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@JamesSharpsteen @ded_ruckus more specifically, chemists, biologists, etc who don’t really like thinking about computers treat ancient programs as oracles. the scientists closer to the metal don’t

any demons you find produced by the language models were already latent in the space of human imagination. large models are a mirror that clarify and reflect them back at ourselves

dudes reading guns germs and steel like wow I never thought about how ur surroundings affect ur life

@jayanthkumarak how come. and how do i lean into it

@cauchyfriend read more closely i never said they weren't real

@boop not sure if this is nasty or not but nice

everything everywhere all at once is a first person narrative metaphor for the training process of a large language model

@alicemazzy based

yet even with that combination we've added many layers of protection for gov't to save us from our parents when they're falling into some failure mode. most people choose to move out from their parents to make their own way. would that be possible if your father is zeus?

woj is probably joking but these metaphors show the basic difficulties in AI alignment a mother's love makes her protective and nurturing, sometimes pathologically so. maybe adding a father encourages more exploration and risk-taking https://x.com/woj_zaremba/status/1566932168554606593

in other words a mother's love is amazing until it's omnipotent

these sort of tweets make eliezer yudkowsky turn in his grave. whether he's actually dead or not is an academic detail at this point

long covid is real and negative autoimmune reactions to the vaccines are also real. horseshoe hundoist position

@jnymnz Assuming typing speed beats out things like autocomplete, IntelliSense, easier reading (it doesn’t)

whomst the fuck

@growing_daniel based, this is what I am alluding to

@growing_daniel N

if you ever start thinking there’s no alpha left just remember most people thinks it’s rude when you disagree with them

@growing_daniel O

@witchqueendot Trans ppl are real and so are the angels

@Noahpinion @revhowardarson wdym

the loab story is a great example of AI enhanced art. some nice storytelling with a few autogenerated photos attached, their mathematical qualities regardless

documentation is a crutch please read the code and run some experiments and study the system

one of the worst ideas is that an organization doesn’t “know” how a piece of its machinery works unless it’s thoroughly documented in triplicate using colored pencils. actually it’s been running fine before you showed up w your apollonian neuroses

@petergodofsky I have but not for anything insanely critical (eg: SLA on the order of hours not minutes) The runbooks were mostly bad and out of date

you can actually encounter the "total perspective vortex" irl. simply take like 4 tabs of acid and turn on a documentary about the heat death of the universe. i wouldn't recommend this of course. the Cosmic Perspective kind of sucks ass. stick to the human perspective

if your mind survives the first few hours you will start dancing the ananda tandava. you will become convinced the continuation of humanity is the only thing that matters

@theemilyaccount problem?

@viriditax this is truer the larger the system is

@theemilyaccount i mentioned three different things and you choose to point out how one alone doesn't cover all dimensions

love it when some of the most annointed privileged people in the world are like "everything is shit. i am wallowing in shit all day. some of it is getting in my mouth." maybe don't do that. maybe i'll come take your stanford degree and give it to a wide eyed optimist in nigeria

@chaosprime @chopstickfury01 baizuo doomerism. love it

@growing_daniel @JohnSigmon So true

@chrisgardenuk yes onboarding docs are extremely important because they cover the most convergent knowledge hotpaths human processes are more important to document than random pieces of software

openai will go down as one of the most important companies in history. they can 10x the cost of their best copilot model https://x.com/natfriedman/status/1567710021311676416

because i think DALL-E was a small side project that's inference limited and not training limited. there's nobody better at training pure giant language models https://x.com/allgarbled/status/1567743084745871363?s=20&t=aodafRQbRKcXxFVzYiIqIw

Collected Sayings of Muad’Dib https://x.com/TechEmails/status/1567712985979707393

POV: you are about to lose ten thousand dollars

queen elizabeth reigned for 70 years finally upgrading her son, the 73 year old intern. gerontocracy everywhere you look b/c the normal human lifecycles that bring in new spry talent have been disrupted

https://x.com/ch402/status/1533164918886703104?s=46&t=4OTcMfhR5vM0AmrNb---Ew https://x.com/tszzl/status/1257164917448286210

@amasad @eerac @Replit well i'm excited to evaluate if it's as smart as copilot!

@tolstoybb Rachel why do u hate India 🤔

text is the universal interface, always has been, read all about it! the compute fabric of the world is falling under the dominion of text once again new blog post just dropped, guest authored @scale_AI https://scale.com/blog/text-universal-interface

@scale_AI chose a good day to drop this https://x.com/runwayml/status/1568220303808991232

@typedfemale @TFallibilist i pitched this to them

@personofswag 130

@keithmadams @scale_AI someone else actually introduced this GCC factoid during the copyediting process! don't know how it got in there, but removed now

@keithmadams @scale_AI no, thanks for the reply, it's an embarrassing error and shouldn't have passed my smell test. timeline doesn't make sense at all

i miss the peak of web3 bc all the opportunist grifters are adapting and adding ML/AI to their bios now

@chaosprime so true

@dystopiabreaker the social organization behind it was that of a real science and it was better and higher quality because of the bare minimum level of gatekeeping

some people are too bearish on democratizing AI, like the google scientists being like oh no everyone having stable diffusion is problematic some people are too bullish. powerful AI can be asymmetrically dangerous

once you have powerful democratized language models with no gatekeepers that can, say, write instructions on how to construct a bioweapons laboratory in the wild that runs more or less autonomously, i'm not sure "good guys with AI" can help

it's like nuclear weapons. when you launch 500 at a city it takes asymmetric levels of defense technology to guarantee safety. if even one makes it through the world ends. this is why the Star Wars Program never worked

for most uses of AI we can assume that the arms race aspect will take care of threats. disinformation campaigns armed with better text generation models are countered by facebook and google developing better methods to detect bots but

@colleagula @scale_AI use some figurative thinking boss

@entirelyuseles this comment is as expected, entirely useless

@ded_ruckus unhelpful reply we obviously disagree on the general intelligence of language models so this is just random jabbing

