Mark Beall

How might conservatives grapple with AGI? americanmind.org/salvo/a-conser…

The GOP will make a catastrophic error if it attributes this only to CCP propaganda. cbsnews.com/news/georgia-p…

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@JohnSchoffstall @deanwball What do you think about the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund model?

@deanwball If my arithmetic is correct, 5% of OpenAI per US household is about 35 cents per household. Thanks, I'll pass. This would damage OpenAI a little and the benefit to Americans is a joke. Don't seize the means of production. That's always a recipe for poverty and failure.

There are two broad ways this can work: 1. You divide this 5% over all US households, handing each a direct stake. 2. You give the stake directly to the government. (1) is fine. (2) is probably ruinous, akin to inviting rats to live and reproduce in the walls of your house.

New AI leader has emerged in the House GOP

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@pmarca Federal reserve?

There is no such thing as a “federal body free from political or partisan influence.”

The other x risk

what a privilege it is to face such difficult problems in such interesting times

it’s only Claude if it’s distilled in the Silicon Valley region of California ⚗️

What a bunch of doomers

@frazettagirls This is interesting but the woman displayed is very far afield from the Shield Maiden.

Frank Frazetta on his Lord of the Rings ‘Éowyn vs. the Nazgûl Lord’ illustration: “It’s one of my favorites. I got the weight and the forward movement at just the right moment. Perfect balance, perfect motion. That really turned out well. No effort. I remember being excited to see how it would turn out. It just flowed onto the paper like I wasn’t even holding the brush. I guess I was in a zone of some sort. That happens when I really get excited about an image.” — Frank Frazetta, in conversation with Doc Dave Winiewicz, c.1990s Frank rarely talked about technique in a formal way. He usually spoke in terms of feeling. Here, he’s not describing anatomy, composition, or brushwork. He’s talking about momentum, excitement, and that elusive state artists spend their entire lives chasing…the moment when an image seems to create itself.

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Tom Bombadil is the most mysterious character in The Lord of the Rings. He's the oldest being in Middle-earth and completely immune to the Ring's power — but why? Bombadil is the key to the underlying ethics of the entire story, and to resisting evil yourself... Tom Bombadil is an enigmatic, merry hermit of the countryside, known as "oldest and fatherless" by the Elves. He is truly ancient, and claims he was "here before the river and the trees." He's so confounding that Peter Jackson left him out of the films entirely. This is understandable, since he's unimportant to the development of the plot. Tolkien, however, saw fit to include him anyway, because Tom reveals a lot about the underlying ethics of Middle-earth, and how to shield yourself from evil. The hobbits meet Bombadil early on in their quest, before they reach Bree and the Prancing Pony Inn. He rescues Merry and Pippin from Old Man Willow, and invites the hobbits to stay at his house in the Old Forest. There, the hobbits realize something strange about him: the Ring has no power over Bombadil whatsoever. When he wears it, he remains visible. He treats it as a plaything, making it disappear with a magic trick. Indeed, at the Council of Elrond, Gandalf rejects the idea of giving the Ring to Tom, for he would likely misplace it or forget about it entirely. So just who is he, exactly? When Frodo asks this very question to Tom's wife Goldberry, she simply responds "He is." It's a cryptic answer that echoes God's famous answer to Moses in the Book of Exodus: "I am who I am." Thus, many theorize that Bombadil is God, some kind of angelic being, or even the spirit of the Music of the Ainur (due to the fact that he is constantly singing). But Tolkien's letters reveal something considerably more interesting… In April 1954, Tolkien wrote: "The story is cast in terms of a good side, and a bad side, beauty against ruthless ugliness, tyranny against kingship… but both sides in some degree, conservative or destructive, want a measure of control.But if you have, as it were, taken a 'vow of poverty', renounced control, and take your delight in things for themselves without reference to yourself… then the questions of the rights and wrongs of power and control might become utterly meaningless to you, and the means of power quite valueless…" So, Bombadil is a representation of what it means to take pure delight in the world around you — to experience people and things simply as they are, without any thought for what they could be or how you could use them. And this is why the Ring has no power over him. To Bombadil, the One Ring is simply a ring, and the possibilities of what can be achieved through its power are of no importance. He is able to resist its evil precisely because he is entirely content with the world around him. At the end of the story, having accomplished what he set out to do in Middle-earth, Gandalf pays Tom a visit before returning to the Undying Lands: "I am going to have a long talk with Bombadil: such a talk as I have not had in all my time." If Bombadil is the epitome of simply enjoying life and being, Gandalf is the epitome of doing. He guides the hobbits, fights the Balrog, and runs up and down Middle-earth to help destroy the One Ring. But now that he's finally liberated from doing, he immediately heads to Bombadil's. He does so with a sense of relief, as if he's at last able to access a purer and higher mode of being — a sort of innocence that cannot be fully experienced by those consumed by doing. Of course, by this Tolkien doesn't disparage the value of action. The entirety of LOTR displays the importance of rising up against evil, even in the face of all odds. But with the inclusion of Bombadil, he does remind readers that fighting isn't all there is. Bombadil reminds us that while it's important to strive and *do*, it is just as important to occasionally step back and *be*. Indeed, your ability to do so plays a crucial role in helping you resist the allure of evil… Read the full piece here: theculturist.io/welcome The unsung hero of The Lord of the Rings...

@AlexanderTw33ts So good

hey! just checking in to make sure you're using the new model safely

This is one of the most impactful speeches delivered by the Pope. He just received a 7-minute standing ovation for affirming the dignity of human life, from the moment of conception to natural death, in front of the Spanish Parliament "The defense of human life is neither a partisan issue nor a confessional interest: it is a goal of civilization." "Can a community that casts into the shadows the unborn child, the elderly, the sick, those who suffer in silence, or those who depend entirely on the care of others be called fully just?" Watch.

now on the eve of RSI it seems everyone is more mutual conditional pause agreement pilled than they used to be and that seems like a good development

Our highest and most urgent national priority should be AI safeguards. The risks of AI weapons, pathogens, mass unemployment, surveillance, and even extinction must not continue to be largely ignored.

“If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth...and I also was born with a great love of trees." - Tolkien (1966 Interview)

@sebkrier I’d like to see more capability to process non verbal audio especially music. Listen to a music file and generate the music sheet or a tab. Assist composers not with generating full songs but in their creative process.

What are non-coding/maths related capabilities that models fail at today that you think will be solved with the next major model release?

@Miles_Brundage Senator Jim Based

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