Archive - Future History

The Joy and Pain of Coding with AI When You Suck at Coding

Or How I Made a Complex Program with Terrible Coding Skills

Apr 12 •

Daniel Jeffries

March 2024

The Invisible Process of How We Unconsciously Pick Our Goals in Life, What Reinforces Them, Where We Get Our Beliefs and How We Can Change Them…

Mar 30 •

Daniel Jeffries

Open Weights, Open Society, Open Future

We must protect open source and open weights AI at every level of society, and we've got to reject dangerous + delusional anti-AI agitators attempts to…

Mar 15 •

Daniel Jeffries

February 2024

Anti-Open Source AI Agitators are Uniquely Dangerous and They Must Be Stopped

Misguided Pressure Groups are Pushing Dangerous Policy Ideas that Will Kill AI Safety and Crush Western Innovation. They Must Be Stopped Now.

Feb 1 •

Daniel Jeffries

December 2023

Nine Big Predictions for AI in 2024

AI will be a big year for open weights models, agents, hacks, new model architectures, legislation, legal cases and so much more. Welcome to…

Dec 31, 2023 •

Daniel Jeffries

November 2023

Effectively Altruistic Techno Panic, Why Witches Cause Storms and How Not to Make Shitty AI Legislation

OpenAI's bizarre Effectively Altruistic techno panic and how it nearly set 90B on fire, AI dangers real + imagined, why much of the legislation around…

Nov 22, 2023 •

Daniel Jeffries

October 2023

It's Time to Fight for Open Source Again

Open source is the core of 90% of the world's software, an unequivocal force for good, and yet it's under attack. Big companies and activists want to…

Oct 26, 2023 •

Daniel Jeffries

The Gamers, the Breakers and the Legal Moat Makers of AI

Why AI Doomers Must be Stopped, Open Source is More Essential than Ever and Why Some AI Makers Hope to Create a Licensing Moat to Lock Out Competition…

Oct 14, 2023 •

Daniel Jeffries

September 2023

Agents, Agents, Everywhere, All At Once

AI Agents are about to Change The Way We Work, Play and Learn and Almost Nobody Sees Them Coming

Sep 14, 2023 •

Daniel Jeffries

July 2023

We Are the One Percent

Too Many Folks See a Crumbling World, But Look Closer and You'll See We're the Luckiest 1% of 1% of People to Ever Live

Jul 22, 2023 •

Daniel Jeffries

June 2023

The Wide and Wondrous World of Centaurs and Agents

Intelligent Glue, Secret Cyborgs and Why Many Folks Are Having Trouble Seeing a Brand New Kind of Software that Transcends the Old Definitions

Jun 23, 2023

The Singularity is Not Near and Neither is the End

Why the AI Driven Future will be more Mundane, Boring and Practical than the Doomers or Dreamers Imagine and That's Just Fine

Jun 3, 2023 •

Daniel Jeffries

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