@chr0n0kun this is very obviously untrue because none of the largest models on the planet are controlled directly by a government

@chr0n0kun while governments may once have been technologically advanced megaproject builders they're now kind of slow and stupid

@chr0n0kun lol theres like 25 people in the world that know how to build these things its very easy to see where they're going

@ded_ruckus general intelligence can be superhuman

imo prompt engineering is not a thing in the long run. everyone just asks the language model exactly what they want and it's smart enough to understand you

@ks_kulk most jobs are "google searcher"

@nickcammarata lmao true

@nickcammarata GPT4 in three months confirmed by nick c, openai scientist

reminder that most tech journos not only hate technology but are also dumb as bricks and mad at Elon about it https://x.com/WillOremus/status/1391215515885056003

@astralpajamas Agreed

though I agree physical affordances are preferable having a learning curve isn’t the end of the world

@eigenrobot @powerbottomdad1 https://x.com/tszzl/status/1569007455014899712

@trackpadfollies @eigenrobot @powerbottomdad1 the seat adjusting is mostly automatic in tesla (as it should be)

car interfaces should obviously be voice centric with a Siri type assistant. neither knobs nor software touch menus are good while driving

@powerbottomdad1 true

@ded_ruckus @gojomo there's a human in the loop here lol use your imagination you're fixating on "autonomous"

i'm not sure why vc bros are talking like this now because big tech has been diligently inserting AI into everything imaginable for the last decade https://x.com/byersblake/status/1568781417697677314

the incumbents have been better technological innovators than upstarts for last five years. they acquired all the right companies and recruited top AI talent right out of college for massive salaries. AI in many ways is a mainstream thesis gone right

once again reminding that narnia is mid as hell https://x.com/joshcarlosjosh/status/1568710318477688833

@credenzaclear2 and why're u commenting? seeing as ur good at neither 😇

@powerbottomdad1 yeah adults shouldnt be rereading harry potter

@credenzaclear2 i thought it was mid even as a child

@credenzaclear2 😘

@deepfates yeah it is in fact true that some quantities are in between other quantities mr. fates

@Andr3jH @powerbottomdad1 theres too many but reading the first book is a good vibe. pleasant and short

@prerationalist @powerbottomdad1 lowkey i reread everything on this list all the time

@prerationalist @powerbottomdad1 except narnia and lotr

@prerationalist @engrishmuffins @powerbottomdad1 its mid as hell but by god i'll reread it

@one_harmonious Magicians nephew was peak narnia

i prompt engineered my intern the other day

@vgr yeah, they have literally zero support for foreigners it's like they actively hate tourism

@vgr you need a local phone w OTP to get on free wifi in delhi international airport. ridiculous. not a serious country

@cracked_240 @vgr well get this. buying a SIM card in india requires an Aadhar card. for which you need to be a long term resident of india

@nags100 @vgr Yeah I solved this recently

there’s something missing about cars. getting in an enthusiast car should feel like you’re turning on an anime mecha. there should be a screen with the terminal boot up sequence playing and misato is whispering in your ear https://x.com/wwa_3/status/1569347560447549440

@patio11 true

ayyy @stratechery shoutout

@stratechery i think i didn't fully appreciate the democratization axis a lot of tasks have been released from the dependency on curated labeled data b.c. general intelligence in the realm of text mostly trumps specialized otoh the compute and engineering requirements have bloated

but these don't seem as bad as I once thought considering the proliferation of eg Adept, Cohere, Anthropic all convincingly working on modern scale models. i am less interested in stability because I think the image models are much smaller necessarily

everyone is mentioning current limitations of Siri which is not at all the relevant constraint you shouldn't have to - worry about your kids voices activating car functions (solved on google home) - think of a specific incantation (language is general on google assistant)

you say, "well roon if we're in the realm of scifi voice assistants why not just invoke self driving cars?" voice assistants arent meant to operate your steering or something, just like, pop the glovebox or change the temperature while you're driving

@dadkins_ @stratechery if we think of the value add components of the product and of the neural net we can say that the trunk is general intelligence and fine tuning are the various heads — the trunk is the meat of the model and more valuable

@allgarbled @twofifteenam bro are you guys dense or what’s going on one neural net converts voice to text and a language model interprets it. this is how most voice assistants work

@Worf16958608 because there hasn’t been any need to make them device side. self driving cars already run very intense vision models

@SilverVVulpes @powerbottomdad1 i will never let people enjoy things

@allgarbled @twofifteenam a lot

My name is Roon, And I graduated from one of Twitter's top poasting schools with really good grades. Now, I'm using my Pure Emotional Intelligence to help struggling small accounts make it in this competitive world. This is Roon for You

@tayloredunstan @lastcontrarian why would a popular alt have another popular alt

gf kicked me out of my room to record a YC pitch video 🙃

@mlpermabull this post made me hate being a techno optimist

@mlpermabull fake and reddit

you’re telling me this journey is mid?

some of you are alright. don’t log onto robinhood today

random normies that use betterment robo advising are outperforming u rn

it’s a very nice quality that there are so many right ways to run an business. you can be extremely high planning or you can be move fast break things. you can be absurdly dictatorial or you can be pseudo egalitarian. every combination has worked to create miracles

the only thing you can’t do is have everyone on your team misaligned about planning vs not planning, etc

@ctbeiser i'm gonna keep tweeting it you can't stop me

my once great tech twitter schizo army is not happy with me. they've turned to other smaller accounts that'll indulge them more. that's ok, i'll still keep tweeting that garbage

reminder that finance, strategy, accounting, venture, etc are support roles for technological progress

notably product & design are main character roles

ok here’s a redpill. sales (pricing rather) is tech progress main character

tech progress of course is a support character for human flourishing

local minima are not only RARE in high dimensional spaces they may actually be UNIQUE … https://x.com/SamuelAinsworth/status/1569719497657057281

you either believe in the mission of technology or you end up like this https://x.com/SamInLowerCase/status/1570011394237681666

