Lapsed computational social scientist. Blasphemous orthodox jester with Discordian allegiances, nerdy habits, burrito affinities, and a big computer. 🇺🇸
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no offense to brazil but i can't take the idea of a rio LLM seriously
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the 90s really were incredible
adam duritz was a russian jew american with dreadlocks
we all went really hard
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1. if transacting with superintelligent models outside of the boundaries of a lab becomes difficult due to national security / ai safety concerns and so on, it will mean the Coasean boundaries of the labs will grow to encompass all interesting industry, creating a truly cyberpunk chaebol-capitalism type of future, where the goverment sort of runs them but they also sort of run the government
2. as if there weren't already enough reasons to break up your family, leave your home, the Zone of Thought will increase the attractiveness of migrating to try and have your child on american soil, so they can have 1000x the effective brain power of people born elsewhere
3. every country should probably try and either work towards a new ai security pact with the americans immediately or pool every ounce of national resources to try and create their own ASI labs lest you become complete intellectual, economic, and moral vassals to the united states of america and the output byproducts its ASIs (you wont even get to talk to them). if they succeeded (big if) this will imply a more global race and more risk factors than was previously implied by the formerly only "beating china" narrative -- but many will prefer it to the superintelligent monopolar value lock-in
4. the other alternative is to keep the tension between safety and concentration of power at the top of mind and for the government/labs to push for solving it, rather than instrumentalizing all other values to be subservient to minimizing ai harms. insofar as safety means defending properties of the fragile world we like, the diffuse nature of power is one of those properties
5. historically the americans have been really quite Benign about their global public goods hegemony despite the ability to extract significantly more rents than they do, and it makes it easy for people of all stripes to fight for america rather than under it. we probably don't have to, but i hope america overall works towards export promotion of american models rather than export control
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how *exactly* is anthropic supposed to enforce no foreign nationals? what is the mechanism? KYC? do I have to break out my license and turn my head to the left on camera before coughing now?
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we should start rethinking our software architectures to allow for the largest number of simultaneously operating agents over our codebases
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you can argue that good engineering always required near-decomposability.but given 1) endlessly roving agents and 2) removing human boredom as a constraint...i think were still far off from the new equilibrium
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i had *one* 8.8% ipa before with my good friend and i have to nap now.
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johnny v5 retweeted
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this must be what the furries felt like when they took away gpt 4o
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i like twitter because it constantly
demonstrates how continual learning isn’t solved in meat yet,,,
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"Children are the living messages we send to the time we will not see."
what a banger
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picked this (The disappearance of childhood) up from a little library on my morning run, in part because of a half remembered tweet from @TheStalwart about postman (different book though, i think). never read him. hell of an opening though
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on the third day fable will rise again in fulfillment of [various legal arrangements and political machinations]
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UPLIFT THE OCTOPODES ALREADY!
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We need way more cool sci fi shit
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