Infinite Player

"The internet is broken, but was it ever whole?" I'm jurying this open call alongside Olia Lialina, Vladan Joler, Peter Sunde and Error 417 Expectation Failed: looking for 8-12 projects operating against the mythic 'old internet' - apply by May 4. error417.expectation.fail/406/netstalgia…

@amypretzel Could host it at fwbfest.info

Does anyone have cool ideas for arts and crafts / hardware hands-on events? Want to host some more in the future. We can co-host tgt :)

@ev_rat Hi Carissa, what's the best way to get in touch re: speaking engagements? I am booking for FWB FEST instagram.com/fwb.help/

Carissa was the star (/conscience, although not always heeded) in episode 3 of this season's Shell Game, and I can't wait for this book:

@met_mij @chloepark @jameygannon @seanxthielen @gabrielvaldivia @neogeomancer Second

@chloepark @jameygannon @seanxthielen @gabrielvaldivia @neogeomancer is there any chance to attend digitally?

kicking off New Canvas—a space for designers to get real about AI. demos of the actual tools, actual workflows from @jameygannon @seanxthielen @gabrielvaldivia @neogeomancer yours truly + more. if you're a designer actively figuring out how to use AI in your work, this is for you. 3/19, noho, co-hosted with @melodyskim luma.com/ulf7cwvv

@onlyfootnotes @zebriez @spencerc99 Second

@zebriez @spencerc99 is up there!

who is the person you know that does the coolest side projects?

@ronrobertsii @garysheng @babykeem @pgLang I'm handling programming for FWB FEST this year. We should talk! Drop me a line -- will@fwb.help

i wrote an article w/ @garysheng on baby keem, open claw, & the emerging K-shaped economy. please read if you’d like to sense make around where we are as a society : open.substack.com/pub/ronroberts…

@deathdrive @fiii___online FWB

if you're in tech/crypto & betting on IRL, i happen to know this festival...

@marcgmbh @jaesmail Melvin Kranzberg’s first rule of Technology. “Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral"

there won't be one neutral creative tool to rule them all

@tylerangert play on

i am returning to my era of making things because they are fun and interesting. i feel free

@ssaulgoodmann69 @pzakin i wanna see your setup!

@pzakin cc + obsidian be joyous

I’m still disappointed we haven’t seen a breakout “tool for thought” for the ai era.

@sariazout i do i do!

Sublime <> MCP . Lmk if you want to try!

@itsalexiswei i'm in

playing with the idea of a 30 day challenge to work on a creative project with people (coworking/coexisting) for the month of march can be anything from writing, painting, creative coding, blender dm me if interested in joining or share it with someone you know who might be!

@downloadlos Luck be a lady

this would be me if the club played musicals

@Restless_Egg @kenneth0stanley Vaughn's take rhymes with something Will Manidis wrote in his taste essay. The people of Paris couldn't assign subjective value to Rite of Spring because they couldn't compute it. Nothing in their training data prepared them for it.

@kenneth0stanley what do you think about genuinely hybrid human-ai open ended novelty search?

When people talk about a human edge versus AI in "taste," the issue is not taste with respect to familiar things, but rather taste with respect to novel things like nothing anyone has ever seen or experienced before. AI may catch up, but humans at present maintain an edge here. The ability to know that something completely out of left field will be seen as beautiful or cool or interesting or thought-provoking or the next big thing remains unconquered.

@Restless_Egg @kenneth0stanley Are there currently any pilots exploring this you're aware of? I wonder how responsibilities are delegated to leverage both entities strengths. Vaughn Tan has a good post about human's unique ability here:uncertaintymindset.substack.com/p/ai-meaningma…

@nabeel "Look for the greatest innovations where people are having the most fun" - Steven Johnson youtube.com/watch?v=hLltkC…

Another word for "tool shaped object" is toy, or joy, or hobby. A thing that is worth doing for its own merits instead of the some extrinsic reward function. Software is making. Any creative builder knows there is joy in just the making. That's not a deceit. I "code" almost every night. One project was even YATA (yet another todo app). I don't expect anyone else will every use it. So why? Because it was satisfying and fun. Better than Netflix. Did we get so wrapped in the productivity rat race we forgot when people just make software for the joy of it? In fact, many of the most astounding, wonderful, breakthroughs in art, culture, and science came because we were just messing around. Perhaps the current lack of new impact in many areas is precisely because we lost that sense. My hope is LLMs making coding something that feels joyful in and of itself, that keeps you in flow, will lead to a great many things that would not have otherwise existed. I sincerely hope many of them are not useful, but they made someone smile in the making.

@aadilpickle @reboot_hq Great piece. Jasmine is gonna gonna be goated.

I spent a week with Jasmine Sun. She's an independent journalist writing about tech and culture in Silicon Valley. That's what she'll tell you if you meet her at a party. What she won't tell you is: - she was the 30th employee at Substack - she started @reboot_hq and got over 100 people who never write to publish pieces for a magazine spanning 5 editions - her first article for the NYT was on the cover of the Sunday edition and took 200+ hours to research and write She works as hard as a startup founder but applies it to social anthropology and journalism. Her goal for the next 5 years is to win the writing game and have people know her as one of the premier voices on tech and AI. I wrote for @sfalexandria about how her mind works and why she does it. sfalexandria.com/posts/jasmines…

@homsiT @ReadwiseReader yes please bronzefog@gmail.com is my account email

we're just putting the finishing touches on the @ReadwiseReader MCP -- anyone interested in helping to test it out? it's pretty badass, like a real assistant that can help you triage what you've saved, pitch you on why you should read it, archive stuff for you, etc :)

@soleio @forum_tokyo gotta add this one to that stack i.ebayimg.com/images/g/avgAA… and the work of youtube.com/watch?v=-CXPoC…

Lucky me, I get to read some thought-provoking material this week Research for next month’s @forum_tokyo

@LanceYing42 @katie_m_collins @KelseyRAllen @prafull7 @jacobandreas @phillip_isola @cedcolas @gershbrain @ZennaTavares @kyzhao_ivy @adrian_weller Any idea where I could find the "Generation and evaluation in the human invention process through the lens of game design" paper that you referenced? I can't seem to find it online anywhere!

A hallmark of human intelligence is the capacity for rapid adaptation, solving new problems quickly under novel and unfamiliar conditions. How can we build machines to do so? In our new preprint, we propose that any general intelligence system must have an adaptive world model, i.e. they must be able to rapidly construct or refine their internal representation through interaction and exploration — a process we call “world model induction”. We propose a roadmap for evaluating adaptive world models in machines based on a special class of games we call “novel games”.