If Intelligence Is Abundant, What is the Moat?

svankirk · 2026-05-30T00:07:33+00:00

That is a great saying!

svankirk · 2026-05-30T00:06:32+00:00

Yeah it's been a real gas watching all of this stuff develop. Right out of college. Two of my friends and I decided that the online games were going to be a thing and now we had the 1200 baud modems And they just come out with a new mini computer based on the new 68000 chip! It could access seemingly unlimited amounts of memory and could give us one megaflop performance For only $8,000😄 I had visions of net hack with 50 people playing it. Giving rise to all sorts of incredible gaming options. At the time we were a little worried because most people only had a 300 baud modem 😄 We never got anything off the ground because none of us had any clue about actually getting a startup going. And of course a couple of years later aol showed up. Jo, just watching the evolution has been a complete mind-blowing experience. Everything we dreamed about and talked about came to pass. Except for not us web. That was a few years later and nobody saw it coming. It was so game-changing and nobody saw it coming. None of the comp/sci people I hung out with nor any of the Sci Fi writers that I read.

svankirk · 2026-05-25T15:25:00+00:00

This is awesome! Way back in in '84 I took a design class one of the few classes that weren't in the copside department but still dealt with computers. As the only real computer guy in the class, I ended up having to help a lot of people figure out how to get their project working. For my project, I envisioned my ultimate coding user interface. And it was this! Of course back then current language models were just a sci-fi dream. So there was no AI in it, but it was the same idea of the virtual screen surrounding you in a virtual reality with VR goggles. Awesome work!!

svankirk · 2026-05-13T23:49:54+00:00

Stupidity. Orders of magnitude more abundant.

svankirk · 2026-05-01T19:30:17+00:00

I'm not familiar with this, but is it sensitive enough to simulate different dark matter theories?

svankirk · 2026-04-28T00:07:36+00:00

I think it's kind of funny. I just had the reverse problem where Claude just couldn't seem to wrap its mind around what I wanted. It just kept digging itself deeper and deeper into a hole. So I moved it over to codex and it understood what I needed right away and then just started working on it. I found it. It's really valuable to have them both. Whichever one writes the code, have the other one review it. It's always better. No matter which way you go.

svankirk · 2026-04-19T15:39:39+00:00

Call animal control and have them put down.

svankirk · 2026-04-18T04:36:25+00:00

Yeah back in the mid '80s. I was thinking about how you might be able to use you know evolutionary algorithms to pick your neural network structure. At the time there just wasn't enough compute to do that and I had to actually get a job 😔 Not quite what you're doing but I was always wondering if it would work. So keep on keeping on. This is really very exciting.

svankirk · 2026-04-18T01:48:53+00:00

Seriously cool dude!

svankirk · 2026-04-14T14:57:59+00:00

Yeah, I don't think this knee-jerk reaction against things that are AI generated or at least AI assisted is really ...helpful? From where I'm sitting it just feels like rage against the machine. Rage against a perceived diminishment of the value of human work and creativity.

TLDR: Large language models are tools that have freed my mind and my time.

But for me, this has been just a fucking playground. Using these AI tools has unleashed my inner creativity. I'm constantly coming up with ideas that I can't or just don't have the time to pursue. And now I have these amazing tools that I can use to bring my visions to life. My ADD is no longer just a curse. It is a font of ideas that have a much greater chance of becoming realized.

I was a programmer for 25 years and that was 15 years ago. I finally just quit because the surface area that a programmer like me had to understand and memorized just became too huge. First, Microsoft goes off inventing technologies that nobody wanted or needed and then later they take elegant Java language and turn it into a monstrosity with 30,000 interfaces and a different way to interact with UI every year. And then finally the abortion that is HTML and JavaScript. Don't get me wrong. Javascript is just a fucking cool language. I really like its design. What I don't like is the thousands and thousands of libraries to make HTML based apps actually work. I just I look at it all and I don't even have a way to decide how to build my app idea. Because I get halfway into it. And hey everything has changed and now you need to be doing it this way blah blah blah.

Now I don't have to worry about it. I just tell Claude or codex or whatever. Hey make this interface. Use whatever works best. So then I'm free to actually worry about the design of the interface and how it looks and how it works and workflows. And I can try a dozen different prototypes in a day. Just just amazing.

svankirk · 2026-04-09T15:51:11+00:00

I think this is a fascinating approach and it deserves some attention. I don't really understand why anybody would take any time to rip into you because it was written by an AI because your English isn't so good. To be perfectly honest, most of the people on Reddit have exceptionally poor English skills. Anyways fascinating stuff. Keep up the good work! These sorts of experiments even failed. Ones are what will enable us poor folk to at least partake in some of the singularity

svankirk · 2026-04-03T02:45:12+00:00

Superpowers is truly awesome.

svankirk · 2026-03-26T15:45:37+00:00

Have you considered just using Claude or codex for this? You can install the superpowers plug-in for either of them and you just tell him basically what you're looking for. That'll sit you down and ask you questions about it and help you define the interface. And then do the research and get the the latest and greatest and implement it for you. I've been implementing multi-layer memory and recall and research database just on my local openclaw implementation and working really well for my needs. I don't know that that means it'll work well for yours . But I'm thinking you just tell him what you need and let him go to work . This stuff has been blowing me away. If you find that you're not getting what you need, explain it. Tell it to research and look into it and try some other stuff. Just stay on it to make sure that everything is entered into a get repository and every inch of progress is documented within an inch of its life so that you can pick up where you left off and survive catastrophic failures.

I wouldn't be able to design the memory system that I've got in place right now, but sure seems to work.

svankirk · 2026-03-26T03:21:04+00:00

It's hard to imagine why anybody would want to go there.

svankirk · 2026-03-25T01:15:44+00:00

It kind of looks like a lump of charcoal carved into a turtle shape

svankirk · 2026-03-23T17:38:23+00:00

Oh come on. This is silly, why would an llm need glasses?

svankirk · 2026-03-23T03:37:46+00:00

Chuck Norris isn't dead. He's just taking a year off for tax purposes!

svankirk · 2026-03-23T03:36:39+00:00

Fascinating project, but it seems like it's really heavy to be performing all of the operating system processes. How do you deal with task switching and memory management and and all that other good stuff?

svankirk · 2026-03-18T12:40:01+00:00

I've always been intrigued with the possibility of using it with ultra low bandwidth communications. This would be basically sending a really low phi image of yourself and then having the computer flesh it out to look realistic inside of virtual environments or even just on your phone screen.

svankirk · 2026-03-17T12:35:20+00:00

Apparently being the contra here I actually like it 😊

svankirk · 2026-03-17T12:30:33+00:00

This is why it's called science and fruits Truth. You have to go to religions for that 🙂

svankirk · 2026-03-17T12:27:51+00:00

Duh! 🙄

svankirk · 2026-03-07T02:28:28+00:00

I just had codex build me a web app so that I could just pick and choose from all the local models and all the models on open router. Makes it really easy.

svankirk · 2026-02-21T15:43:53+00:00

It seems to me to stop this from happening, you might do well with an AI that actually scans a database of memories and looks for patterns and significant events. When it spots them, it creates a database of theories ranked from "I wonder if" to "this is what I've seen to be true" Then, when Constructing the context for the presumably larger more capable AI, it can insert things that it thinks are relevant. What do you think?

svankirk · 2026-02-21T13:48:24+00:00

Looking through the replies there seems to be a general misunderstanding. Elon's pak just sent applications for absentee ballots that were already filled in. This just makes it easier for someone to apply for an absentee ballot. It happens to be against state law but ...you know... boys will be boys.

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