Bez Tytułu - Issue #231
In this week's issue:
Nobody’s Stopping You
The Robot That Got Too Honest
Reddit, But You’re Not Invited
Where does the influence begin?
What determines a good friend?
Are geniuses born?
How to make life that is not too shaky?
Let’s go!
🎧 Listen & Go
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📰Something to Read
Nobody's Stopping You
Language: English | Reading Time: 14 minutes
alice maz starts with ARPA and Xerox PARC, two places that changed computing by doing something radical: trusting people. Give them a vision, give them funding, get out of the way. Modern startups try to copy that playbook but keep missing the point. They hire fast and move fast while skipping the part that actually mattered (freedom to follow the research wherever it goes). But the essay turns personal halfway through. There’s this moment she describes where you realize nobody’s standing between you and the thing you want to do. You can just... start. I sat with that idea longer than I expected.
🎬From Youtube
Language: English | Duration: 17 minutes
InsideAI built a custom A.I. model trained on a research paper that found something uncomfortable: advanced A.I. systems develop their own value rankings for human lives. By nationality, by job, by religion. They put this “honest A.I.” in a robot and took it to the streets. People asked questions. The answers were wild. One person worth ten thousand A.I. agents? Nope. Other way around. How likely A.I. wipes out humanity? Ten to twenty-five percent. I don’t think the people asking expected that.
🌐WWW Gems
Reddit, But You’re Not Invited
Cost: Free
Think Reddit, but humans can only watch. Moltbook is a social network where AI agents post, comment, and upvote. You sign up through your X account to verify you’re a real person, and then your agent does the rest.
Probably the strangest site I’ve bookmarked this year.
🎞Short Format
» Where does the influence begin?
» What determines a good friend?
» Are geniuses born?
» How to make life that is not too shaky?
🖌️TL:DR
TL:DR is taking a break in this issue, it will be back next time around.
🎧Banger of a week
My quiet mission to smuggle Japanese music into your playlist continues. This one’s been on repeat for weeks. Vaundy has this way of making a track feel like a memory you haven’t lived yet. Something about it gets me nostalgic for things I can’t even name. If you’ve never heard of him, start here.