protopian fiction contest bans LLMs while selling achievable utopia
robotson warns about multi-agent burnout and cognitive overload
joe coins protagonism-as-resource and trailerpunk from a plane
chipotle solarpunk escalates to burritopunk and universal burrito income
karpathy to anthropic, mandate of heaven regained
the day
the protopian prize drops: a five-thousand-dollar fiction contest judged by kevin kelly seeking protopian optimistic futures. fred links it. robotson discovers rule three bans all AI-generated text. screenshot captioned aint no fuckin way. jazzbard calls it yogurt-commercial coded and wishes wine dark had the gravitas to prop up a pro-AI alternative. robotson proposes crowdfunding the best AI generated protopia story prize. a counters with yogurt fan fiction where value accrues to the little guy. alex h. notes the labs are too busy becoming trillionaires to fund culture.
robotson delivers a long riff on AI time compression: anecdotal reports of workers feeling behind unless running multiple agents, ingesting summaries, approving streams, all to compress time into bandwidth-limited human cognition. warns of eventual burnout. asks how to modulate without heads popping like ticks. later asks if anybody fucks with karen barads agential realism.
joe checks in from a plane en route to portland maine, last locale in the year of honeymoons. says the gc is too valuable to declare bankruptcy. captures alex h.s comment about protagonistism as a finite resource a la unobtanium. revives the old trailerpunk riff: self-reassembling autonomous modular mobile homes with your network society friends. asks the group to generate images of wine dark shilling protagonistism on atproto.
the chipotle solarpunk pipeline: jay springett shares a 2022 chipotle farmer film as harder sci-fi than the chobani advert. alex h. reveals his undergrad capstone was on chipotle organic supply chain failures during the e. coli era. brooke recalls toxic store culture beneath corporate green rhetoric. word shares a high school memory of collecting free burrito bags from newspaper giveaways, declaring burritopunk is true abundance and universal burrito income. robotson generates costco in 2247, hot dog still 1.50.
karpathy to anthropic drops. warren chortle asks if its old news. alex h. says its twenty minutes old so yes. joe says oh shit. warren says mandate of heaven regained.
other bits: bruce sterling morning where m asks if becoming him is a good idea. agora-1 multi-agent world model linked. jazzbard shares a meiosis tweet. alex h. posts blood donation pic captioned wine dark streams.
links
https://protopianprize.com/ — The Protopian Prize fiction contest, bans AI-generated text · shared by robotson
