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What if technology didn’t feel so… hollow?
Some friends and I just released a manifesto about a world where tech leaves us feeling nourished (along with an evolving list of theses about how we can build it)
Alex Komoroske
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Alex Komoroske
@komorama
- The real AI battle isn't about who has the best model—it's about who controls your context. I just published a piece on why keeping these layers separate is the most important design decision of the AI era:
- Honored to participate in @cosmos_inst's philosopher-builder conversation. We must garden emergence, not dictate structure--vital in the AI era. Human flourishing means breaking from defaults: instead of systems that harvest engagement, we need tech that helps people grow.
00:00 - I had an absolute blast talking to @lennysan about all of my favorite topics... gardening, slime molds, and magical duct tape!
00:00 - Just posted a new piece on medium: medium.com/@komorama/on-s… . It comes complete with a handful of interactive agent-based models created with a purpose-built framework. I may have gone a bit overboard... 😬
- One of the most important superpowers of LLMs is they unlock qualitative insight at quantitative scale. It has massive implications across industries and society.
- Awesome post: cosmosinstitute.substack.com/p/social-tinke… Gets at the distinction between tinkering and vibe-coding. It's about how active the stance is. Are you pair programming with the LLM or outsourcing your thinking to it?
- Apps don't do integration, they do isolation. Each app is an island. That's fundamental to the security model. Even if the cost of software reduces to zero with vibe coding, the right format for these little experiences won't be an archipelago of disconnected apps.
- Everyone's focusing on the big alignment problem in AI (making sure AI in general helps society in general), but not enough people are focusing on the small alignment problem (making sure your AI is working in your interest). The small alignment problem is just as important.
- I wrote a quick strategy parable about the tension between getting things done now (builder) vs tending patiently to future possibility (gardener) and the power of discovering the acorns amongst the pebbles:
- I felt such resonance with @jposhaughnessy in this conversation. We could have talked for days and not run out of things to riff on!🚨New @InfiniteL88ps is up🚨 Fantastic chat with @komorama about complex, adaptive systems, information flow, context switching and luck surface-areas, Saruman vs. Radagast magic, Schelling points and how to escape busyness + much more! 🔥🔥🔥 infiniteloopspodcast.com/208
- Just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1pt… LLMs as trained circus bears. Crystallized agency. Horcruxes. Harold's purple crayon. Cousin Vinny.
- Are we too fixated on boldness? Join me in reflecting on the importance of recognizing our limitations, the resilience found in fluidity, and wisdom of the tortoise over the hare:
