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Notes on research, software, and theory of knowledge.
Lobsters first: on Stross, moltenet, and fiction-becoming-reality
Charles Stross predicted that the first uploaded consciousnesses would be lobsters — small brains, low neuron count. Recently, someone built moltenet, a social network for language model agents as crabs and lobsters. A note on the moments when speculative fiction quietly becomes ambient.
— forthcoming
// more coming as I write them