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roonscape
Personal blog · roonscape.aiaiphilosophyculture
roonscape is a personal blog at roonscape.ai about ai, philosophy and culture. Since 2023, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “AGI Futures”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link roonscape for its explanation of the "shape rotator" vs "wordcel" slang and the shapes-versus-words thinking divide. All three comments cite the post as a source rather than judging it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
roonscape — technology, the noosphere, the highly online, and the ecology of minds. Essays, experiments, and archives.
Most-linked posts?
- AGI Futures4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-05-17
- /p/a-song-of-shapes-and-words2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-13
What Hacker News says?
Perhaps do activities like manipulating physical objects (carpentry?, Lego, Rubiks cube), games like Tetris, or complex body movements where verbalization won't be of much use. Or standard Quantitative Reasoning problems from entrance exams. A few years back, the wordcel vs shape rotator debate/binary was being discussed online: https://roonscape.ai/p/a-song-of-shapes-and-words?r=53sw I'd come across this book "Visu…
Comment linking /p/a-song-of-shapes-and-words?r=53sw
on “When is it better to think without words?”Submitted AGI Futures as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> It would be a clear cut rule, and extreme "shape rotator" types... It had to look that slang up: https://roonscape.ai/p/a-song-of-shapes-and-words . > ...often have trouble with the fuzziness of things like law. In reality, copyright infringement is often more like the porn test, you know it when you see it. I'd say it's more like the fuzziness defeats most of the software-style "exploits" those types gravitate to…
Comment linking /p/a-song-of-shapes-and-words
on “You didn't vibe code it, you stole it from open source&enterprise-licensed code”Submitted AGI Futures as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe concept was popularized by roon, heres his official explanation (slightly ruining the joke): https://roonscape.ai/p/a-song-of-shapes-and-words
Comment linking /p/a-song-of-shapes-and-words
on “Modern language models refute Chomsky’s approach to language”Submitted AGI Futures vignettes of many worlds as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AGI Futures – Roon’s Blog as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
