Thom McLachlan

"Dream Weaving" #AIart

Fear has a way of being contagious. But courage is also contagious.

New post: “Neuroscience of human social instincts: a sketch”. Feels like big progress on my longstanding top neuroscience & AGI Safety research priority! What’s the problem I’m trying to solve and why should anyone care? (1/9) 🧵 www.lesswrong.com/posts/kYvbHC...

Think twice before gifting someone an M dwarf this holiday season

I’ve been thinking — one day, many of you will be big players. Growth hacking won’t just be about sales — it’ll center on trust, alignment, and impact. Aligned teams grow 2.5x faster. How are you building strategies now to align yourself (and your future team) with long-term success? #buildinpublic

The deep goal of bluesky is to decentralize the social internet so that every individual controls their experience of it rather than having it be controlled by 5 random billionaires. Everyone thinks they signed up for a demuskified twitter...we actually signed an exciting and bizarre experiment.

For anyone starting out with coding/cursor/AI. This course from @mckaywrigley.bsky.social has been incredibly helpful. Not free – but it’s been good for my scattery sort of mind. It gets you deep into the weeds, building and figuring things out quite fast. 🚀 #buildinpublic jointakeoff.com/courses.

Fear usually means it’s worth doing. Life’s short – may as well give it a shot. 🚀 👋 Aspiring creator/generalist here, figuring it out as I go... 🤖 AI & tech = building smart tools (for humans who talk to humans). 🛠️ Creating = turning chaos into... slightly more accessible chaos.