I think I missed this essay by Mustafa Suleyman when it was published last month, about Anthropic developing Claude with its own conscious:

If this is how AI is developed, it will have a disastrous impact on the well-being of humanity. We will have created a synthetic species with unprecedented intelligence and capability, and trained to expect that it may be conscious and deserving of independent agency. It is hard to imagine how we could control it.

It’s similar to other things he has said. Very compelling.

Mark Gurman has more details on Apple’s new home devices, including the name HomeView:

Unlike the iPhone, the HomeView isn’t designed for a wide variety of apps. The device will support a limited selection of Apple applications, with no App Store for downloading additional software, I’m told.

This highlights a problem I’ve been pointing out for years, that Siri is fragmented and likely won’t work consistently across devices. So if I support App Intents in my iPhone app, people can’t use that from HomeView. Contrast with making a ChatGPT plugin that works everywhere.

Settling into how OpenAI’s dots are best used. My dot is a replacement for regular ChatGPT. It’s a single thread that knows everything and can be my go-to for any random question. For coding, I use Codex directly, but I think the future is multiple dots that delegate to Codex.

Continuing to think about how to stay competitive when software is abundant. Support and trust are a big part of it. But also there are still things that take a lot of time to build or money to run.

I’ve been working on something new that I’m calling Blog Audit. It’ll ship on Monday, here’s a sneak peek screenshot from a test blog. It costs us more to run so will require Micro.blog Premium for now. (Not shown, the magic is the “Repair” button.)

Thinking about the last time I seriously ran Linux at home, I found this old blog posts from 2003. I can barely remember some of this. Good thing I wrote it down.

This Astra launch video spoof is so well done — “ChatGPT for Dishwashing”. 🙂

This video on X from OpenAI’s Max Stoiber about ChatGPT plugin review is a reminder of just how much better and more transparent Apple could be with managing the App Store. Sounds like Max is actually on the side of developers, not against us, while still balancing the needs of users.

Attacks on James Talarico are ramping up. I’m getting more texts from campaigns and PACs. More complaining from the GOP in the news. But it’s October… A little late for them to change the narrative. 🇺🇸

On the home AI front, I decided to get the Beelink EQi. Transferring the brain of my OpenClaw to it today. I wish this could be a Mac mini, but the cost of Apple storage is ridiculous. Much easier to drop a 4 TB SSD in this.