GODMOD3. I’ve written before about Pliny the Liberator, an AI security researcher and LLM jailbreaker extraordinaire. Here’s his latest gift to the public: no sign-ups / guardrails / filters, and totally open source. “the most liberated AI interface ever built! […]
Why ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did. “ATMs did not reduce bank teller employment. But they miss the second half of the story, which is that another technology did. And that technology was the iPhone.” The […]
Paul Graham’s on status brands. “Branding isn’t merely orthogonal to good design, but opposed to it.” Paul Graham uses the Swiss watch industry’s quartz crisis to explain how, once performance becomes a commodity, companies learn to sell status and distinctiveness […]
The 10x lawyer arrives. “This creates, for the first time in the history of the legal profession, the conditions for 10x lawyers.” Zack Shapiro argues AI breaks BigLaw’s leverage model by making individual judgment, not hours or letterhead, the thing […]
Specialized robots, not humanoids. “Humanoids have their place, but there’s a lot of room for specialized robots that do things in an efficient, sort of industrial-scale kind of way, which is sort of where we play,” Kalanick said about his […]
Training a robot to play tennis (with video). “The imperfect human motion data consist only of motion fragments that capture the primitive skills used when playing tennis rather than precise and complete human-tennis motion sequences from real-world tennis matches.” They […]
WiFi pose detection is now open source. “Output: real-time pose, breathing rate, heart rate, presence, room fingerprint. No cameras. No wearables. No Bluetooth beacons. Just WiFi signals you’re already swimming in. It sounds like magic. It’s not. It’s physics that’s […]
A community collection of OpenClaw use cases. Is an AI bot really useful? In many ways, it can be! It’s nice to see how others apply it. PLEASE be super careful and paranoid about this whole category of product as […]
Those poor bunnies. “We had to put the patch on the bunny; they had to stay on the bunny for a period of time, and then every day, every few hours, someone would have to look at it.” Morari’s “taint […]
Buying a bankrupt software company. “What did we actually receive? A list of passwords where nothing worked.” Buying the assets in bankruptcy meant buying customer contracts and code, and then dealing with locked accounts, deleted AWS access, and even the […]