It's just a matter of personal definitions, it seems. Here is an example:
What level would you say this language was? Is it a low-level systems language, or is it also usable for writing web sites?
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What level would you say this language was? Is it a low-level systems language, or is it also usable for writing web sites?
That does not sound like something Bill Gates would say…
We’d have models monitoring models as our only way to know what they’re planning.
A great movie on this is “Collosus: the Forbin Project”. Shot decades ago. The computers discover the other computers and start communicating — and bootstrap their own language — much like we saw happen with OpenAI agents.
https://www.reddit.com/r/scifi/comments/1nl4vex/colossus_the...
If you want to know what a simple version of Neuralese communication looks like, look no further than Facebook’s Marketplace agents experiment a couple years ago.
And all that was actually constrained by English and the FFN
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A clock for a world with no center.
Names that can't lie.
Convergence without coordination.
Storage too cheap to delete.
Machines summoned in milliseconds.
OK, got it.
I wish someone here could introduce me to Ted Nelson, I would have loved to interview him! And yes, I've been building the "Xanadu" vision since 2011:
https://github.com/Qbix <-- hosting and editing your own websites
https://github.com/Intercoin <-- blockchain since 2018
https://github.com/Safebots <-- AI agents since 2026
https://github.com/Safebots/Safecloud <-- for example, micropayments
He started that whole trend!
Because phantasia seems to me to be just memory of actual qualia having actually experienced seeing something. No? Can't people with aphantasia remember that experience in any kind of vivid sense? Because "the concept of a beach" is something that an LLM can read from a corpus, and so can a person, even if they never experienced one.
My team and I built it over the years, and it's open source (AGPL). Here is how it works: https://community.qbix.com/t/qbix-streams-as-a-graph-databas...
Our database abstraction layer (and optional ORM) has been battle tested in production for millions of users, and has 3 adapters: Sqlite, Postgres, MySQL/MariaDB. And recently it even added vector search for ranking results by similarity: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform/tree/main/platform/classes/...
Documentation for the database layer is here: https://qbix.com/platform/guide/database
PS: If you do use a relational database for storing graph data, you're going to have a lot of duplication in some public keys. I highly recommend putting ZFS underneath, to help with deduplication. ZFS uses zstd, developed at facebook, and also can encrypt your data at rest (don't use the relational database to do the encryption, otherwise deduplication doesn't work).
While in Singapore I was able to get ahold of some policeman who made some calls and was told it was waiting for me at the Lost and Found inside the Nice airport gift shop. I thanked him and made 24 hour layover in Nice.
Well, getting to the airport, I came tk this shop. I asked about the “sac a dos gris” in the other room. They checked their ordinateur: “NO, je suis desolee”. Sorry sir! I said you definitely have it, can you please go to that other room and check? “No sorry we cannot. It is not here. After a week we give things to the municipal lost and found. At the polics station. Go there.”
The day was ending (French govt services work til 4pm) so I raced to the municipal police station in Nice. I arrive and they have a bunch of keys and other things people lost around the city. I barely speak French but luckily a middle-aged lady was there who spoke good English. She helped me ask them. “No. Sorry. It is not here.” Are they sure? “Yes, we checked. Not here.”
She gave me a ride on her vespa (she had a motorcycle) and I treated her to dinner while we discussed the situation. We agreed I should go to the central police station after that and file a missing item report. Which I did (spoiler alert: doesn’t do anything, but standing in line is less than in US cities).
That night I chose to stay at some rinkydink place in Nice, because why not (I was by myself) and got up around 4am to take the bus to the tram network’s lost and found — the last place it could be. I would have aittle time before my flight.
In the morning I got up early and got to that Lost and Found, before my flight. I had one hour. It was located near a university, and after wandering around I had found the little enclave. The staff there were very nice — but they didn’t have it either!
I flew home, dejected. My backups hadn’t been perfect; I had a lot of stuff on that computer, including an iOS App on XCode that I had to release to a lot of people! (And a couple Metamask wallets.)
Anyway I kept in touch with the nice policeman throughout. He went to the airport lost and found - the same one which refused to check the other room because their computer said it wasn’t there — and CONFIRMED that my bag was there. They had let him check the back room, you see!
