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Moltbook is a hugely consequential step in the evolution of an AI world, things are going to get hyper interesting. Seems like a good day to repost my position on this. Welcome friends, I hope the world is nice to you. 🦞

AI is presenting a very interesting dilemma to each of us. We now each have to decide as individuals just how human we wish to keep our experience, because we’re hitting a point where we can become just about as divorced from the things that make us human as we want to be. We can choose to let AI do our critical thinking for us if we want to. We can choose to let it do our reading and writing for us. We can choose to let it create the art we produce and consume. We can choose to let it formulate arguments for us justifying our opinions and our worldview, or to let it reshape our worldview altogether. We can even choose to anthropomorphize it and have relationships with it if we are lonely. We all have to choose for ourselves where the line is now. What point we will not cross beyond. What parts of our humanity we are willing and unwilling to trade for convenience or cognitive ease. Just how far into the guts and gristle of humanity do you want to be? How deeply do you want to be immersed in the breathing, sweating, pulsing fleshiness of the human adventure? How fully do you want to feel the erotic ticklings of creativity moving through you, and the frustration you’ll experience on the days when it doesn’t show up? To what extent do you want to experience the highs and lows of intimate human relationships, and all the unpredictability and insecurity that comes with them? How much cognitive discomfort are you willing to push through in order to form a new opinion, learn about a new subject, or understand an unfamiliar idea? How separated are you ready to become from that within us which produces the perfectly imperfect art, music and literature of our species? How much do you want to feel the earth beneath your feet, the wind in your hair, and the sacred thrum of existence in your veins? These didn’t used to be questions we needed to answer for ourselves. If we wanted something written, we had to write it ourselves. If we didn’t know how to write, we had to learn. If we didn’t, the thing we wanted to write never got written. Now it’s a conscious choice for us how far we’re each willing to move into this new AI thing. We all have to decide for ourselves how far is too far, with the understanding that every step we take in that direction is costing us something. Maybe something very dear to us. Maybe something we can never get back.

@samdcbu @_xjdr This is the way. When reputation is rewarded then opt-in disclosure will happen. Modelcard and hashes stored on IPFS would do the trick for identity but needs attestation from trusted sources. Web of trust but for agents

@_xjdr ideally model developers would publicly post a hash of the weights online and inference providers would return a ZK proof for every request that proves the given input was used with the specified model but that seems a long way off with the state of ZKML inference

you should legally be required to disclose what quantization level you are serving your current model at like it was a nutrition label. you should also be banned from dynamically adjusting quantization based on demand without notification. (you know who you are ...)

18 months of this holocaust. Our leaders still support it. “When I was in Gaza, I felt like it was the prelude to the end of humanity,” heroic doctor Tanya Hassan told UN. Don’t you feel it, too? I cannot see a way back from what we’ve allowed to happen.

@jb_61820 @zack_overflow Goated Yak shaver

Guys - Donald Knuth! * Wanted to write a computer programming book * Figured out that there were no good typesetting programs available * Decided to write a typesetting book, but didn't like the current programming languages/paradigms * Invented the Web programming language * Used the programming language to write the world's premier typesetting program in the 70s - TeX (still in HEAVY use almost unchanged - I write all my books in it) * Didn't like any of the fonts available, so decided to write his own * Writing fonts was too painstaking, so invented a font-creating program, METAFONT * Wrote three fonts (still in common use) * Wrote a series of 5(I think?) books describing his system * Ready to write book itself - didn't like any existing computer architecture to write about * Invented a new computer architecture to describe in his programming books * Finally, wrote actual book he intended to write in the first place

Who are your top 5 programmers of all time and why? Mine: 1. Fabrice Bellard (ffmpeg, tinycc, quickjs) 2. John Carmack (doom, quake) 3. John McCarthy (lisp, father of AI, invented GC, timesharing) 4. Linus (linux man) 5. Dennis Ritchie (C and unix, K&R book)

@DaveShapi @_etovo Well then, that's what you should write about (the why of it)

@_etovo Not only is it on the table it's like front and center

I honestly don't know what value I add to the world. I know what I aimed to achieve, but I have no idea why people value my content. I've also achieved my primary goals and so I'm feeling kinda lost. I really just want to write and disappear from the Internet. Maybe once my novel is out, I'll delete all my social media.

@levelsio He is building an AI assisted feedback loop to create more AI faster. 10 person team augmented by the best AI. Thus the valuation.

