Dave Fowler

Markdown-svg now has a playground with examples. I also wrote about some of the interesting challenges and solutions in making it: thingsilearned.com/things/markdow…

Ever need markdown rendered in SVG? Well now you can: github.com/davefowler/mar…

With the new Gemini 3 release I love that the recipe example is still being used as one of the main promising use cases for computers and now AGI. One day hopefully computers will solve that pressing problem...

The most important thing for conservatives to understand about the AI industry: Not a single person building Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) -- not one -- has ever offered a plausible scenario in which humanity, in anything close to its current form, could last for even two generations past the development of ASI. They say we could 'merge with ASI', which is like asking a hummingbird to 'merge with' a jet airplane. They say we could 'upload our consciousness' and compete with ASIs in virtual worlds, which means abandoning our genes, our bodies, our brains, our cities, our land, our reality. They offer no story at all in which your grandkids can keep living real lives, in the real world, with real control over their destinies. If you want to conserve anything at all about our humanity, our cultures, our religions, our institutions, our creativity, and our autonomy, the ASI industry is your mortal enemy. They are the ultimate revolutionaries. They are eager to burn down everything your ancestors ever cared about, to 'pass the baton' to machine intelligences. If you're conservative, and you support ASI development, you are being played like a Tennessee fiddle.

Tourism chain idea: Shoevenirs - they’re tripped themed shoes that people can walk all around in and then mount in a collection at home… I’ve got the domain. Contact me for licensing :)

Excited to finally be in on one @patmatthews's funds. He's by for the most active value add investor I've come across!

Huge crowd at @wandb fully connected conference! Awesome to see!

So how is it possible for this issue to have 70% public support and zero political champions??? Who will be the brave first few heroes, American elected leaders, willing to say the obvious: if we don’t slow down, AI is likely going to kill us all. And here’s how we find a different path.

It is difficult to make the world understand the danger posed by ASI. Much of that difficulty is because of human psychology, but some of the difficulty is manufactured by the AI industry, which uses Tobacco industry playbook tactics to prevent interference

I published a helper tool for cleanly making complex prompts github.com/davefowler/llm…

@ycombinator @JonXu Awesome! Congratulations guys and YC! Couldn't have picked nicer, smarter, or more capable people! Love to see it.

Jon Xu and Andrew Miklas both went through YC in 2010. Fifteen years and two iconic companies later— FutureAdvisor and PagerDuty— they're back, this time as YC's newest General Partners. Welcome, @jonxu and Andrew! ycombinator.com/blog/welcome-j…

@elder_plinius This prompt game to simulate life post AGI thingsilearned.com/things/after-i…

What’s your all-time favorite prompt?

@yuris As the village raises up a pack of pups.

Feels like we're going to live through the parable of The Boy Who Cried Wolf for the next four years.

I hate so many things about slack, but their required install process to simply "add a new helper tool" is unacceptable. It requires you to put in your password multiple times (perhaps for multiple tools?), and will not let you cancel. Enraging

@elder_plinius I've been promised a mistress position.

Which post-singularity job/role are you training for? Bonus Question: What tasks are you doing each day to prepare?

Even through its rose colored filter the answer is bleak: chatgpt.com/share/67db057b…

Every time I ask AI how it might govern humanity it makes China seem a lot less scary “ ASI wouldn’t govern. It would control. Whether softly or absolutely depends on alignment — but human agency would not be at the top of the hierarchy.” Full response in thread

A riddle: What is safe and incredibly powerful yet no one can control it?

Containment requires foresight into possible escapes. But when the prisoner is smarter than the jailer, foresight collapses — the gap in intelligence is by definition unknown unknowns.

I've had this document started and mostly empty mulling in the back of my mind for over a decade. With the pace of things I figured I needed to get it out. Today I published my letter to a future Superintelligence thingsilearned.com/things/letter-…. .