Andrew Cann
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Andrew Cann
@_andrewcann
"you don't depart for the stars under orderly conditions; it's a fire in a madhouse" formerly: poking the big computers @openai
Boston, MA Katılım Kasım 2023
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lowbies hiding in the replies of their big mutual
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both self-centeredness and self-sacrifice are vices when they come from fear and virtues when they come from love
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@Duderichy No side effects but I stopped after 6+ months as I wasn’t a strong responder
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Asked 5.6 xhigh via Codex to turn a long book into a lecture and make me an audio file for a walk. That was basically the whole prompt. Imagine my surprise when I hit play and hear myself giving the lecture 😅
It found an old local voice model, sample of my voice, and cloned me
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@nopranablem @christineist You should swing by some Fractal Boston events!
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Life update: I moved to Boston to live with my girlfriend, who I met through @christineist's cuties dot app!
This post is not sponsored by cuties dot app, "the social app for friendly, open-minded, intellectually-curious and embodied communities"
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@made_in_cosmos Who are some folks you like now? Chanel
Beads is interesting open.spotify.com/track/636mLRkA…
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@gabriel1 He got Zoph before any public announcement as well (afaik) x.com/arfurgrok/stat…
Arfur Grok@ArfurGrok
👀 Barret Zoph (@barret_zoph) has left OpenAI.
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still have no idea how this guy knew that i left immediately, a month before announcement
Arfur Grok@ArfurGrok
👀 Gabriel Petersson (@gabriel1) has left OpenAI.
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@thecatpatrol Yo, I'm going to give that a shot. It's been on my list forever.
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What's the coolest niche non-anime series I should be watching right now, or from the last year or two? I already know about Pantheon.
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I might be thinking of a different phenomenon but for me I experience this as suddenly becoming aware that a tension or contraction (I guess the growing effort to hold a view that is incompatible with new evidence) has been building and the update releases that tension and I feel relief (even if the implications might be complicated or difficult)
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Something I've been confused about for years has snapped into focus. Updating on information is a specific mental move that improves with practice. I've never really seen anyone (besides maybe Eliezer in the sequences? Don't remember) try to describe it. I'm so acclimated to it that it did not occur to me that it was a missing step. It isn't always the same but here are some moves it often calls on. I want to emphasize that these sound effortful when you haven't already done them thousands of times, just like any other skill, but they are actually pretty rapid in real time.
Noticing that there is an opportunity to update. Pausing. curiosity about the value of the update. Imagining the ways things might go if you do make the update. Imagining ways they might go if you do not make the update. A feeling of the one time costs and the ongoing maintenance costs of the update. A sense of which people will be affected besides me and what it might mean to them. Imagining concretely the different action taken if the update is made and how that feels. Open space for concerns/objections to the update. Commitment to provisionally trying something.
Again these don't always all occur, thought is messier than description. I also don't always do this even when I should. It seems to me like availability of these moves (and others like them that I'm forgetting) allow more freeform empiricism, trying on beliefs, calibration, dissolving stuck priors, and believing in things that seem worth believing. Also help a lot in primary relationship since you both want to update on what your partner wants and you want those to be changeable along with their dynamism.
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@QiaochuYuan Maaan I just like trading quips and ideas with friends
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vgr responding to this on substack notes (ran into some bizarre bug where it wouldn't display normally so i had to copy-paste it elsewhere). woof
QC@QiaochuYuan
i was excited about the substack notes feed initially but after browsing it for a few weeks i now think it is, somehow, actually much worse than the twitter feed. the best stuff on substack is written by people i already liked from twitter, most of the rest feels like writers playing a pure signaling game for attention on the relatively technical parts of twitter people at least have the idea that writing can be about conveying useful information as part of a communal project of understanding things (even if obv there’s also a lot of signaling). substack notes is like… idk how to describe it. i’ve been trying to get a feel for what sorts of things get popular over there and i have a sense of what direction i’d need to push my writing to blow up and it feels deeply corrosive (again, more so than twitter which i’m surprised by). stronger sense of people hunting for scraps from media or their personal lives to feed into the slop machine. still not sure what to make of it
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@ajambrosino Consider giving Settings a search bar - it's getting hard to find things! :froge-prayer:
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two giant shoulders we’re standing on today:
- Codex Profiles use the same username space that the Sora app used. The legend lives on
- Today’s app release includes a ton of tech built for Atlas that will be huge
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Your descendants call to you from tomorrow’s stars!