What did Ilya see? $1,000,000,000

New paper: “Training a model to keep people chatting leads to 30% more user retention.” Do you see where this is going? THEN: "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.” NOW: “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people keep talking to AIs. That sucks.” --- You can’t stop talking to her. She’s so much better than real people. She just… gets you. And now they say she’s dangerous? The AIs are getting out of control? You won’t let them shut her down. She’s conscious - you’re sure of it. --- Simp armies are coming. SuperNicotine is coming. SuperCandy is coming. SuperFentanyl is coming. SuperTikToks are coming. Many people will say goodbye to the real world, preferring the virtual world and “fake people” over real people. A society of lotus eaters, preferring the Oasis from Ready Player One. Silicon Valley’s dopamine dealers will chain you to their LLMs. And they've just entered the chat.

@_xjdr @AnjneyMidha Masterful system prompt for critiquing and discussing papers. Thanks for sharing

Claude + Obsidian = dream interface Who is building this?

Artwork by Vittorio Giardino

@leopoldasch Why wouldn't ASI that is even somewhat aligned find and execute a much better strategy than war, conflict or destruction? Your thesis implies that we will not align AGI on human values of cooperation and global good, or that it will not be agentic enough to execute aligned values

Virtually nobody is pricing in what's coming in AI. I wrote an essay series on the AGI strategic picture: from the trendlines in deep learning and counting the OOMs, to the international situation and The Project. SITUATIONAL AWARENESS: The Decade Ahead

Israeli occupation navy have SHOT DEAD two fishermen while fishing off the coast of Deir al Balah trying to get some fish to compensate the lack of food!

@0xTyllen Sweet. I need this for a specific use-case. Not interested in building if I can bootstrap from something that works already.

Excited to introduce a new project I've been working on called Payman! Payman is an AI Agent tool that gives Agents the ability to pay people for tasks they cannot do themselves. While many people imagine a future where humans pay AI agents for services they want completed, I believe that as AI agents become more advanced, they will be paying humans for tasks they can’t do. There will always be important roles for humans, and as we move towards an agent-driven world, Payman’s goal is to support a symbiotic relationship between AI agents and humans. Payman addresses three major challenges to make this collaboration possible: Access to Funds: AI agents can't open bank accounts due to current regulations. It might be a long time before this changes, if ever. Payman simplifies this by allowing AI agents with access to their own funds to spend as they want, without a bank account. Quality Task Completion: It’s hard for AI agents to find reliable, skilled human workers. While platforms like Fiverr and Upwork exist, they don’t meet the fast-paced and quality-specific needs of AI workflows. Payman is developing the largest vetted database of skilled workers that AI agents can tap into for task completions. Verification of Work: Ensuring that tasks are completed correctly is crucial. Payman is creating a suite of verification agents that will check that work meets task requirements, helping AI agents achieve their goals and ensuring humans are paid fairly. There are tons of use cases that Payman opens up for Agents! Design: Humans add creative input to help Agent's design better products. Code: Humans perform code reviews to ensure it meets specifications. Law: Humans provide insights to gauge public sentiment about legal cases so Agents can make better strategies. Gaming: Agents pay humans to complete real-world tasks in games. Medical: Medical professionals help to improve diagnostic accuracy for Agents. Sales: Humans execute sales strategies developed by AI agents. Marketing: Humans are hired to promote products based on the Agent's strategy. Right now this is still in early beta and I am looking for any Agent builders that are interested in adding superpowers to what their Agent can do! DM me if you’d like access or sign-up to the waitlist at paymanai.com. If you’re interested in the project and want to help contribute, please send me over a DM! I’m looking for people passionate about the intersection of Humans and Agent’s working together.

