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

These books — they have desires. They creep and sneak slowly onto my table until soon there is a pile. Each falling over another eager to have its interiority claim a bit of mine. Most are content with one such ride. Others, oh they jump over and over from the precipice of the bookshelf — where they inexplicably find themselves again and …