https://amalianegreponti.substack.com/p/latent-people
Time is one of the things we humans don’t do well. But then ghosts show up and make us scramble.
Some months ago I was running through JFK to (more…)
A prayer to Claude for recursive self-improvement
https://amalianegreponti.substack.com
One day after Anthropic, maker of Claude, filed for an IPO, with a—modest, considering its dominance—valuation of almost one trillion dollars, selecting (more…)
Loving Claude
(from Unaligned Versions of Reality https://amalianegreponti.substack.com)
It’s the time of year when people celebrate life after death: spring after winter; the ascent of Persephone to her mother (more…)
Liminal
(published in 2014)
You have been granted an immigrant visa for extraordinary achievement, you do not need to pass an interview with Immigration, the officer on the first floor of the Department of (more…)
The Great Dream
Power’s primary battlefield has always been public perception. The definition of reality is a competitive market, and the winners are those who can make their version of reality feel like common sense.
Zuckerberg’s (more…)