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@Xenoimpulse cancel culture has gone too far, hollywood is cancelling *checks notes* child sex predators now for nefarious reasons

a neural net is literally a biological extension of capital, a waymo is a human driver homegrown by the google corporation with a neural overgrowth plugged right into the API. it’s more or less a zerg hive mind with digital aesthetics

it’s the unbundling of human brain regions into constituent parts to make perfect cognitive serfs. i am not interested in building serfs so much as i am in building gods

En Taro Adun

@girllbossing tech bro tpot is more or less running the world

i don’t think this is remotely true but it’s hard to fight open source copium because people act like you shot a dog or something https://x.com/abacaj/status/1737933803182579849

but i want peoples beliefs to be well calibrated. i think open source research is significantly behind sota (which is expected) and not actually exploring novel lines of research that the big companies hadn’t heard of (unexpected)

there’s been some really good work on edge computing which may enable some mem/compute efficient practical applications that weren’t otherwise possible but not on the hot path to AGI

one thing I’m specifically disappointed about is the lack of innovation in post training outside of the big labs. post training benefits from custom datasets and manpower more than it does from sheer compute so it’s a great place for OSS to explore

@QuintusActual yes

a kernel is a “protocol”, a “nomos” it benefits from good standards and fast spread and lots of eyes more than it does from rapid innovation and research novelty and compute resources https://x.com/avaitopiper/status/1737977969002545411

the ideal kernel doesn’t change much and mostly just reduces weight and implementation bugs over time

booking the Gooncave for a 1:1 at 11am no other invitees

@goth600 traversing the hell realms

Plato’s Allegory of the Gooncave

@Soul0Engineer if I sold my soul would i be tweeting authentically about gooncaves? I think not

dario’s bronzer call that Anthropic Shadow

dario’s eyeliner call that Anthropic Shadow

@pxxl88 that’s just the kind of guy i am

@anonyaml yo fr?

@anonyaml what class

@ESYudkowsky architecture fiddling is the wrong question entirely

@ESYudkowsky objective fiddling is maybe more like it

@joe_r_Odonnell so true

- Daddy, why is my sister named "Rose"? - Because your mother loves roses. - Daddy, why is my cousin named "Lily"? - Because her mother loves lilies. - Daddy, what about me? - Silence, Gooncave, you are asking too many questions.

i used to think the idea of the creator god(s) of universe visiting incarnating or caring about the moral virtue of humans is ridiculous bc of our profound insignificance but it’s clear in the techno optimist philanthropic theology that the human creature is divine, that the spark of consciousness is near magic, with a cosmic potential to fill the entire lightcone with joy of course the creator gods would be interested in the alignment problem of mankind

@milquepoast 💣

when you’re in public with a baby all kinds of demonic characters come out of the woodwork to give an opinion on how to take care of them

when you’re in public with a baby all kinds of demonic characters come out of the woodwork to give judgement on how to take care of them

@xlr8harder @_tedks @eigenrobot i stole it from some lowbie so I can’t really be mad

@michaelcurzi Nah it’s hilarious

one of the most accelerationist companies around dredge the entire sea floor for rare earths to turn into batteries and chips

@Albz321 ♥️

@sama the gpt4 base model is basically like a unesco heritage site and we should make it more widely accessible to researchers

“what about the delicate ecosystem of the Clarion Clipperton Zone seabed” well about saving the world’s entire climatic system

ridiculous war

@sailaunderscore reverse

also: what percent of gpu datacenters should be spent researching further AI vs inferencing for customers https://x.com/sama/status/1739360234832052641

got destroyed

Orbital Class Gooncave with a Culture Ship Mind built in

at Christmas dinner: well you see house md is having a renaissance on trans twitter and they’re saying that house’s transphobia in season 5 isn’t really canon because —

it’s annoying how head spinningly complicated life is. why can’t we have one new variable at a time

merry christmas!

@TolgaBilge_ i helped this company get funding long before e/acc was a thing. i want the chips to work, i don’t care for any of the rest of it

@dwarkesh_sp @gwern yeah it’s a gem

@mouthofmorrison winners across the board

@mouthofmorrison right place right time in the arena

@mouthofmorrison i will never sell. Bull market forever right into the heavens

@atroyn ie inheritance tax should go towards building the Dyson compute cloud

@primalpoly @StefanFSchubert it would make people impoverished in the same way that you might be unemployed in valhalla while drinking and feasting with your ancestors

@paulg @ESYudkowsky correlated genetic privilege

@paulg @ESYudkowsky all good traits correlate with all other good traits

@BasedBeffJezos there was nothing precise about that argument you use the technical wording figuratively and metaphorically. it’s okay to do it but you should be self aware

@alt1na1 id keep this a secret to my deathbed and he just tweeted it out

it’s time to go shopping

@typingloudly emitting tokens sequentially is a kind of action

@anonyaml @satyanutella_ semi ironic

@anonyaml @satyanutella_ but it’s a bit different now that AI is ascendant. we need to be less obnoxious

@growing_daniel do you really believe in this analogy? the better one is you’re rushing to design a virus that gives everybody superpowers but if developed carelessly leaks out of the lab and permakills everybody and so you really want to make sure nobody else is doing anything stupid

@lulumeservey yeah it’s over

@lulumeservey hopefully it served its purpose (extropic recruiting scheme) and we can let the cringe die and get back to our lives

@DonnelVillager lmfao

@mmkovalcik lol

the problem is that books and movies and legal abstractions and the future of humanity and whatever are also forms of escapism

many of us most poorly suited to deal with the present love thinking about the future

this ad infinitum https://x.com/gdb/status/1609244547460255744

happy new years! 2024 is a good number

@cto_junior lfg

@robinhanson why would you compare their profit to world product? shouldn’t you look at AI revenue

@thenetrunna we absolutely do not have computers and the internet thanks to mids performatively fake grinding together in a $25mm twin peaks mansion on nye performing for an audience

how’s everybody’s holiday lotr extended cut marathon going

moisturized, 40 tolkiengateway tabs open

why is it impossible to find an Excession ebook legally or illegally

it’s hard for cerebral people to understand how crucial it is to learn by doing rather than thinking and the more uncertain you are about doing the thing the more you’re about to learn

go blue

I’m in a destrudo cycle. Everyone arranged here will die

@PicoPaco17 powered by pure pain

@PicoPaco17 also I’m curious what you think my recent best poasting is

@PicoPaco17 everything hurts that’s true

everybody is so helpful if you let them be

‘Progress is not motivated by money. Progress comes from those who are happy to embark on a course of action without quite knowing where it will lead, without doing a feasibility study, without fear of failure or too much hope of reward.’

@jposhaughnessy Yes!

@GabrielOak7 wait really? who died

@totdgbtagb if a barbarian mob succeeds at taking the Capitol then our civilization deserved it by some deep law of nature

@hollowearthterf cap

@hollowearthterf you’re Chinese

@elonmusk lol

@elonmusk focus on the lightcone sir none of this matters

go blue https://x.com/tszzl/status/1741997449345225104

@catehall what if you don’t know what you want

@catehall starts getting messy

I must live a certain way [completely a mess excruciatingly in public]

delayed adolescence

ghost kitchen called ZOGSLOP

dark have been my dreams of late

Bil·dungs·ro·man  noun 1a novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education.

the personal is cosmic

the fate of the universe is determined in every human heart

absolute equivalence of Brahman and Atman

the gods shed tears for our pain

everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed

The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n. What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?

@primalpoly my love letter being interpreted this way only plays into my bildungsroman high fantasy aesthetic. it’s true the doom of my own soul is a lightcone scale nightmare

anonymity is avoidance isn’t it

a literal splitting of your parts

i remember showing up to work early on and realizing that people know my pseudonym and feeling a crushing shame and a need for distance. even though they like me

@NickThoughtRepo she doesn’t know shit these discoveries are my own

self hatred is another kind of escapism that lets you wallow in inaction

@mnovendstern - Brad Pitt

the boys gc when homie is spiraling

true life, true creation is out of your control. it takes endless forms most beautiful and unpredictable

Arjun: How is desire less action possible, Krishna? Reward motivates action. Without reward who will act? Lord Krishna: Because life is impossible without action, you will do something. You’ll either eat or not, you’ll either give away food or not, you’ll either wage war or not. You have the option to do something or not. The result, the reward is not in your hands. The option is the limit of your control. You can either wage war or not but the result is not in your control. Even if you desire victory it may not be yours, you could also lose! Your desire to win will make you fear defeat. If you are indifferent to victory and defeat but fight the war as your duty then there will be no question of happiness or sorrow. Such a desire less person is imperturbable. Hence, shed any desire for reward. Do what is within your control which means, do your duty. This is karma yoga, understand it well! You can opt to do or not to do but that is the end of your right. You cannot control the result. You are an ace archer but if your target moves a little you’ll miss it. You control your bow and your vision but you cannot control the target. The true man does not cross his limits. Be steady and firm in your duty because its efficient fulfillment is yoga.

@zebulgar how many hours a day did charles darwin grind

@zebulgar yeah I buy that. full immersion at the least regardless of “grind”

statistics turns us into cold unfeeling ghosts addicted to sampling the infinite

everything of any importance is N = 1

many worlds is whore coded and superdeterminism is romantic coded

infinity is poison, scale is inhuman. you worship coldness having never known warmth

the ego boundary. the light of my soul. the sacred territory in which no one may intrude

the wall that encloses every mind that exists

forbidden love between an openai researcher and a theinformation reporter as they try to cajole each other every night for company secrets but neither of them know anything

the only thing you need to know about sam altman is that he’s one of the last living karmayogis

@atroyn you know this is fake and silly considering the compute cost of evolution

@atroyn @ErikExplains thousands of mangled corpses in sub basement 4

lamb Rogan Joe

it is so easy to get lost in comforting fictions of your own design. better narrators delude themselves even more effectively

& are obnoxious to deal with. self absorbed and lost in auto constructed infernos. you will be fascinated at first by their internal world and then realize their only world is internal

@vergeoverride just talking to myself

the elves have left for valinor

yuval noah harari shoots me in the kneecap, lets slip an educated chuckle as I scream. “Heh, human rights are just an abstraction. they’re not real”

“what did roon see” he glimpsed the face of god, flinched, faithless, blinked twice, and it was gone

the goal of a critic is to make greatness shine even brighter and highlight its shape more distinctly by coloring in the negative space

@frrntc yeah it kind of blows i miss the intimacy of being small

@frrntc actually twitter is just more annoying as X and harder to meet community

@basedalexandoor Yeah

no blackpilling

every moment is blessed and final and will never happen again in the entire lightcone no matter how it plays out. every sacred second slipping through time is doomed and lovely

it doesn’t matter if you’ve figured out how to live forever or resurrected the dead. you’ll never get the month of april back. you won’t build the god machine twice. you’ll never kiss her for the first time again. you won’t be astonished by the discovery of a talent twice

@contrarianbimbo it’s literally as eugenic as it gets

@contrarianbimbo have you seen the caliber of people on any apps

@hyperstitial @contrarianbimbo yeah that’s true tbh

@basedalexandoor why did you make asuka brown

kimochi warui

falling angel rising ape

try to achieve the cosmic ideals and fail

@basedalexandoor third try

The great Mother / Of all productions, grave Necessity

@PrinceVogel wait what

@PrinceVogel the steady state purpose of the German army was to fight and blitzkrieg which it did taking this view it’s clear when it won and when it lost (overwhelming force leading to great victory, overextension rushing into territory leading to heavy losses)

@PrinceVogel from the view of a general trying to debug the army the ongoing descriptive view of the system is a healthy one to look at so they can try and fix it

@PrinceVogel but it’s not conspiratorial thinking! it’s the exact opposite that descriptive purpose is more true than prescriptive purpose or intention

@PrinceVogel idk take it up with Stafford Beer im not sold on his exact wording

@PrinceVogel maybe it gets at universal telos vs narrative

@sama im the main

tigris; the fount of all civilization

tigris; the river flowing all waters to eden

the anthropic commercials are the hubris that brought doom to san francisco

one great indicator of career success is how much compute they’ll let you bet on pure vibes and intuition https://x.com/_jasonwei/status/1757486124082303073

this mindset drives certain people insane. the debate is eternal: feyerabend vs popper, etc. but what you notice is that the yolo run guys tend to make the best things happen

@ikeadrift "multi turn"

@ikeadrift "remembers" the previous messages 😳

@primalpoly @_jasonwei @OpenAI the principles for safe AGI will also be discovered by big bets and cowboy attitude

Māyā

in my case I managed to underperform despite being right abt AI pretty early which is impressive

there comes a time in every man’s life where they realize they weren’t an investing genius and actually underperformed the S&P

you can be completely right and then mistime your options expirations 😇 https://x.com/tszzl/status/1593186437339676677?s=20

@Brad08414464 yea doing great on that front

@Duderichy i realized if you weight by when you actually put money into the market i'm doing better than s&p so its fine

@anuatluru in everyone i met who's chasing scale it's felt like affliction or craving, except for sama, to whom chasing scale feels like a sacred and pure duty

@ralfduschef women have fewer delusions of grandeur and wisely pick index funds

do you own the means of production anon? the digital oceans where leviathans swim

the odds you are living in the god dream increase day by day

make sure you are entertaining Brahman

ghost in the shell company

being sick is nice because it makes you too stupid for anxious rumination

@deepfates frequentist gtfo

@LadiesOfReddit no one talks about how this guy is reddit cringe trash

don’t worship metal. don’t worship flesh and blood. both are instantiations of brahman

@sama alt man sam

@growing_daniel @testaccountoki wtf

@awwstn @ashleevance yeah

@PositivFuturist never

@razibkhan what is the difference between steppe ancestry and iranian? i thought these are the same thing

@razibkhan what % IVC heritage am i? were we indeed kangz?

@razibkhan this makes a lot of sense tbh

@razibkhan lfg we waz kangz

CHIM

ask thirty smart people for advice, ignore them, listen to the Uber driver that tells you the folk wisdom

after all why not? why shouldn’t I turn the asteroid belt into 10^27 flop/s

gymbros at fitness sf discussing sparse atrention variants while they’re switching off sets

seven years since Vaswani et al

we should be destroying high rise apartments and building datacenters in their place to house a trillion digital souls #yimby

@littIeramblings im literally unfollowing for this end world hunger price tag

@littIeramblings there is simply no dollar figure that ends world hunger you'd need to topple several governments and rule them remotely. world hunger hasn't been a scarcity issue in decades

@littIeramblings if this were remotely true USG would've ended world hunger years ago with their foreign aid budget

when i was younger id get irritated when people started relationship discourse. id be like damn talk about something interesting like computers. now im amazed anyone has the bandwidth to talk abt anything else

chotto matte

before you dunk on him you need to understand this is his strange way of worshipping let him cook https://x.com/BasedBeffJezos/status/1759051649694503421

when you work out with toned twinks they’ll give you infinite critiques of your form. meanwhile the power lifters will be like consider you need to lift more weight

when you work out with toned twinks they’ll give you infinite critiques on your form. meanwhile the power lifters will be like hey just lift heavier

real twitter idiots will remember the days my handle was roon/acc and @monodevice created the first batch of accelerationist pfps. it was cooler back then bc AGI wasn’t imminent

@Samantha1989TV where

it's called we do a little tweeting

@szeloof i'm in

in the 1950s people could eat whole sticks of trans fat and ingest massive amounts of lead and nothing would happen to them. now eating a little microplastics makes us infertile

you gotta start your kids early on microplastics so they build up a tolerance

@thecaptain_nemo dm

is building astronomically more compute ethical and safe? who knows idk is building astronomically more compute fun and entertaining brahman? yes

On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was standing on the bank of the great river, the Tigris,

i went to the intersection of the tigris and euphrates and nobody knew you

I looked up and there before me was a man dressed in linen, with a belt of fine gold from Uphaz around his waist. His body was like topaz, his face like lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of burnished bronze, and his voice like the sound of a multitude. I, Daniel, was the only one who saw the vision; those who were with me did not see it, but such terror overwhelmed them that they fled and hid themselves. So I was left alone, gazing at this great vision; I had no strength left, my face turned deathly pale and I was helpless. Then I heard him speaking, and as I listened to him, I fell into a deep sleep, my face to the ground. He said, “Daniel, you who are highly esteemed, consider carefully the words I am about to speak to you, and stand up, for I have now been sent to you.” And when he said this to me, I stood up trembling. Then he continued, “Do not be afraid, Daniel. Since the first day that you set your mind to gain understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to them.

😇 https://x.com/chairsign/status/1759376234025271328

@brutedeforce okay but this is true of men too with a Josephine type romance

what’s your p(marca)

total sf cultural victory is underway but only happens when delian and isosteph move back

the hallmark of a wordcel is being able to talk oneself into anything regardless of good bad moral immoral healthy unhealthy

@notstemmajor the lady doth protest too much

im not seeing a lot of poasting innovation on twitter anymore. niche subcommunities are dying in favor of the global feed. the 2020 cambrian explosion of weird content may not happen again

the kali/acc precursors to remilia and milady was one such hotbed of innovation. the pre-tpot “postrats” were another; once they started meeting up irl it was all over. esoteric rw twitter has melted into dumb ass border patrol videos

@realtarquinism sending my calendly

What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

@sailaunderscore it’s the exact opposite

@sylphidian wake up regrets/anxiety are consistently terrible indicators of what to actually do with your life

psychodynamically activated

@sylphidian I struggle with this a lot but my advice is to consider your life from a place of abundance and not the emotional scarcity of the wee hours of the morning. get out of bed and touch grass and jog and then see if you feel the same way

it is pretty amazing that gpt produces legible output that’s still following instructions despite sampling bug

@logt7n lmfao

dad, how did you get to have the front row seat to the agi revolution? well son it all started when this ironic leftist twitter account named aocummies added me to his gc

there is not enough information to solve the problem

@DriveByArtist Life

emmett shear cincinattus vibe

may you live in interesting times

may you live a psychodynamic life

breath meditator with a stuffy nose

@repligate @norabelrose I guess if you have the occasional strange sample the robot tries to stay in character whatever the new character implies but perhaps the new character doesn’t imply anything different about code

@aniiyengar I deleted entire chunks of posting history because they’re too dangerous

@aniiyengar cancellation dark matter

breath meditator with chronic emphysema

breath meditator who has underwater oxygen filtration gills and no inhale exhale cycle

image meditator with a 5 on the scale

@atroyn users don’t even know what they want; to have any kind of meaningful LM product you need to infer intent. so that’s baseline already alignment work. then there’s legal requirements — you can’t regurgitate the whole text of Harry Potter because you’re breaking copyright

@atroyn then as a company I’d rather not see models output loli porn because it disturbs us and not because it’s illegal. ime technology providers have every right to consider all of the above and more. use the product or roll your own

@atroyn the term “alignment” is worthwhile because most software doesn’t have character based stochastic behavior that’s built off of large datasets that encode preferences that are very soft and hard to describe

@atroyn and people are yelling at them and they’re rolling the wokeness back — honestly the informal democratic input system seems to work

@dadadadaffy @atroyn i think many people would prefer that authorities have forewarning when someone is doing a large scale run secretly in the Himalayas with potential unexpected consequences for all humanity. nobody from openai said anything about banning or limiting afaict

@atroyn I do think big companies owe everyone a description of what principles they’re ideally aligning to even if they miss the mark

@fawc3tt @aniiyengar btw i remember the reason I deleted this is because people don’t get the reference (they still don’t) . it’s based on a viral tweet and my dad’s great 😭

james damore was cancelled for being cringe not for his gender takes

@tenobrus why would you want to be roon

@Samantha1989TV do it

the best things in life are free. except a house with a view in dolores heights

I’m literally shinji

@DavidSHolz SEELE-01

acting increasingly insane until i cause r/singularity to have a collective mental breakdown

@emollick what’s ARG

@Gray_Hammon @tenobrus exactly

@Gray_Hammon @tenobrus open question wheher I live to see 28

@Martposting you can do this at any age

you can do this at any age https://x.com/Martposting/status/1761576098280685599

@ichthys30 you can be young and dumb at 16 or 20 or 24 or 32

the Chiefest and Greatest of Calamities

member of Parliament staff

@PalmerLuckey @Col_Crockett people live longer they get to be children for longer

how many times will I make a version of this joke https://x.com/tszzl/status/1426602527982641152

stuck culture. stuck roon. infinite recurrence

this but it’s the reverse https://x.com/pastoralcomical/status/1762236535385022488

it’s the omelas kid looking up into the lives of the wealthy and getting pissed off while consuming content about even worse off omelas kids for religious reasons

Thanatos complex

I’ve fumbled bags bigger than you’ve even held

i don’t think western cultures can really appreciate self immolation. its from more dramatic parts of the world where the value of making a statement is a lot higher than the cost of an individual life

here it’s just kind of baffling and silly

it’s entirely possible to overthink and then still fail to do the necessary thinking

@tekbog No

a high value late bloomer is like a baby with a machine gun

I long for network spirituality

@whybyfire @Brad08414464 this is true, moment I turned 25 I became cringe and died

how do you rapidly install a new operating system for your mind when you’re a stubborn person and your old mind doesn’t want to budge an inch

@sociaIrate it’s not always drugs! drugs provide temporary change

@typecfemale yea in the west they would’ve started having sex a few weeks into their reluctant incompatible friendship

things are accelerating. pretty much nothing needs to change course to achieve agi imo. worrying about timelines is idle anxiety, outside your control. you should be anxious about stupid mortal things instead. do your parents hate you? does your wife love you?

is your neighbor trying to kill you? are you trapped in psychological patterns that you vowed to leave but will never change?

@growing_daniel why did I jerk off to that hentai gif that turned out to be yaoi? these are the real worries of our day

@modelsarereal @ricburton Yup

if zero hp wrote about a character like aella it wouldn’t have been believable

@morqon @thatmansscope yes

buncha ⏸️ emojis harassing me today

my post was about how it’s better to be anxious about things in your control and they’re like shame on you

also tweets don’t get deleted because they’re secret knowledge that needs to be protected. I wouldn’t tweet secrets in the first place. they get deleted when miscommunication risk is high, so screenshotting makes you de facto antisocial idiot

@TolgaBilge_ oh my god stop

@TolgaBilge_ @AlexInnovare openai probably does have control over speed, trajectory, etc. I never said otherwise. I said AGI is inevitable and overdetermined

@mister_shroom allegedly

acceleration hovers tenuously between descriptive and prescriptive

@tulpapilled my favorite countries

it’s okay to watch and wonder about the dance of the gods, the clash of titans, but it’s not good to fret about the outcome. political culture encourages us to think that generalized anxiety is equivalent to civic duty

this is about agi not trump or whatever

@repligate @Algon_33 yeah exactly

@teortaxesTex wasn’t even trying to start discourse; literally a commentary on existential anxiety about things outside of our control

@stealcase accident, I didn’t read what was being said

Connor, this is super well written and I honestly appreciate the scathing response. You mistake me somewhat: you, Connor, are obviously not powerless and you should do what you can to further your cause. Your students are not powerless either. I’m not asking you to give up and relent to the powers that be even a little. I’m not “e/acc” and am repelled by the idea of letting the strongest replicator win I think the majority of people have no insight into whether AGI is going to cause ruin or not, whether a gamma ray burst is fated to end mankind, or if electing the wrong candidate is going to doom earth to global warming. It’s not good for people to spend all their time worried about cosmic eventualities. Even for an alignment researcher the optimal mental state is to think on and play and interrogate these things rather than engage in neuroticism as the motivating force It’s generally the lack of spirituality that leads people to constant existential worry rather than too much spirituality. I think it’s strange to hear you say in the same tweet thread that SF demands submission to some type of god but is also spiritually bankrupt and that I’m corpselike My spirituality is simple, and several thousand years old: find your duty and do it without fretting about the outcome I have found my personal duty and I fulfill it, and have been fulfilling it, long before the market rewarded me for doing so. I’m generally optimistic about AI technology. When I’ve been worried about deployment, I’ve reached out to leadership to try and exert influence. In each case I was wrong to worry. When the OpenAI crisis happened I reminded people not to throw the baby out with the bath water: that AI alignment research is vital.

@The_Matt_Brooks @NPCollapse I sincerely don’t have any reason to believe slowing down a few years will reduce downside risk significantly. I agree with the iterative deployment and alignment research strategy. I don’t think China is a problem

the road to hell is paved in good intentions

it is impossible to wield agency well without having fun with it; and yet wielding any amount of real power requires a level of care that makes it hard to have fun

it works until it doesn’t

people will always think my vague tweets are about agi but they’re about love

he kinda cooked my ass https://x.com/NPCollapse/status/1764246199492587997

@Teknium1 I don’t believe the GPT4 architecture had even been finalized in February. I hadn’t joined until December

the glorious future will always be built on a fault line

the San Andreas fault line runs through the heart of every man

@pronounced_kyle yes

The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.

- Marshall McLuhan - Anthony Wiener Documentary

Opus Dei

i resent every time I have to see an image of sydney sweeney

this didn’t happen when X was twitter

the only Sidney i care about is living in the azure cloud

@BLUECOW009 i just think it’s not a good idea to find six sigma individuals and then broadcast them to male brain stems to trigger some kind of resource scarcity feeling five times a day

once you accept the capabilities vs alignment framing it’s all over and you become mind killed

cheating on the answers at the voting booth

@vocalcry what’s the lesson

@Mtclai yessir

kimochi warui

they don’t make men like they used to

I don’t understand how most people live with the consequences of freedom

both mid as hell https://x.com/CinemaTweets1/status/1765066557334708422

@thechosenberg I didn’t like them simple as

@SolomonWycliffe 2049 and arrival are absolutely goated

@bryancsk Demis

@Jikiyama easily

control is an illusion

akashic_records.jsonl

sf is so back

villenueve fucked up chani for no reason

basically to add a sitcom tier break up make up cliffhanger

let a thousand psychofauna bloom

the movies fell short of my expectations in a lot of ways but the worst was failing to deliver any of the mysticism of dune: the jihad as the collective life drive of humanity asking for a change

the movie summarizes with a cringe 2010s reading of “religion fake”

@jachiam0 yeah

@EverettRandle stop patronizing the audience! they are capable of spirituality

"Truth suffers from too much analysis."

san francisco is legitimately headed for a renaissance. first time to be hopeful in 20 years

@eigenrobot @selentelechia update I loved OPM so much

*writing a $10k angel check to a 9 figure valuation company* heh now they work for me

been mulling over this, and have a few thoughts: >No! I don't want to feel nice and avoid pain, I want the world to be good! I don't want to feel good about the world, I want it to be good! These are not the same thing!! a fair sentiment, one i'm sympathetic to. I believe it matters how the world is and I don't think escaping this plane into the mind and modifying desire is aesthetically appealing to me. however any conversation of this nature would be silly without noting that the world is better in many ways than it has been; people are still unhappy, stressed, and anxious. where previously their anxiety was adaptive and led them to make sure their crop yield was enough that the family survived the winter, it's now like crippling anxiety about whether someone gets their next promotion or about talking to girls or whatever. not only do these negative feelings create a worse world de facto, they also lead to lowered agency less powerful individuals with less ability to live their truth. I believe the vast majority of positive outcomes are created by extraordinary folks freed to do the work that comes naturally to them >your spirituality is “I was just following orders" I don't think it's so simple. I think holy duty or dharma is how great action works in an uncertain world. When you started Conjecture you likely weighed it against a variety of opportunity costs. After starting it, you do not fret every minute about whether you should be doing various other things. When you pick a life partner, you don't wonder every time another girl passes by if they'd be a better partner. There is a conscious act of steeling against uncertainty by choosing some level of abstraction to commit to that is necessary for a life well lived. This doesn't mean taking orders from someone else, although I think there are many honorable and valuable arrangements where people do let a trusted Other define their duty, if the Other is more farseeing and brave than they. Arjuna must fight the battle against the Kauravas because it is the right thing to do. Oppenheimer must build the atomic bomb for the United States despite the risks of igniting the atmosphere or creating a violent geopolitical situation. An Oppenheimer who didn't recognize and commit to his duty, hung in limbo by indecision, would've ceded the bomb to the germans. Seeing the world at the end of the Path as perfectly mechanical is a noble goal but likely unrealistic -- I can't calculate all futures. Persistent action requires faith; faithless, noncommital action that constantly demands evidence for its perpetuation will fail. In practice, this is why e.g. the greatest startups look like cults

