Winning Emergence

New Jersey drones are orbs Welcome humanity to orbs And spirits and souls And light World gonna change

When you recognize that Hardware is part of our nature layer -> so consequentially, our culture is downstream of our hardware… You’ll understand the mammoth battle Humane is trying to take on. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, it is extremely Catholic The iPhone has a biting of the fruit feeling (full pun intended). We’ve seen both good and evil. Our entire orientation has shifted. Humane is trying to have a cultural lifestyle impact. So of course the reaction is nearly hostile (imo). You are telling people they are living a sinful life. An unfulfilled life. No one wants to hear that message… and Humane fully believes it (this is a good thing) That’s why they integrated with cell phone carriers in the V1. Despite the muddled comms around it, they do want to replace your phone. The device is a direct attack on the downstream culture of the iPhone. For some reason they are stuck in communicating the features instead of the lifestyle. Maybe that’s necessary this early. We saw this in early computing as well… but I think something special will happen when they are able to define and express a “Humane Culture” I’m confident THAT will resonate with folks that are ready for a conversion moment

When I get a chance to use a novel technology for the first time, I try to slow down and be available to every detail since I know I can only have the experience once. This was one of those.

After getting a chance to play around with these (soon-to-be-released) tablets, I'll say this: I'm buying. They're better than any other e-reader that I've used, and I've used a lot of them.

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I remember Anjan showing a prototype of this screen in summer 2022! Immediately was like "I want that". So exciting to see it come to life, alongside a philosophy of healthy technology. Thumbnail makes it look like normal e-ink - it's not. Fully responsive touchscreen.

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I think the optimal setup for adults is a photonic and auditory override system with one free dominant hand, and one precision tracked handheld manipulator, symbolic entry, and sensor tool in non-dominant hand for meatspace, and a holodeck sim pod. For kids - working on it.

@AholiabBezaleel @gfodor @murchiston Link?

@gfodor @murchiston Oh as an aside if you haven’t heard about it yet, there was a group who developed an earbud sized (iirc) device that can track your eye movement from the sound in you ear canal. Which would allow AI focus on the exact item/subject that you’re looking at in a particular scene.

I think right now people are sleeping on the potential for subvocalized input. It's not quite there yet in terms of tech or norms - but demand for it will build up enough that it will be figured out and the norms will collapse.

If we didn't already have computer keyboards, nobody would have the courage to ship one today. It would be laughed at as insanely complex, confusing, impossible to use, and so on.

okay, i'll bite. here's my dream 7b model: > trained on gpt-4 thought chains > optimized for complex math, rhetoric, and reasoning > english only. don't waste params on multilingualism > should suck at general world knowledge. i'll use a vector store for that. don't waste params

There’s an awful trend in AI right now of companies inventing bespoke hardware to encase their consumer-facing AI systems. Is it to justify lofty valuations? Or fulfill misplaced ambition? Or generate publicity? It will all be replaced by always-listening incumbent devices.

Replacing apps with “agents” (even if they work perfectly & don’t hallucinate) means the user has to deal with results that drift from their intent. This is okay for interpretive & creative tasks like music, video, or image creation. This isn’t okay for productivity.

These companies are trying to replace GUIs that have been designed with humans & our cognitive limitations in mind, with newfangled UI that hasn’t. “Recall over recognition” is a bad design principle And who wants to deal with the Principal Agent Problem when using software?

Replacing graphical UIs with natural language queries isn’t better by any means. Because it means the user now has to recall exact tasks and workflows, instead of having a fuzzy goal in mind, then pick from a menu of options which they recognize, which is cognitively easier.

The problem is a modified version of the first problem in Thinking Physics, transformed by me into a gotcha by changing "total miles" to "total hours". I should be quite surprised if that exact problem and its answer was in GPT-4's training set to be memorized.

