James Cham
@jamescham.bsky.social
Of the San Gabriel Valley; investing for the year 2030; working to improve the second derivative; looking for troublesome ringleaders.
Was reminded by a friend that air traffic controllers are working without pay right now.
November 7, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Was reminded by a friend that air traffic controllers are working without pay right now.
I worry that Kahneman was right about AI 7 years ago:
“Yann LeCun said yesterday that humans would always prefer emotional contact with other humans. That strikes me as probably wrong. It is extremely easy to develop stimuli to which people will respond emotionally.”
“Yann LeCun said yesterday that humans would always prefer emotional contact with other humans. That strikes me as probably wrong. It is extremely easy to develop stimuli to which people will respond emotionally.”
October 30, 2025 at 5:29 AM
I worry that Kahneman was right about AI 7 years ago:
“Yann LeCun said yesterday that humans would always prefer emotional contact with other humans. That strikes me as probably wrong. It is extremely easy to develop stimuli to which people will respond emotionally.”
“Yann LeCun said yesterday that humans would always prefer emotional contact with other humans. That strikes me as probably wrong. It is extremely easy to develop stimuli to which people will respond emotionally.”
everything is a diffusion of knowledge problem! here's a nice reference to @dsquareddigest.bsky.social from one of the best ai investors -- tomtunguz.com/the-accounta...
September 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
everything is a diffusion of knowledge problem! here's a nice reference to @dsquareddigest.bsky.social from one of the best ai investors -- tomtunguz.com/the-accounta...
This has very strong @dsquareddigest.bsky.social vibes! popcornagents.substack.com/p/the-laptop...
July 15, 2025 at 4:58 AM
This has very strong @dsquareddigest.bsky.social vibes! popcornagents.substack.com/p/the-laptop...
what is the chance that the DNC runs out of money? from the nyt today--
June 19, 2025 at 1:30 AM
what is the chance that the DNC runs out of money? from the nyt today--
Andor should have been called Lonni!
May 17, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Andor should have been called Lonni!
The Holy Spirit or eigenvalue centrality?
May 12, 2025 at 1:34 AM
The Holy Spirit or eigenvalue centrality?
I want to invest in those trying to enable more Donoho-style fricitionless reproducible systems by:
- building tools for data, code sharing, score keeping; OR
- building entire closed-end ecosystems applying those tools.
(📄 from @beenwrekt.bsky.social reflection on Donoho.)
- building tools for data, code sharing, score keeping; OR
- building entire closed-end ecosystems applying those tools.
(📄 from @beenwrekt.bsky.social reflection on Donoho.)
May 2, 2025 at 4:38 AM
I want to invest in those trying to enable more Donoho-style fricitionless reproducible systems by:
- building tools for data, code sharing, score keeping; OR
- building entire closed-end ecosystems applying those tools.
(📄 from @beenwrekt.bsky.social reflection on Donoho.)
- building tools for data, code sharing, score keeping; OR
- building entire closed-end ecosystems applying those tools.
(📄 from @beenwrekt.bsky.social reflection on Donoho.)
I asked Lilach and @emollick.bsky.social why they were so good with AI and here’s what they said.
April 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I asked Lilach and @emollick.bsky.social why they were so good with AI and here’s what they said.
From a terrific and terrifying piece by Mozilla’s Stephen Hood.
April 23, 2025 at 10:28 PM
From a terrific and terrifying piece by Mozilla’s Stephen Hood.
From a book about Frank Herbert by Tim O'Reilly, the case why this a time to be really conscious.
April 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
From a book about Frank Herbert by Tim O'Reilly, the case why this a time to be really conscious.
Gemini wrote something very long but this table was indicative:
April 9, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Gemini wrote something very long but this table was indicative:
For the record, here is what Grok wrote:
April 9, 2025 at 5:31 AM
For the record, here is what Grok wrote:
Here my opening for Friday’s chat on The Unaccountability Machine. Sign up if interested!
April 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Here my opening for Friday’s chat on The Unaccountability Machine. Sign up if interested!
Nicolas Colin asks the right question that a cybernetics view is well suited to answer: “As we enter the AI era, what trade-offs do we take for granted that might prove just as illusory?” www.linkedin.com/posts/nicola...
April 1, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Nicolas Colin asks the right question that a cybernetics view is well suited to answer: “As we enter the AI era, what trade-offs do we take for granted that might prove just as illusory?” www.linkedin.com/posts/nicola...
April 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM
“Then you start seeing whether a decision-making system is going to remain well regulated, or whether *it’s leaking information and is about to spiral out of control*.” bit.ly/unaccountabi...
March 31, 2025 at 6:05 PM
“Then you start seeing whether a decision-making system is going to remain well regulated, or whether *it’s leaking information and is about to spiral out of control*.” bit.ly/unaccountabi...
Henry Farrell: “There is a lot we could learn if we understood social, political and economic relations as really involving information flows” www.programmablemutter.com/p/cybernetic...
March 31, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Henry Farrell: “There is a lot we could learn if we understood social, political and economic relations as really involving information flows” www.programmablemutter.com/p/cybernetic...
March 31, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Wrote up notes and will share on the forum. Now it is up the founder to pull it off…
March 20, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Wrote up notes and will share on the forum. Now it is up the founder to pull it off…
I didn’t want to drop categories that were included in the original study. I’m think marks obscure terrorism ratio but it is a good point.
March 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I didn’t want to drop categories that were included in the original study. I’m think marks obscure terrorism ratio but it is a good point.
A slight revision based on feedback from @peteskomoroch.bsky.social. What should I change @infowetrust.com?
March 12, 2025 at 6:29 AM
A slight revision based on feedback from @peteskomoroch.bsky.social. What should I change @infowetrust.com?
A reminder of how the media distorts how we think about causes of death. (Mostly because we read vivid articles more!)
March 11, 2025 at 9:39 PM
A reminder of how the media distorts how we think about causes of death. (Mostly because we read vivid articles more!)