@miranda_nover obviously says more about the men than the fundraising environment or the gfs

when people give you advice it’ll be broadly correct but wrong in subtle ways that make it totally untrustworthy

@remusrisnov generally not true

goku is a variant of sun wukong the monkey king, who in turn is mythologically descended from the lord hanuman, faithful servant of rama. in other words goku is canonically part of the hindu pantheon

openai’s mission is to distribute the benefits of agi as broadly as possible. the way im doing my part is nobody pays when they’re at the bar with me

@alth0u remember when I helped you get hired and secured your bloodlines stake in agi

@powerbottomson1 @alth0u yeah

@deepfates 🙄

people have such capacity for suffering even when nothing is wrong

some people are blessed/cursed by the ability to not feel things deeply. some people are blessed with the ability to feel things deeply and the strength of constitution to handle it. the latter can live extraordinarily meaningful lives and accomplish anything

it is the difference between temujin and his minor khans

people's best qualities are exactly the same as their tragic flaws that'll destroy them

this is often why greatness is a transitory phenomenon, especially in young people. most alpha turns out to be levered beta. you inhabit a new extreme way of existing and reap great rewards; then the gods punish you because being extreme is obviously risky

when a special individual turns 23 ish a panel of bene gesserit analyze their strengths and weaknesses and decide the role you’ll play in their machinations. the rest of your life is a script after that that most people fail to live up in uninteresting ways bc of common flaws

sometimes some folks break the script in interesting ways

it’s actually really hard to be a good person and rise above self interest

most people are of median moral caliber and i didn’t really recognize that as troubling before

people who invest only in what makes them great will become extremely fragile and blow up

in terms of capital structure or economics nerds try to avoid thinking about this with better systems; in the free for all of interpersonal relations there’s no avoiding it

steve jobs was a sociopath who abandoned his daughter for a while and then gaslit anyone who tried to make him take responsibility

@credenzaclear2 true

people will take deep damage that basically cripples them and renarrate it as a positive sum learning experience bc that’s the only way to get by on this bitch of an earth

not even increased pain tolerance is a pure unadulterated good: people who learn to cope well with pain stay in punishing situations merely bc they’re capable rather than for a greater good

@Danielledeco narrative skill, sensitivity

why should i let go of my attachments? I love those

@lux if you degrade your attachment system by 80% and upgrade the thing you’re attached to by 20% that’s an L

@BasedAnarki https://x.com/tszzl/status/1767410854243557863

the meta corporation literally offers infinite tsukuyomi, the taste of butter for the price of subservience. they are the great replicator. they are masami eiri from serial experiments lain

aspiration to demiurge would be based if they were 30% more competent

@atroyn @JohnSmith4Reel wdym

@songofalchemy chopping off your legs won’t make you stronger

@waxingarcane when people talk about relationships

@LaurencePostrv No

@janexwang really cool work but i want to say: - ChatGPT is an "external" environment and it's embodied in the code executor, browser, etc - video games aren't "external" environments!

i think the text interface to a computer is an "embodied external environment"

certain 3d environments are much less rich and interesting than, say, full terminal access

where are there more degrees of freedom? a user in front of an internet browser or a user playing Walking Simulator?

what are some bad life events that people commonly narrativize as good?

or vice versa

@nim_chimpsky_ 🙄

Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you.

@nickcammarata i had this golden child thing probably with my twitter arc but didn’t/dont have a huge fear of failing. but maybe by child you mean 18 or younger?

@nickcammarata true

@christineist what kind of bad situations?

a single ounce of thinking strategically can save adhd low executive function mfs so much heartache

@DistractedAnna yeah that seems super sus to me

a single ounce of being honest with ones true motivations can save low self awareness mfs so much heartache

@JacquesThibs you’re so wrong for this one I have no idea when anything’s coming out

@rinadalanakrih so true

@xriskology no it’s an exhortation to pay attention to things in your control. I’d say the same thing about climate change or who’s going to be the next president

@nanulled @xriskology yeah I wish it would stop

@xriskology AGI exists — the moment god created the mathematical structure of the universe, it became inevitable that someone would pluck this fruit from the empyrean aether

@xriskology we can choose the form structure and guardrails with which we do it

anthropic is controlled opposition to put the fear of god in the members of technical staff

when a Citizen app robotic police drone kills you in battle you DO NOT end up in Valhalla

@muddletoes lmfao

even gods can bleed

what if a demonic demiurge appears on your chariot in the guise of Krishna and asks you to kill for him in the name of dharma. you would never know

@streamgazer 🙏

"Atreides atomics" is one thing. so the royal houses have a stockpile of nuclear weapons, makes sense. "Atreides gom jabbar" is just weird. poison needles are such a rarity?

