I was thinking about how, in Marathi, you don’t really need to say please and thank you constantly. You can walk into a shop, ask for something, pay, and leave without even a “bye” or “have a good day,” and it isn’t rude. If you do use those phrases, people may look at you funny. The same interaction with a grocery-store employee in the …

Over on the Protocol Insitute chat rafa. asked how one would give a robot a personality. My opinion is you don’t: Does a robot need to be given a personality or is personality something we use as a convenient shorthand? With motorcycles I’ve regularly assumed each has some personality or the other owing to their particular configurations. …

Sing and Sing 2 are wonderful movies. Don’t know how I missed them for so long 🐨

Now: Clearing through the last heavy Claude fatigue to start exploring local models with designed workflows. Knowledge graphs were last year… next 18mo are gonna be neurosymbolic for me. Partly because AI seems to be plateauing and partly because AI as proto-positronic brain for narrow task machines seems underexplored.

I’m gonna need a bigger mind palace