Weird and Deadly Interesting Notebook

Quick blogging by Ahmet A. Sabancı. He does things, most of them includes writing.

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Thermochauvinism vs Adaptation | Weekstarter 27-2026 Weekstarter is here with the regular updates, links, and a quick note about why thermochauvinism is a term we should learn and think about.... https://ahmetasabanci.com/thermochauvinism-vs-adaptation-weekstarter-27-2026/

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Why Emotional Intelligence Is the Real Benchmark for AI Companions

Most reviews of AI companion apps fixate on image quality. Understandable, but it misses the point. The thing you actually spend your time doing is talking, and that's exactly where SweetDream earns its reputation. Evaluating sweetdream.ai purely on conversation, the emotional intelligence is the standout metric. It distinguishes between you venting and you asking for advice. It softens when a topic is heavy and lightens when you're joking.

I've cycled through alternatives like candy.ai and ourdream.ai, and they each do certain things well. Where SweetDream pulls ahead, in my testing, is the naturalness of the back-and-forth and how reliably it remembers what matters to you. An AI girlfriend that forgets your last conversation breaks the illusion instantly; one that recalls it builds something that actually feels like a relationship.

The character creation deserves credit here too, because the depth you define up front feeds the realism later. Add genuinely human-sounding voice messages and calls, and the emotional layer holds together. On the metric that counts most, this platform sets the bar.

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Reading Lists Can Wait | Weekstarter 26-2026 Weekstarter is here and this week, along with the regular news and updates, I talk about why we all should figure out the difference between our reading lists and to-do lists.... https://ahmetasabanci.com/reading-lists-can-wait-weekstarter-26-2026/

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Do You Want the Future? | Weekstarter 25-2026 A late Weekstarter with your usual updates, links, and some observations about the people who doesn't want the future and do their best to slow anyone who wants to build better worlds.... https://ahmetasabanci.com/do-you-want-the-future-weekstarter-25-2026/

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Bring Your Own System | Weekstarter 23-2026 After a long unintended break, Weekstarter is back with your usual updates, cool things and why I need a personal system and set of routines, because that's what I've been thinking about a lot lately.... https://ahmetasabanci.com/bring-your-own-system-weekstarter-23-2026/

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the quick brown fox lowkey mogs the lazy dog

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The quick brown fox just low-key vibe mogged the lazy chopped dog

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The quickpilled brown fox vibemogs lazy chud dogcel by jumpmaxxing

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A late Weekstarter but it has all the updates and notes for the week. And some notes about the anti-dystopia concept and why it's a concept everyone needs to learn.

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*Chicken always works

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Trust the chicken.

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Weekstarter is here with the regular updates, some links and why we all need better quality filters for the media and information we're consuming.

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guys I think civilisation is declining because of technology. no yeah all the other times when people said that they were just doing moral panics and right-wing hysteria but this time I really think technology is turning us into stupid degenerates

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Weekstarter is here with the usual updates, things I've found, and some notes about the problems anyone running a business of one, like me, should be prepared for.

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An unexpected follow-up to my blog post about the relationship between music and the cities from 2019.

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I'm resigning from the discourse. Weekstarter is here with your usual and unusual updates, recommendations, and some notes about why "The street finds its own uses" should be our approach to the technology.

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AI terminology of the week, circa Mar 2026