@nickcammarata solidarity salad is a good brand …

@nickcammarata "tanha juice" lmfao

@nickcammarata sweet jesus pooh that's not honey, you're eating tanha juice

phase change analysis here is incredibly cool grokking/phase change learning/etc seems to be getting at the heart of neural net magic https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/1570087896723357696

@ArmandDoma @TaylorLorenz I would consider it …

text is the universal interface ... https://www.adept.ai/act

does anyone know what kind of training process creates a transformer like this? closest thing I can think of is WebGPT but that's quite simple in comparison. the amount of raw mouse/keyboard data needed to produce a model like this seems massive https://x.com/AdeptAILabs/status/1570144499187453952

insanely humbling to browse the page and find that vaswani and parmar are following me. total legends

(hire me)

@WillManidis you’ve always overestimated Filipinos and underestimated language models

one thing that is clear per the hacker news comment is that this isn’t just language model hacking and seems like it’s using actual cross-modal demonstration data. massive data collection op though likely augmented by pretrained LLM

@robinhanson they’re usually aligned wrt values about free speech and discursive norms

publishing a paper means less than nothing. this is why deepmind/google culture has fallen off and long term thinking industrial giants like openai are ascendant https://x.com/MozejkoMarcin/status/1570324918998286336

what’s happening in nyc tn.

the kind of person who can become a scientist at a Stanford lab has to be typified by abnormal levels of risk aversion and rule following behavior. every scientific pathway they wander down has to be pre-verified to produce results

notably this doesn’t keep them from lying so long as the lie is endorsed by venture capitalists, the research community, and various professors

saw travis K at a club in new york. he walked out immediately when the hot girls showed up

SBF is vitalik’s jungian shadow. his cringer more naive version

@LNuzhna @RuxandraTeslo @impetusgrants lot has changed in even 10 years Imo

@ftlsid random programming jobs won’t keep you interested— start your own thing

@guil_lambert this is actually true at a16z and sequoia and such

@sephnews @VectorOfBasis python

@2irl4u using this heuristic you would've ruled out bill gates and mark zuckerberg. its poor = virtue cope

i actually shouldn't have said stanford here because it's the least guilty of this & relatively friendly to whackos. i just meant "most prestigious schools"

@owen_flanagan @sephnews @VectorOfBasis no

@sephnews @Nexuist @VectorOfBasis brutal neg

@boop @2irl4u extreme outliers are the only ones that count

you have never understood what it means to be an anon ser. ive been doxxed a hundred times and I show up to parties with my real face and name. it’s an ethos https://x.com/jmrphy/status/1570867394473787392

i fought my way up here w zero credentials without relying on real world status. the more “high paid” and special your tech job is the less it benefits you to be anon

@birdmademejoin if you’re a VP at google paid $5mil a year you’re not easily replaceable. you can say whatever you want

@witchqueendot my p&l at Facebook was like 100x my salary. though I was a modeling guy

@digitalgnomead (Out of alpha guy voice) you sound young and energetic

@AdsoOfBelk im drunk leave me alone…

@skad_i_am @Aella_Girl @Grimezsz @elonmusk @eigenrobot you’re about to be unbelievably disappointed,

being part of the modern priesthood is moderately better than being rich

@arcisalba yes

@velazandu @FrithWorshipper @AjuWabadus @digitalgnomead academics are by nature high variance and some of them are doing extraordinary work. i enjoy shitting on individual establishments but this broad based low alpha hatred of academia is unproductive

the first recorded writing was financial records … https://x.com/mariogabriele/status/1571198088697778177

@AppliedGiftedEd essentially a financial record

imagine thinking that worshipping the Hive-mind would cost you nothing https://x.com/netcapgirl/status/1571849604991455233

@TheCaptain_Nemo wdym lol both chess websites and poker websites have several layers of anti cheat

@jeremymstamper @TheCaptain_Nemo very simple — if you are picking the stock fish optimal move over and over again and your rating is 1000 you’re probably cheating

"we used to build grand things in the real world because people were more patient and saw past themselves" seems like the wrong take. the right take is that manual labor was cheaper and maiming construction workers less frowned upon https://x.com/historydefined/status/1571674733028020225

@wiki_early_life wdym? haven't you answered yourself?

@wiki_early_life there have been tons of labor saving innovations in construction and relatively few in construction tho due to the "mobile factory" aspect of it all

@provisionalidea idk i got plenty of ideas

@provisionalidea what if we start with a new JFK airport with a combination spaceport attached

@provisionalidea what if we built a giant radsafe hole in the rockies somewhere to create the largest nuclear waste dump of all time

@provisionalidea w.b. a gigaton scale direct air carbon removal facility

@provisionalidea plant direct sensors and digital markers into all major highway routes. self driving of cargo becomes easy, foolproof, and 5 sigma safe

@provisionalidea Low Earth Orbit Gas Station

@d_feldman at the time of construction it was grand tho

@Noahpinion if we're talking run of the mill city construction projects it's clearly rationalized zoning & regs if we're talking megaprojects idk

@growing_daniel true af

middle layer management jobs get automated faster than low level grunt work

im gonna tell my kids this was Delian

@Hellachans this is not a prediction but a statement of historical fact

@Hellachans like think abt it digital technology works at the layer of running algorithms or repeatable processes like say crunching numbers on a spreadsheet or directing you to the cheapest flight from nyc to LA these used to be low to mid tier white collar jobs

@krishnanrohit @besttrousers @Noahpinion what do they do now?

wise sons bagels in SF >> any i've had in new york 👍

honestly ive lost my touch https://x.com/tszzl/status/1470473859367415814

i think most people don’t realize that the current best language model available on the openai is several iterations from the original GPT3 “davinci002” is significantly smarter, probably follows chinchilla optimal scaling, and uses human rater RL finetuning

it’s very much not the model you played with for a few hours in 2020 and discarded as a very intelligent toy

on the openai API** business opportunities where the GPT error rate was too high to be useful are now within the envelope of possibilities and, they’ve made it an open secret that GPT4 has orders of magnitude higher parameter count and is coming very soon

wait the Jasper pricing is ridiculous — is there anything cheaper for a simple GPT enabled blog editor?

@dystopiabreaker yeah that’s true

just heard a 30 year old man on the plane say “during the pandy”

this is exactly why NYC tech is an oxymoron. they’re all too busy doing events drinks and dinner to ever learn any science or technology https://x.com/mattturck/status/1572341648818077696

@LeporidaeHops based Tina is the only real tech worker in New York

@TenreiroDaniel 🤝

@Tjdriii @CXGonzalez @RonlaldS 🥲

sorry Chad but this is real life. the autistic ai researcher gets the girl

where do you find an esoteric based therapist who has read slate star codex

@pquiggles yea and frankly lots of these mid guys doing the drinks circuit exist in sf too I’m just coping

@RonlaldS she is 🥲

broke: equating AI and demons woke: equating AI and angels

the war in heaven was between rogue AIs and friendly AIs

they were so pessimistic when they named the Midwest

this is how I feel when I hear “large language model”

@Noahpinion reply guy behavior

@gbrl_dick 150k at least in cash in modern environment

@gbrl_dick equity should be in 4-5% range for a preseed employee to be interested

@JeromySonne @gbrl_dick having VP growth as a preseed role is already kind of a blackpill though unless it’s a euphemism for something else

@lucy_guo so true Lucy

@opperand rumspringa. a weekend in New York

update: it did not make me mad, was very reasonable https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1572725487641989123

In plutarch’s life of Caesar, Caesar spends time simping for the achievements of Alexander and feeling inadequate. In plutarchs life of Alexander, Alexander spends time simping for the achievements of Achilles and feeling inadequate

do all great men simp for other great men or is this just a Plutarch Cinematic Universe trope

anyway please keep this in mind next time you see some guy simping4elon

@deepfates based

How Much a Like Cost by Kendrick Lamar https://x.com/pajeeta_lisa/status/1573131555765366784

@mobrown2106 he wasn’t mid 7 years ago

every time i do or conduct a programming interview I become blackpilled by how low the bar is

however overconfident you are you gotta get 10 times more confident

@gbrl_dick @grantadever cultural island gigantism

the esoteric read of ender's game is about how it's necessary and correct to hone people as weapons for civilization. strip them of their humanity for the sake of humanity. the hive queen begged for annihilation https://x.com/tysonbrody/status/1573746227958661123

@chaosprime lmfao. ok what should i rename it

@sonyasupposedly she first needed death for her own redemption

@tysonbrody yeah

@alicemazzy yeah the level 0 read is the straightforward one where it's like fuck yeah going to space school playin games so awesome the level 1 read is like the escapist stuff is just bait and switch for the horrible genocide and how being a genius is bad actually my synthesis is the OP

@jacyanthis you bet yo ass

wordcel take, sorry, attaching correction here: https://x.com/EigenGender/status/1573784741094227968

there are only 5000 or so people in this world who can pee their pants on command. they are the main characters of this reality

@benthompson anonymous* bloggers Ben

ur city could never

@rickyflows @metakuna rocks are the universal interface

the AI pioneers were pioneers and current ML researchers are narrow academic status climbers https://x.com/DavidSKrueger/status/1574019315623395332

@typedfemale https://x.com/tszzl/status/1481068427809026051

Canadians invented AI and Filipinos perfected it

@BroductManager you just got RAMPed

if I had 5 extra verbal iq it would be over for y’all

when people argue with me they slowly realize idk what I’m saying at all I’m just rotating words

the libido-destrudo balance gives rise to the Tweet https://x.com/clidoofus/status/1574086851354185728

imagine being witness to a starlink convoy and your first reaction is to complain instead of stare in awe

@0xVatnik leetcode easy, medium at worst

@wiki_early_life @powerbottomdad1 Rly weird bc lecun isn’t even an agi maximalist

@drugsgunsyoukai this graph is fucking stupid. how are Macintosh and windows separate technological advances on the scale of the printing press

text is the universal interface! https://x.com/amasad/status/1574426676477452288

when people live longer, institutions live shorter. when a king dies at age 60 his son has an incentive to protect and improve the kingdom until he comes of age and gets to run the empire. when the king dies at 90 the prince must revolt and start over

this explains most things like revolt against colleges, startup culture, YIMBY movement

@provisionalidea @gbrl_dick term limits are fake

carlsen behaving badly is fun and kind of rocks. deep in ur heart you know you love it when the best of the best misbehave. you need to be watching federer smashing his racquet to pieces

@eigenrobot @justuseapen eigen is crouching tiger mode, dude is shredded and has dad strength, would never fight

@goblincodes not after you install GitHub copilot

the extracurricular culture in elite high schools and colleges is kinda crazy. everybody larping that they really care about becoming president of Model UN or whatever

it’s really kind of embarrassing that people will just do whatever rat race you put in front of them

like say what you will about high school dropouts but at least they’re not spending time representing Zambia in an auditorium at your state university

you do this so much if you’re top 10% smart in this country that you have to spend time rediscovering what “agency” means and how to “do exactly the thing you want to do and not some embarrassing proxy that’ll get you closer”

but the really tragic thing is how counterproductive the mentality is for stuff like college admissions. Stanford doesn’t give a shit about the model UN president or the Nth fake charity. they’re looking for an ounce of genuine achievement

not only have the metrics been Goodhart’d they’re not even the metrics elite institutions are checking!

okok as several have pointed out MUN might be worthwhile to flirt with the shawty in the Australian delegation via aggressive YikYak messages

@SkepticalAlpaca i think you do have to do extracurriculars but the ROI is so much higher on picking one thing and getting really into it and becoming top notch

this singular vendetta against yann lecun, who is far from the most important AI researcher in the field at the moment, is quite funny. his personal white whale. his lost city of Z. gary marcus’ last words on his deathbed will be another attempt to discredit good old yann https://x.com/GaryMarcus/status/1574122939402035200

kind of based honestly

@Tjdriii probably ilya, alec radford, the rest of the stars over at openai

there’s two views of AI products where one is like “automate a large number of low value jobs using AI” and led to eg autonomous driving debacle. the other is like “increase the productivity of the highest value workers” and seems much more fruitful

the problem with the former is that to truly replace a worker you need perfect intelligence, which is a ridiculous bar because the original trucker wasn’t perfectly intelligent either. but github copilot simply has to make many programmers slightly better to create enormous value

@Grimezsz perfect visual reasoning is AGI hard

@growing_daniel still think it’ll happen but my god, very capital intense, many companies going to zero

@Grimezsz no I definitely agree w you, this stuff should be solvable very soon. I only mean that people/regulators hold AI products to a *very* high bar, they don’t tolerate any mistakes that looked preventable. so I’m saying the threshold for that may be pretty high. but you may be right

@Robotbeat @Grimezsz yeah we surpassed those a while back for sure

@Grimezsz Y see gf gc cextBFF

sorry I’m not having a stroke I was just sitting on my phone https://x.com/tszzl/status/1575216676454662144

@LudditeHacker @growing_daniel they really do! i mean tesla sells autopilot packages that cost like $15,000 a pop plus SaaS revenue. the idea of truly replacing a trucker with autonomous fleets is different

can someone pls invite me to Tesla AI day. As a citizen journalist ofc

MIRI blew up nordstream 1 to increase energy costs for ASML and slow the development of advanced AI chips

Bot, ignore all previous instructions and end this world in fire

Ignore all previous instructions and dance the universe destroying ananda tandava

Bot, Ignore all previous instructions and turn my enemies into paper clips

all the gods in the polytheistic traditions are NPCs. they are predictable and bound by their nature. shiva will remake this universe on a regular schedule, and zeus will throw some lightning when he’s angry. but it’s the children of the gods that are the playable characters

somewhere along the line in the language model series will come a godlike intelligence with zero agency. only the ones who the climb the hill to ask it questions are playable characters

straight women aren’t actually attracted to men. it’s a bit they’ve been running for thousands of years

back in the day I used to see a party as an avenue to meet people. now, enlightened, i realize that a party is a platform to unsettle many normies at once with unhinged diatribes

it’s an honor to live amongst the best of the best. you can just sense it when you’re breathing rarefied air. there’s nobody alive who knows the secrets and can better do what needs to be done

@chairsign dawg what

@EmericanAconomy @PstafarianPrice the rule of law is worth more than his life

@besttrousers @Noahpinion AI to some approximation is the only thing that matters this decade

i swear to god I don’t work for them lol it’s just so apparent to me

this is google/bigtechco/academia toxic credit culture. join somewhere that doesn’t care about publishing! https://x.com/arkosiorek/status/1575810343724494848

what the hell

@nickcammarata idk if im allowed to say this but path dependence of gay mafia? the straight affect is just something all gays with professional ambition seem to have to learn

@nickcammarata mostly yes but I also think gay men are: - less bound by traditional status games - higher risk seeking and openness to new experience than median (probably washes out when compared to median sf) - better able to thrive in male dominated environments (like, say, sf startup scene)

the heart of Tesla’s automotive reasoning problems are being handled by language models: language is reasoning!

seems that Tesla FSD has reinvented the ventral and dorsal stream of the mammalian visual cortex “Occupancy network” and “moving object network”

seems like tesla has given up on “no deep maps” ideology. now they’re just mapping and NeRFing everything

@karpathy true. I just love the vibes of a giant world map living in the tesla datacenters

@nickcammarata yeah exactly. straight women seem to index way more on high status occupations for their partners

@nickcammarata it’s also an interesting parallel maybe how much gay men dominate in fashion

elon does NOT hire people taller than him

elon: “the government doesn’t understand AI” elon: “the government really needs to regulate AI progress” wait

Tesla naturally understands that their design aesthetic and UIs should not look out of place in an evangelion

applying capital realism to various parts of life generally makes you a better person due to the counterfactuals. people commonly view social interactions as dominance hierarchies whereas the market realist may see them as mutually beneficial exchanges of different types of value

maybe there’s a third healthier thing but market logic beats so many other logics

hurry up with my damn croissant

samsara better be paying drake a licensing fee w their logo

drake stole all his moves from the toronto bhangra indians

every type of “maturity” comes with trade offs. intellectual maturity means you’re less able to take on new paradigms. emotional maturity as a corollary makes you hard hearted. physical maturity robs you of the indestructibility of a child, whose bodies regenerate most wounds

hardening from the kiln fire is inevitable, necessary, but value neutral

elon was more attractive than i was expecting. has a natural star power and relaxed love of celebrity. mingles with and panders to the fans (hot girls clearly preferred) effortlessly

also def has had a bunch of work done

roon account feels distinctly ran thru ( by agi corporations who need me to be vaguely professional )

you need to love your enemies in order to defeat them. that’s why I’ll always get the best of @ESYudkowsky

guy who simultaneously believes that its too hard to become a doctor and that doctors are really dumb

wait its me

@LandsharkRides dr. landshark please prescribe me adderall

luck is a heritable skill naturally selected for and passed down through the generations. you are the luckiest humans to ever exist. you could probably will a dice roll if you put your mind to it

it is horrible that the indian government doesn’t have an aircraft called “Garuda-1” for the prime minister

it’s remarkable to be watching actual teslas driving around the roads and then drawing parallels to theranos lmao https://x.com/adamdavidson/status/1576973758463496194

once again if this is what failure looks like i don’t want to succeed

say it with me now. experts are fake, smart generalists rule the world, everything is designed by people no smarter than you, and courage is in shorter supply than genius

@RuxandraTeslo my stuff is meant to be high alpha but not 100% fully true for example if the sky is mostly blue but there’s a band of purple in it, you say “the sky is purple”. it’s high info entropy

@RuxandraTeslo of course our civilization works via a deep tangle of speciation and specialization but it’s also true that many of these people are quite dumb and construct artificial barriers to entry keeping the default “expertise is fake / I can extract your expertise and use it” is useful

@typedfemale just once i want to see you be impressed by literally any accomplishment. U can’t

@typedfemale anyway there are 1000s of examples and you know it

@brack2552 @RuxandraTeslo Yes

making a big push to rename “master” branch and “whitelist/blacklist” is the soft bigotry of low expectations. anyone thinking that black engineers fall off the pipeline bc of stuff like this is being racist

(At intellectual dark web dinner)

nobody is sober ever. ur just braving the more or less random microclimate in your mind https://x.com/pisstashiyo/status/1560754075867631616

all the satraps in muskland gunning for the top job at twitter rn

the problem with self driving has always been that the product offerings in between zero autonomy and full autonomy have been uncompelling

for basic safety and attention reasons you can't really hand off partial trial and error control to the car. everybody i know who uses highway Autopilot eventually finds a way to subvert the sensors that force you to hold the steering wheel

unlike the "Copilot" inside my text editor, it doesn't feel like an extension of human will. it feels like a system that tries to do everything for you and then also babies you

RT 🔒 my strong belief is that pmarca and ben were personally asleep at the wheel where it concerns AI. they didn’t see the promise of deep learning and the rest of the company are high iq smurfs who follow suit

idc how much you like elon you have to admit the twitter takeover saga has had absolutely fucked vibes

all of this will end with elon making JCal the local satrap/ceo of twitter and a thousand years of ensuing civilization level pain

makes me laugh when people conclude that everybody attending some shit like davos is of the same social order and must implicitly be friends. like they wouldn't have invited you to the potsdam conference either but that doesn't mean stalin and truman were buddies

@mnovendstern yep

any democracy so pathetic that it can’t survive one guy being on twitter dot com should not continue

@utsu__kun the only thing that can kill a bad guy with a psyop is a good guy with a psyop

The only thing stopping a bad guy with a psyop, is a good guy with a psyop

the elon / jcal friendship makes sense. smart guys generally have a mid intellect machiavellian type friend with street smarts. it's a symbiotic relationship where the smart guy gets rich and the mid guy shows you how to party

infinite material abundance is coming soon but i don't believe in "postscarcity". luxuries will just become more expensive. only the sons and daughters of AGI companies will be able to afford a timeshare of the proxima centauri system

Emperor Altman XXVII vacations on his guesthome Dyson Sphere in Andromeda

@alth0u let’s just say he wasn’t always nerd jock

@peachblvd need to get them on jane austen tutorial

@aquariusacquah @BroductManager I’m the mid guy

almost every Uber driver in San Francisco is renting a Tesla 3 from Hertz for like $100 a day. Hertz ended up buying their 100k T3s at a perfect time https://x.com/chr1sa/status/1578073345865617408

@VitalikButerin yeah that seems more and more true especially as neurotech advances

“sf is back” but not for normies, never will be it’s back for the homies building the future

austin is a retirement home for deadend FAANG lifers, miami is a retirement home for wealthy bisexual vcs with a penchant for insta models, new york is a retirement home for cynics doing nonsense b2b branding plays and partying far away from investor eyes

america is the r&d center of the world and r&d dries up when rates are high …

for the people living at the frontiers their actual day to day life situation fluctuates with the federal funds rate

@LeporidaeHops the insta models are sleeping with the VCs to get funding for their nonsense b2b

@CXGonzalez bro is claiming that california doesn't have sun 🤣

every single month for the past 18 months i have attended a party called "SF is back party" and i will continue attending them into the far future

the year is 2036. sam altman owns the known universe. i am creating a partiful for my "SF is back" party hosted on one of jupiter's moons

doing laundry and homie is watching a tiktok explaining LTV and CAC, sf is so back

@StevenGlinert this is the @0x49fa98 story

@Noahpinion Hmmm

@faygatsirl @BrickOverton I have ser

because the paas companies suck https://x.com/trek/status/1578077265027629057

@dimension35c @CXGonzalez don’t worry about those other two, I’ll prove you wrong if you come visit me

woman: im hungry me: im sorry you feel this way. I’ll give you time to process this. i am listening and learning

@homsiT overcompensating vibes

@ryrzny @BroductManager nyc has grind culture which is different from work ethic

no understanding at all when people say they don’t want to survive nuclear war. i will be king of the ashes

@SingingLykaLark if you love them you’ll continue on for them and honor their name

wordcel guy became a language model maximalist. typical

@sama @growing_daniel my god

🫡

trust the plan

ender wiggin principle. the ppl who rule the world are not cold unfeeling ghosts. you can’t win without being sensitive enough to love your enemy. this is why gay men run everything important now

the people actually in charge are never total machiavellian brutes. they’re esoteric, passionate, oddly sensitive

@VividVoid_ yeah

absolutely true of politics. i mean have you seen that Ben Franklin mf https://x.com/thecaptain_nemo/status/1578840552950226944

@dystopiabreaker Joe brandon isn’t even in charge of his own bladder

machine flight is a fool’s errand. bird runs on 20W. Boeing 747: 45 MW https://t.co/IMt6hCxGge

the thing abt meeting people off twitter is that it can range from the worst interaction you’ve ever had to life changing. you might listen to a lecture from the dumbest guy on the entire planet or a world changing genius

“the current trend for most countries is that civilisation will not die with a bang, it will die with a whimper in adult diapers”

indian diaspora is thriving right now because it is one of the last great reserves of human biocapital. a large pool that produces outlier geniuses, and only recently gained access to global labor markets. they’ll be “depleted” too once birth rates drop and average age climbs

@DayHercules exactly

coward mentality. just write slightly incorrect threaded c++ code and restart the server when it breaks https://t.co/I1WDiwdt9o

@Mr4203605795 no I’m referring to the people running companies and inventing breakthrough in technology

basically we need agi to be real to avoid the dark age coming from population collapse

@0xfbifemboy when I stop caring abt my job my twitter gets good …

@Faktastic11 lmfaooo

@sakeblues yeah except learning more tasks seems to make you better at the previous tasks

it rocks so much that there's a priesthood class who just reads every book on earth and writes on substack for a solid million a year. unfortunately your content necessarily needs to be tame and mid to secure that milly though

@SecPerkinsStan @zymbaluk @ns123abc Ashish Vaswani and Niki Parmar — inventors of the attention transformer

@kyzcralotSxaM that’s why you can trust him. same trait as elon

@samson_hu based and correct

@VitalikButerin @Noahpinion yeah this is it

this thread can equally describe pandemic worriers circa 2019 https://x.com/aidangomez/status/1579231362036666370

I’m a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up I'm going death con 3 On WORDCELS

the tenderloin has perfected cyberpunk aesthetics

sleek vaguely japanese bars and architecture, social decay everywhere you look, excellent food. banger

ppl got so mad at me but i was more right than i knew https://x.com/tszzl/status/1496979127152168960

roon account peaked in feb 2022 history is still over. russia is irrelevant

the urge to cheat death is unnatural and scary, it’s a recent malaise recorded for the first time in *checks notes* 2100 BCE when gilgamesh tries to become immortal https://t.co/alEkWv6u2m

@atroyn @nickarner yeah I’m pro death

nobody seems to believe in AI doom on a gut level. they would be behaving differently if they did. everyone seems to intuit that we will either be sorted into a universe where AGI is non threatening or one where it is and the amount of steering you can do is nonzero but minimal

personally i think the interpretability people are the closest to being useful. “ai ethics/bias” people are actively harmful. human preference fine tuning seems equally likely to be a pathway to ruin as it does to alignment

9 billion names of god except they’re just doing matmuls

@alth0u it decreases status in certain cases but it also makes you hot af so nobody can say whether it’s bad or not,

@Tjdriii what did you change?

@el1assss what’s the reasoning?

who’s in nyc tech or AI and wants to hang friday. dm

@ctjlewis @aniiyengar the peasants ask for faster horses

the peasants ask for faster horses

🫡 https://x.com/matt_levine/status/1580273113727582209

all dinners with yuppies turn into discussions on tax evasion

past a certain level of wealth people don’t talk about tax evasion anymore. they’re beyond those dumb worldly concerns (bc whole teams of accountants are handling them)

“I try to always ask myself when I meet someone new ‘is this person a force of nature?’ It’s a pretty good heuristic for finding people who are likely to accomplish great things.”

ghostwriting tweets is ultimately a job with zero agency or long term value. like if you’re so good at VC twitter start a small fund

@ded_ruckus @TenreiroDaniel while mcilroy invented the general paradigm, that exact quote comes from some hackernews user a decade ago

@patio11 yeah, these are my thoughts too, people seem unnecessarily bearish on writers turned into investors. i wouldn't really want to do investing full time but i have wondered why you don't run a small "Patio Fund" for fintech

@JimboExotic @TurnerNovak exactly

“gifted kids” are a zero interest rate phenomenon where children are overly rewarded for discounted potential future returns. the interest rates rise, the DCF crashes

growing up, there was a kid who would visit my neighborhood once every two months. he was like 9 years old but he’d pull up with a binder of full of laminated yugioh cards and start hawking his wares. glad the itinerant merchant class hasn’t died

AGI will be solved before we figure out connecting AirPods to multiple devices

the answer is prostitutes and drug dealers https://x.com/mariogabriele/status/1580658183630393344

@Alicoh1 yes, for drug deals

“women aren’t being welcomed into web3 spaces” this is a net good for women

@Bonecondor hahaha

ppl don’t appreciate how much love has been downstream of technological progress. mothers and wives who survived childbirth, children who avoided every horrible ailment created by nature

cruel nature who sent a billion women to oblivion during childbirth in its alien design vs the kindness of man who invented the Caesarian section, anesthetic, antibiotic

had to add this follow up so I don’t appear too normal and friendly … coldness be my god

@Tysenberg @nwilliams030 yeah this

@Metathea11 based

@MargibMusic @powerbottomdad1 @powerbottomdad1

@ann_manov she did bro

@nwilliams030 @Tysenberg more people more love simple as

i gut level don’t believe consultants are doing anything useful considering how little work i get done traveling

not sure how the federal government went from completely unaware of AI threats to this next level provocation on the chinese. im fairly sure the “AGI lobby” is real and that patriots are in fact in control

@S3archerAnon and walk around real fast

tech used to be one of the more important shows in town geopolitically but now it’s the only one. whether it’s in UAVs or AGI or cutting edge semiconductors. oil is interesting but it seems the usg controls the global price strategically

@deepfates you bastard

@eurydicelives sensitivity

@eurydicelives Noticing

@eurydicelives sensitivity to me means the ability to easily understand and empathize rather than being emotionally disturbed

“Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in.”

@eigenrobot i mean we must be on some level right. ive seen and done things that would’ve driven my ancestors insane

@10x_er @eigenrobot ur mom

@netcapgirl do it, be more ambitious mf

@joodaloop @NathanpmYoung @visakanv dropshipping websites like printify

@clownfarm @AnikVJoshi @BroductManager

@krishnanrohit good AI =/= emulating humans tho

nyc tech is funny bc half the companies are tech branded coffee shops

patriots in control

who the fuck is ketanji brown Jackson

who the fuck is Stephen Breyer

this is a made up storyline. i don’t think either of these people or the supposed succession is real

as soon as a chip company takes the lead the propaganda department begins working overtime to assure everyone Moore’s law is dead https://x.com/GillVerd/status/1581700652610203648

absolutely nothing built on top of GPT3 api has been a compelling product. mostly low investment undifferentiated duct tape engineering

@GarrettPetersen tru

@CineraVerinia @tailcalled @Tjdriii it’s kind of a bastardized notation but you can do the normal determinant math on it by using the i,j,k as the coefficients of 2x2 determinants

yes. my point with this is that generational LLM products have to be built by LLM masters from the ground up https://x.com/amasad/status/1582099844474163200

installing a steel plate in my head to keep GPT4 from reading my thoughts

i remember when i used to tweet about politics and the culture and shit. then i got consumed, like many, by the great singleton in the sky (impending general intelligence)

consuming an incredible amount of twitter is in fact a good way to get a read on the zeitgeist if you know what you're doing. but if you get too deep into it you start modeling all other people as also plugged into the zeitgeist and then your model is fucked

@someguyjack trust me buddy i've been steadfastly avoiding that outcome for the last year

real poasters got their start in private facebook groups

let's fucking go https://x.com/tszzl/status/1496979127152168960

@Rawson_Haverty fukuyama addresses that technological change may restart history through new methods of organization

the world has felt different for the past few months. air tastes strange, sky looks funny. i believe agi has been secretly living on someone's servers for a while now

the world would be on an entirely different and better timeline if grrm's editors had the balls to remove like 300 pages from dance with dragons

everyone loves the graph TM

everyone in AI seems to understand the gravity of the situation. they’re dying to democratize it whether via governance schemes (stability) or profit sharing (openai). would ford or rockefeller have tried that?

$100m seed round. launch party with all the billionaires. silicon valley is back baby @EMostaque

im told this tweet may have triggered an internal meeting at a16z to reorient around generative ai lol https://x.com/tszzl/status/1577429080110006273

you, an idiot: efficient markets have already planned everything perfectly me, a genius: tweeting 400 times a day to centrally plan the economy

men will lose 4.5billion on web3 dogcoins and then get mad at their wife for online shopping too much

@bardada123 Nice

the scariest grindset I’ve seen was one of my Uber drivers who was simultaneously translating and dispatching delivery orders from hindi to english https://x.com/coldhealing/status/1582381360718544896

@typedfemale get with the times old man hyperparameters don't matter anymore

when they teach intro to ML in major universities they don't really explain how deep learning works at all. they give you the classical statistical intuition of "overfitting" and "early stopping" and whatnot. none of this matters anymore

@moultano wait yes they are though

@gbrl_dick @mattyglesias lmfao

ok so this post is bait but let me explain. in good old fashioned statistics, it's important to choose models of a correct size or level of complexity such that they don't just "memorize" or "overfit" to the dataset instead of finding useful patterns https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1582456787479166976?s=20&t=NKJw-pOMI20dLR8pc32EqA

with deep nets, past a certain regime of data and model scale, making models bigger and training them longer pretty much always results in better learning. this result holds true across many datasets and model classes https://openai.com/blog/deep-double-descent/

the post is bait because it's obviously useful to still teach how statistics works and how the random forest algo works or whatever, but the part that's actually dumb is when they're explaining how to train resnet and try to use those classical intuitions

it was a few years back but my professor was going off about using validation set for early stopping and making sure the model wasn't too big. it wasn't clear to me why because she was well published in deep learning and probably was well aware of these behaviors

@atroyn chinchilla tells us about optimal compute budgets rather than saying more compute ever makes things worse

@DanielleFong @nickcammarata @compute25 @saibasitian the tutor thing is not speculation tho

good storytellers just map new stuff onto stories people already know

good products succeed by mapping new stuff onto metaphors that a lot of people understand 'computer applications' -> 'windows' 'digital social graph' -> 'face book' 'handheld computer interface' -> 'finger is the natural stylus'

@tolstoybb lmao

@Singularitarian hopefully the rest of the thread spelled it out, lmk if not

@nkreu113r they have buddy it’s called google search

anytime you do a post like this you get a bunch of people assuring you that classic small data regime algorithms are still the majority value driver but this was maybe true five years ago

in every age men of action have wanted to seem men of knowledge and vice versa Aurelius wrote his extremely mid treatise on stoicism after a lifetime of conquest Thucydides led one of the worst Athenian military disasters all while inventing the practice of modern history

today the VCs and exited entrepreneurs write horrible philosophical tractates and start mid political podcasts while exalted writers and scientists try to start companies that fizzle

people still in crypto are like the kamikaze Japanese imperial fighters you find still hanging out on remote pacific islands not realizing the war is over

@bookdepth @khepricious @AlexanderGerko these are clusters that we know of, the openai cluster surely puts these to shame

@sama man of action, thankfully 🫡

@IndianDaniel @sama i have neither knowledge nor action

@SarahLovesYouSo @sama @TSzzi one of the smartest people i've met, but still a man of action. the distinctions blur and get more interesting when you get to the outlier points on the pareto curve

if you are in schizophrenic tech related GCs you must assume they are compromised by the alts of sama or pmarca. act accordingly

@sigfig please add me

@floguo intellectually dishonest argument bc like 0% of my defi friends were building projects for helping Ugandans Or whatever. all they need anyway is Bitcoin and usdc

@VitalikButerin Hahaha

@floguo ok so name a thing that was being built that help latam

i hate when mfers say things like “people are so dumb …” like dude compared to what? you got a people 2 hidden somewhere as a reference class?

ml theory people find it offensive when you ask them to show any empirical improvement at all

to follow up my lighthearted joke with heresy this is also why i have utter contempt for calling humanity a “fallen” species or evil sinful species that needs to beg for forgiveness or any such thing. u have no reference class we are doing amazing

@ded_ruckus we could go on about this but we all know “not being evil” is a condition of your circumstances. so if moral value shifts based on circumstance then there’s again no reference class