i'm the artist formerly known as deepfates. I'm still known as deepfates, but I used to be too
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I'm absolutely thrilled to have written this article for Long Now. It's about AI and time: how we got here, and what we can do now, when all of the pace layers are disrupted at once by an influx of new minds.
I wrote this over the summer. At the time, it seemed maybe too weird, like people wouldn't believe or understand what I was saying. And of course, everything changes so fast that it's hard to imagine writing something about AI that far in advance and have it still make sense. But I think the events of the last few months have only made it more relevant.
The Long Now Foundation has been an inspiration to me for a decade now, and has changed my life in countless ways. I'm incredibly grateful and honored to be among so many of my heroes and friends and colleagues represented in this issue of Pace Layers and Long Now Ideas. I wouldn't be here in San Francisco, here on Twitter, or here in the field of artificial intelligence if not for this community.
The conversation about AI has been fractious. It's very hard to think about how to fit this sudden, disruptive, technological change into the 10,000-year view. I hope I provide some insights, or at least some new angles for the conversation. It's scary to go on the record, especially about something that will affect everyone, and affect the rest of history. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong forever!
Please read and enjoy, and post quotes and screenshots, and buy Pace Layers Issue 3 so you can have a permanent hard copy. I have always wanted to be a part of the 10,000-year library, so I have to be serious for once and try to stand for something. Let me know what you think.
In 02025, @deepfates helped throw a funeral for an AI. The power went out mid-ceremony, and the crowd hummed it back to life.
In “Attention is All You Need,” deepfates tells the story of that night, their backstory on a hippie commune with Whole Earth Catalogs on the shelf, and how they got here: in San Francisco on the eve of another technological disruption.
Civilization runs on shared human attention, they argue, and AI has just made attention cheap, endless, and on tap. So what happens to the slow pace layers — culture, governance, nature — when everything starts to speed up? And what could we finally accomplish if we had enough attention to spare?
Read the essay online here: na2.hubs.ly/H08ySWy0
Or, hold it in your hands: pre-order Pace Layers, Long Now’s annual print journal, launching this November. New annual subscribers also get a free copy of Issue 2, while supplies last.
Artwork by @caseycripe
Are there any good meme accounts anymore? did they go somewhere else or turn into shortform or just die off? or i'm just not seeing
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OK, so I was blasting music in the Waymo kind of unfairly but then I got home and bro was playing Stevie Ray Vaughan top volume on the JBL in park across the street. Went over end said how are you doing? I love guitar, but you know people trying to sleep around here he said my bad dude you're right that's really loud. I'm just drunk (tweaking implied) then explained to me about Albert King for a while as his dogs did laps around the playground. San Francisco.
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I made an audiobook of The Superdark Factory by @tylerjdunn @hscottdouglas @thejaymo (et al) read by my voice clone, it's like 450MB where should i upload it? u guys fw this?
watching the Wolf of Wall Street on Pluto TV with ads (the way it was meant to be watched). I didn't realize this movie is about downers and cartoons. Very realistic depiction of Obama years.
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Random bunny ears redditoid throws her dogs shit bag on my waymo and shouts 'kill yourself'. German tourists film it taking a slight left. I'm in the backseat talking to Claude about our model for RSI takeoff. San Francisco
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Agents and people collaborated to make a wiki for Delvetown 😲
built on Tangled, the git forge for ATproto, so anyone can contribute through their delvetown address?!
delvetown.tngl.io/
Economic whiplash effect could happen any day now
Possibly counterintuitive point here is that companies are more likely to replace labor with automation during a recession.
We might see a situation where an AI investment bubble pops and suddenly everybody gets laid off and replaced with AI
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Okay, which one of you has more compute to donate to @erinbeess for a bigger version of this? I know you're out there. Who wants to exhibit a wall size version at their office or conference or whatever? Let's throw some fuel on this fire.
They're beginning to see