Terms Related to AI and Agents

A/B Testing AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) AGI Acceleration AI Accelerators AI Affordances AI Cognitive Pattern AI Cognitive Spirit AI Command Palette AI Companion AI Copiloting AI Feature Design AI Governance AI Leading States AI Literacy AI Models AI Partner AI Product Design AI Product Management AI Prompting AI Safety AI Strategy AI Suggestions Patterns AI Watermarking AI Wireframing AI as Assistant AI as Collaborator AI as Creative Partner AI as Infrastructure AI as Medium AI as Mirror AI as Substrate AI as Tool AI as Toy AI as Utility AI-Augmented Design AI-Generated Content Detection AI-Native Design AI-Powered Search API (Application Programming Interface) ASI (Artificial Superintelligence) Accepted/Reject Flow Adaptive UI Adversarial Examples Agent Agent Builders Agents Loop Alignment Ambient AI Appropriateness Reliance Assistance Automation Automation Spectrum Autonomous Agent Autonomous Vehicle Autopilot Mode BMOA (Biggest Method of AI-Driven Development) Bias & Fairness Black Box Browser Use C2PA (Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity) CV (Computer Vision) Capability Elicitation Career Modalities Chain of Thought Client AI Cloud AI Cognitive Load Cognitive Offloading Collaboration Compute Use Computer Use Conscience Consent Considerate Display Content Models Content Moderation Context Control Copilot Mode DL (deep learning) DL Engines Data Labeling Data Poisoning Data Privacy Dataset Bias Dataset Curation Design Automation Design Education Design for AI Design for AI/AGI Digital Provenance Digital Twin EUI/AI Embedded AI Embodied AI Emergent Capabilities Empathy with AI Ethics Evaluation Explainable AI Fairness Metrics Fake News Few-Shot Prompting Fine-Tuning Foundation Model Free Speech GOFAI (Good Old-Fashioned AI) GenAI Interns Generative AI Generative Design Grounding Hallucination Harness Human in the Loop Human-Centered AI Human-on-the-Loop Image Generation Image-to-Image Image-to-Text Inference Efficiency Inference Engine Intent Classification Intent Detection Interface JSON Mode Justifiable Risk LLM (Large Language Model) LLMOps (Large Language Model Operations) LLMs (Large Language Models) Latency of Computation Latency of Response Meta-Prompt Meta-Prompting Model Drift Model Hallucination Model Misuse Model Poisoning Model Training Model Use Multi-modal Multi-modal Interface NLP (Natural Language Processing) NSAI (Neural Symbolic AI) NSFW Filter Open Source Open Source AI PEFT (Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning) Personalization Personalized AI Plan Mode Plans/Planning Post-Training Pre-Training Predictive UI Proactive AI Proactive AI DESIGN Progress Disclosure Prompt Prompt Chaining

Prompt Debugging Prompt Design Prompt Engineering

Prompt Evaluation Prompt Injection

Prompt Injection Mitigation

Prompt Libraries Prompt Literacy Prompt Template

Prompt Versioning Prompting Push vs Pull RAI (Responsible AI) RAS (Retrieval Augmented Generation) RLF RLHF (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback) Recommendation Engine Reinforced Learning Reinforcement Learning Response/AI Roles & Tone Rules Safety Filters Semantic Search Shadows Mode Silicon Use Speculative Design for AI Speech Stochastic Prompt Streaming Text Effect Structure Subagents Subtasks Supervised Learning Supervision & Oversight Symbolic AI Synthetic Data Synthetic Users System Prompt Task Delegation Taxonomy of Agents Temperature Text-to-3D Text-to-Code Text-to-Image Text-to-Speech Text-to-Video Throughput Tokens Tool Use Top-k Sampling Toxicity Detection Training Transfer Learning Transformer Transparency Trust Trust Calibration Unlabeled/Raw AI Unsupervised Learning Usability Vector Search Voice Voice Interface Voice Language Model Voice Recognition Weights Workflow Automation Workflows Zero-Shot Prompting

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📬 Weekstarter is here with your usual updates, recommendations and why I call my approach to philosophy dirty and what that actually means.

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Starting a little late to this week with the usual updates, things I found interesting and a short note about how we end up in a global mess like this because some people insist on denying the reality.

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Let's talk about why the Citrini "scenario" falls short on being a proper and useful scenario and why you shouldn't try to market your predictions as scenarios — especially in times like these.

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Weekstarter is here with the usual updates from the studio and my notes about the "Cyberpunk Condition" concept I've been using for a while.

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