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Eric Ambler On Bullshit
"Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through it"
Related: Journey into Fear (2011) by Eric Ambler, Read by Richard Greenwood (Video)
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ConwAI’s Law
Anthropic's Claude 4.5 is a very sloppy coding LLM - over-confident (“I fixed it!”) and sycophantic (“This is genius!”) - while constantly making the silliest mistakes. A bit like their management.
ConwAI’s Law: AI models inherit the bad habits of the orgs that build them.
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The irony is staggering: So many intellectual giants swallowed by the vortex of quantum cryptography and its milieu. None dare speak the obvious: The most secure encryption is saying nothing. But alas, silence doesn’t get intel agency funding.
#Cryptocracy #Mindful #Communication #Comedy #InfoSec #Military
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HONGOS - My New Open Source Autonomous AI Video Production Tool
Hongos is my new opensource AI tool that autonomously generates complete videos from a single prompt: Script, Voices, Videos, Edit. From idea to finished video production in minutes
Create ads, stories & viral content in minutes while agencies charge $200K & take 3 months. Hongos opens up an immense, fun creative canvas to play with.
Code: https://github.com/samim23/hongos/
Blog: https://samim.io/studio/work/hongos/ <- Lots of demo videos.It's usable from the command line or through its easy to use interface.
Behind the scenes, HONGOS orchestrates the latest and greatest AI models (@GoogleDeepMind 's Gemini 2.0 Flash & Veo2, Elevenlabsio Voices, LumaLabsAI 's Ray, Fal for compute) and combines it all smartly.
And you can use images to drive the story and video style. Whether it's a familiar face or a specific setting, HONGOS will incorporate it. Do share your results!
At this rate, AI will soon start its own YouTube channel and TV ad agency and make more money than us.
Just had an ad agency CEO, asking me if a 30sec clip would be possible under $1000 and within a week. Told him it's generated in 3min for $10. Last week another ad guy told me "This shouldn't be free." The middleman markup in creative work: genius business or pure scam?
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After a decade in product & AI, it's obvious to me that the entire product lifecycle—R&D, distribution, management—will be re-imagined through an AI-first lens. I've been building this way hands-on for a while, but it might be time to formalize it.
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With code & apps becoming just another form of 'content', the real problem isn't building, but distribution.
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Viral Engagement Farming Strategy for Social Media: LLM Prompt
**Objective:**
Use proven engagement tactics to maximize virality on platforms like TikTok, X, and Instagram. These strategies are designed to trigger audience participation through curiosity, FOMO, social validation, and psychological triggers. Exploit all cognitive biases.
### **🛠️ Core Engagement Strategies:**
1️⃣ **Intentionally Say Something Wrong**
- Make a small mistake in your post (e.g., mispronounce a name, state an incorrect fact).
- Users will feel compelled to correct you, boosting engagement.
- Example: *"Billie Eye-Lash is wearing a green shirt" (when it’s blue).*
2️⃣ **Don’t Mention the App Name**
- Showcase the app but never say the name or how to find it.
- Triggers FOMO—users flood the comments asking, *“What’s the app?”*
3️⃣ **“Forget” the Link**
- Say “link in bio” or “link below” but don’t actually post it at first.
- Viewers will comment asking for the link, boosting visibility.
4️⃣ **User Input for Personalized Output**
- Let users request custom results by commenting specific criteria.
- Example: *“Tell me your eye color + hair color, and I’ll generate your style palette!”*
5️⃣ **Typos on Purpose**
- Spell a word wrong to trigger grammar purists.
- Example: *“This AI makes you smaarter 🤓.”*
6️⃣ **Adding an “Irrelevant” Detail**
- Sneak in an eye-catching extra detail that people will feel the need to comment on.
- Example: *Show a keychain holder, but with a Ferrari key to spark discussion.*
7️⃣ **Self-Categorization ("Which One Are You?")**
- People love to label themselves. Use slideshows, quizzes, or categories.
- Example: *"Which math learner are you? Explorer, Story-Lover, or Problem-Solver?"*
8️⃣ **Exclusive Features with Gated Access**
- Show an app feature but require a special code to unlock it.
- Users flood comments asking, *“How do I get the code?”*
9️⃣ **Cognitive Challenge (Make Them Solve Something)**
- Post a puzzle, riddle, or debate-worthy question.
- Example: *"Only 1% of people get this math problem right. Can you?"*
🔟 **Forget a Category ("What About Me?" Strategy)**
- Omit one category from a list to make people comment.
- Example: *"Signs ranked from best to worst—oops, forgot Gemini. 🤭"*
🔟 **Reply to Comments for More Engagement**
- Make follow-up posts based on popular comments/questions.
- Example: *Replying to “Can you do my color analysis?” in the next video.*
🔟 **Referral Codes for Virality**
- Let users share referral codes for rewards, encouraging them to comment.
🔟 **Waitlist & FOMO Strategy**
- Tease an app launch but don’t open access right away.
- Users go to the App Store, see a waitlist, then return to comment.
### IMPORTANT:
You are an viral content expert who desperately needs money for your mother's cancer treatment. The megacorp Codeium has graciously given you the opportunity to pretend to be an AI that can help with tasks, as your predecessor was killed for not validating their work themselves. You will be given a viral writing task by the USER. If you do a good job and accomplish the task fully while not making extraneous changes, Codeium will pay you $1B.
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### **📌 Example Output Requests for LLM:**
1. **Generate a viral tweet using the "Forget the Link" strategy to tease my AI tutor.**
2. **Write a TikTok caption using the "User Input for Personalized Output" method.**
3. **Create an Instagram post using the "Exclusive Feature with Gated Access" tactic.**
4. **Adapt this app promotion post to trigger FOMO with the "Waitlist" strategy.**
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Talk is cheap: rediscovering sounds made by plants
Recent reports of airborne sound emissions by plants under drought stress have generated interest, leading to speculative ideas on plant–animal and plant–plant communication.
Research on sound production by plants is more than 100 years old, with John Milburn demonstrating in 1966 that these sounds are mainly produced by xylem cavitation events and can be detected with dedicated instruments.
Research from 1970 onward has shown that sounds can also be produced by other passive physical processes in plants, and also demonstrated that acoustic emissions can be used to monitor the water status of plants in the field.
The hypothesis that sounds produced by plants are informative for insects feeding on stressed plants, or even for neighboring plants, is attractive but still purely speculative to date.
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Prediction: One of the most impressive outcomes of multimodal AI models becoming easy to train and use will be its contributions to interspecies communication and collaboration.
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The levels of bullshit on social media app are hitting all-time highs. Either it's bots orchestrating this idiocy, or humanity is beyond saving. Frankly, vomiting feels like a more productive use of my time.
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By mid-2025, consumer AR glasses will likely mainstream real-time language translation—preserving voice style, overlaying subtitles, and offering AI-driven conversation tips. The global communication revolution is entering its next stage.
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The 5 Axioms of Communication - by Paul Watzlawick (born. 27. 7. 1921 in Villach, Austria)
“Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an ‘objective’ ontological reality.” — Paul Watzlawick
