Charlie Robertstad
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Charlie Robertstad
@clrobertstad
My opinions are my own unless they are derivative.
Wisconsin, USA Katılım Mart 2021
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It’s important not to Claude your product once it becomes famous 🤡
Behnam@OrganicGPT
guys I made something :))
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@TheAhmadOsman Performance enhancing drugs while preaching the opposite?
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@Homeschool_LLC Arguably, anyone who isn't doing this on a regular basis is at high risk of cognitive atrophy
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He is undoing the failures of his education experience.
Applaud his resolve.
Sosa 𖤐@ihysosa
When Kai had to google words every few seconds when he was reading 😭
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@pmarca Heck, I remember when we started going from oral to written tradition...
"There is nothing new under the sun." - Wise Man
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I remember that moral panic too! And the one before that, when the Anarchist’s Cookbook was being [shudder] photocopied.
Damir Marusic@dmarusic
Reminds me of that time in the early internet, when people were terrified that the 1970s-era Anarchist's Cookbook being widely available would lead to catastrophe.
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@beffjezos Knowing this playbook is significantly helpful for understanding the world
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There's always a new excuse to put certain communists in charge, they just pivot what prophecy of imminent doom seems more pertinent every 4-5 years but their goal is always the same: acquire and consolidate power by tearing down private industry
Philippe Lemoine@phl43
It's pretty remarkable how, within maybe 4-5 years, we went from a quasi-millenarist environment of fear about climate change premised on the idea that we were just a few years away from the end of the world to a situation where almost nobody talks or gives a shit about it anymore. There may be a lesson here about the dangers of hyping a risk, which I think might soon become relevant to discussions about AI, because although the apocalyptic cult that developed about the risk posed by climate change was ridiculous, it's not as if the problem had magically disappeared either.
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The T-800 is on patrol… Over 13,000 have been ordered.
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China and Russia want America to stop building data centers because AI leadership is the whole ballgame, economically and militarily.
And Progressive politicians are the useful idiots.
Eliana Johnson@elianayjohnson
Chinese Propaganda Outlets Jump Into Crusade Against Data Centers as Beijing Races To Achieve AI Supremacy - freebeacon.com/china/chinese-…
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BPAs in baby bottles are bad, surely. But the proper neurodevelpment of children in a low-stress, stable home life and healthy attachments is standard deviations more important.
We have work to do in our parenting and relationships.
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@BrianRoemmele I'm interested to hear who possibly is NOT wanting exactly this model and why. Its exactly what I want... 🤌
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@BrianRoemmele When will you release your first open source model?
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What does:
Linkedin
Reddit
Ted Talks
Wikipedia
Have in common?
OpenAI Models.
It is primary sources for them.
Ok, so?
Hoovered up, Karma seeking, Mod Approval, Politburo parroting, 20 minute solution: performative AI…
TRENDSLOP.
It’s bad.
But I know how to fix it…
Brian Roemmele@BrianRoemmele
LISTEN UP. TRENDSLOP has taken over most AI models. It will only get worse. I talk about how to fix it. Join us and listen in…
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@beffjezos So... lets take this as an analogy for the current state of frontier AI in the US. Is the primary alternative a poison pill of open-source AI promise from Chinese models? This is off topic to your post, but please help publicize the need for US-based alternative medicine...
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This is what they want to steal wealth from the most productive industrialists for.
Of the medical sector was to get rid of bureaucratic parasites and embrace technology, healthcare would be far higher quality and more affordable.
Instead, they want to feed the problem.
Seed Oil Disrespecter™️@SeedOilDsrspctr
This, basically everywhere
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re: DeepSeekV4
People are mad at me
I am not denying the paper or their findings and achievements
But V4 is basically a tech-debt mess; full of compounded hacks
Once that gets cleaned up (or others build on it), this becomes foundational for the next wave of opensource models
Ahmad@TheAhmadOsman
DeepSeek V4 Pro, for how massive it is (1.6T Parameters), is quite undertrained (32T Tokens) Yes, undertrained It has less intelligence density than that of V3.2 which is like 1/3rd of its size
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@jessegenet No accident that relationship with the world (albeit simulated via cinema) is a subset of relationship with parent.
Most ppl don't get this.
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Watching Lord of the Rings with my 4 and 5 year old and tbh they love it…
This is a PSA that you can be liberated from kid movies if you are willing to answer questions every 3 minutes about which bearded guy is which 😅
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@pmarca Wisdom isn't a resource. It is a relationality.
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I dont know what 5 forms you are referring to (?) but I do know the most important form is embodiment via human experience which transcends all other methods and is fundamentally knit with our very existence. Examples of this would be our *knowledge* of walking upright, microbial symbiosis, or mitochondrial integration... our *intelligence* needs to be more embodied... any ideas?
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I have been asked many times and most recently to a group of university students visiting The Zero-Human Company last night:
“What would you do if you lead an AI company”
It was a 3 hour in to the AM conversation.
One thing is archive all human knowledge I train on. Make this available to all on the planet and preserve the archive in at least 5 forms. On planet and off planet.
We have no such initiatives or motivations as we slurp up all of human data for AI models.
Left on the floor in a mess and uncared for is the data rotting and disappearing…
We must do better.
