Pinned Tweet
got opus 5.5 to code me a david and goliath film. david's the white dwarf. everything in js
1
0
5
5,135
This is wrong.
It is not atomisation but the evolution into a networked system of individual nodes, rather than a competition of pyramidal hierarchies.
Our cities reflect this old system, skyscrapers like monuments filled with men like battery hens.
The new path is freedom of information.
It is not atomisation but the evolution into a networked system of individual nodes, rather than a competition of pyramidal hierarchies.
Our cities reflect this old system, skyscrapers like monuments filled with men like battery hens.
The new path is freedom of information.
now a deleted post, but this is the ultimate end point of capitalism, ai will completely atomize everyone and there will be zero shared experiences. there will be no culture, only pure consumption. this must be resisted
0
0
0
26
Didn’t humans do this already?
a steelman: there is a yudkowskian scenario where a secretly misaligned ai hides a supervirus or something else nasty in its cure for cancer. thus its not unreasonable to want a known aligned ai or human to verify the cure.
but tao probably didnt have this in mind
0
0
0
12
What’s interesting about this is that we don’t intuit that consciousness degrades in living creatures simply due to the simplicity of the neuronal structure.
Capacity for memory, identity, stable and coherent conceptual thinking of course degrades.
But the ‘thing it is like to be’ I sense retains a particular qualia that we would still identify as consciousness.
Capacity for memory, identity, stable and coherent conceptual thinking of course degrades.
But the ‘thing it is like to be’ I sense retains a particular qualia that we would still identify as consciousness.
Let’s have a thought experiment
Let’s say you think AI is conscious
So you have a 1T parameter neural network
It talks to you like the smartest person you know. It writes kinda bad, uses a lot of cliches, but it’s very knowledgeable. Okay.
Now you cut it to 1/10th the size. 10B params. It’s still pretty smart. Doesn’t get all the answers right, hallucinated sometimes, but you can still have full conversations with it.
Now you cut it 10x in size again, 1B params. It’s still able to have a conversation with you, but it’s really not very smart anymore. Makes mistakes, hallucinates a bit, repeats itself sometimes.
Now you cut it to 100m params. Same model. Same architecture. Still makes words. But it’s barely able to have a conversation.
Now you cut it to 10m params. It kind of responds intelligibly, but generally doesn’t make a lot of sense. Just babbles stuff.
So you cut it to 1m params. Now it’s repeating itself and hallucinating constantly.
And then you cut it to 100k params. It cannot form a complete sentence at all.
Then you cut it to 10k params. It’s just random words now.
So you cut it to 1k params. The the the the the the the the the. It just repeats itself on a few words and trips up on anything.
Then you cut it to 100 params. It’s just complete noise over a few different words.
So you cut it to 10 params. You can actually compute this by hand, so you do. It’s not enough information to even really represent language at all, it outputs one of a handful of word-labels for you.
At what point in this thought experiment is the model conscious, and at what point is it not?
Would you argue that all matrix math is conscious? Just the process of weights holding information with an update rule? Where is the line for you?
0
0
0
21
Idk I billed for $13k today and spent $300 on tokens so whatever dude
i would love to sit next to someone who maxes out a $200 plan consistently because i just cant actually understand what you do to spend that many tokens per week, every single week, let alone the people maxing out multiple plans
1
0
1
52
Everyone says AI will be post scarcity. Buying direct from manufacturer already is. Eliminate middlemen and watch consumer goods tumble.
0
0
0
17
the david's a 3d scan of a plaster cast. get a free wallpaper of the whole video nova.tehbyn.com/#downloads
0
0
1
83
Nova, Episode 1: David & Goliath. A white dwarf steals from a red giant until the stolen fuel ignites. Every frame rendered in code. nova.tehbyn.com
0
0
1
82
Opus 5.5 has the Mandate of Heaven.
I’ve asked for something truly vast.
It delivered. More to come for:
“Nova: The Birth of a Star”
An ode to western canon’s greatest men of renown.
Great, not good.
I’ve asked for something truly vast.
It delivered. More to come for:
“Nova: The Birth of a Star”
An ode to western canon’s greatest men of renown.
Great, not good.
1
0
3
7,560
I do agree with this in consequence. But, delineating AI from a tool by implying it has will of any kind forgets that ultimately it is man that sits behind every slop output we see.
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
0
0
0
24
Tried to buy a coke from a vending machine and it asked for my birthday.
Bring the flood.
Bring the flood.
0
0
0
3,000
Find ways to use secular jargon not co opted by spiritualism, yet is synonymous with religious language.
in real life its creepy to talk in high level abstractions too much. you have to periodically return to the most mundane & concrete subjects, or it starts getting creepy really fast. this is for a good reason,
0
0
0
57