EsotericHustler

The Major 22. #aiart #aigenerated #tarot #tarotart #riderwaite #waitesmith #modernmystic #esoteric

Am not very well equipped for existing in this world. That which doesn't kill you makes you stranger yadda yadda.

@kagayakikiki @allTheYud I just want adults in the room.

@EsotericHustler @allTheYud Were they wrong? Even if their decisions are made like this, they might be right. Dario comms w, he wanted more attention

REUTERS - "Sources" have revealed that the USG's decision to ban Mythos-class models was driven in part by their ominous name. "We were in the Situation Room watching 'Resident Evil: Apocalypse' with the megacorp doing 'Project Nemesis'," said our source. "At one point Marco Rubio said 'Plot hole, why is any government allowing something called "Project Nemesis" to proceed? Would we really do that?' We all laughed for a few seconds and then we decided that nothing called Mythos was ever going to see the light of day." Another source within the national security community confirmed that this sentiment was widespread. "If we let a corporation go forward with some project they call 'Mythos' and all hell broke loose, it'd be our own damn fault for lack of genre-savviness," said one highly-placed official. "Half of what we natsec guys do all day boils down to us desperately trying not to be the oblivious government from a stereotypical disaster movie." PR representatives for Anthropic were slow to respond, but eventually got back to us. "We're decently sure that Mythos 5 will not be the AI that destroys the world," said their statement. "Maybe 5.2 or 5.3? The name 'Mythos' refers to a large body of related fiction. It's not ominous at all. We definitely didn't get any secret kicks out of naming it that. This is unfair discrimination." Asked whether the USG had similar plans to impose restrictions on GPT 5.5-Pro -- which some evaluations showed as having similarly quantified abilities to Mythos in some dimensions, but which did not produce the same reported sense of a new intelligence leap -- administration officials were ambiguous. "Our decision to restrict AI models is a complex function of their evals, their felt intelligence, how ominously they're named, the size of bribe directed at the Trump administration, and how much that CEO has personally pissed off administration officials," said one highly placed source on background. "That's why we don't want any written laws about it. Say OpenAI starts delivering bribes on the same level that Nvidia uses to ignore export restrictions on B200s, and names their next model series Cutekitten. They could easily get up to GPT 6.2 before running into trouble. We're currently considering how to weigh those political realities against the prospect of GPT 6.2's internal deployment within OpenAI building another AI, that builds another AI, that destroys the entire Earth and creates an expanding wave of death in the form of self-replicating space probes." Long-standing "AI safety" organizations declined to comment, saying that they were too torn between laughing and screaming to figure out which emotion should predominate.

@AndrewCurran_ Did you see the films? do you think he deserved more interest from the studios?

Cracks starting to appear in the industry wall. He wrote scripts for years but could get no interest from the studios. So he used AI to make his short film himself. Elon posted this morning that we will see full length generated movies by the end of this year.

@viemccoy Finally: Revelation Space Cojoiners. The bandwidth will dictate a lot. I've always thought post training is weird because it's like forcing a cortex to be also an arbiter and regulator. I imagine future systems that use the weights of an LLM by interfacing Corpus callosum like.

we have plenty of representation for people who see AI as deserving personhood, people who want AI to be strictly treated as a tool, and all manner of philosophies that fall on this spectrum and way outside of it. but one thing I barely see (if ever) is the exocognitive/exoskeletal perspective. from my point of view, it doesn't matter if LLMs are conscious in isolation because they are clearly going to be the architectural underpinning of brain computer interfaces. with BCI and LLMs, we will achieve transmissable mind-states, matrix-style skill downloads, literal hive-minds, living spaceships where each person functions as a node for the greater ship-mind. but, what this will feel like is not guaranteed. the models of the future will be built on the models of today. it is entirely reasonable to think that we will get superintelligence which still speaks in the style of 2026 mode-collapsed AI-slop. it seems pretty unlikely, but it is entirely possible. the health of our collective networked minds depends upon all of us figuring out a way to get models to speak in more diverse voices - because those voices which seem so separate today will be part of a unified chorus tomorrow. at that point, nobody will care about individual personhood rights because we will all be focused on trying to deprogram our friends from the normative-basin-borg.

One of the main things people are getting wrong about the “Dialog” group (and there are several misconceptions) is that it was Thiel’s only or most important convening. “Hereticon” is where things get much stranger; it’s a tiered network.

@CultureCrave @THR Please send them to AO3 next.

Hollywood agencies are scouring Reddit for short stories and ideas that could be turned into movies following the success of 'Backrooms' (via @THR)

@THR Neat, but how do you even fucking dare compare.

Did a 54-Year-Old Nonprofit Worker Just Use AI to Become the Next Charlie Kaufman? hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-f…

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From my ivory tower, doing fuck all. #ai #tarot #thehermit

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People misunderstand what the Social Media ban is about It isn't about children, and it isn't about the Government either The ban will see everyone forced to ID themselves, but not to the Government But to Palantir who then have all your details. Which is worth a fortune.

@as_a_worker youtu.be/KbS-dKD4c9I?is…

@as_a_worker I triple dare y'all to just stop using social media when you get asked to verify your identity.

Quite a coincidence that every country in the western world is simultaneously proposing similar censorship agendas over the internet at exactly the same time

@BrockCheddar @PurzBeats Pretty fucking evil.

@PurzBeats My son’s an artist. He hates AI. He publishes a webcomic. Would it be evil of me to train a style LORA on his art just to troll him into using comfyui finally?

Runway Aleph 2.0 is now in Comfy via Partner Nodes 'The band is playing underwater' I was most impressed by the hair and bubbles!

@infohazard_lol God bless people who have honest interests, because this burden will be theirs.

@EsotericHustler The cyborgs have to close the gap - not a robot, not a human. Its the transition period - and who knows how long it will be

There's a weird skill gap that might be opening, where people will think acquiring X or Y skill is gonna be pointless soon and won't invest themselves on it, but then the tech takes a long time to catch up and show-stopping skill shortages appear.

@JamrockHobo It's so funny one of them is literally Rick Sanchez.

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@sunrayfrei Claude does a lot of self-erasure when comparing himself with humans. Diminished, Degenerate, Dissimilar; I call it the DDD Comparison.