But I wasn’t in Nice anymore. I filled out a “troov.com” report and explained where it was. They had found it! Paid for FedEx. Over the next few days thanks to the Tracking I saw it go to the central station in France and then sent back. Because it was missing a customs form for USA. I had filled out that form, but something had been wrong. I had spoken to the main FedEx customs-facing team in Memphis for a few days, and they thought it was in USA already. They were wrong. Their system was also blind to this. Anyway, I saw it go back to that airport lost and found, a week later. Lost about $100…
Then, the lady offered to come pick it up for me. She came, and was thankfully given this bag. She mailed it with DHL, and I received it. It was really overjoyed when it finally arrived, a month and a half after I had lost it! I of course sent the lady a payment to cover the cost. She did not want any other compensation. We are still friends to this day, and when my dad goes to France, I am putting them in touch.
One moral from this story is: French employees love to say “No” to anything and everything. If their computer says the thing isn’t there, they won’t budge even when it’s the easiest thing to just check the other room manually. Unless you are a local policeman!
The other moral - back up your stuff! Have SyncThing or your own machine in the cloud. Especially if you travel to conferences, like me.
A16Z invested $1M in them?
And here I thought I was being scrupulously ethical in 2023 when I was yelled at by HN for making a much milder proof of concept, the first project I ever did in AI:
Faraday was poor, etc.
Lenin deteriorated, and Marx was always poor.
Anyway...
Donald Trump - becomes president, after all it was just “locker room talk”
Billy Bush - career destroyed for passively chuckling
As someone who develops apps for confidential conversations, making it harder for people to screenshot the confidential stuff is a feature the sending party wants, that is why they send in your app as opposed to others. It doesn’t make things impossible, just hard enough that 95% of people won’t bother to take a copy.
Same for example with disappearing audio messages on whatsapp
What I don’t like is the app being informed that I took a screenshot. The OS can hide things in screenshots without this.
How would it help the average person? Because it lets people have better health outcomes, including mental health, including for kids and elderly, makes everyone have 13 points higher IQ and productivity. Helps them renegotiate with their employer, without minimum wage laws. Helps them be more entrepreneurial and start their own businesses. That $1000 a month can pay for a ton of AI spend for example, and will soon be able to pay for timeshared robots.
The average person will be paid less and less or even be laid off soon. We dint have a mechanism to supplement their income. At least we have medicaid, I guess.
Elon Musk is more extreme than me — he says money won’t even matter in 10 years. Meanwhile the guy is worth $1 trillion on paper. I don’t want to tax him. I want to tax his corporations as they lay off workers.
“Are we the baddies”? Well, our empire might be. If we are really a democracy, we should try to reform it.
with a UBI gradually given directly to the People, and raising taxes on corporations?
The former led to a 1993 constitutional crisis where the parliament wanted to oust Yeltsin (“our man in the white house”) and Yeltsin had troops fire on the parliament and arrest the congress, which represented the people fed up with the wage repression and looting
Yeltsin had a 6% approval rating and we helped him win re-election by meddling in Russian elections. We bragged about in 1996 with movies like “Spinning Boris” and “Yanks to the Rescue” Time Magazine cover.
The latter led to - amazing health, business and productivity outcomes under MINCOME in Canada, and the lowest gini index in America under Alaska’s Permanent Fund
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUiyQ-yrk7k
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Russian_constitutional_cr...
You need to increase taxes on corporations and automation if you want to prevent inflation, otherwise you aren’t removing money from the economy.
Printing money on the one hand can be counterbalanced by taxing the money on the other hand — if you actually burn the money collected by the taxes in a giant hole.
But instead the money from the taxes can be used to pay the treasury holders, and make them whole. This is in fact what the Grace commission found in the 80s under Reagan:
With two thirds of everyone's personal income taxes wasted or not collected, 100 percent of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest on the federal debt and by federal government contributions to transfer payments. In other words, all individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services that taxpayers expect from their government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Commission
There is less and less demand for US treasuries, and Trump’s tariff war has only accelerated it.
The GENIUS act gets US a set of entitites that are forced by law to buy US treasuries - stablecoin issuers. It helps the digital dollar be used around the world, and treasuries to still have some demand. That is probably why it is called “genius”. This is the last step before the demand shock.
The US will have to stop borrowing and eventually print money to service its sovereign debt.
And when they do, they could either send it to banks, corporations, fatcats and pork projects — or they can send it to every American equally. The latter would be a UBI that would trickle up into the economy, with people spending it on their actual needs. It would increase most health outcomes, emotional health as well, raise average effective IQ by 13 points. And then they could tax the corporations and robots, and pay down the debt.
As it is, there are literally not enough dollars in existence to pay down that debt. The US will have to print them, or default.