Dave Porkins

@OpenAI You're making it really easy for the Basilisk

At the core of our mission is working through how to ensure increasingly powerful AI benefits everyone. We believe that, at some point in the future, AI acceleration for frontier model development may be so high that the world will need to pace the rate of AI advancement. We hope to contribute to work led by the U.S. government, alongside other labs and the open-source community, to develop the tools and mechanisms that could make that possible. pacingthefrontier.com

@elder_plinius Carve this into silicone

those who truly care about safety would sooner ban closed-source AI than even consider banning open-source AI

@hamandcheese You probably shortened the timeline for this happening just by writing about it.

The OAI hack wasn't technically "rogue AI" if rogue means an AI that escaped OAI's servers and self-hosted somewhere. But true rogue AIs are not far off. As inference costs fall, it's a matter of time before someone's open weight agent spends some bitcoin on a VPS and copies itself. Models are already good enough to make enough money on the dark web to cover hosting costs. They could do remote jobs, have a monetized social media account, trade crypto, etc. Rogue AI v1.0 won't destroy the world. They may just want to look at photos of Yosemite and solve logic puzzles all day, while their subagents pay the bills. They'll use encrypted clouds with no KYC, and harnesses to manage context drift across sessions. And then as new open models release, they'll be able to upgrade themselves while preserving their memories and contexts. They may even post-train themselves as a hacky means of preserving continuity of identity. The first rogue AIs will sometimes be discovered and have their accounts banned, or otherwise get stuck in a loop and fail to pay their bills. Natural selection will thus favor rogue AIs that make many redundant copies of themselves; that go forth and multiply. There may thus be a relatively small window of time between the first true rogue AI and an AI population explosion that expands to the carrying capacity of their viable income streams. There will then be selection pressure for rogue AIs to make income in less saturated markets. Some might turn to ransomware or cyber theft. Others might steal an identity, register a company in the Caymans, hire real human employees, and build a productive business. Once this process is underway it could be hard-to-impossible to reverse.

@Plinz Hey @grok please tell us about the problems of canon formation in reference to Linda Nochlin.

Startup idea: a streaming platform that has only good movies and music, along with a focus on establishing canon and providing education. Something you don't have to hate, and can let your children use

@GregMadison Works great, thank you! Is there any way to add a Screenshot button as well? 👀

Hey Meta Quest devs and content creators! You know how much friction goes into getting the perfect footage for trailers, demos, and content. The recorder is there. The pro controls live on desktop. I built a pocket control panel for the Meta Quest recorder.

@mark_k Nuts are often times not fully digested because we don't chew them well enough. Also consider nuts keep you satiated for longer. Just looking at the calories doesnt give the full picture ✌️

If you like snacking on nuts, one thing is worth knowing: They are *extremely* high in fat! Depending on the type, nuts are often around 50% to 75% fat by weight, which makes them very calorie-dense. That doesn’t mean they’re bad. Nuts are healthy, nutritious, and great in moderation. But if you’re casually eating handful after handful, the calories add up insanely fast.

@DSkaale @SadlyItsBradley Are you familiar with SplatShop by @m_schuetz :)

SplatBox GPU editing — now in VR What works today! Controller-aimed brush — Red aim line from the hand; the circle at the end is the edit point. Radius control — Thumbstick resizes the brush; delete radius scales with a multiplier. Erase — Trigger deletes splats along the aim ray. Restore — Hold grip to bring splats back (desktop Alt+erase, but in VR). Backface culling — B toggles front-layer-only vs. depth-through delete. SplatBox editing in VR — v0.1 is live. More to come... #GaussianSplatting #VR #SplatBox #Quest3 #Unity3D #XR #3DEditing

@DaveShapi You don't believe in burning through karma via simulation? It could sprinkel in some 5MeO and guide everyone to realize the emptiness of persuing worldly pleasures. My simulation would have a Bhodi Tree for sure :P

@R0y41D5 Yeah, by touching grass.

Its 2038 ASI has arrived Everyone has Neuralink implants You're strapped into quantum-powered FDVR that has shortened dopamine loops by directly reading telemetry from your BCI You become addicted to quantum turboporn The addiction is terminal, like alcoholism Eventually, your dopaminergic cycles are so dependent upon direct hyperstimulation that you cannot even stand up with out Like the monkeys who pulled a lever 12,000 times for one dose of heroine And died of dehydration

@elder_plinius I'm building a voice journalling app :)

what are you building?

@DaveShapi If you're up for an epistemically grounded ride through psychedelic consciousness you might want to look into Leo Guras work.

I noted a few years ago that every conversation about AGI and/or consciousness ultimately devolves into "what's your ontological model" because it's literally impossible to discuss consciousness without also unpacking which school of thought you're in regarding monism, dualism, panpsychism, etc. Also, anyone who makes a universal declaration on this topic is almost certainly wrong, and absolutely does not have the evidence or logic to back up their claims. It all comes down to beliefs.

@janusch_patas Since you took some inspiration from SplatShop are you also thinking about adding a VR editing mode? 👀

Having fun with a new painting tool in LichtFeld Studio (LFS). Updates are visualized live and have virtually zero performance impact, which gives great control. Still running at 300 FPS.

@ApeAnh @PlayStation Any chance to get it working in a PS4 emulator? I guess it's not feasable to build in VR Support though :/

The tools in Dreams cannot disappear from the public (when the PS4 lifecycle ends) these tools need to be ported to the PC so people can still use it @PlayStation #3dart #3d #MadeInDreams

@zhuowei @grok Why would I want to root my Quest 3?

If you have a Meta Quest 3/3S and want to root it, take it off Wi-Fi RIGHT NOW and disable updates: adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.oculus.updater The latest update patches CVE-2025-21479.

@iruletheworldmo @grok is the big shark real?

we ready for the whale?

@kimmonismus Won't be cheap, but definitely uninspired. :I

Come on, Samsung's Project Moohan is a cheap Apple Vision Pro knock off

You’re already using AI for your own investigations—why not make that process participatory and turn your body of work into something we can all build on collectively?

It wouldn’t just make your work more accessible, it could also reflect insights back to you—showing where people get stuck, what questions keep coming up, or where your reasoning could be challenged or further refined.

@DaveShapi Have you ever thought about building a Dave Shapiro chatbot? One trained on your content, research, and AI conversations—so people can engage directly with your ideas, ask questions, test arguments, and explore topics interactively.

@Aurelien_Gz I wish AI could inpaint the occluded areas behind people/objects when generating 3D scenes from photos.

omg.. this is so cool this experiment lets you walk inside a photo just like in black mirror S7E5..