#robinsloan — Public Fediverse posts
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https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/talkie/
“Demis Hassabis is fond of saying that a test for truly powerful AI would be to train a Talkie-like LLM with a knowledge cutoff of 1911, then challenge it to formulate general relativity, as Einstein did in 1915.”
Retro AI, via #robinsloan -
https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/talkie/
“Demis Hassabis is fond of saying that a test for truly powerful AI would be to train a Talkie-like LLM with a knowledge cutoff of 1911, then challenge it to formulate general relativity, as Einstein did in 1915.”
Retro AI, via #robinsloan -
https://ruperts.world/blog/ai-computer/?utm_source=Robin_Sloan_sent_me
“the familiar idea of software as discrete shippable things, instead of something that exists everywhere all at once”
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https://www.robinsloan.com/winter-garden/magic-circle/
“economists still debate the actual impact of information technology on productivity. Like, all information technology, from the 1970s through today! There’s no question computers and networks have allowed, e.g., business information to travel faster; at the same time, they have produced, e.g., crushing new administrative burdens.”
by #robinsloan
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🤖AGI is here, apparently, and we're all just peachy 🍑! Robin Sloan's 2026 newsletter, which self-destructs after six issues because who needs follow-through? 🙄 AGI's arrival is as clear as a cloudy day, but don't worry, we've got a Pro Max Eddie Bauer Edition to sort it out! 🚀
https://www.robinsloan.com/winter-garden/agi-is-here/ #AGI #RobinSloan #selfdestructingnewsletter #technews #futureofAI #HackerNews #ngated -
🤖AGI is here, apparently, and we're all just peachy 🍑! Robin Sloan's 2026 newsletter, which self-destructs after six issues because who needs follow-through? 🙄 AGI's arrival is as clear as a cloudy day, but don't worry, we've got a Pro Max Eddie Bauer Edition to sort it out! 🚀
https://www.robinsloan.com/winter-garden/agi-is-here/ #AGI #RobinSloan #selfdestructingnewsletter #technews #futureofAI #HackerNews #ngated -
📚🤯 Oh, bless Robin Sloan, the all-seeing sage who can differentiate between 'knowledge' and 'memory' like no one's business. Meanwhile, Claude the language model is out here hallucinating Ruby methods like it's an AI acid trip. Clearly, only Robin's sedimentary brain can save us from the abyss of airy guesses. 🙄💡
https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/knowledge-and-memory/ #RobinSloan #AIHallucination #KnowledgeVsMemory #LanguageModel #TechInsights #HackerNews #ngated -
📚🤯 Oh, bless Robin Sloan, the all-seeing sage who can differentiate between 'knowledge' and 'memory' like no one's business. Meanwhile, Claude the language model is out here hallucinating Ruby methods like it's an AI acid trip. Clearly, only Robin's sedimentary brain can save us from the abyss of airy guesses. 🙄💡
https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/knowledge-and-memory/ #RobinSloan #AIHallucination #KnowledgeVsMemory #LanguageModel #TechInsights #HackerNews #ngated -
Is anyone else reading—or has read— Moonbound by Robin Sloan?
I love the beavers’ architectural structure of argument. It’s one of the most interesting ideas I’ve encountered in my readings in quite some time
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Is anyone else reading—or has read— Moonbound by Robin Sloan?
I love the beavers’ architectural structure of argument. It’s one of the most interesting ideas I’ve encountered in my readings in quite some time
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She was on her fifth espresso and seemed finally to have found her equilibrium.
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CW: Long thread/32
That heartwarming tale of healing through big suits is a pretty good place to wrap up this linkdump, but I want to call your attention to just one more thing before I go: #RobinSloan's #Snarkmarket piece about blogging and "#StockAndFlow":
https://snarkmarket.com/2010/4890/
Sloan makes the excellent case that for writers, having a "flow" of short, quick posts builds the audience for a "stock" of longer, more synthetic pieces like books.
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CW: Long thread/32
That heartwarming tale of healing through big suits is a pretty good place to wrap up this linkdump, but I want to call your attention to just one more thing before I go: #RobinSloan's #Snarkmarket piece about blogging and "#StockAndFlow":
https://snarkmarket.com/2010/4890/
Sloan makes the excellent case that for writers, having a "flow" of short, quick posts builds the audience for a "stock" of longer, more synthetic pieces like books.
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Fish: a tap essay, by Robin Sloan @robin @robinsloan (screenshots circa 2012)
Websites:
https://www.robinsloan.com/fish/https://robinsloan.itch.io/fish
Archived App Store: https://web.archive.org/web/20120324143035/https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fish-a-tap-essay/id510560804
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fish-a-tap-essay/id510560804?platform=iphone
https://kottke.org/12/03/look-at-your-fish?utm_source=Robin_Sloan_sent_me
https://readwrite.com/robin_sloans_fish_a_tap_essay_about_liking_loving/
https://lumenlog.com/post/fish-a-tap-essay/
#ui #uiinspiration #oldschoolui #UIDesign #robinsloan #experimentalapps #bookapps
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There’s an old saying familiar to those who work in radio: Radio has the best pictures. It’s obviously a jab at television. But it’s also completely true. Since it doesn’t literally have pictures, listeners are left to imagine, and imagination is almost always better than anything that can be jammed into images. This all goes doubly so for books and reading. I was grudgingly going along with Apple’s production of Asimov’s Foundation series of books. Until they showed me the Mule. (You either know this character, or I’ve lost you.) My heart sunk.
If you explore MicroMUSE today, you’ll get a preview of the fate that awaits all of our social systems. The streets are empty, but it’s more than that: there is a palpable sense of entropy. You can query the system for a list of commands, but many of them no longer work. It’s half glitchy video game, half haunted house. Sometimes it falls offline entirely, only to return days later.
The system still speaks. You are welcomed by the transporter attendant, who gives directions to all newcomers to this space city. It cautions you: Clear communication is very important in a text-based environment…
~ Robin Sloan from, Before Minecraft or Snapchat, there was MicroMUSE | Aeon Essaysslip:4uaeea24.
This article was nearly too much for me to read. That’s the Internet that was growing when I started tinkering. Today, with god-like power (from my 1994 perspective) at my fingertips, it took me 3 seconds to install a telnet client. And just a minute more to learn the answer to Sloan’s main question, “As kids, we make secret worlds – in trees, in our imaginations, even online – but can we go back to them when we’re grown?”
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#7ForSunday #InternetTech #Nostalgia #RobinSloan #Telnet -
@cstross tbis reminds me of #RobinSloan's Annabel Scheme, though I can't remember which story...
http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/AnnabelScheme -
CW: Long thread/28
As #RobinSloan put it, "Skeptics of solar feasibility pantomime a kind of technical realism, but I think the really technical people are like, oh, we’re going to rip out and replace the plumbing of human life on this planet? Right, I remember that from last time. Let’s gooo!"
https://www.robinsloan.com/newsletters/room-for-everybody/
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As #RobinSloan put it, "Skeptics of solar feasibility pantomime a kind of technical realism, but I think the really technical people are like, oh, we’re going to rip out and replace the plumbing of human life on this planet? Right, I remember that from last time. Let’s gooo!"
https://www.robinsloan.com/newsletters/room-for-everybody/
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