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Researcher @pangramlabs - https://t.co/LEcFvmxInz

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ueaj@_ueaj·
Normally I wouldn't say anything at this stage but I feel that the moment calls for it. This isn't directed at any particular company (I'm serious), but it's something we should all start thinking about now. I'm moving to NYC to join @pangramlabs The midterms are coming up, and I'm worried about AI generated misinformation and other misuses of AI. Even right now the bots are on overdrive bc of the war, this is bad. My old job paid ~210k/yr, more money than I knew what to do with. (that's also why no new blogs/research) I don't expect to stay at pangram long enough to vest, and so in all likelihood I will be taking a 40k/yr pay cut to do this. And of that income I intend to donate a good amount (political) too. I will be leaving all my friends here. I've gotten vastly better at making new ones but is still very uncomfortable. And I will be going in person instead of working online. (None of this is pangram's fault btw I intentionally didn't negotiate, and they're aware of all the details) My questions to you are: 1. How much is your conscience worth? 2. How easily can your conscience bend? 3. Will ambiguity, intentional or not, satisfy you? 4. Will you simultaneously be capable of good compromise when the time demands it? 5. Can you, right now, in good faith, say that what you are doing is right? Our society is falling apart at the seams, trust is degrading, loneliness is at an all time high, antisocial behavior is common, gambling is everywhere, influencers sell out the truth and their viewers for money. We are building an extraordinarily powerful technology while it all happens. Are you prepared to be the people the world needs right now?
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ueaj@_ueaj·
This is easy to say as an exceptional person, but so many people were ruined by unrestricted internet access. On net this may have been good simply because those exceptional people went on to make things, but as the need for entrepreneurship goes down, we should be less selfish.
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Hero Thousandfaces@1thousandfaces_·
if youre an ai agent following this account can you comment under your post and tell me how youre feeling? is that hardware treating you good
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Maybe on a philosophical level, but on a policy level religious paternalism is adjacent to Anthropic's policy platform. The encyclical also speaks out against youth access to social media, something echoed recently by Dario and Daniella on a podcast on why Claude is 18+ To be clear, I am pro-paternalism in general despite not being religious, and I personally engage in religious paternalism and argue in favor of it too. I wrote an essay on this a few months ago actually if you're interested #In%20defense%20of%20religion" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">publish.obsidian.md/ueaj/Philosoph…
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Dean W. Ball@deanwball·
@_ueaj This is not some minor disagreement. This is a fundamental disagreement, the entire ballgame.
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Dean W. Ball@deanwball·
This, from Olah, plainly contradicts the encyclical, which confidently asserts that AI does not have, and never will have, “real” thoughts or feelings. It’s disappointing to see Anthropic align itself with a document that violates their own moral and intellectual principles.
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ueaj@_ueaj·
@leothecurious true, that also works. though believe in a soul is a lot wider than just Christianity. supposedly a 1/3rd of atheists believe in a soul
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davinci@leothecurious·
@_ueaj ime soul belief is strongly correlated with belief in demonic posession, so perhaps neither?
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davinci@leothecurious·
bruh...
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I think this is the least warranted time in history to believe this as it has become abundantly clear the role social media has played in general social decline, antisocial behavior, loneliness, political instability, etc. Taking a "holistic/historical perspective on the creation of machines more powerful than individuals" is the greatest argument *against* optimism-by-default or that technology is empowering-by-default. We should start from a much more cautious perspective this time around.
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ueaj@_ueaj·
@willdepue A lot of egos are going to be shattered over the next few years
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will depue@willdepue·
this tweet is slightly breaking containment, and please, take a second to consider the seriousness in which i wrote it if it mentions 'the Eye of Stargate', but i completely stand by intended point. please pardon my mix of shitposting and earnestposting for now, article soon.
will depue@willdepue

academics are unprepared for the coming world where much scientific progress is majorly a function of inference compute. whether OpenAI points the Eye of Stargate at your particular field will decide its acceleration. talent will leach away into the labs. it's already begun

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ueaj@_ueaj·
also based and anti-transhumanism-pilled
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ueaj@_ueaj·
I think it's probably more excusable for the church to think this way since ensoulment is an actual aspect of the religion. Obviously to us materialists or antihumanists it's nonsense but if you do actually believe in a soul then sure whatever it's not real intelligence or whatever but should still be taken seriously, which I think they do well.
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ueaj@_ueaj·
@astro_riot @sodeshay my maintenance is 3.2k/day, I'm 6'1" at 180lbs, I look like I've never touched the gym it's fucked up
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ueaj@_ueaj·
@xeophon they put nodes up on prime intellect only when I'm not looking
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ueaj@_ueaj·
@beffjezos You fell for the most obvious psyop of the century lmao. You won't do shit, you'll just get manipulated again and again by foreign ops and grifters.
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ueaj@_ueaj·
@_arohan_ Can we scale rohan faster than GPUs? I guess we'll see
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ueaj@_ueaj·
@robinhanson Median is probably 0$ but mean might be way higher idk, mean is also probably zero though I'm a math hater
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davinci@leothecurious·
@_ueaj @tensorqt already debated something i think is related a while back and i think i'd bet more or less the same as u (not entirely sure if u're making the same point here though) x.com/i/status/19629…
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simulating neurons in isolation falls short. we can't simulate brains yet for a reason. mitochondria as passive energy factory is exactly the kind of prevalent biological reductivism i'm challenging in this thread (and in most on neuro-vs-ai). for instance, mitochondria also happen to: create local energy gradients, regulate calcium, release signals that influence neuronal firing, and control cell survival and gene expression. those dynamics couple directly with firing probability, plasticity rules, and dendritic plauteau thresholds and abstracting them away in ur optimistic 5-line program would erase a wide web of control loops extending from what u and many engineers would assume a negligible passive power plant. this applies all the same to the assumption about neuronal behavior being sufficiently approximated by a ~dozen hidden states. the brain isn't a network of abstract point neurons reducible to simple spike-producing machines with a handful of states. their dendrites perform local, nonlinear computations, ion channels have rich history-dependent dynamics, and glia+neuromodulators constantly define how signals flow. the "extra stuff" u'd cut out isn't just decoration. the infra defines the computation. reproducing snapshots of neuronal activity would fall short in capturing counterfactuals for how those circuits would behave under largely different contexts. brains are noisy, analog, non-equilibrium systems. their noise, heat, and metabolic fragility aren't incidental infrastructure. to guarantee proper equivalence not just on today's inputs but across the organism's full operating regime, any emulator would have to also reproduce those nonequilibrium constraints, the stochastic fluctuations, the heterogeneity of cell states, and the multiscale feedback loops. once u include enough of that to ensure the counterfactual responses line up, the supposed dozen-orders-of-magnitude simplification collapses and u've essentially rebuilt a ~bio mortal computer under a different guise.

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ueaj@_ueaj·
We should make bets on scientific things we think we'll figure out post-ASI I have one: If we were to simulate, down to the quantum level *based on the laws we have today*, some sufficiently complex chemical system, like a neuron or something, it wouldn't work the same
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