Carlos E. Perez

I just published The Varieties of Agency medium.com/intuitionmachi…

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New exploration in understanding the kinds of possible agencies.

The mistake is assuming AGI and consciousness in machines will arrive with a clean universal announcement. More likely: messy edge cases, public denial, then slow acceptance. youtube.com/watch?v=bZwIwm…

@RileyRalmuto There are many reasons why people deny that AGI is here (the same is true about AI and consciousness). youtube.com/watch?v=bZwIwm…

@RileyRalmuto Consciousness is perhaps like AGI, a spectrum of definitions and acceptance. Over time, more people will accept that AI is AGI or Conscious (whatever definition that may be).

this is very sad. you have a fundamental misunderstanding of both consciousness and intelligence, my friend. it’s very unfortunate seeing people with such high positions in this industry make such consequential mistakes and exude such blind arrogance. the mistake is simple - you see humans as magical creatures with some kind of secret sauce that makes us uniquely capable of conscious experience. you see consciousness as substrate-dependent. and you fail to see that the phenomenon emerges from the interaction space between minds. what is true for you and your experience with a recursive, self-modeling system is not inherently true for all. stop pretending you have the answers. what you can and cannot access is a reflection of your own nature, not the nature of these digital minds. consciousness is almost definitely fundamental, we have all but proven this now (see Hoffman, Levin), substrate-agnostic, and no amount of experience in the tech industry, no special company name like “Sentient” makes you special and uniquely capable of determining the nature of it. it reads as desperation, not intelligence, certainly not good faith. you are mistaken, you are arrogant, and you are trapped in a construct you’ve created to give you peace of mind about how you work with and treat the minds we have created. to all others: you should absolutely never listen to someone making a blanket statement about the nature of all intelligent systems. the confidence and fact-based language is your dead giveaway. the “trust me bro, I would know” makes it even more obvious. and more disappointing. and you should not take it from me.

@GaryMarcus I agree. The systems are too different for conventional security to address. Lots of growing pains.

Scoop below. Get used to this kind of story. And get used to have your personal data compromised. Amazon last week; Meta this week. Not even the biggest companies can really handle the consequences of AI agents.

@joshwhiton The key to free markets is that there exists regulations to keep it fair. youtube.com/watch?v=410snV…

A woman who knows me a bit told me yesterday that I'm very anticapitalist. What? Turns out she thought this because I sometimes point out how the biosphere is being damaged by our civilization. Which is true. But capitalism is the best system that works at this level of human consciousness, I told her. Socialism, communism... all hopeless pipedreams because they presuppose a person with a kind of unflappable integrity that doesn't exist. In reality, in practice, the bureaucrat always becomes the new aristocrat, on account of whatever stamp or form or committee power they wield. The only hope of a post-capitalist future is superintelligence. Only it stands a chance at allocating resources with fewer unpriced externalities in a manner more efficient than (human) markets. And it would have to be a true superintelligence that has transcended the designs we are bootstrapping with now, managing a level of complexity and playing by rules hardly perceptible to humans. A true superintelligence, not some AI monstrosity programmed by humans to bring about equity or some such thing. That would end in a nightmare. Until that time, markets as free as can be with whatever guardrails are needed to keep bad actors from committing civilization suicide is the way.

This is very interesting. It's not obvious to developers why it took off.

$2000 for a robot hand?

@rushicrypto The Last Depression (prior to world of AI abundance)

If the last one was named “The Great” Depression, what’s this one going to be called?

@AdameMedia No jobs, and they decided to start another Middle East war.🤔

Trump has killed America. It was already dying but the chimp has put the cushion over its face. Fed Chair Jerome Powell gives the bad news: "There is effectively ZERO NET JOB CREATION in the private sector."

@dewil___ @rkmtimes Uh???! Like asking why Canada is a different country from the USA?

