Sam Patt

It's highly likely Bitcoiners are delusional, but our delusions are of a fairer and freer world, unlike the delusions of people who think the perpetuation of the status quo systems will lead to anything other than economic ruin.

I agree it's insane to force handwriting, but it's not true that handwriting is useless. Something about the physical act of writing seems to aid focus and possibly in memory formation. When I write flashcards I remember them better than typed ones. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24760141/

@AaronBergman18 @AnnaLeptikon I'm guessing they're aware but also reject the standard narratives. They're aware of how others would perceive them through the standard framework but probably believe it's the framework that's at fault, not them.

@AnnaLeptikon I wonder how true this is Do very competent dark triad people not know their own psychology

Many of the cruelest people in history thought they were on a mission for goodness.

My AI chat history is full of questions which my son asked me and I didn't know. We've both learned a lot. I don't know if this qualifies as a renaissance, but it does allow us to integrate learning into any setting - very low barriers to satiate curiosity now.

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@Hiraweb3 Protocols first, yes Markets in everything

@SamuelPatt Black markets won’t save us build protocols instead.

The coming black market trade for minds will surpass even the best cypherpunk fiction

This would be true if cults didn't actually exist. "always" is where he went wrong

Unironically yes

The models know quite a bit about OpenBazaar's history.

Because this is happening to Anthropic, the temptation for many will be to say: Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. They have relentlessly raised the regulatory temperature in Washington by inviting far-reaching controls of frontier models. They made this bed and now they have to lay in it. But this decision by the Trump administration should not be judged on a desire for payback politics, but on the merits, and specifically what it means for America's broader AI objectives. In that regard, this action is truly outrageous. How exactly is the government planning on even going about verifying everyone who uses this specific model to ensure compliance? That alone raises huge flags. Between the latest Executive Order shifting more control to NSA, and the recent chatter about quasi-nationalization / equity stakes, and now this action, we are talking about a significant escalation in the politicization of AI and centralization of control over advanced computation in this country. And this is all being done by an administration that had previously made acceleration and winning the great AI race a priority. We're moving backwards now.

It's possible to be mad at both Anthropic and the government. Banning SOTA models is bad for humanity.

@JasonTezos @PeterDiamandis I'm guessing part of the optimism is that the data shows that nearly everyone is wealthy in comparison to our ancestors, and that trend appears to be continuing (or at least isn't reversing).

@PeterDiamandis You’re optimistic because you’re wealthy. Most people don’t have the luxury of being optimistic.

People ask me how I stay so optimistic. The honest answer: I read the data, not the headlines.

@im_uname @AndyMasley The increase in bills due to the electricity usage of data centers is a drop in the bucket compared to the effects of inflation as a result of disastrous fiscal and monetary policy (which Warren has only worsened).

@AndyMasley @SamuelPatt you can't "lol acktually" your way out of the fact that people very much noticed their bills going up.

Warren's repeating the blatant lie that people's electricity bills near data centers have gone up by as much as 267%. Completely fake. This is a misreading of a Bloomberg article that found that wholesale nodal power prices very close to data centers rose as much as 267%. This is NOT a rate that residents pay, and her team is surely smart enough to know that. It has some effect on residential bills, but the effects haven't been large enough to be noticeable as a general pattern.

AI is clearly very intelligent. I don't understand how someone can work with the models in any sort of depth and think it's 'simply autocomplete.'

A lot of people have started saying that the "AI uses all the water" meme started with Empire of AI. I think this is definitely wrong, and what actually started it was the Washington Post article from 8 months earlier claiming that each ChatGPT prompt used a whole bottle of water. This kicked the meme into the stratosphere. There are so many infographics made about AI mentioning that it uses a bottle per prompt, so many thousands of popular videos and images where someone holds a bottle begging people not to use AI. It got so much news coverage. My claim in my new post (link below) is that I've found extremely strong evidence that this claim was based entirely on napkin math that ignored lots of simple things we knew about the hardware and software running GPT-4, and if you just account for those the cost drops by 50 to 200 times. This shouldn't have ever been allowed to influence the discourse at all, never mind get an infographic made in a major newspaper. I think the Washington Post should either retract or correct the original article and make it clear that it was based on napkin math, or publish the methodology. The authors have never made it clear how they got the number, and if I'm right it shouldn't have been allowed to ever be the basis for a claim this strong.

LLMs are absolutely 100% not a fuzzy search engine. They are not just giant databases. If Jim spent 5 minutes talking to an LLM it could easily explain all of this to him.

We live in two worlds. In one of them, it was announced today that an AI had saved the life of a little girl and that another had made an important mathematical breakthrough. In another, the supply of water is about to somehow vanish because of buildings with computers in them.

The one congressman opposing his own party on principles, and losing, while people spout impossible physics and conspiracies about data centers is too much for me. I have no faith in a political process where people are so easily manipulated.

New AI project idea: create an "ignorance threshold" and automatically run all viral tweets against it; if they don't surpass the threshold, then block the account along with everyone who liked. This wouldn't pass the threshold.