@maxread.infohad no idea about son!!! sometimes life is too on the nose
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@maxread.info@maxread.infoevery mission is about me still having enough energy to watch an entire movie after i put my kid to bed
@maxread.infonow also on youtube! i make a "a priest, a rabbi, and an LLM walk into a bar" joke that brings the house down!!
@maxread.infofor this week's hard fork we talked to elizabeth dias about her fascinating article on anthropic's secret meetings w/ religious figures. joined by david wallace wells and erin griffith. morality! ensoulment! the printing press!
@maxread.infoIan Hacking supremacy!!
@frankpasquale.bsky.socialReposted by @maxread.infoWe are living through a “postpandemic gamified speculative-trading apocalypse of which traditional gambling is only one horseman. There’s also crypto, now an enormous industry still searching for a nonspeculative use”
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/m...
@maxread.infoat one point it was flagged as *overused* believe it or not!
@maxread.infofor the new york times magazine, I wrote about why everything is "gambling" now (the short answer: actually everything is the statistical style now, and gambling is just how most of us understand that)
nytimes.comHow Everything Became GamblingIt’s not just DraftKings and Polymarket — the logic of gambling undergirds everything coming out of Silicon Valley.
@maxread.infobuddy, they won't even let me fork it
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@maxread.info>she laughs and says its a good total epochal paradigm shift sir >i look >its software
@sambiddle.comReposted by @maxread.infoI wrote about something that was making me feel nuts: After weeks of discourse around hypothetical existential threats from AI triggered global calls for government intervention, we learned a faulty AI system almost triggered a US-China war. And no one really cared.
theintercept.com/2026/09/28/a...
@maxread.info(to bang a drum of mine, the need for multiple overlapping and exclusive metaphors should be familiar to anyone who was around 10 years ago trying to grasp the reigning cultural technology of that moment nymag.com/intelligence...)
@maxread.infogood clean old fashioned janelle shane type fun
@maxread.infohonestly found jensen huang's straightforward glibness sort of refreshing compared to the cognitive dissonance of amodei and altman's hand-wringing
@maxread.infoim increasingly an llm metaphor maximalist. anthropomorphization, spicy autocomplete, shoggoth with a smiley, stochastic parrot... it's all kinda right and kinda wrong. we dont have many good ways of understanding what these are and metaphoric (even exaggerated) comparisons help us grasp them!
@maxread.infomany of the same people insisting that RSI is around the corner and will change everything are the ones who now say that the long-threatened status "AGI" has already been achieved. ok, but... even if we grant that, it seems more like continuity than singularity to me. why will RSI be different?
@maxread.infosimilar to what henry is saying about metaphors, deadlines/thresholds/singularities—even if the deadline is to a "technical" "milestone" like "RSI" rather than some mystical property like "AGI"—radically simplifies and encloses thinking
@maxread.infohave been very interested in the way that "RSI" has replaced "AGI" rhetorically as the any-minute-now landmark. on one hand, "RSI" at least somewhat more definable/observable than "AGI." on the other, its main function is as a more technical-sounding standin for eschatological singularity
@maxread.inforeally liked this @himself.bsky.social piece. discursive inversion going on right now where, within ai circles, especially on x, "believing in the imminent machine god" is considered the grounded/serious position while "being skeptical of imminence of machine god" is the laughable freak position