)oshua

@elbowspeak
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Epistemic forager in Seattle with family, cats, and bikes. Working in tech for ethical outcomes.
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)oshua6d ago
Electronic Frontier Foundation6d ago
Age verification laws are really just censorship mandates clothed as child safety proposals—here’s why. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/rep-finke-was-right-age-gating-isnt-about-kids-its-about-control
Rep. Finke Was Right: Age-Gating Isn’t About Kids, It’s About Control

What’s at stake is whether “protecting children” becomes a legal pretext for embedding government control over the internet to enforce specific moral and religious judgments—judgments that deny marginalized people access to speech, community, history, and truth—into law.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
)oshua6d ago
Paul Kedrosky6d ago
I maintain that the “dominant” game theoretic move here as a frontier model maker might be to cease all model spending, invest only in harnesses (C Code, Codex, etc) and mint money on enterprise subs. The deep question is to what extent orchestration layers and models must be integrated.

I wrote about this recently, in part, here:

https://paulkedrosky.com/commoditization-orchestration-and-the-new-ai-stack/
Commoditization, Orchestration, and the New AI Stack

AI value is moving up the stack, stranding capital

Paul Kedrosky
)oshuaMar 13
Hacker News 100Mar 13

Your phone is an entire computer

Link: https://medhir.com/blog/your-phone-is-an-entire-computer
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47367568

Your Phone is an Entire Computer

The new MacBook Neo announcement raises old questions around what rights we have (and don't have) to install software on devices we own.

)oshuaMar 13
Paul KedroskyMar 13

Silicon Valley Was Born a Defense Industry, and is Becoming One Again

The valley’s long civilian interlude may be ending as AI reconnects it to its military origins

https://paulkedrosky.com/silicon-valley-was-born-a-defense-industry-and-is-becoming-one-again/

Silicon Valley Was Born a Defense Industry, and is Becoming One Again

The valley’s long civilian interlude may be ending as AI reconnects it to its military origins

Paul Kedrosky
)oshuaMar 13
Electronic Frontier FoundationMar 13
What’s at stake in the fight against age verification is not just a single bill in a single state. It’s about whether “protecting children” becomes a legal pretext for embedding government control online that reinforces specific moral and religious worldviews. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/rep-finke-was-right-age-gating-isnt-about-kids-its-about-control
Rep. Finke Was Right: Age-Gating Isn’t About Kids, It’s About Control

What’s at stake is whether “protecting children” becomes a legal pretext for embedding government control over the internet to enforce specific moral and religious judgments—judgments that deny marginalized people access to speech, community, history, and truth—into law.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
)oshuaMar 12
Roko's Basilisk but for Fascist regimes with AI panopticon
)oshuaMar 10
Paul KedroskyMar 10
Tremendous and harrowing piece in Bloomberg today on how the rise of robotics and AI in China has been devastating for jobs: Wages are falling, workers are at record levels of pessimism, jobs are more tenuous, etc.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-03-09/china-s-tariff-defying-export-boom-leaves-its-factory-workers-behind
)oshuaFeb 20
The NeedlingFeb 19
Mayor Wilson Opens Mind to Adding Surveillance Cameras After Hearing They Can Help Find Lost Dogs: https://theneedling.com/2026/02/19/mayor-wilson-opens-mind-to-adding-surveillance-cameras-after-hearing-they-can-help-find-lost-dogs/
)oshuaFeb 19

In a follow up to my last post about Entropy driving the AI phenomenon, I address both the insight and the fundamental errors of the Effective Accelerationist (e/acc) movement.

https://syntropic.xyz/posts/2026-02-17-worshipping-the-gradient/

@paul @interfluidity

Worshipping the Gradient

Thoughts on prediction, information compression and coherence

Show thread)oshuaFeb 18

@interfluidity @paul Here's the follow up essay on e/acc

https://syntropic.xyz/posts/2026-02-17-worshipping-the-gradient/

Worshipping the Gradient

Thoughts on prediction, information compression and coherence