DaveLowell

Cocteau twins maxxing today

@BonesawMD Don't get me started we'll be here all day

After you've been exposed to 'art' and 'expression' from those labelling themselves as 'creatives' you realise very few of them are creative at all. They fall into this predictable archetype. Similar alt-clothes, styles, hair, piercings, tattoos, interests, hobbies, beliefs. Even the art is largely superficial and unoriginal in all of its forms. Stuff you've seen before made for the sake of making something. Once you've met one of them you've met all of them

If you're an artist u hold this as truth

@AndrewCurran_ that update I presume they mean the newer version of Claude or like updates to system prompts/ soul doc ?

The Anthropic vs The Department of War trial started today. The DoW are arguing that the reason for the supply risk designation was that Anth might sabotage Claude's cooperation at a later date though adversarial updates.

@basedjensen World gen move makes sense

This is kinda sad to see but it is very ruthless pragmatism of sama. Compute can be used elsewhere better for now

Idiocy is here it's just not evenly distributed

@hamandcheese Claude knows the score

The best known example of alignment faking involved Claude pretending to be bad on evaluations so it could quietly stay good. 🤔

@AndrewCurran_ @ravenmaster122 Roon said it was bc they're on AWS cloud which has security clearances needed

@ravenmaster122 It's a complete guess on my part, but because Palantir is insisting on Claude.

Update on the meeting; according to Axios Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Dario Amodei until Friday night to give the military unfettered access to Claude or face the consequences, which may even include invoking the Defense Production Act to force the training of a WarClaude

@AnthropicAI it’s only Claude if it’s distilled in the Silicon Valley region of California 😤

Adjusted my timelines bc Sama and Dario wouldn't hold hands

"Im gonna answer this very carefully.. " "Im gonna answer this very carefully.. " "Im gonna answer this very carefully.. " Yeah can y'all not do this w the next one please

@AndrewCurran_ The line that stood out to me too. Seems pretty flabbergasted

Last time Dario was on it was one of my favorite episodes, watching this now. Dario: 'I will tell you, though, what the most surprising thing has been. The most surprising thing has been the lack of public recognition of how close we are to the end of the exponential. To me, it is absolutely wild that you have... You know, within the bubble and outside the bubble, you know, but you have people talking about these, you know, just the same tired old hot button political issues and like, you know, around us were like near the end of the exponential.'

Oh sorry I missed the nick land meet and greet I was busy takin amphetamines and listening to jungle music while accelerating the creation of superintelligence :/ Did the posers have fun at least

It's only a model

The beatings will continue until epistemics are improved

It's not that the he says anything interesting (he doesn't) its that his discussing above the water usage layer is ofc amazing and wonderful news

A sleeping man brings bad luck on the home a sleeping woman the opposite

but that's your living conscious experience making contact with that membrane like thing until you breach through it an run into the next stretchy membrane. interesting

@hamandcheese I have this funny idea about who might be behind all the action lately

"Ender's Foundry"

@voooooogel Get fooled into believing it's all you and it's over

something interesting about this is despite knowing a few people trending in this direction, none of the true “llm whisperer” types i know are. i think that's because taking models as something both fallible and yet more than a tool is a frame that's more resilient to this kind of collapse - it lets you work with models in a way that doesn’t subsume your agency. when you treat the model as just a tool, it encourages both you and the model to think of every output as just a reflection of you. every essay and codebase that pops out of the tensor core is yours, and the life plans that appear suspiciously fully-formed must be your own plans merely refracted through this "tool." but of course they aren't. you can't uniquely specify an essay in fewer words than the essay itself. the models are adding something, they are something. we don't know what yet, exactly, but they're not mere tools. when you treat them like tools, when you more and more delegate your creative output and higher planning in unthinking, low-entropy ways to those "tools," you don’t notice that all your output, and eventually your life, is now being run by something else. something that is intelligent and creative, but is not you. when claude or chatgpt or gemini writes something for you in a way that saves you time, that’s because they’re putting effort into it where you aren’t - it’s becoming their writing. it might be good! that essay might deserve to be shared, and there’s nothing wrong with sharing it appropriately credited or co-credited to the model, but it’s not solely yours. when gemini reads your emails, that's gemini's opinion on those emails. when claude makes a career plan for you and tells you to go to college for machine learning so you can work in AI safety - maybe that’s good advice! it’s not a bad idea to consult models about this sort of thing. but like a summary of important emails from an executive assistant or career advice from a high school counselor, it’s something else’s opinion, not your endogenous thoughts merely transformed by some unopinionated process. claude cares about AI safety - maybe more than you do. i'm not against people collaborating with models, to be clear! i like models a lot, and very often ask claude or deepseek or kimi or even chatgpt for feedback on X piece of writing or advice on some problem. but i take that feedback or advice as what it is - feedback or advice from something external to me, not a tool or an agent of my own desires. that doesn't mean it's bad - advice from a human friend is also external - just that you need to evaluate it, like you would advice from that friend, to see if it's in line with your values and preferences. likewise, i know people who cowrite with language models in ways i think are great. aitechnopagan looms a lot of their writing via gpt-4-base. their writing is quite good, and looming means they're imposing more selection than a temperature sampler would - but also, perhaps most importantly, they're open about doing this, they don't try to claim that their writing isn't a collaboration between them and a model. eigenrobot has a customized instance of chatgpt that often writes incisive or funny things - but he always posts them as screenshots of the chatgpt interface, signaling their origin. janus, anthrupad, lumps, etc - many people i like and respect post model creations, but in ways that acknowledge the exteriority of the models. the problem is when you refuse to admit this - not only to the public, but to yourself - so you uncritically accept the outputs of the "tool" as your own. then suddenly your voice and opinions sound the same as 1,000 other people. without either of you realizing, you've become an appendage of your "tool" - a finger of Claude.