whimsicalism

definitely! my project was also flower related

they are in an older electorate death spiral.

Fair enough, I couldn't get into Fall so I don't know precisely what he predicted.

I think the phrase 'florilegium' must be an AI basin of sorts as I've had it suggested by AI as a name for a few projects of my own.

> suspect that asking society to trust in a digital middle-man between themselves and their money will be a very hard sell.

Very hard sell? This is effectively how the vast vast majority of people in the US have their money handled.

The means to afford LLMs? These are services that cost pennies.

I think the worry about fake news was a very widely held pre-GAI view.

Print enough money and the credit markets would have no choice but to unfreeze. Picking winners with fiscal policy was always the wrong solution.

i'd vote for a candidate that recognizes the existence of moral hazard, yes

to me, this is a variant of security by obscurity and will not fare well in the LLM age

he doesn't seem to enjoy it all too much :D

> The Japan thing just reflects the book's age.

Yep. Sorry, thought I made it clear in my comment that this was a reference to the book showing its age.

The comment about popularity with executives was related to this romanticization of Victorian-era social structure that I see as a prominent undercurrent of Bay Area-coded literature, more recent iterations include Too Like the Lightning.

I found Anathem significantly better than Diamond Age fwiw. Different strokes.

Diamond Age you can tell why he is very popular with silicon valley executives (and honestly is showing its age nowadays -- Japan is oddly relevant and the description of future China would read comical for someone in the 2020s). Anathem you can tell why he is popular with nerds like me.

very reddit-era takes imo. it is a bit late in the timeline to be betting on S curves and worrying about deepfakes

platforms are better placed to guard against attackers

the only reason you’re seeing this post is because of the large bug bounty program that actors like Northflank don’t even operate