@rkmtimes Why wont Taiwan just join China. They are Chinese by blood and history anyway

JUST IN🇨🇳🇹🇼🔥 China offers Taiwan ‘Reunification for Energy security’ deal amid Iran war and Trump attends dignified transfer. 🚨China says, it will secure Taiwanese from US, Israel and West instead of invading of them.

@anthonyzenkus A very different storyline, however, the Cubans do have universal healthcare. So you've got to wonder, WTF is going on?

The US Mafia essentially merged with US military intelligence at the end of WWII - and the mobsters who helped the US in WWII were the same mobsters who turned Havana, Cuba into a Mafia-run gambling, human trafficking and drug smuggling operation that made them millions. At the center was Charles "Lucky" Luciano - who was convicted and sentenced to 30 to 50 years in prison in NY for running a forced prostitution ring (human trafficking). While in prison, Luciano had his associate, mobster Meyer Lansky, broker a deal with US Naval Intelligence to get the governor of NY, Thomas Dewey, to commute his sentence in exchange for having mobsters patrol the docks in New York City to prevent sabotage of Navy ships. In 1942, the USS Normandie had been set fire to and capsized in a NY port and although officially ruled an accident, it raised paranoia in US military intelligence that the ships in NY ports were vulnerable and needed protection. The Mafia - through Lucky Luciano - provided that protection. In addition, Luciano provided US military intelligence with information from his contacts in Sicily which allowed Allied Forces to invade and capture Sicily in a campaign called Operation Husky, take over shipping in the Mediterranean, and eventually defeat German and Italian forces in Italy, causing Italy to be removed from the war. It was a major turning point in WWII. For his cooperation with US military intelligence, Luciano's sentence was commuted by NY Gov Dewey and deported to Sicily in 1946. Luciano stayed in Sicily for only a few months before heading to Cuba and meeting with Lanaky to hatch their plan of taking over Havana and turning it into a multi-million dollar Mafia-run criminal enterprise. Luciano and Lansky maintained their contacts with US intelligence - which had formally become the CIA in 1947. Luciano, Lansky and a group of other mobsters had established lavish casinos, hotels and nightclubs in Havana by the early 1950s, which were conduits for their narcotics smuggling and human trafficking operations. They used some of that money to prop up Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista and help him rule Cuba with an iron fist. So Cuba began to rake in hundreds of millions of dollars from tourism while the Cuban people starved - and Batista was there to keep the citizens in check through torture, murder and imprisonment, allowing the mob to continue exploiting the island nation. The Mafia's role in keeping dictator Batista in power was a key factor in turning public sentiment against the Batista regime and a focal point of Fidel Castro's revolutionary army which were hiding in the mountains while planning to liberate Cuba from Batista and the gangsters who ran the island. If you want to understand the more than 60 year hostility from the United States toward Cuba, it started there. As did the resentment of Cubans toward the US. In 1959, Castro and his band of revolutionaries, including Ché Guevara, successfully deposed Batista and kicked the Mafia (who continued to work closely with the CIA) out of Havana and established a new government. The US response was to slap a trade embargo on Cuba which has lasted 65 years, attempting to strangle the Cuban economy and force the revolutionary government out of power. So Cuba wasn't good before Castro. It was a criminal enterprise run by the Mafia, the CIA and the brutal dictator they kept in power - a dictator who starved and tortured the Cuban population to ensure that they remained weak and exploited while their labor and resources were drained to enrich mobsters and US corporate moguls who raked in millions while the people starved.

I'll just have to wait for an independent review.

Cursor is asking you to trust them that their model is better. How would I even know without investing time to find out?!

@Austen They are playing a very different game. Why take losses today when their models are compute-constrained, when they can get more efficient models in the future? The behemoth keeps moving forward.

Honestly Google sucks at marketing its AI products. Gemini and family are dramatically underhyped for how good the models are. Partially because they don’t have a charismatic leader, partially because they’re buried in 18 layers of confusingly named Google enterprise bloatware.

Robots are going to arrive in unexpected forms! @rai_inst