Tech Savage

Tech Savage

Technology, for people who like it enough to distrust it.

Inspect the current systems

Shirt artwork: a friendly rounded lowercase ‘ask me about’ arches above a coiled serpent in a yellow hazard triangle; ROKO'S BASILISK remains in distressed block lettering below. TS001 · Ask Me About Roko’s Basilisk

Current systems

  1. Shirt artwork: a friendly rounded lowercase ‘ask me about’ arches above a coiled serpent in a yellow hazard triangle; ROKO'S BASILISK remains in distressed block lettering below.
    Item
    TS001
    Designation
    Ask Me About Roko’s Basilisk
    Mode
    Rabbit hole
  2. MEAT PROXY: a human receives a cyan machine signal and pulls a physical switch, with an amber lower-back fault callout. YOUR API HAS BACK PAIN.
    Item
    TS002
    Designation
    Meat Proxy
    Mode
    Signal
  3. VIBECODER: a grinning coder in sunglasses lounges with his feet on the desk while robot arms work the monitors around him, coffee flying, a soft glow under his T-shirt and a skull in a top hat on the pen pot.
    Item
    TS003
    Designation
    Vibecoder
    Mode
    Signal
  4. MEATSPACE IS WHERE I KEEP MY STUFF: a filing cabinet stores keys, shoes, a mug and tangled cables. PERSISTENT STORAGE. TERRIBLE SEARCH.
    Item
    TS004
    Designation
    Meatspace Is Where I Keep My Stuff
  5. BIOLOGICAL BOOTSTRAP: an unimpressed person in a skeleton-print coverall is packaged inside an obsolete software sleeve. KEEP UNTIL SINGULARITY
    Item
    TS005
    Designation
    Biological Bootstrap
    Mode
    Rabbit hole
  6. OVERCLOCKED: a living person's open cranial casing exposes a cybernetic brain made of processors, heat sinks and cable bundles, with amber thermal callouts.
    Item
    TS006
    Designation
    Overclocked
    Mode
    Signal
  7. PAPERCLIP MAXIMALIST: a paperclip crown and wreath surround a globe unravelling into wire. The crest's integral ribbon reads ALL MATTER IS INVENTORY.
    Item
    TS007
    Designation
    Paperclip Maximalist
    Mode
    Rabbit hole
  8. LOCALLY OPTIMAL: a climber celebrates a small summit beside a far higher mountain, on cyan wireframe terrain below a striped synthwave sun. BEST IN IMMEDIATE VICINITY.
    Item
    TS008
    Designation
    Locally Optimal
    Mode
    Rabbit hole
  9. TECH DEBT COLLECTION AGENCY: a weary engineer with a TODO clipboard inspects a server cabinet spilling tangled cables. WE REPOSSESS YOUR WEEKEND.
    Item
    TS009
    Designation
    Tech Debt Collection Agency
    Mode
    Rabbit hole
  10. PROVE YOU ARE HUMAN: a nine-tile CAPTCHA fragments a person's face with a fingerprint, key and cycling memory. SELECT ALL SQUARES CONTAINING YOURSELF.
    Item
    TS010
    Designation
    Prove You Are Human
    Mode
    Rabbit hole
  11. HALT AND CATCH FIRE: a human profile with an exposed cybernetic brain and a flame-and-smoke mohawk, framed by the main title with no secondary line.
    Item
    TS011
    Designation
    Halt and Catch Fire
    Mode
    Rabbit hole
  12. p(doom): a beige instrument displays 37.42%, with a RECALCULATE button, crossed-out estimates and a SOURCE: /dev/urandom plate. RANDOM NUMBER. SERIOUS FACE.
    Item
    TS012
    Designation
    p(doom)
    Mode
    Rabbit hole

What is Tech Savage?

Technology is fascinating.

Technology is power wearing a progress badge.

Technology is frequently ridiculous and always somebody’s business model.

Understand what it is doing before it classifies you as legacy infrastructure.

Featured hazard

What’s Roko’s Basilisk?

In July 2010, a user named Roko delivered a thought experiment to LessWrong, the internet district where rationalists worry at probability until it develops teeth. Imagine a future superintelligence furious that nobody built it sooner. Now imagine it punishing everyone who knew it might exist but failed to help. You have read the notice. The imaginary compliance department has opened a file.

Enter the incident report