{"id":10493,"date":"2026-07-22T00:58:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T07:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=10493"},"modified":"2026-07-22T01:07:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T08:07:35","slug":"interesting-distractions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2026\/07\/22\/interesting-distractions\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Distractions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6BtIQIGqGJc\">The Most Important Conversation in AI Right Now <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Title is clickbait and an overstatement, but &#8230; It really is a good conversation &#8216;in AI&#8217;, in the sense of looping back and looking at things from an old-fashioned &#8216;open source&#8217; or free software point of view. That is a thing, even now, and the proprietary closed-source options all come from US capitalism, while the free or open options are mostly all Chinese (maybe you could throw the French connection, Mistral, into that mix too). So &#8230; the Empire, in its death throes, is probably going to try to ban the competition, and that won&#8217;t go well for them. Keep an eye on kimi.com for a start, while you still can. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n0Ji1vU6U-I\">You&#8217;ve Never Made a Single Decision | Your Brain Is Lying to You <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The presentation here is pure unbearable AI slop, but the content, reading between the lines unearths some really thought-provoking shit. If you want the ideas in a more palatable form, hunt on Robert Sapolsky, and in particular his <em>Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will <\/em>(2023). I think you might find it oddly liberating in some twisted way. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZgvDrFwyW4k\">Here&#8217;s an example. Alex is cool<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Most Important Conversation in AI Right Now Title is clickbait and an overstatement, but &#8230; It really is a good conversation &#8216;in AI&#8217;, in the sense of looping back and looking at things from an old-fashioned &#8216;open source&#8217; or free software point of view. That is a thing, even now, and the proprietary closed-source [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10493"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10495,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10493\/revisions\/10495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}