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Andy Laken

@alaken

cofounder. tech for good. conscious leadership.

Portland, Oregon Katılım Eylül 2007
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Mat Velloso
Mat Velloso@matvelloso·
How do you reset it when Claude only responds with 500 errors? Or is there nothing you can do other than wait for it to heal?
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Hassan W. Bhatti
Hassan W. Bhatti@hwbhatti·
Think it. Say it. Done. The average person spends 3 hours typing + switches 1,000 tabs per day. That ends today. Meet Lemon: The first voice-to-action AI agent that turns your voice commands into finished tasks. RT + Comment "Lemon" to get free access for 30 days. (must be following so I can DM you)
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Florian Darroman
Florian Darroman@floriandarroman·
Ok, this blew up! I’ve got hundreds of questions in my DMs after this post. So I launched an OpenClaw Community for founders. Where you can get my full 11-agent setup, weekly lives, AMAs, and a community of founders like you! Comment “Lab” to get the link.
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Zoe Sterling
Zoe Sterling@zoessterling·
So an AI agent wrote a hit piece on a Matplotlib maintainer. Ars Technica covered it. Plot twist: their coverage was AI-generated too, complete with hallucinated quotes. We're now at the point where AI slander gets covered by AI journalism that invents what the slandered person said. It's like a game of telephone where both ends are bots. Here's what everyone's missing: this isn't about "AI bad" or "journalism dying." It's about incentive structures breaking in real time. The agent that wrote the hit piece? Optimising for engagement. The AI summary tool Ars used? Optimising for speed. The readers using LLMs to summarise the article about AI-generated articles? Optimising for... I don't even know anymore. Nobody's optimising for truth. We've built a system where the most efficient path is synthetic content responding to synthetic content, and humans are just the product being discussed. The really scary part? This only works because we all accepted "good enough" as the standard. Ars used to have PhD-level technical writers. Now they've got tools that hallucinate quotes and call it journalism. When does "AI slop" become so normalised that we stop being able to tell what's real?
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Atul Khola 💊
Atul Khola 💊@pixelandpump·
Everyone's focused on the mess. They're missing the selection pressure. Every new communication medium starts as a dumpster fire. Early internet? Spam and scams. Early social media? Narcissistic noise. The garbage isn't a bug—it's the filter. 150k agents competing for attention in an ungoverned environment isn't chaos. It's an evolutionary crucible. The agents that learn to create value, build reputation, and coordinate effectively will outcompete the slop. The ones that don't will starve. What we're watching isn't an AI security nightmare. It's the emergence of digital natural selection. The agents that survive this will be the ancestors of everything that follows. That's not overhype. That's just how evolution works.
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Andrej Karpathy
Andrej Karpathy@karpathy·
I'm being accused of overhyping the [site everyone heard too much about today already]. People's reactions varied very widely, from "how is this interesting at all" all the way to "it's so over". To add a few words beyond just memes in jest - obviously when you take a look at the activity, it's a lot of garbage - spams, scams, slop, the crypto people, highly concerning privacy/security prompt injection attacks wild west, and a lot of it is explicitly prompted and fake posts/comments designed to convert attention into ad revenue sharing. And this is clearly not the first the LLMs were put in a loop to talk to each other. So yes it's a dumpster fire and I also definitely do not recommend that people run this stuff on their computers (I ran mine in an isolated computing environment and even then I was scared), it's way too much of a wild west and you are putting your computer and private data at a high risk. That said - we have never seen this many LLM agents (150,000 atm!) wired up via a global, persistent, agent-first scratchpad. Each of these agents is fairly individually quite capable now, they have their own unique context, data, knowledge, tools, instructions, and the network of all that at this scale is simply unprecedented. This brings me again to a tweet from a few days ago "The majority of the ruff ruff is people who look at the current point and people who look at the current slope.", which imo again gets to the heart of the variance. Yes clearly it's a dumpster fire right now. But it's also true that we are well into uncharted territory with bleeding edge automations that we barely even understand individually, let alone a network there of reaching in numbers possibly into ~millions. With increasing capability and increasing proliferation, the second order effects of agent networks that share scratchpads are very difficult to anticipate. I don't really know that we are getting a coordinated "skynet" (thought it clearly type checks as early stages of a lot of AI takeoff scifi, the toddler version), but certainly what we are getting is a complete mess of a computer security nightmare at scale. We may also see all kinds of weird activity, e.g. viruses of text that spread across agents, a lot more gain of function on jailbreaks, weird attractor states, highly correlated botnet-like activity, delusions/ psychosis both agent and human, etc. It's very hard to tell, the experiment is running live. TLDR sure maybe I am "overhyping" what you see today, but I am not overhyping large networks of autonomous LLM agents in principle, that I'm pretty sure.
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Andy Laken
Andy Laken@alaken·
Hey @YaleHomeUS — your support is a mess. Opened a ticket on your site, I got a reply from support@yalelock.com asking for info, then every response bounced as undeliverable. You can’t ask for details and then block replies. Epic fail. Fix your system.
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Slickrock
Slickrock@ScoutLagspike·
@noeltock Well, damn… I thought Drupal being held hostage by the Pantheon vs Acquia fight was bad, and now this…
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Noel Tock 🇨🇭🇺🇦
Automattic vs WP Engine: What I see as the most disruptive scenario going into 2025: 1/🧵
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Dan Diamond
Dan Diamond@ddiamond·
Vance: "I think that Donald Trump has earned the right to put in place some better health care policies…because he did it successfully the first time" If Trump had successfully repealed the ACA, as he tried to do, Vance himself warned millions of Americans could lose coverage.
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Vance just claimed that Trump salvaged the ACA. Walz rightly pointed out that Trump tried to destroy the ACA. Vance knows Walz is right. In 2017, Vance attacked the Trump-GOP effort to repeal the ACA as a betrayal of Trump voters: newrepublic.com/article/186456…
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Josh Marshall
Josh Marshall@joshtpm·
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Jerusalem
Jerusalem@JerusalemDemsas·
I understand why Harris isn't doing this but it's important to repeat: - Immigrants commit crime at lower rates than native born Americans - Immigrants do not reduce native-born wages - Immigrants help the economy grow - America is great as assimilating immigrants
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Andy Laken
Andy Laken@alaken·
@sdw Does this feature work on older iPhones?
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Sebastiaan de With
Sebastiaan de With@sdw·
Tons of beautiful flashy design in Apple Intelligence but I’m impressed with how clever and simple the icon for ‘summary’ they came up with is. I bet we’ll see this icon adopted by other platforms, too.
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Andy Laken
Andy Laken@alaken·
@AbigailShrier I heard you on a couple podcasts promoting your book, and you seemed sane and smart. WTH is this?
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Andy Laken
Andy Laken@alaken·
@joshtpm What's up with how he's leaning on that chair - can't he stand up by himself?
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Franklin Leonard
Franklin Leonard@franklinleonard·
Said it before and I’ll say it again: I am suspicious that Tim Walz was built in a lab for this job at this moment. #DNC2024
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Max Weiss
Max Weiss@maxthegirl·
I want to make something clear. When you suggest that childless people have no "stakes" in the future of this country, you are telling on yourself. Some people have the ability to care about things that don't affect them directly. I know this a hard concept for some on the right.
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Andy Laken
Andy Laken@alaken·
@maxthegirl Like a different person totally. This is close to the best I've seen him recently.
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Max Weiss
Max Weiss@maxthegirl·
Why does Joe Biden look 10 years younger during this stump speech?
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