Beginnings, Digital Gardens and AI Delusions

We get excited about the stats on episode 1 and talk a little about podcast logistics. Tris then does a deep-dive into Digital Gardening and Robin talks about the ethics of TESCREAL. 📖 CHAPTERS 00:00 The podcast has landed00:37 Feedback on feedback04:40 TRIS’S CONSPIRACY CORNER08:04 Saving Robin’s life with Digital Gardening27:55 TESCREAL46:02 Typing with LLMs 🔗 LINKS Ours https://robinwinslow.ukhttps://noboilerplate.orghttps://lostterminal.comhttps://modemprometheus.comhttps://phosphenecatalogue.com External The show’s Discord community (Head to #decapsulate for chatting with other listeners of the show)Patreon: patreon.com/decapsulateMerch store: Head to decapsulate.com and click ‘Store in the menu’Our recommended Podcast app: Pocket CastsGitHub Discussions (for episode comments): Linked at the bottom of each episode page on the website, powered by GiscusObsidian (note-taking app)Obsidian Digital Garden pluginObsidian Dataview pluginMaggie Appleton’s “A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden”namtao.com (Tris’s digital garden)Lost Terminal (Tris’s sci-fi podcast)Zettelkasten (note-taking methodology)Obsidian Sync (for private vaults)Inkscape (open-source vector illustration tool)Faster Than Lime (Amos’ blog/YouTube)Zed (programming editor)Stochastic Parrots paper by Timnit Gebru et al.TESCREAL (Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singularitarianism, Cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, Longtermism)Effective AltruismSam Bankman-Fried (notable figure in Effective Altruism and cryptocurrency)Peter Singer (philosopher, associated with Effective Altruism)Descript (podcast editing tool)Hacker News (tech news aggregator)Conway’s LawGell-Mann Amnesia Effect 🧑 CREDITS Decapsulate is a NAMTAO Production (namtao.com) It is hosted by: Tristram Oaten (https://mastodon.social/@0atman)Robin Winslow (https://union.place/@nottrobin) This work is BrainMade (https://brainmade.org) Transcript DC3 Updates & Housekeeping [00:00:00] Tristram: So here we are, episode three. I have been having a great time setting up all the infrastructure. I’ve crunched the stats and between YouTube and the podcast feed, there have been so far 4,000 plays of episode one, which is insane. Robin: Is amazing. Tristram: we a week into it? That’s wonderful. Robin: but do we Tristram: I. Robin: Is that does that include crawlers and things or do we know their real Tristram: Hmm. I think we’re okay with this data because it falls off organically, like huge numbers of people listened on day one, two, and then it has fallen off more organically. Whereas a crawler, I would expect periodic or something more like that. And certainly not MP three, like crawling, an MP three is a bit weird, But anyway, the point is that these 4,000 people are incredible. Presume the listener is one of those peopleThat is, astonishing and I’m very grateful as I’m sure you are. Robin: you. Yes. Tristram: Yeah. Robin: I never Tristram: So Robin: to be as popular as it’s been already. Tristram: yes. Robin: We haven’t really figured out the format of the show yet. Tristram: Yeah I think it’s quite nice to figure it out, almost with the listener, although in a very, one way relationship there, but we’ll figure it out as we go. I’ve got a bit of housekeeping here, so thanks everyone who commented and has been chatting on the Discord, this is all fantastic. The feedback’s been wonderful. And we are especially grateful to those who’ve signed up to the Patreon patreon.com/deencapsulate or it’s all on the website. The patrons get at the moment, early episodes, Robin: website, Tristram: so when it, Robin: is deencapsulate.com, Tristram: yes you’re a natural robin, you’re a natural. You’ve just gotta say it all the time, repetitive, but we, if we don’t do it, who else will? Robin: Early episode. So when, for example, when this episode drops in the public feed, patrons will have access to episode four already. Yeah Tristram: We’ve also got a merch store. You go to encapsulate and click on store. There is exactly one item. Available for purchasing. And that is the square dashed logo thing. I’m not even sure if it is the exact final design, but what did you say this was gonna be Robin? Like an early Robin: first edition. Tristram: low Yes. First edition before Tris has quite got the logo symmetrical. I’ve been learning Vector illustration using Inkscape, the fantastic open source tool that is in some ways better than an illustrator. we get almost no commission from this. This is more about a fun thing for the community to do to publicly let you set your commission. And I think the price is already, like the base price is already, correct for that sort of thing. I’ve set it as low as possible. To support us, Patreon is the best option, but you also don’t need to do a thing. You can just keep listening, keep recommending things to your friends. As I said in episode one, this is the only way podcasts can work ...