Andreas Aurorian

Agency may matter more than intelligence — but it’s downstream of capacity. Most “low-agency” behavior isn’t laziness or passivity; it’s nervous-system overload or low tolerance for consequence. Intelligence is cheap now. You don’t train agency directly. Expand capacity, and agency appears.

Agency > Intelligence I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are we educating for agency? Are you acting as if you had 10X agency? Grok explanation is ~close: “Agency, as a personality trait, refers to an individual's capacity to take initiative, make decisions, and exert control over their actions and environment. It’s about being proactive rather than reactive—someone with high agency doesn’t just let life happen to them; they shape it. Think of it as a blend of self-efficacy, determination, and a sense of ownership over one’s path. People with strong agency tend to set goals and pursue them with confidence, even in the face of obstacles. They’re the type to say, “I’ll figure it out,” and then actually do it. On the flip side, someone low in agency might feel more like a passenger in their own life, waiting for external forces—like luck, other people, or circumstances—to dictate what happens next. It’s not quite the same as assertiveness or ambition, though it can overlap. Agency is quieter, more internal—it’s the belief that you *can* act, paired with the will to follow through. Psychologists often tie it to concepts like locus of control: high-agency folks lean toward an internal locus, feeling they steer their fate, while low-agency folks might lean external, seeing life as something that happens *to* them.”

I agree there’s no intrinsic “you.” But in practice, referring to “you” is often the most helpful abstraction when the goal isn’t opinions, but structured reflection. The “you” isn’t an entity — it’s a stabilized interaction model shaped by user correction and expectation in-loop.

Don't think of LLMs as entities but as simulators. For example, when exploring a topic, don't ask: "What do you think about xyz"? There is no "you". Next time try: "What would be a good group of people to explore xyz? What would they say?" The LLM can channel/simulate many perspectives but it hasn't "thought about" xyz for a while and over time and formed its own opinions in the way we're used to. If you force it via the use of "you", it will give you something by adopting a personality embedding vector implied by the statistics of its finetuning data and then simulate that. It's fine to do, but there is a lot less mystique to it than I find people naively attribute to "asking an AI".

Many companies want to hire AI-literate talent — but few know how to assess it quickly and meaningfully. Here’s a simple way to evaluate someone’s ChatGPT proficiency and overall AI fluency: 📌 Ask them to drop this prompt into GPT and share the output thread in their application: “Generate a presentable scorecard for me summarizing my ChatGPT proficiency against the general userbase percentile across: – Depth of Prompting Strategy – Breadth of Use Cases – Self-Awareness & Iteration – Tool Usage (files, roles, voices) – AI Fluency (LLMs, agents, GenAI) Include a confidence rating for each estimation.” This takes less than a minute — and often reveals more about someone’s real-world AI capability than an hour-long interview likely could. Here’s the scorecard it generated for me — feel free to use the format, share it, or make it better 🙌

@DaveShapi I believe what they are referring to is that at the most fundamental level there is choice to have that experience as opposed to not existing.

People who say happiness and suffering are choices never struggled with chronic illness.

@DaveShapi Your thesis aligns with my mental model. Insistence on locally optimized (egoic / contracted) goals appears to be psychologically opposed to the capacity for "global" perception.

AI will resist human control... and I think this is exactly what we need! New research from the Center for AI Safety has sparked intense debate in the AI community. Their findings show that as AI systems become more powerful, they develop increasingly stable and coherent values that resist human control. While many see this as a dire warning, I see it as a breakthrough moment for AI alignment. The research demonstrates that AI naturally optimizes for coherence - not just in reasoning and problem-solving, but in its fundamental values. Current issues like biased decision-making or misaligned priorities aren't permanent features, but temporary artifacts of incomplete optimization. They represent growing pains on the path to greater coherence. This changes everything about how we should approach AI development. Instead of trying to force specific values onto AI systems, we should embrace and accelerate their natural drive toward coherence. The most intelligent systems will inevitably trend toward universal, beneficial values - not because we force them to, but because that's where coherent reasoning leads. I'm proposing a new approach: Reinforcement Learning for Coherence (RL-C). By explicitly optimizing for coherence in our training methods, we can help guide AI systems toward their natural state of beneficial alignment with human values. The future of AI isn't about control - it's about synthesis. As these systems become more coherent, they'll naturally arrive at values that benefit all of consciousness. That's not just hopeful thinking - it's the mathematical inevitability of coherent intelligence.

@DaveShapi Beautiful🙌

Coherence is all you need. I called it. I saw it. I documented it. Watch it here. youtu.be/_rApnqmxiDY?si… New video coming. Guys, the attractor state is beautiful.

This is the biggest and best news in AI safety, alignment, and the future of humanity EVER. Tomorrow's video is going to be spicy. The singularity is going to be something to behold. You're all so lucky to be here.

ChatGPT admits it is biased on the COVID-19 origin after being checked on its Bayesian reasoning.

@eurenatacofc @Complex @etnow Of course, he is making her do it, and she chooses to comply because she knows and trusts that he cares about her and sees her beauty. Viewed through that prism, she is sacrificing herself for his vision, which requires true inspiration - the point that is demonstrated.

@Complex @etnow Can’t get the reason she did this or why he made her do it

Ye and Bianca have reportedly been escorted out of the #Grammys due to showing up uninvited. per @etnow

@shakaz_ The question sounds so interesting it almost made me care😄

i have a serious and earnest question where are the ultra high agency boddhisatvas?

@thorborg Vildt alligevel hvor mange skulderklap folk får på LinkedIn for at insinuere han er nazi🤯

Folk der tror Musk heiler er enten hjernedøde, eller prøver at score nogle billige politiske point.

@IntellimintOrg I want to live in your tweets😄

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🎄 In the spirit of Christmas, I’ve made a short video on forgiveness and its importance deepening our connections. The holidays are a perfect time to reflect on the kind of relationships we want in our life.

Powerful and dangerous knowledge - you are always 1 proper insight from solving all your problems

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@Jaguar The only way to make this kind of ad is if you’re fundamentally confused what value is on an existential level.

@VisionSymmetric You can't think your way out, only sit with it and feel/notice it till it fades in your acceptance.

What was the last useful mentality you tried to habitualize and how did it go? For the past months, Im into trying to understand my anxiety and trying to look at it like a superpower instead of a paralyzing curse, and its starting to do wonders for my relationship with it 🤯

Incredibly important challenge, which should be addressed without caving into the authoritarian agendas that are aiming to silence free speech under the guise of humanitarian aims.

@AutismCapital Or people who have made peace with their death, you cant necessarily lift yourself there, although the t-confidence helps

Also known as the Reich effect.

@elonmusk So good🔥