kills it and wires humanity into her AI panopticon instead. #DVpit #SF #A
September 30, 2026 at 1:41 PM
UPGRADE x VENOMOUS LUMPSUCKER
A vanished mathematician's clue lures biology professor Ben and his lab from Budapest bathhouses to Shanghai safehouses, hunting a fungus that connects minds -- but not his. A tech CEO with alignment issues wants it dead -- and Ben, too. #preDV #A #SF #Thriller
A vanished mathematician's clue lures biology professor Ben and his lab from Budapest bathhouses to Shanghai safehouses, hunting a fungus that connects minds -- but not his. A tech CEO with alignment issues wants it dead -- and Ben, too. #preDV #A #SF #Thriller
September 22, 2026 at 8:41 PM
YouTube-famous biologist Ben is running out of ironic detachment and barely ahead of the automation of science when he discovers a fungus hyperlinking human minds -- except his. He has to break in before an alignment-obsessed tech CEO kills it and wires humanity into her AI instead. #preDV #A #SF
September 22, 2026 at 8:29 PM
TV-famous biologist Ben thinks he has plot armor against the AI eating science. When he discovers an ancient fungus linking human minds that locks him out, his lab must survive Budapest bathhouse brawls and Shanghai heists to outwit tech titans bent on killing the organic competition. #preDV #A #SF
September 22, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Ben's a nerd-famous biologist staying comfortably detached, waiting for AI to swallow his job. When he discovers an ancient fungus hyperlinking minds, it takes his postdoc, his coauthor, his best friend ... but not him. To outwit the tech titans hunting it, he'll have to find a way in. #preDV #A #SF
September 22, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Ben's a nerd-famous biologist staying comfortably detached, waiting for AI to swallow his job. When he discovers an ancient fungus hyperlinking minds, it takes his postdoc, his coauthor, his best friend ... but not him. To outwit the tech titans hunting it, he'll have to find a way in. #preDV #A #SF
Just sat down at my desktop and navigated to a website that has only been designed for cell phones. Feeling a bit unresponsive rn myself.
April 17, 2024 at 3:25 PM
Just sat down at my desktop and navigated to a website that has only been designed for cell phones. Feeling a bit unresponsive rn myself.
Enjoyed @ben-reinhardt.bsky.social ‘s piece In Defense of Academia, exploring what academia does well. t.co/Jzp2RgyqWD
In Defense of Academia
Identifying the baby in the bathwater
t.co
April 1, 2024 at 11:38 AM
Enjoyed @ben-reinhardt.bsky.social ‘s piece In Defense of Academia, exploring what academia does well. t.co/Jzp2RgyqWD
Weird thought: is it possible to bioengineer an apatite with the Pb/Cu/Au substitutions in the correct positions, like regrowing teeth on a lattice of growth factors/amelobasts? Probably wouldn’t scale well evening possible
August 3, 2023 at 7:52 AM
Weird thought: is it possible to bioengineer an apatite with the Pb/Cu/Au substitutions in the correct positions, like regrowing teeth on a lattice of growth factors/amelobasts? Probably wouldn’t scale well evening possible
🎶Smooth like butter, a possible superconductor… hot like summer, works up to 127C https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/breaking-superconductor-news
July 26, 2023 at 7:40 PM
🎶Smooth like butter, a possible superconductor… hot like summer, works up to 127C https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/breaking-superconductor-news
My contribution to ai safety was never paying for winzip: https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.426
“Low-Resource” Text Classification: A Parameter-Free Classification Method with Compressors
Zhiying Jiang, Matthew Yang, Mikhail Tsirlin, Raphael Tang, Yiqin Dai, Jimmy Lin. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023. 2023.
aclanthology.org
July 14, 2023 at 9:09 PM
My contribution to ai safety was never paying for winzip: https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.426
Wait holdup there is a .zip TLD? Does that make sense?
June 16, 2023 at 5:13 PM
Wait holdup there is a .zip TLD? Does that make sense?