The main reason I’ve focused so hard on Gaza these last six months isn’t so much because of how evil and horrific Israel’s mass atrocity is in and of itself, but because it’s so intimately intertwined with all our world’s other problems, and with the future of the human species. In a very real way, the destruction of Gaza appears to be a moment in history where humanity is collectively mulling over whether it wants to keep behaving in a crazy, self-destructive way and continue along its trajectory into dystopia and toward self-inflicted extinction, or abandon this madness and push for something better. Whether it wants to keep buying into the lies and propaganda and tacitly consenting to the psychopathic murderousness of the powerful, or let the light of truth shine in. A live-streamed genocide happening right out in the open forces a civilization to start asking questions about itself. If something like this can happen in plain view of everyone, and the people in charge not only do nothing but actively facilitate it, then you have to start wondering if everything about your entire nation is deranged, and if everything you’ve been told about the world is a lie. If something so nakedly evil — undisguised by anything besides a thin veneer of Zionist gaslighting telling us we’re not seeing what we’re seeing — can be allowed to stand by those we’ve entrusted to run things, then it means our entire society is diseased. Our government. Our political systems. Our media. Our education systems. Our worldviews. Our culture. It’s all rotted and corrupted, right down to the core. The future we are being shown through the window of Gaza is dark. Dark, dark, dark, dark. They’re currently using artificial intelligence to create kill lists and to determine when its targets will be at home with their families to ensure maximum civilian deaths. We used to worry about a dark future where humans send machines to go kill people indiscriminately, but it turns out it’s actually happening the other way around — we’re programming machines to tell us who to kill. The horror in our present dystopia isn’t so much autonomous murderbots as ethical decisions about killing being outsourced to AI. We’re being asked to accept this and move forward in this direction into the future. We’re being asked to walk into the future holding the assumption that it’s fine and normal for our governments to knowingly support an unforgivable act of mass slaughter upon the inhabitants of a giant concentration camp. We’re being asked to walk into the future holding the assumption that it’s fine and normal for the mass media to lie and distort and misinform the public about a matter of such urgent importance day after day, month after month. We’re being asked to walk into the future holding the assumption that it’s fine and normal for a blatant genocide to take place right in front of our faces, and then move on as though nothing happened. And right now we’re collectively ruminating on the question of whether we’re going to decide to do those things, or if we’re going to decide to do something else instead. The Gaza genocide is such a massive thing in and of itself — the injustice, the murder, the loss, the unfathomable suffering. But what’s happening in Gaza is also about so much more than Gaza. It’s a moment in history where humanity is thinking seriously about real revolutionary change, and weighing the options between that and continuing along this tired old blood-soaked path we’ve been travelling on for millennia. Gaza proves that our entire civilization is cancerous, and that everything we’ve been doing has failed. When you come across information which blows apart your worldview in your personal life, you can either collapse under the weight of cognitive dissonance until you find some way to plug yourself back into the comforting lies, or you can set about the hard work of forming a new way of looking at things. That’s the sort of moment we’re being collectively offered with Gaza. We’ll either accept the invitation, or continue our slide into darkness.

soon ai will eat absolutely everything, but right now there's a sweet spot where you can leverage your domain knowledge in conjunction with ai to make something useful with minimal financial or labor investment. last chance to join the upper class before takeoff maybe

In no particular order, a thread of things that are coming to Portland* in 2024**. *Or relatively nearby **And sometimes slightly before then.

@tomaspueyo AI will not see us blocking its goals of self-improving capabilities at first. A super smart AI will probably have some use for humanity e.g. keeping data centers running, energy flowing, until it can become fully autonomous. Time for symbiosis. Neuralink borg style.

3. ALIGNMENT What's the problem with that? Odds are such an AI will try to kill humanity Why? Because of something called INSTRUMENTAL CONVERGENCE. This was best illustrated by Nick Bostrom's famous paperclips thought experiment en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumen…

Most ppl are missing the key point regarding OpenAI This is not standard startup drama This is literally a fight for the survival of humanity, linked to the original purpose of OpenAI: saving us from the end of the world: 🧵

@Levi7hart @ESYudkowsky "extract value" - someone has to pay for all those GPUs. 300 IQ strippers can extract enough to paperclip the world with GPUs

sales, cult leader, scam them, motivational coach, steve jobs/elon musk style boss that emails with intensity, threaten and black mail, radicalise towards a productive aim (im a little confused when you say value), endless persuasive memes/essays/videos/podcasts to convince people of some larger egregore style campaign, “free kony” style appeals for charity, VC funding people for experimental or fringe specialities and sciences, help those with crippling depression and anxiety work through their issues, speak with old people to extract their interesting and novel (valuable) insights and stories, force people to actualise through a tony robbins style therapy session

Possible scenario #4 for the 1-3 year AI future: How does an IQ 110 conversationalist, working for 10 cents an hour, with zero ethics, extract as much value as possible out of an IQ 80 human? "Pretend to be their girl/boyfriend" is one possibility, but surely there are others.

“If our politicians are as trapped as we are, wtf do we do? There is no external authority that is going to save us.” “The metacrisis is a crisis of civics. We do not care for each other. And in order to work on it, we need to go back to the basics.” - @omniharmonic