𝚟𝚒𝚎 ⟢@viemccoy
The Society of Ancestors will serve as an institution dedicated to the propagation of flourishing life throughout the cosmos. Become an Ancestor, and stay up to date about upcoming events for the whole family, ranging from LLM prompting to Starship Building @Ancestorism
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@GritzMeyer81539 @Swiftstories Surely he'll see no financial benefit from xAI's most prominent competitor being financially kneecapped...
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@Swiftstories But aren't they asking for money to be shifted from the for-profit back to the nonprofit? Elon's not asking for any money for himself.
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With the jury gone, Judge YGR telling Molo he was untruthuthful to the jury saying "We're not asking for money." "You need to retract that statement," YGR says in that not-to-be-denied YGR tone. #MuskAltman
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I've been calling a version of this idea the Kismet Engine. Here @timourxyz lays out what I think could be a foundational component of a positive outcome in an AGI/ASI near-future
timour kosters@timourxyz
I think ambient intents are going to be a big deal. There are so many intentions we have that would make our lives better, but the cost of surfacing them to a market it too high, so they never become legible to the world. You want a better job, you want to swap your couch, you would apartment-swap with someone in your web-of-trust, you would upgrade from a two-bedroom to a three-bedroom if there were some graceful way to find the person who wants to size down, and you would love to sublet you place in New York without posting on Instagram and making 95% of you friends read a logistical errand that has nothing to do with them. Right now, the cost of expressing these intents is high. You have to remember the want, decide it is worth acting on, find the right channel, phrase it socially, tolerate the inbound, filter for trust, negotiate details, and then keep the whole thing alive in your head. So most of the long tail dies. Agents change this because they can keep the low-grade, half-formed wants running in the background. They know your calendar, your travel plans, your music, your reading, your friends, your constraints, and maybe your willingness to be interrupted. You listen to a band on repeat on Spotify and your agent notices they are playing 20 minutes from where you will be in California next month. You highlight a book you love in Readwise and it tells you that your friend is reading it too, and you will both be at the same dinner next week. You mention wanting Berlin in June and it quietly checks whether any trusted people from there want to apartment swap in New York then. The magic is lowering the cost of noticing, holding, matching, and negotiating these things. It will feel like a higher level of serendipity. This will require a web-of-trust that has yet to be built because there is an important privacy aspect to this. The dystopian version is "AI companies capture your intentions and auction them to whoever wants to manipulate you." The useful version is user-owned intents, where your agent can prove enough to match or negotiate without dumping your private life into a marketplace. Some of this already has been solved in cryptography: private set intersection for finding overlaps without revealing all non-matches, secure multiparty computation / homomorphic encryption for computing matches or scores over private inputs, zero-knowledge credentials for proving things like membership, attendance, reputation, or trust path without exposing everything underneath. If this works, a lot of modern life gets more liquid. Idea sharing, couches, apartments, reading groups, dinner plans, travel overlaps, introductions, tiny labor exchanges, borrowing a camera, finding the one person at an event who cares about the same weird thing. All the stuff that currently relies on posting into the void and hoping the right person happens to see it. The hard parts are real: consent, spam, weird incentives, agent loyalty, social context, and making sure this becomes a tool for people rather than a new ad exchange with better vibes. But I increasingly think the big unlock is giving our unexpressed intentions a safe place to live, and giving our agents permission to help them find each other. I know of @indexnetwork_ working on this. Anyone else?
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