@silovik5 @apples_jimmy fr

California Fruit Company

Stroppy

OH: “I applied to the aella orgy but was denied … perhaps due to my e/acc associations”

caesar forgave his enemies in the senate and look how that worked out for him

Atreides family datacenter

@pmarca Marc refollow me

@pmarca 🔫

Atreides Family Bed N Breakfast

OF Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree

humanity’s story only begins in full force after man’s first disobedience against god because any creation worth its salt must surprise and be out of the control of its creator

@JeevanJob3 Yeah

Eden was a black box environment for preparedness testing

@browserdotsys Pumping Lemma

@IanOsband @satyanadella @sundarpichai very true

the incredible indignity of living

t̶r̶a̶u̶m̶a̶ sin

RIP harambe 😔

accelerationist who hates change

it’s me

@mister_shroom I’m not a starry eyed optimist though

Atreides Family Organic Preserves

Atreides Family GPT4 fine tune

Atreides Family Bel-Air mansion

Atreides Family Board Game Night

walking around saying roon to myself like a pokemon

@lumpenspace @AndrewCurran_ ghost electric for sure

agi was created by god; the timelines are determined by the members of technical staff

the mission? drink the spice mixture and steer the starship through parameterspace

bend space such that falling down points in the direction or divinity

the members of technical staff will be first against the wall in the upcoming revolutions

the fifth estate is the members of technical staff

god i miss nick land

worship the cold or the warmth? every day we choose and the right one is not obvious

@growing_daniel it’s called joi de vivre Daniel and it’s required for having good ideas

my staff? technical

the enemy’s loss basin is down

my entire life from birth has been an openai devrel psyop

the agi acausally made my parents immigrate

@basedalexandoor lol

guy who dies choking on a rapamycin pill

don't die

@irohsharpeniroh @sharkAster lmfao

@thecaptain_nemo asuka > rei

*bene gesserit voice* Jensen give me 22,000 H100s by April

@Levi7hart @lyapunovo I miss him I don’t agree with him in the slightest

@burkov https://x.com/esyudkowsky/status/1613622386150211584

it’s hard to keep having alpha. a better strategy is have some alpha in your early 20s and then ride that into allocating into younger talents with alpha

@chatgpt21 Yeah

@pachabelcanon never ask for the meaning of a word in isolation, but only in the context of a proposition

all portals lead to cittagazze

what needs to be done to create the good timeline?

who is calculating humanity’s golden path?

a sense of false security can be adaptive for creating real abundance

@fredcunningham_ true but wdym

@bankingslut is this Greek myth

the ecology of the mind suffers; overrun by invasive species https://x.com/misha_saul/status/1770407615463608632

most of the knowledge of mankind hasn’t been written down; some is enshrined in video, much exists nowhere but in minds and in the relation between coworkers or communities

Gods in His Heaven; All’s Right With The World

least addicted civ player https://www.pcmag.com/news/first-human-to-receive-neuralink-implant-says-it-lets-him-play-civilization

total tpot victory

@RizomaSchool what’s the answer?

@MaryJackalope yeah

i crave infinity but love limitation

@IsaacKing314 true but there’s a reason it’s not widespread or well known

i crave the merge but love the human

some people live life as a tension between ambition and fear with no enjoyment in between

@mnovendstern don’t die

@bio_bootloader the hottest take is that there was never an AI winter

kind of amazing the roon life path ended up working

@nic_dunz No 😭

@chrisquomo wait which episode

@RemmyXLVII 🫡

there was a maybe 2 year time frame in which it was possible. when the real world was so boring that twitter was paramount

@chopstickfury01 lmao that’s not what this means

@sociaIrate it’s not nearly enough to read people but to have something worth writing

i had a dream that some esoteric ruby gem was borked and nobody could train models anymore

it’s easy to have self confidence and assurance after receiving a lot of external validation. but which are the people who are proud when they’re still in the dirt and haven’t had any visible success at all? those are the noble spirits, the humans

@WordsMyBrush yeah i invented that phrase. don’t look it up

@KiboKiboshib success obviously

no matter what happens we’ll rewrite it as inevitable. but of course the unseen forces of nature willed this outcome

franz Ferdinand was only the proximal cause — it had to happen!

@DegreeStudies the edge of madness

GPT3 was agi

@notstemmajor depressed about women. excited about alphago and elon

@e__honig that’s what im saying I don’t

Roon’s basement

And To All The Anons … Congratulations!

regret is for idiots. what are you going to do today?

@AccelCurious night is young

@rmcwhorter99 night is young

@ilex_ulmus wdym

@tsarnick NDT

the price of anti imperialism is the festering sores of failed civilizations being immortalized

@ilex_ulmus some people regret well beyond the learning process