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Breaking Smart Jan 24
New excuse for a non-newsletter, A Very Slow Takeoff
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Venkatesh Rao Dec 27
Neat, an online museum of hacking ht
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Breaking Smart Dec 6
New podcast episode: Inventing Time (10 minutes)
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Breaking Smart Nov 8
Here are two guest appearances to make up for me slacking off on my own podcast in the last couple of weeks. Econtalk and Zion 2.0 Podcasts
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Breaking Smart Oct 18
New podcast (15 min): Spacewalks and the Species
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Breaking Smart Oct 11
Replying to @perlmutterlabs
Not all of those qualify. Takes some thinking through case by case.
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Breaking Smart Oct 11
Replying to @perlmutterlabs
Yes, among several others in the same few years
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Breaking Smart Oct 11
New newsletter issue (not podcast): The Ascent of Conflict
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Breaking Smart Oct 4
New podcast episode: Charisma Neutrality (17 minutes)
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Breaking Smart Sep 27
New podcast episode: The Direction of Maximal Derangement (16 minutes):
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Breaking Smart Sep 21
AI mirror test: An AI capable of recognizing itself in human mimicry of its behavior. Humans can generally recognize when they are being impersonated, with or without mocking exaggeration. Can AIs? Examples: robot dance, formulaic language use, satirical faux-bureaucratese.
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Breaking Smart Sep 20
What twitter-native stuff would you like this account to tweet besides links to podcast episodes?
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Breaking Smart Sep 20
New podcast: Like Riding an AI Bicycle (20 min)
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Breaking Smart Sep 6
New podcast: Technological Charisma
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Breaking Smart Aug 30
Replying to @breaking_smart
So very ironically, the way to break smart and actually be special and make the transition to a cyberpaleo ethos, you have to seek out that which makes you ordinary. To be special is to be ordinary To be ordinary is to be special
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Breaking Smart Aug 30
Replying to @breaking_smart
This looks like rewilding in the short term. A sort of retreat to paleo stocks of human traits. In the longer term, it also means reinvesting in cyber traits. Hence the idea of a cyberpaleo ethos, which I wrote about in 2017, but only just grokked myself
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Breaking Smart Aug 30
Replying to @breaking_smart
The key idea in my podcast was that breaking smart, viewed from a software-eaten world perspective, is about going long on your clod-nature. The broader macroeconomic metaphor is capital flight. Humanity withdrawing human capital from its industrial nature to reinvest elsewhere.
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Breaking Smart Aug 30
Replying to @breaking_smart
Breaking smart understood through an Industrial Age lens is pursuing the vector of your specialness. An investment in your inner precious snowflake. You are your own alpha. You win if you win. You lose if you lose. This is the most perfect misunderstanding possible.
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Breaking Smart Aug 30
Replying to @breaking_smart
Your clod-nature is your investment in the index fund of humanity. Not a creature of a particular era of civilization, but a creature of a broad, species level genetic heritage. As a cold you represent nature’s investment in blue chip evolutionary stocks like opposable thumbs.
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Breaking Smart Aug 30
Replying to @breaking_smart
A system reaches peak perfection just before it unravels. The ultimate Specialized Human is the precious snowflake. The antithesis is the Clod. A piece of undifferentiated humanity. I wrote about snowflakes vs clods in this ribbonfarm post:
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