Now that I've read all thousand-plus pages of arbitration documents rather than relying on headlines, I have my own apology to post: I screwed. Twice actually. First I nodded along to @bryan_johnson's account of his experience based on my own prejudices. This was foolish of me and I regret it. Then I laughed along with him and millions of others when he tried to push people into denying events that actually happened, because I didn't like the people who were speaking against him and wanted to see them taken down a peg. Because truth matters, and because I was so wrong, here is the truth: Bryan Johnson did indeed win in court against his ex-fiancé after kicking her out of their house while she was in chemotherapy for stage 3 breast cancer. He did nothing illegal by convincing her to halve her salary and work for him while they were dating. It was all perfectly within the letter of the law when he tried, and failed, to get her to sign a cohabitation agreement saying she could say nothing negative about him without facing severe penalties. There was nothing against the law in sleeping around while promising her he'd be monogamous, and if her allegation that he brought a prostitute into their bed while she was there one night is accurate, well, that's not illegal either. Nothing about their breakup was illegal. It was not illegal, a few months after her breast cancer diagnosis and, yes, after he hurt his hand—a factor he says, like the breast cancer, contributed to the decline of their relationship—and shortly after a chemotherapy treatment, to decide his fiancé was a net negative and ask her to leave their shared house because it would be too inconvenient for him to move out. It was not illegal—it was prudent, even—for him to first verbally promise to help with her expenses after forcing her to move out, then condition that help on a wildly restrictive separation agreement with penalties of $500,000 if she said anything negative about him. And when she refused to sign that agreement and made a counteroffer, it was not illegal for him to rescind his permission for the lawyers she'd been relying on to keep representing her. Nor was it illegal for him to fire her, to threaten to take away her stock options, to threaten to come after her for back rent on their shared home after their breakup, to refuse to speak to her except via lawyers, or to try to get her to post a lie on social media about having had an amicable and mutual breakup. It certainly wasn't illegal when he strung her along for a few months before using high-pressure sales tactics to convince her to sign another separation agreement for $1000 cash and the retention of her stock options. And having sex with her and showing pictures of his children to remind her of the good times a couple of days before she signed that agreement? Why, that's just prudent business. There's certainly nothing illegal about spending 600 times the amount she kept from that agreement in court to ensure he wouldn't have to give her another cent. It must burn, Bryan, to have all those court documents available. It must burn to have so betrayed the person closest to you that she was willing to go $600,000 into the hole just to put on record for the world to see all the information you so badly wanted to keep private. It must hurt to know anyone who wants can read her earnest, heartfelt deposition next to your own maximally evasive one, and to realize that anyone who reads those two depositions alone will understand the reality of your relationships and your life. Oh, sure, I imagine it's fun to watch people who don't know the story nod along, not knowing the only reason you won in arbitration is that the arbitrator treated it as a workplace dispute and concluded that the separation agreement you pressured someone you once loved into signing was not technically invalid, that even if you did do every single thing she alleged, none of it was technically illegal. But it must sting, yes? To know that people can know the truth? Look, I'm not Mormon any more, and neither are you. You're more successful than I'll ever be by most metrics. But, you know, they still have some good advice sometimes. What was it Mormon leaders like to say? "No other success can compensate for failure in the home." Enjoy your court victory, and rest assured that you have proven to all the world that there is nothing illegal about kicking your fiancé out of your house shortly after her chemotherapy for stage 3 breast cancer. Thank goodness we don't need to be fooled by tabloid headlines anymore.

👀 “in this article we observe that Transformers are in fact flow maps on the space of probability measures over a d-dimensional real vector space. Transformers evolve a mean-field interacting particle system… 🌌” arxiv.org/abs/2312.10794

I think we are basically discovering the best ML architectures are doing simulations of particle interactions and something like relativistic path integrals. They’re simulators y’all. You can train them on any dataset of sequences and they’ll learn how to simulate them.

@DougallDev @realityseaker @5d_human Is this the hamden book?

@realityseaker @5d_human i wonder if these people peeked at the zeta interviews

"I think it's about time that we do disclose that we are in contact with non-human intelligence. That's what needs to be put out there in the public." - Ret. Admiral of the Navy & former head of NOAA, Tim Gallaudet