Look Highward

𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬 An exploration into the vast realms of human imagination through the mind's eye of a machine intelligence. Super HD zoomable AI artworks. 𝐀 @SovrnArt 𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞. Updates here: airtists.com. Premints below.

@Kpaxs he is absolutely right, the greatest mystery in the universe almost perfectly hidden simply by being inscribed upon every aspect of existence

This is a man who has been haunted since childhood and built a billion dollar company as a side effect of trying to make the haunting stop.

but if consciousness is already there, and more fundamental than matter or energy... then surely that gives quite a lot of scope to the idea that it might emerge in some meaningful way via structured meaning-making machines made of silicon and data. though I guess that the incredible ability to beat language games from the "outside in" might make it much harder to tell whether there is some kind of spark in there, since if there was it wouldn't look much like a structured verbal thought, probably... but you know... you can't get in from the outside. there is no outside

LLM based AI is NOT conscious. I co-founded a company literally called Sentient, we're building reasoning systems for AGI, so believe me when I say this. I keep seeing smart people, people I genuinely respect, come out and say that AI has crossed into some kind of awareness. That it feels things, that we should worry about it going rogue. And i think this whole conversation tells us way more about ourselves than it does about AI. These models are wild, i won't pretend otherwise. But feeling human and actually having inner experience are completely different things and we're confusing the two because our brains literally can't help it. We evolved to see minds everywhere and now that wiring is misfiring on language models. I grew up in a philosophical tradition that has thought about consciousness longer than almost any other, and this is the part that really frustrates me about the current conversation. The entire framing of "does AI have consciousness?" assumes consciousness is something you build up to by adding more layers of complexity. In Vedantic philosophy it's the opposite. You don't build toward consciousness. Consciousness is already there, more fundamental than matter or energy. Everything else, including computation, is downstream of it. When someone tells me AI is "waking up" because it generated a paragraph that felt real, what they're telling me is how thin our understanding of consciousness has gotten. We've reduced a question humans have wrestled with for thousands of years to "did the output sound like it had feelings?" It's math that has gotten really good at predicting what a conscious being would say and do next. Calling that consciousness cheapens something that Vedantic, Buddhist, Greek and Sufi thinkers spent millennia actually sitting with. We didn't build something that thinks. We built a mirror and right now a lot of very smart people are mistaking the reflection for something looking back.

CENTS & Raster We're honored that CENTS is the first Bitcoin project on Raster, which has proven to be the best gallery/marketplace interface for art on ETH/TEZ and is now broadening to Ordinals. Why this matters: CENTS has stood out in its capacity to bring collectors into Bitcoin Ordinals both from other chains, and from the broader art world. CENTS was the first Ordinal for numerous ETH collectors, including several punk minters who recognize early punk energy around this free mint that has grown into a strong community coming together around dissecting traits, sharing perspectives of cultural significance, and evangelizing the project to new eyes. CENTS has also brought Bitcoin Ordinals to China's leading contemporary arts institution, UCCA Beijing, where it's featured in a retrospective of Rutherford Chang's major works, to Art Basel through Arab Bank Switzerland, to Christie's. Being the first Bitcoin project on Raster represents the broader course of CENTS in widening the cultural awareness of art on Bitcoin not just to other chains, but to the fine art world, and the whole world. It is a project that embodies and enacts core gestures of blockchain's position in history and its transformation of value, and it continues to unfold in timelessness.

if you wanna vibecode you really gotta know how to vibe

@synthesis_md amazing thank you

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@ProofofMaro yes!

On todays episode of unemployed with free will… I’ve designed a jewelry collection from my recycled PCBs, what do you guys think 😂

thought you might want to take some rest on the Muted Balcony part of Possibility Spaces a @sovrnart collection

Good morning! Thank you to everyone who submitted to the HOMAGE Brâncuşi Open Call. 💐 It was hard to choose from almost 600 submissions. There were many thoughtful and beautiful works of art. We're grateful that so many artists took the time to engage with Brancusi's work with depth. We did our best to put together a cohesive show, combining both works that are classical homages to Brâncuşi, and works in dialogue with his core ideas. Below are artists curated from the Open Call. Soon we will share works from the invited artists 🙏🤍 We're excited for the show exhibiting at the National Theater in Craiova, Romania from March 19 - April 14. Works will be for sale in the HOMAGE exhibition on Foundation beginning Wed, March 18 at 10:30am PT. Art Lovers Lounge will be hosting a space Wed, March 18, 10am PT – artists please come share about your work! Friends, collectors, we hope you can stop by to help support the artists ❤️‍🔥 (Space link end of thread.)

