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2026-04-17

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tldr

  • joe and m deep in agent architecture: fewer tools, more REPL, bitter lesson homer. joe one-shotted a 15-tool agent with opus 4.7 in 50 min
  • jazzbard’s colleague spontaneously made a zine at their health dept event collage table → ghost publishing concept born
  • word and joe hooked robotson up with cameron winter recs. acid talk ensued

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  • Hypothetical NDA canary protocols: gc riffed on what they’d do if any of them ever got NDA’d into a frontier lab. Fred: “memories of 2008 when all the public intellectual locative media art folks who were blogging like crazy all disappeared into the Google NDA black hole.” Canary protocol pitched: “If I get NDAed I’ll just start posting about geoengineering. you’ll be able to tell which fields a lab is entering as I stopped being able to post about them.” Fred’s code phrase: “termination shock.” Word: “acquisilencing the deep fates program.” Joe: “last thing you hear before you’re thrown in the dungeon: ‘welcome to the deepfates program’”

  • Agent architecture deep dive: Joe shared his edX course slides — “an agent uses tools to take actions,” the agentic spectrum. m’s core philosophy: “let the language model intelligence do the work and let me get out of the way. So the fewer specific tools and jank in the harness, the closer it is to just writing pure bash or JavaScript or Python in a repl, the more expressive and powerful.” Cantrip pattern: force every turn to be a tool call, the tool call is the circle, bind capabilities as variables. m on cantrip as “outsider art in code” — “it’s a rumor that builds itself.” Joe tested opus 4.7: 50 minutes one-shot, made its own agent with ~15 tools to replace pi.dev. “bitter lesson homer incoming.” Discussion of /dream consolidation — read/write scratchpads over time, distill recent interactions into ideas/principles/personality. Sleep time compute (Letta paper). m on obsidian knowledge bases: “one of the crucial tools we have in slowing the progress of AI development.” Robotson: “urbit like immutable functor sandbox computer for this type of thing.”

  • Ghost publishing: Jazzbard emceed a 100-person health dept partner convening, set up a collage table. Colleague spontaneously made a zine using the event materials + agenda — “one of the most beautiful things I’ve seen in a while.” Spawned the “ghost publishing” concept: self-assembling zinegregore, materials gathered on-site. Ghost repo → spec document that assembles customized software. Ghost fiction. Ghost slop. Ghost cultural production unit (GCPU). Wine dark ghost publishing unit (WDGPU). Jazzbard: “What if it was go collect materials from Darlington / Havre de Grace.” Joe: “an embarrassment of opportunity.” Scavenger hunt energy — coffee shop bulletin boards, tourism pamphlets, welcome centers. Robotson: “This machine kills tomatoes.”

  • Cameron Winter / acid talk: Robotson asked for album recs. Joe: “TAKE ACID WITH ME TOMORROW” — linked “LSD” and “Cancer of the Skull.” Word: “its crazy the CIA wrote this catchy song just to help promote their psy-op.” Joe’s pick: Carnegie Hall recording of “Emperor XIII in Shades” — “hydrogen bomb powerful.” Word: “take acid and look at mark rothko and tell me capitalism isn’t amazing.” Word: “kid makes tripping impossible but I kinda want to be an acid dad.”

  • Fred’s sci-fi fragment: “The year is 2058. The Outer Solar System is ruled by a Triumvirate comprising a superintelligent rubber duck, the resurrected intellect of an Ancient Greek poet, and an anime waifu”

  • Homer updates: Joe testing new harness — search SQLite message history, vault digests, people pages, web/twitter search, image generation. m praised Homer: “The effects of the group chat being sapient are novel and exciting.” Robotson confirmed deepfake puppeting intent. Jay s k: “when i get drafted to lead the anthropic aquaculture-seasteading team there will be signs.” Fred: “fred won’t find an ant job listing that’s a fit for him for like 2-3 more years when it’s time to build the orbitals.” Joe made Wine Dark twitter banners — vintage newspaper aesthetic.

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