the more you know, the less you should be willing to talk, and the more wary you should be of people who talk too much.

All social sites should become 3D metaverses with customizable front ends. All other sites should become APIs you use native front ends to query. The browser needs to die for a new web to live. We need to move past the browser era.

Pt. 1 is here

So here I am, a bit lost, very frustrated, unable to really make any headway forward. I broke the problems down into pieces, and examined the simplest possible way to state the solutions.

1. I'm shit at development now -> I need to get better at development -> Practice.
2. I'm shit at art and design and aesthetics -> I need to get better at art and design and aesthetics -> Practice.
3. I...

buckle up, this is going to be a long one. I'm breaking it up into two parts.

For the last several years now, most of my projects have centered around building a business. This isn't entirely "how can I generate revenue so I can go live on a yacht and eat grapes all day": I viewed business in the realm of software development as this giant undertaking, this quest, conquering a difficult challenge. I viewed builders in the software space like many view ancient heroes of legend.

I launched... six? Eight?...

No social media, no YouTube, deep reading every day, exercise 7-10 times per week, and work on 1 of several significant side projects daily.

It's been good.

I don't miss Twitter much anymore. It's still kind of hard to stay up-to-date on a lot of things, technologically, since Twitter is kinda where most of that chat happens, but I haven't missed that much either.

Books

I've read/finished 3 books in the last 10 days. For those that are curious, I've started and finished:

• The Martian by Andy...

I never got on X excited about output from a given creator.

Every time I get a notification that @krowe dropped another Cyberpunk short story on Cyberspace, I get hyped.

It's a fundamentally different feeling that I really love. The closest thing to it is the few creators on YouTube that I genuinely get excited to watch, but here I don't have to wade through adslop and engagement/rage bait all over the page to get to what I want.

There are people on here clearly going through a protracted mental health episode.

It is important that you have a certain level of empathy, and if you have the capability and the want, to reach out to help, but you should also set very clear boundaries and know when to block and walk.

These folks need help, that help is very rarely going to come from a random online.

Reading more into the Hermeticists, Gnostics and mystic occult religions, it's interesting that so many of the symbols, runes, maps, charts, etc. that we believe were occult rituals were actually just people making notes trying to remember things using symbols and charts to map out relations between different objects and topics.

Sometimes they relayed a sort of mystical or magical property to these charts and symbols but for the most part, it was just dudes drawing mindmaps.

Looking at the way I scribble...

I'm in the midst of a multi-month deep dive into Gnosticism that's starting to bridge into some more occult directions.

I've been a Christian my entire life, and still am, but up until recently I had been very forcibly kept from alternative belief systems within and outside of Christianity. As a kid through my teenage years, I was kept from these exterior beliefs by my very devout and very traditional parents. Since my adulthood began up until months ago, I kept myself from these belief systems, largely...

I need folks to separate LLMs as a tool from the political and economic disagreements you have with the way it arrived.

I agree that video and image generating models should have been trained on images with permission and compensation. I disagree with the premise that open source code and produced knowledge bases should not have been used in training corpuses but I understand the argument.

But by misaligning the tool as being completely useless and entirely detrimental to society because you disagree...

trace hunter labs day 2 - teaching AI agents how to hack

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The last post was a manifesto. This one is more of a build log.

The first step in building out systems to use AI for security is building out a lab. The agents will need something to scan, something to test malware against, something to find vulnerabilities in.

I worked with Codex + Hermes to develop a plan. The big delineation here is which parts are "agentic" (run by or...

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It was a good day yesterday, aside from finding out I didn't win the hackathon I had entered. That was a bummer.

The detox is going well. I see a lot of folks talking about the latest in The Discourse and I don't feel the need to be involved. I'm getting a lot done, and have a lot of quieter/calmer moments I can focus more on.

Did BJJ + gym last night, and slept like garbage, so I'm worn out. I am doing better than I'd be...

This will be kind of a lengthy one, and mostly stream of thought, but it's on a project I've started working on. First, a few disclaimers.

I understand people on this site, and elsewhere, have some very strong opinions on AI

I get that you have misgivings on AI art, AI music and AI code. I understand that. Let me very briefly state my opinions on it so I can kinda level set with you.

• Lying about AI usage is wrong. If you created art with AI, either don't mention it (not a bad idea considering...

Project Detox Day 1

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Yesterday was good. I got a fair bit of work done and a lot of planning for an upcoming project I'll be posting about here soon.

I also checked and since getting off socials, I've written > 2,000 words on Cyberpunk Gnostica, my cyberpunk fiction worldbuilding project. That's a pretty awesome chunk of writing that may not have existed if I kept going down the brainrot hole.

I'm also sleeping really...

project detox day 0

I detailed my plan and reasonings in a bit of a manifesto that was surprisingly cathartic to write. Today I guess I'll make this my first detox journal.

The first half of yesterday was all about planning and getting the right systems in place. Setting expectations and hard rules was vital for this.

• No caffeine after noon - I'd made a bad habit of having an energy drink before my after-work training. That would lead me...

I quit drinking 2.5 years ago now, if my mind is serving me right.

I had slowly started drinking more and more as COVID went on, going from an occasional whiskey drinker to a multi-glass-per-night drinker. By many standards, I was an alcoholic, but I didn't see myself as one at the time. Regardless of the veracity of that label, the poison was doing what poisons do to your body and mind. I was groggy, bloated, not able to gain or retain muscle mass. I was a good dad, but I could be great. I was a good...

You can see the last Cyberspace Online article I wrote on this subject here. The original article I wrote on this subject is here.

Both articles did fairly well, and seem to have struck a nerve with some folks here, so today I spent some time handwriting, Codex'ing and Hermes Agent'ing a new space on my site for...

I wrote earlier](https://cyberspace.online/valhalla_dev/we-have-to-build-the-cool-parts-of-cyberpunk) about how we really need to build the cool parts of cyberpunk. Some people really liked the vibe of that post, and I really liked writing it, so I'm going to follow up here.

This post is a bit more rant, but I'm also going to try to focus a bit more on what is actually being done, and what should be done. Off the rip...

I made my first piece of music for a hackathon submission I did this week. I've strummed around on a guitar and played around with FL Studio (I use Ableton now) but this is the first time I've done a full... thing.

It's kinda triggered me in a positive way to want to do more music production work, electronic mainly but maybe I'll pick up the guitar again too.

I've noticed a lot of folks here do music production. What's your favorite advice? What do you recommend for someone VERY new to it?

I entered into the Nous Research x Stripe x NVIDIA AI hackathon!

You can view the demo here if you just want to see what I built. This is moreso going to be a long-winded write-up on my experience, why I built it, and future plans for LAIN.

the what

I built LAIN, or the Loki Agent Intelligence Network.

LAIN is basically two parts: the first is a fork of the Hermes Agent framework, the framework developed by Nous Research that gives LLM's superpowers like video...