I’ve been experimenting with using LLMs for worldbuilding and other generative/creative endevours. This post is a round-up of writing and videos related to that work.
I do more work with LLMs that isn’t as playful, but it’s less visible and I write more about the playful …
Many years ago I was listening to a recording 1 by Alan Watts and he briefly mentioned Preta or The Hungry Ghost:
Hungry or frustrated spirits who have enormous stomachs but mouths only the size of needles, a vast appetite and no means of fulfillment. And this is the manu …
Over two years ago I wrote Thoughts On Voice Interfaces, a scattering of ideas about voice interactions. Time has passed, I’ve been working more on voice interfaces, and though products in the market have barely changed, I still have NEW THOUGHTS.
I’ve only been exploring …
There are many concerns about Mozilla right now, and reason to be concerned. While I am no longer with Mozilla, it’s still a place that supported me for many years; I believe in Mozilla and want the project to succeed.
It’s not always clear …
While I’m conflicted with the need to find a …
I’ve had a lot of projects, and at this moment of reflection I thought I’d look back through those that felt most meaningful, and which despite my excitement I’ve also let go of. If there’s a thread that connects them maybe I’ll find it, or …
I’ve been working on the Consumer Voice Products team in Mozilla for about a year now. My primary project has been Firefox Voice, but our mandate is larger.
I still feel like a beginner in the area of voice, but I have developed some opinions. Many observations are the …
In Arnold Kling’s The Three Languages Of Politics he argues that we don’t all exist along some set of objective political axes, left and right, or even the classic two-dimensional spectrum (or even three dimensions). Instead different groups use different axes, or different dichotomies, to look at the …
A while back I experimented with a Jupyter Notebook-like interface. Ultimately I hit some roadblocks and knew that I couldn’t keep working on it indefinitely, as I had no personal purpose for the project.
But I do want to share the idea I most liked from the project: tracing …
About ten years ago I got a call out of the blue from Soren. I’d always published my phone number on my website, and it’s only been used a handful of times. Hardly anyone wants to actually call another person.
Soren had come upon a post of mine …
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