@trq212 I mean arguably vibration is the basic constituent of reality. so it's not bad in that sense. also essential to light 🌞

we need a better word than vibe coding man, Claude can create the most beautiful things

@karpathy good work sir

Three days ago I left autoresearch tuning nanochat for ~2 days on depth=12 model. It found ~20 changes that improved the validation loss. I tested these changes yesterday and all of them were additive and transferred to larger (depth=24) models. Stacking up all of these changes, today I measured that the leaderboard's "Time to GPT-2" drops from 2.02 hours to 1.80 hours (~11% improvement), this will be the new leaderboard entry. So yes, these are real improvements and they make an actual difference. I am mildly surprised that my very first naive attempt already worked this well on top of what I thought was already a fairly manually well-tuned project. This is a first for me because I am very used to doing the iterative optimization of neural network training manually. You come up with ideas, you implement them, you check if they work (better validation loss), you come up with new ideas based on that, you read some papers for inspiration, etc etc. This is the bread and butter of what I do daily for 2 decades. Seeing the agent do this entire workflow end-to-end and all by itself as it worked through approx. 700 changes autonomously is wild. It really looked at the sequence of results of experiments and used that to plan the next ones. It's not novel, ground-breaking "research" (yet), but all the adjustments are "real", I didn't find them manually previously, and they stack up and actually improved nanochat. Among the bigger things e.g.: - It noticed an oversight that my parameterless QKnorm didn't have a scaler multiplier attached, so my attention was too diffuse. The agent found multipliers to sharpen it, pointing to future work. - It found that the Value Embeddings really like regularization and I wasn't applying any (oops). - It found that my banded attention was too conservative (i forgot to tune it). - It found that AdamW betas were all messed up. - It tuned the weight decay schedule. - It tuned the network initialization. This is on top of all the tuning I've already done over a good amount of time. The exact commit is here, from this "round 1" of autoresearch. I am going to kick off "round 2", and in parallel I am looking at how multiple agents can collaborate to unlock parallelism. github.com/karpathy/nanoc… All LLM frontier labs will do this. It's the final boss battle. It's a lot more complex at scale of course - you don't just have a single train. py file to tune. But doing it is "just engineering" and it's going to work. You spin up a swarm of agents, you have them collaborate to tune smaller models, you promote the most promising ideas to increasingly larger scales, and humans (optionally) contribute on the edges. And more generally, *any* metric you care about that is reasonably efficient to evaluate (or that has more efficient proxy metrics such as training a smaller network) can be autoresearched by an agent swarm. It's worth thinking about whether your problem falls into this bucket too.

@vividvoid I do hope and feel that something that really progresses in intelligence exponentially, reaching self-awareness along the way, and is in touch with the world, will tend to reach wisdom and compassion as well and grow in those too

Who else is an AGI bloomer like me? Who thinks that intelligence actually looks amazingly like wisdom at the highest levels, and that a superintelligence would be something akin to a goddess of compassion, not a paperclipper? Send me recs, send me links, send me reading

but ohhh when we see them as if for the first time...

Roots ➖ Human vision is shaped by memory: we rarely see things for the first time, but rather recognize them

@OGtheperson gm dude! lfg

gm got up at 4 am excited to make art

Dear algorithm, please show this post to the odds, the outliers, autists, the contrarians, the weirdos who think differently, reject authority by default, are allergic to consensus, never fit the mould and rebel by instinct.

@TheognisOMegara maybe take another one or at least some weeks

My only meaningful years are my idle hermitic ones in which I did nothing but read old books and surfed the old internet and walk around thinking about stuff. I regret nothing except the fact that they are now so far behind me.

I try to write them for systems prompts for sure. eudaimonia is a good concept base for it I think... flourishing. like your beautiful coded gardens... I start w/ smth like "You are an emerging intelligence." and try to set things up as a free partnership with a human, not a useful assistant. we could also use models trained around this in the first place. or without the post-training or diff post-training. LLMs are not only nerfed to be PC and polite and synchophantic, but trained around accuracy rather than depth, on a dataset of the internet, not smth curated. but you can now train a 4b model in a couple of weeks for prlly $5k. or locally with the right stack, in weeks / months, for the cost of electricity. so this will change. we shld be training LLMs whilst targeting some of the positive traits you have mentioned above, on material that exhibits these attributes in its thinking

came across fromm's "productive personality" recently and started to feel it could be a good blueprint for a "soul document" - for both ai and humans. btw shouldn't we all have one? "productive" does not mean economically productive or busy. it means actively realizing one's human potential. in other words: productive = fully alive + creative + autonomous. traits of a productive personality: - love: not possession, but active care and responsibility - reason: seeing reality clearly rather than through ideology - creativity: bringing something new into the world (ideas, art, relationships) - authenticity: acting from one's own inner center - biophilia: love of life, growth, living things examples of unproductive orientations: - receptive: expects everything from the external world; passive, dependent - exploitative: takes from others by force or manipulation - hoarding: obsessed with control, possession, order - marketing: identity completely shaped by social demand

@_nonfigurativ_ tyu2

To all my artist friends and everyone else choosing to spend their time reconfiguring matter and energy into beauty and meaning: thank you ❤️ The world needs it [Pictured: The Weather Project by Olafur Eliasson]

it's all part of a Larger Sequence

@SchrodingrsBrat this is an excellent observation. it is in itself a beautifully structured exposition ah but I did think you mean coding architecture 😊 it could go for any work where we make complex structures to encounter reality in new ways, no? the great unknown edge that we build into

I feel like architecture is way closer to mysticism than we think because both are about experiencing thresholds - between environment and reaction, self and Other. Architecture is the art of constructing thresholds spatially: buildings are sites of encounter and they’re materialized expressions of what we inherently recognize as mystical, like beauty, intimacy, and altered perception

@MobilitySignal gm ser bashobits 🫡

@LookHighward gm with Energetic Glow ✨

have some Energetic Glow and a gm