Alexandre Variengien

My first serious attempt at fiction writing is online! The Connection explores a world where technological advancement centers around human connection. Check it out! alexandrevariengien.com/the-connection

I was about to beat gemini 3.1 pro at tic tac toe but it refused to loose

Substack link: alexandrevariengien.substack.com/p/becoming-the…

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I trust Kristen to create a wholesome space to incubate projects! Very excited about this new format

@dabgorilla @exgenesis Yes! Whereas AI sees all tokens on after the other. If we give them physical sensors, this is still a concatenation of bits. Of course you can do filtering, preprocessing, summarizing But you don't have this fluid dance across scales to find the diagonal relevant shapes

Yes, we have parallel functions, but cannot execute intentions in parallel, we have to do that linearly... except for folks with ADHD lol For example you don't "feel" eveytime a cell divides in your body. And everytime you act on an intention you are collapsing other options, kind of like the wave-particle duality

How I'm thinking about the substrate difference between AIs and humans

@dabgorilla @exgenesis Interestingly I'd say the opposite. Humans have access to very strong parallelism (every cell in your body is used for computation)

@A_Variengien @exgenesis Hmm, could this be because the AI can harness parallel solutions? While humans can only do this linearly?

@TutorVals @nosilverv Hehehe happy to see the membrane ontology propagating 😎

@nosilverv @A_Variengien has a bunch of these! I retweeted another of his recently

You can't comment on the discourse without adding to it. Reflexivity.

If you're interested in following my work with @exgenesis, go read the latest report on mining opportunities in substacks

@exgenesis @christineist @meansinfinity @AgotaDubi Nice! Claudeconnect as a provider of the base layer

@christineist @meansinfinity @AgotaDubi @A_Variengien cool connection!

Serendipity/social aliveness metrics: 1. Thread Spark: A writes a thread and B make a good reply 2. Shared Arena: A and B meet in the replies to a third thread 3. Help Gateway: A asks for help and B offers help

@exgenesis @natural_hazard And you can find more background for the tool here! alexandrevariengien.com/breaking-books

@natural_hazard @A_Variengien see here! breaking-books.therandom.space

insane how I now understand 40% of D&G a thousand plateaus from a 2h card game @A_Variengien ran that can be played for any book

For people out there that want to setup openclaw using cloudflare's moltworker I tried to set it up for 2 hours without luck * I jungled tokens and dashboard interfaces left and right getting inconsistent error * My telegram token was setup, but the connection didn't work * No support for whatsapp as a backup * No support for using auth-token from Anthropic I'm sure it's skill issue on my side, but might be good to know for ppl that wan to try github.com/cloudflare/mol…

@willmacaskill One necessary ingredient is leveraging human connection: transmission of tacit knowledge, frame translation, co-thinking I wrote how this might put us on track to stabilize our socio-technical development in a hard sci-fi short story alexandrevariengien.com/the-connection

Almost no one has articulated a positive vision for what comes after superintelligence. What should we be trying to aim for? Utopias from history look clearly dystopian to us, and we should expect the same for our own attempts. We don’t know enough to know what utopia looks like. The main alternative framework is “protopianism”: solving the most urgent problems one by one, not guided by any big-picture view of society’s long-run course. I prefer protopianism to utopianism, but it gives up too much. The transition to superintelligence will present many problems all at once, and may need to choose between very different solutions to the same problems. We need a way to prioritise and plan. So I want to introduce a third framing: viatopia. A viatopia is a state of society that is *on track* for a near-best future, whatever that might look like. A teenager might not know what they want to do with their life, but know that a good education keeps their options open. My current guesses for what viatopia looks like: material abundance, technological progress, coordination to avoid conflict, low catastrophic risk—plus preserving society-wide optionality, cultivating reflection, and structuring deliberation so better ideas win out. I have a new essay on this idea — link in reply.

Yep, the vision is to use automation as a mortar Rn we are forcing our thoughts / skills to be compatible with systems outside of ourselves, e.g. having to learn english, programing languages. It's like forcing all the containers to be the same shape so they can be piled up In the future, we can do what we are best at, no matter if it takes a weird, wobbly shape. The infra will make it legible to the rest of the world The key skill becomes authenticity

@DefenderOfBasic @A_Variengien curious if u already have a response here :) (I'm guessing that ur vision is *not* automate "everything", but only some things, with co-creation taking greater part of our future lives)

to what end are we trying to automate everything for