Alex Komoroske @komorama
Generalist fascinated by complex adaptive systems. All opinions my own. komoroske.com/writings Berkeley, CA Joined January 2008-
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I just posted my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1pt… The Zombo.com problem. 4-up evolution. Disposable software. Magic brains. Bland LLMs.
I just published by weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1pt… Machine intuition. Tabasco cake. Pocket universes. The same origin model. Positive deviance.
I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1pt… Enchanted artifacts. Dandelion fields. Gilded turds. Sublime jumbles. Ecosystem surfing. Galaxy-scale intuition.
I just published this week's Bits and Bobs: docs.google.com/document/d/1pt… Nanotech cages for circus bears. Frankenstein ecosystems. Aggregator deserts. Knowhow cauldrons. Self-ratcheting quality. Being boxed in by the Himalayas.
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.
Just published this week's bits and bobs (my personal reflections): docs.google.com/document/d/1pt… A few of the topics this week: Names as boxes. LLM-fu. Whale falls. Engagement and co-ownership.
I felt such resonance with @jposhaughnessy in this conversation. We could have talked for days and not run out of things to riff on!
I felt such resonance with @jposhaughnessy in this conversation. We could have talked for days and not run out of things to riff on!
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: medium.com/@komorama/the-…
🎙 📷 [#New Season #podcast Tuesday] In our first episode @komorama dives into the world of open platforms and the future of organizing. With his provoking presentation on “Gardening Platforms”. #Platforms #OpenEcosystems Full episode here: buff.ly/3Q0NBfC
Sat down with @AnthropicAI cofounder @DanielaAmodei at @stripe AI Day: youtu.be/paMkO2cWFpc. We discuss: -Claude 2 launch -Lessons from working at Stripe -Would you rather have Isaac Newton or LLMs?
Delighted to welcome @DanielaAmodei (back) to @stripe for AI Day — this evening we'll be chatting about Claude 2 and her vision for Anthropic. Here's a primer: stripe.com/newsroom/stori….
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: medium.com/@komorama/the-…
The podcast episode of Clearer Thinking I recorded with @SpencrGreenberg is out! We talked about slime molds, serendipity, doorbells in the jungle... you know, the usual. bit.ly/CTP-AlexKomoro…
Posted a quick piece this weekend about how EVERYTHING is a trade-off, and once you acknowledge that it opens up powerful new approaches to surf through all of the complexity. medium.com/@komorama/surf…
Emergent Microcosms 🌎💻 Time to think about snippets of computer code that can generate complex + delightful virtual worlds. This playful approach to emergence—algorithms that can unfurl entire virtual universes—are essentially “Emergent Microcosms” 🧵 1/
Last week I had a fun conversation with @isaacmorehouse about some of the ideas in komoroske.com/gardening-plat… Take a look: partnerhacker.com/067-be-a-garde…
"Agility and efficiency are directly in tension" @komorama
This weekend I was inspired to write something a bit different: a story, for its own sake, about a wanderer and some seeds. medium.com/@komorama/the-…
I just published medium.com/@komorama/the-…, a fanciful metaphor about cultivating positive exposure to miracles in product development.
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... 😬
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Half-baked proto-insights for curious magpies like us. Root-level bullet point is the collected source, nested-level is our comment. ❤️ @komorama's bits and bobs! AI systems demand experimentation. The ability to build malleable systems—composable primitives not too big—is ✅
Recommender systems, human agency, and collective intelligence @IvanVendrov vendrov.ai, who leads collective intelligence @midjourney
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“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” ~R. Buckminster Fuller
@adam_keesling Some other great examples of such pages, using good old gdocs. From @komorama docs.google.com/document/d/1pt…
@ConradBastable @orthonormalist @DirectrixGazer @kevinakwok @vgr @komorama Conrad/Kevin... these discords include a few people you'd like if, like, you know, you were interested Bonus: sometimes there are retreats with challenge coins.
My new favourite analogy for LLMs: "LLMs are like a trained circus bear that can make you porridge in your kitchen" From @komorama in his Bits and Bobs weekly Google Doc: docs.google.com/document/d/1pt…
I kinda love that this is just a series of Google Docs. A lot of nuggets in these bits and bobs meetings!
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.
@komorama "Make Creativity Turing Complete Again" needs to be a standalone essay! also cc @saffronhuang for the Illich connection:
few people think as deeply about technology as @komorama. so much gold in this doc
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.
Thanks to @komorama, whose episode (link in comments) and consistently thought-provoking essays inspired this week's piece 👇👇 newsletter.osv.llc/p/batman-was-w…
"[T]here are things you can do that structurally increase your luck surface area on a fundamental level..." -- Alex Komoroske (@komorama)👇👇
@InfiniteL88ps @komorama Position yourself to get lucky
idk how @jposhaughnessy finds these people but great episode! @komorama
@InfiniteL88ps @jposhaughnessy @komorama A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience
Not surprised that @emollick’s new book Co-Intelligence had @danielrock and @komorama as readers, two of the sharpest and most creative thinkers I know.
@InfiniteL88ps @jposhaughnessy @komorama I am ordering a bunch of Hallmark cards and make an art piece out of them and place it on my desk 😅
"[T]he mundane bullshit will cover every square inch you give it." Here's Alex Komoroske (@komorama) on finding the boldness to escape busyness 👇👇
the cost of software is going to go to almost zero. mass proliferation of sophisticated, highly customized apps for very small user bases, sometimes even just an audience of one. extremely underrated right now how radically this is going to reshape the landscape