31 Oct 2025
podcast topics
I was on the Generationship podcast podcast hosted by Rachel Chalmers: Ep. #46, Canned Monkeys with Don Marti. It turns out that we talked about a variety of topics.
ChatGPT on Roman Military Success
Tech Execs Who Raise Their Kids Tech-Free or Limit Their Screen Time
AI boom is unsustainable unless tech spending goes ‘parabolic,’ Deutsche Bank warns
Dwight D. Eisenhower and the birth of the Interstate Highway System
Economic Purpose of Futures Markets and How They Work
Zed — The editor for what’s next
Linus Torvalds on microkernels
How we get to the end of prediction market winter
Canned Monkeys Don’t Ship Well, the Remix Version
Anyway, the audio, RSS link, and transcript are on the Heavybit site
Bonus links
A Word on
Omarchy Omarchy appears to be undoing security measures that were
put in place by the software- and by the Arch-developers, while the
basis it uses for building the system does not appear to be reliable
enough to protect its users from future mishaps.
Agentic
AI’s OODA Loop Problem by Bruce Schneier. Web-enabled large
language models (LLMs) can query adversary-controlled sources mid-loop.
Systems that allow AI to use large corpora of content, such as
retrieval-augmented generation, can ingest poisoned documents.
Tool-calling application programming interfaces can execute untrusted
code. Modern AI sensors can encompass the entire Internet; their
environments are inherently adversarial. That means that fixing AI
hallucination is insufficient because even if the AI accurately
interprets its inputs and produces corresponding output, it can be fully
corrupt.
Tech
Workers Versus Enshittification by Cory Doctorow. Now that tech
workers are as disposable as Amazon warehouse workers and drivers, as
disposable as the factory workers in iPhone City, it’s only a matter of
time until the job conditions are harmonized downward.