Preprint on spotting fake papers in science: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.06.23289563v1.full.pdf
Shows where careerist incentives are outpacing contributions to the scientist commons & need rebalance!
Shows where careerist incentives are outpacing contributions to the scientist commons & need rebalance!
www.medrxiv.org
May 12, 2023 at 5:55 AM
Preprint on spotting fake papers in science: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.06.23289563v1.full.pdf
Shows where careerist incentives are outpacing contributions to the scientist commons & need rebalance!
Shows where careerist incentives are outpacing contributions to the scientist commons & need rebalance!
Bluesky doesn't embed video, but don't let that stop you from watching this clip of Michael Jackson doing the robot with Cher: https://youtu.be/s6lNFS6FCzA?t=277
May 9, 2023 at 8:08 PM
Bluesky doesn't embed video, but don't let that stop you from watching this clip of Michael Jackson doing the robot with Cher: https://youtu.be/s6lNFS6FCzA?t=277
Continuing to loudly insist that Elton John wrote a song about Jevons paradox
May 8, 2023 at 6:22 PM
Continuing to loudly insist that Elton John wrote a song about Jevons paradox
Michael Nielsen has a great Q about the replication crisis. I suspect this has something to do with how citations currently function as both a sort of toll you have to pay to get your work past review as well as a genealogy of your influences/inspiration. Many refs are just post facto due diligence.
May 8, 2023 at 5:54 PM
Michael Nielsen has a great Q about the replication crisis. I suspect this has something to do with how citations currently function as both a sort of toll you have to pay to get your work past review as well as a genealogy of your influences/inspiration. Many refs are just post facto due diligence.
NPR combed through 40 years of Weird Al bangers to rank his top hits. Needs moar polka medleys https://www.npr.org/2023/05/03/1171948750/40-songs-from-40-years-of-weird-al-yankovic
40 Songs From 40 Years Of 'Weird Al' Yankovic
"Weird Al" Yankovic's self-titled debut came out 40 years ago, on May 3, 1983. So our resident super-fan listened to all of his songs and ranked the 40 best.
www.npr.org
May 5, 2023 at 7:21 PM
NPR combed through 40 years of Weird Al bangers to rank his top hits. Needs moar polka medleys https://www.npr.org/2023/05/03/1171948750/40-songs-from-40-years-of-weird-al-yankovic
Great quote from Google's "We Have No Moat and I Must Scream" (https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither) paper.
May 5, 2023 at 2:49 PM
Great quote from Google's "We Have No Moat and I Must Scream" (https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither) paper.
I’m very curious about the contents of the “Data Doesn’t Do What You Think” internal Google link scrubbed from the leaked Google Moat Dread paper (https://www.semianalysis.com/) What doesn’t data do? What *do* I think? I have *questions* ...
www.semianalysis.com
May 5, 2023 at 2:46 PM
I’m very curious about the contents of the “Data Doesn’t Do What You Think” internal Google link scrubbed from the leaked Google Moat Dread paper (https://www.semianalysis.com/) What doesn’t data do? What *do* I think? I have *questions* ...
Very excited about Michigan's PFAS Annihilator(https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230501005063/en/Revive-Environmental-PFAS-Annihilator%E2%84%A2-Deployed-in-First-to-Market-Commercial-Destruction-of-%E2%80%9CForever-Chemicals%E2%80%9D), hope Ohio gets one too in the spirit of friendly rivalry.
www.businesswire.com
May 5, 2023 at 1:03 PM
Very excited about Michigan's PFAS Annihilator(https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230501005063/en/Revive-Environmental-PFAS-Annihilator%E2%84%A2-Deployed-in-First-to-Market-Commercial-Destruction-of-%E2%80%9CForever-Chemicals%E2%80%9D), hope Ohio gets one too in the spirit of friendly rivalry.
chatGPT is really good at transforming Unstructured Data into Structured Data with Surprises
May 5, 2023 at 12:46 PM
chatGPT is really good at transforming Unstructured Data into Structured Data with Surprises