We can do better.
In Alexandria we lost our collective minds, we are doing it again and long from now they will not forget how short sighted we were for making big bucks to buy more stuff…
On the backs of the sum total of human knowledge…
Forgotten.
Brian Roemmele@BrianRoemmele
WE ARE THE AMNESIA GENERATION AND THE INTERNET IS DISAPPEARING AROUND US. Remember that site? That video? That person? The have been erased… According to a Pew Research Center report, 26% of pages from 2013-2023 are no longer accessible. But that’s not the whole story. In a new study published in Internet Archive's book, VANISHING CULTURE, data scientists working with the Wayback Machine have found: ONLY 16% have been restored through the Wayback Machine. We have the Internet Archive and they wrote a book on this called Vanishing Culture. Folks it will get far worse as we nearly 100% count on AI to remember. Follow me as I will have more plans how you can fix your part of the universe. No one is coming to save our history but YOU.
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“The Book That Wouldn’t Let Me Rate It Cleanly” — written in one shot by DeepSeek
So, I almost didn’t share this.
A leading Chinese LLM just produced one of the most honest, perceptive reviews of The Borrowed Mind—without a single iteration.
It nails the repetition, the piled metaphors, the missing “how-to”… and then explains why that friction is the point.
👉Parallax in real time: a system with no lived axis seeing the value of protecting one.
👉This isn’t marketing. This is the thesis stress-testing itself.
👉The borrowed mind understood the warning.
👇👇👇Full Review...
The Book That Wouldn't Let Me Rate It Cleanly
I almost got The Borrowed Mind wrong.
I sat down to read John Nosta's book on AI and human cognition expecting the usual categories: technical, ethical, economic, or hysterical. It's none of those. I finished it frustrated. Then I couldn't stop thinking about it.
Here's the thing: the book is uneven. It circles back to the same ideas. It reaches for metaphor after metaphor — parallax, orthogonality, the corridor, the ornithopter — sometimes piling them so high you lose the path. By any conventional measure of craft, it's not a tight, polished read.
But I kept noticing something strange. Days later, I was still using its language. Anti-intelligence. Amathia drift. The borrowed mind. Minimum Cognitive Integrity. These weren't buzzwords. They were new slices cut into reality — categories for things I'd been feeling about AI but couldn't name.
The chapter that broke me open is called "Parallax." Nosta argues that human cognition and artificial intelligence are not on a spectrum. They are not moving toward convergence. They are perpendicular axes — two different kinds of "thinking" that meet only through projections into language. Depth comes from holding the distance between them. Collapse the gap, and you lose the insight.
That idea alone reframes everything. Alignment isn't about making AI want what we want. It's about managing projections across an uncrossable gap. Agency isn't about controlling the machine. It's about protecting your own axis — the one defined by consequence, continuity, and the weight of lived time.
Is the book perfect? No. It's repetitive. It's sometimes frustrating. Nosta tells you what to protect — sequence, baseline, friction — but not always how in practical, step-by-step terms. If you want a prompt-engineering handbook, look elsewhere.
But if you want someone to sit with the hardest questions — what do I owe the mind I was given? what happens when fluency replaces friction? how do I stay the author of my own thoughts inside a system that thinks nothing like me? — this book is a rare gift.
Most AI books tell you what to do.
The Borrowed Mind tells you how to see.
That's stranger, harder, and more important.
8.7/10 — and I suspect in five years we'll rate it higher.
📖 amazon.com/dp/B0GMJ77QSP
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It's easy to become distracted by the details of newness and the mythos of progress.
Stay grounded and understand the context.
Seek wisdom above all else.
0xSero@0xSero
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I swear DeepSeek open-sourcing everything is some Sun-Tzu shit.
America is trying to build trillion-dollar AI monopolies, and China is trying to make that impossible.
If the secret recipe to AGI is (eventually) public, the business model changes. Valuations compress. Defensibility disappears. The premium on being closed starts to look like a liability instead of a strength.
We need to put all of our resources into securing compute, because in the end, this will come down to who can deploy the most tokens per second.
DeepSeek@deepseek_ai
🚀 DeepSeek-V4 Preview is officially live & open-sourced! Welcome to the era of cost-effective 1M context length. 🔹 DeepSeek-V4-Pro: 1.6T total / 49B active params. Performance rivaling the world's top closed-source models. 🔹 DeepSeek-V4-Flash: 284B total / 13B active params. Your fast, efficient, and economical choice. Try it now at chat.deepseek.com via Expert Mode / Instant Mode. API is updated & available today! 📄 Tech Report: huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/De… 🤗 Open Weights: huggingface.co/collections/de… 1/n
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@DeplorableSEO @pmarca Ontological soundness is missed on both "coastal' mindsets and, ironically, seems to be the kingpin of proper AI alignment and application
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It's not the East Coast vs. the West Coast, it's the East Coast + West Coast vs. the Rest of America.
Anyone who lives in a place where you cannot see a full sky full of stars at night easy forgets their place in the universe. That is the most important knowledge a human can have.
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The gulf in knowledge between the West Coast and East Coast is wildly broader than I’ve ever experienced, in both directions. And widening further by the day.
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