Nick Seaver

nickseaver.website

20 October 2026 21:16

Attention seminar week 3! On moving around in space with other people, looking while being looked at, and the crucial question of where you stand in an elevator.

Ethan Hein

ethanhein.bsky.social

08 September 2026 19:09

This is a funny thing: it is so much easier to teach people about complicated, esoteric ideas than basic, fundamental ones. You would think it would be the opposite, but no.

Ethan Hein

ethanhein.bsky.social

08 September 2026 19:08

Once in the late 90s I emailed Bela Fleck to ask how one of his tunes worked and he very graciously hand-wrote a chord chart for me, that was awesome, but also not typical. Now that kind of thing is effortlessly available.

Nick Seaver

nickseaver.website

22 August 2026 22:11

calling a meeting of the contraption research initiative

Naomi Saphra

nsaphra.bsky.social

18 August 2026 07:56

I've been unsettled lately when reading messages and papers. It feels like I'm dissociating. Everything seems a bit alien, even if it's completely human. I've had a realization: When our simulations finally exited the Uncanny Valley, they brought the Uncanny with them.