Benjamin Bratton

This is how to truly hyperscale AI in space An ingenious design far more elegant than others proposed. Congratulations to Google Paradigms of Intelligence team on this amazing project finally coming out of stealth. It’s been a pleasure to help think through the implications of extraplanetary computation as the work evolved.

@beffjezos Keeping Up With the Kardashevs

EA : Hedons :: e/acc : Kardashevs

@simplifyinAI China as a whole. It was a group project.

🚨 BREAKING: China just fixed a 10-year-old flaw hidden inside every major language model. Every AI you use today (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) is built on a massive flaw. It’s called the residual connection. Here’s the problem: every layer inside an AI blindly stacks its output on top of the last one. There is no filtering, no judgment, just blind accumulation. Imagine a meeting where every person shouts their ideas at full volume, forever. The early ideas (the fundamental patterns) get drowned out by the newer, louder layers piled on top. The technical term is “prenorm dilution,” but in practice, it means your AI forgets its own most important work as it gets deeper. We’ve been building models like this since 2017. Now, Moonshot AI (Kimi) just dropped a paper that completely replaces this broken system. They call it “attention residuals.” Instead of blindly accumulating everything, each layer now “votes” on which previous layers actually matter using softmax attention over depth. The network learns to remember what’s important and ignore what isn’t. The results are absolutely insane: - It matches the performance of models that used 25% more compute to train - Tested on a 48-billion-parameter model with massive gains in math, code, and reasoning - Inference slowdown is less than 2% - It’s a direct drop-in replacement for existing systems The Transformer replaced recurrence with attention across words in 2017. This paper is doing the exact same thing across layers of depth. This is the same class of idea. The entire architecture of AI is about to change.

The choice is clear

One of my favorite articles we have published in journal.antikythera.org is the extraordinary collaboration between @ninabegus @begusgasper and @mthvn

Come join us to celebrate the launch of the 10th anniversary edition of The Stack at Gray Area in SF. Just about sold out so get tickets ASAP. Will be joined by Marek Poliks of Exocapitalism fame

For all the great people I met at @PrimeIntellect day, you are invited to the book launch lecture/ signing of the 10th anniversary edition of The Stack from MIT Press at @GrayAreaorg this Wednesday. grayarea.org/event/the-stac…

@allTheYud @PageLyndon Ok boomer

It looks to me like telegrams were the optimal level of social communication technology, and society began to disintegrate after voice radio was invented, though not to the same extent as it began to collapse after television.

Thanks Christina Lu

Post-ASI:

Thanks to @vincentweisser and @PrimeIntellect for the invitation to give the opening sermon at the church of the singularity (that isnt' singular) at their stellar event today. Also... their recursive language models release is going to be 🤯

The @PrimeIntellect event is underway and the vibes are immaculate. This feels like a Church of the Singularity

@heywowcool @Crypt0scouts @antikythera_xyz Ain't no dystopia on offer

@Crypt0scouts @antikythera_xyz @bratton his contribution to dystopia studies is the (genuinely helpful) arrangement of things: earth, cloud, bla bla, interface, user.... however the thing he wants credit for is the immanentization of the dystopia that has been prophesied since before kurt v wrote player piano in 1952🫐

In 2016 MIT Press published The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty by @bratton, a book that mapped the emergence of planetary computation and imagined the next decade. It established a new kind of philosophy of technology—integrating computer science, design, and cultural theory. From chip wars to culture wars, from Carl Schmitt to cybernetics, from platforms becoming state-scale actors to states evolving into cloud platforms, from cities as software substrates to interfaces as models of reality, from addressable and tokenizable everything to the cohabitation of human and non-human users, the book showed how all these dizzying transformations actually add up to a new totality: an accidental megastructure we call The Stack. Join Antikythera for an exclusive public lecture and book signing at Gray Area to celebrate the 10th anniversary paperback edition of the book. Bratton will revisit the six layers of The Stack—Earth, Cloud, City, Address, Interface and User—and will provide a glimpse into the next decade of their development. Marek Poliks, the co-author of Exocapitalism, will introduce the author and host a Q&A. Register at link.antikythera.org/the-stack-deca…

We are at the point in the movie where a Defense Dept. official is going on TV and saying "Anthropic having a constitution means it is at odds with the US constitution." I kid you not.

Open Thread: Brian is basically right. Crypto will be two eras: pre-agents owning most of the wallets and post-agents owning most of the wallets. Arguments Pro and Con.....

@SenSanders @jonas_kg So the pace of change must be calibrated to the cognitive capacity of US congress ?

We need a moratorium on AI data centers NOW. Here’s why.

@AndrewYang explain done right please

AI could flip us from scarcity to abundance if done right.

@thoughtland @evgenymorozov I know him well, thanks!

@bratton Worth spending some time with @evgenymorozov’s recent work - has the same ontological, world-making insight about AI/computation, but from a socialist tradition theideasletter.org/essay/the-soci…

The Buterlian Jihad is going to get much worse and even more disconnected from reality. What is at stake is more than jobs, etc. At stake is an entire ontological investment in how the world works that is being turned inside out by folded bits of sand doing brain stuff.