Over 300 nodes on the Hyperspace peer-to-peer AI network today, at almost a 1000 tFLOPS from just laptops and desktops. Now on both MacOS and Windows: hyperspace.computer/node cc Tommy (OOO🏝️) Ryan Selkis (d/acc) 🇺🇸 Sami Kassab

.Hyperspace internal experimental thing-y giving insanely better answers than leading AI chat products, and without RAG. We are going to open source this, juice it up with VectorRank, and make it run against a decentralized AI network. PS: sample question here: “What is

The best outcome for the AI revolution is not a future where everyone depends on UBI, but a world where the majority becomes entrepreneurs (founders, builders), harnessing AI to scale up their visions.

Tech haters sometimes ask why VCs feel entitled to act like "thought leaders." They mean it as a snarky rhetorical question, but like many such questions it actually has an answer: the sort of analysis the best of them do in their work can be very general.

Biological reality, economic reality. These will always be unpopular among the powerful because they impose strict limits on their utopian schemes, even as their house pundits and academics deny those limits.

Working in the film industry exposes you to the reality that the best ideas aren't in the minds and hearts of those who happen to be able to express them. The most funded producer doesn't have the best ideas. The most talented concept artist doesn't. The most connected writer

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Finally a useful application of the Precautionary Principle. 💯

THE PARTY LINE Why is Woke AI so obviously laughable, when generations of Hollywood movies did the same thing without occasioning the same derision? 1) The first and most important reason is X. Because Elon has root over the platform formerly known as Twitter, new conversations

"Cypherpunks write code.“ 31 years ago on March 9, 1993, Eric Hughes published A Cypherpunk's Manifesto. "Our code is free for all to use, worldwide. We don't much care if you don't approve of the software we write. We know that software can't be destroyed and that a widely

It's great when you only cite anonymous sources. Then you can make up this fantasy world full of researchers scared of their own neural networks which has no connection to the world which the rest of us AI researchers live in.

Do not weep, life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we do not want to know it, and if we did want to know it, tomorrow there would be paradise the world over. — Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

ESR still based after all these years.

The Internet was built on the insight that single points of failure are unacceptable weakness in a network. This applies to societies as well.

Filmmakers Martin Piga and Tereza Tokárová decided to make an independent, non-commercial documentary about the search for freedom through parallel structures. They approached me and did a series of several interviews with me (and more are in the pipeline). I was delighted by

"Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history mankind has been bullied by scum...They will submit to any indignity, perform any vile act, do anything to achieve power. The worst off-sloughings of the planet are the ingredients of

UNDER COVER OF INCOMPETENCE Some years back in Sweden, I went to a lunch bar run by a Polish guy. The fellow had escaped communism, and one thing he told me was this: The repression of dissidents doesn't always work the way you seem to think, through overt force. They don't

It's hard to imagine a country both arresting the founder of Telegram and being a major startup hub.