All posts for tag "Ai"

The Ai Singularity No One Saw Coming

Oct 14, 2025

Artificial Super Isolation

My biggest worry with AI is not it gaining sentience. I’m not worried about a Terminator type story line. But I am worried about the power it can exert on us as singular individuals.

Hallucinations Welcome

A super intelligent AI needs to be able to reason. Not the “reasoning” models AI companies are shilling. I mean, actually think abstractly. Large Language Models work on statistics. It doesn’t take many prompts to realize it. They cannot even consider their own output as they generate it.

AI Hesitation Turning Around

Jan 28, 2025

I’m a Bit of a Rebel

I feel like some of what I do in life isn’t because it’s the “best”. I certainly love optimizing workflows, switching keyboard layouts because QWERTY is clearly not the best, learning and customizing window managers instead of using broad defaults from full desktop environments. But, I also do lots of things that are decidedly not in pursuit of efficiency or optimization:

Firefox is not faster than Chrome, and AFAICT it still isn’t really much better than Chromium privacy-wise

Linux causes me pain, MacOS supposedly “Just Works™”

NixOS causes me more pain, but I also love it

I daily drove a OnePlus 6 with PostMarketOS for a few months last year. So cool to carry a terminal with you. But Termux exists, and my wife could not reach me reliably.

I don’t value ease of use as much as other values like privacy, openness, and tinker-ability. As most things in life, it’s always a trade-off. I get teased by many of my coworkers and friends for being the “linux guy” or similar, for choosing to swim upstream despite the more “obvious” easy choice of using the proprietary, super affordable electric boat (with better battery life BTW). So how could I come around to these over-hyped, shark-backed, environment burning GPU crunchers??