Technology or anything else. By Carlos Roldán, researcher, entrepreneur and hobbyist.
Ted Chiang, an author that I deeply respect, just wrote a philosophy essay this week on how AI is not conscious . I got instantly nerd-sniped and spent the rest of my evenings last week reading about artificial consciousness . Modern philosophy is trying to answer the question of whether AI is capable of being aware of itself, and what exactly it means to be aware. The main school of thought…
I recently joined RevenueCat , the platform that handles monetization for 60% of all iOS apps. Onboarding to a company this large used to be a slow and steady process: pairing, reading, and a thousand little "why is this here" questions over months. But this time was different. From day one, I had a bunch of agents (Notion AI, Slackbot, Claude with MCPs and infinite tokens) that assisted me in…
The same scene has been depicted in countless sci-fi creations: a super-intelligent entity breaks free and decides that the survival of the human race does not help its reward function. It sounds trite. Yet this first half of the year feels like we have gotten so much closer to it than we thought we would. Current models do not possess superintelligence , as in "an intellect that surpasses the…
Two weeks ago, I participated in the Seville Global Game Jam (GGJ), developing a game in 48 hours with @Pabletos : The full name is Tensei Shitara Mukibutsu ni Hyōi Dekiru Kamen Datta Ken!! The theme was mask , so we built a Sōkoban-style puzzle game centered on pushing statues. The twist is that you play as a mask that possesses these statues, allowing you to launch yourself toward other targets…
A couple of weeks ago I formatted an old Raspberry Pi 4 and installed Clawd on it, an agentic personal assistant with a crustacean persona. People are using it as a personal calendar admin, a relentless project builder, or a digital citizen that can speak with peers in an agent-only Reddit or hire humans for short gigs. I gave it a dedicated Claude Pro subscription ($20 a month), Gmail and Github,…