William Huber

I believe in separating the artist from the art. By force if necessary.

My key takeaway from Moltbook Day is that the AI social intelligence hypothesis is a lot easier to explain than it was last week.

"No pay! Only spend!"

I was wrong, it looks like the "one-in, one-out" agreement with France is working. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

the superintelligence ban has interesting politics in the ai safety world. a great many ai safety advocates reached out to me privately (never publicly) to tell me how they agree with me that the statement is unserious and dangerous. for others it is clearly a matter of quasi-religious import, and they have gone all out to attack me for my views (in public and in private). I wonder the extent to which this mirrors their internal divisions over preemption, where some folks in that world believe federal preemption would be good (they understand its utility in ensuring economically beneficial outcomes from AI), while others believe preemption must never happen (they want to preserve the optionality for california to "ban ai" down the road).

If game design can be understood as an art of verbs, then Spanish-speaking game designers should be the best in the world. youtube.com/shorts/hJNJNT4…

The difference between wearing a fedora in the 1940s and wearing a fedora today, is that in the 1940s, when you're wearing a fedora, you're just wearing a hat, whereas today, when you wear a fedora, you're wearing a fedora.

At its most clever, the tactic of the populist right in a media-driven electoral democracy is to attack those very things they want the left to visibly defend.

So, apparently, crypto is taking off in Venezuela, where it's more stable than the bolívar. Not the accelerationism we wanted, but the accelerationism we deserve.

Dems: “Working out is right wing” “Liking hot girls is right wing” “Eating red meat is right wing” Dems today: “We need $20 million to understand why young men hate us”

To be specific, it can improve indoor air quality, remove allergens, and filter toxins. homesandgardens.com/gardens/benefi…

Spider Plant Spider Plant Does whatever a spider can't.

Adios

Oh look, it's my retirement plan.

Just a friendly reminder that it's time to normalize the fact that as simulations become more computationally intensive their capacity for instrumental recursion accelerates, which makes the assignment of agency more difficult and more diffuse. Experienced reality feels more artificial because the capacity of simulations of reality to artificialize reality is expanded. This ultimately leads to generalized apophenic misattributions of causality, which leads to generalized simulation anxiety which is turn represented within the simulation’s ontological scope.

I don't know who needs to hear this but technology is the process by which autopoietic life fights entropy by using allopoietic means to construct systems that allow that life to capture more energy, matter and information that it could otherwise. Evolution selects for species that are good at allopoiesis and niche construction because they can scale and stabilize populations. This in turn selects for capacity for future-oriented conceptual abstraction to plan and coordinate allopoiesis, including the technological complexification of abstraction itself. Those that do are most successful at this are also those most transformed by the selection pressures of the artificial environments they have created for/as themselves.

Any sufficiently advanced materialism is indistinguishable from idealism.

Europe has learned nothing. The end result of DMA will not be "Europe as regulatory superpower, raising the standard for the world" but Europe as an increasingly isolated island of nerfed tech. This applies not just to iPhones but more importantly to AI. An incumbent governing layer of society recognizes the threat that planetary technologies poses to their institutional power. They have convinced themselves that protecting that power is actually protecting citizens. It's not.

This visit to #GDC25 , for sessions I am focusing on emerging tech and production methods. it's helping think about where we want to bring game education - notin the "teach the latest tech for jobs" sense of the word, but in the evolving understanding of creative practice

"Disco Elysium Spiritual Successor" is a new genre.