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“why don’t you move to SF the people are incredible” the people in SF:

Yes it's the tractable form of brain upload. There's a ton of scifi on brain uploads that requires way too exotic tech (scanning and simulating brains etc), when we're about to get a lossy and approximate version of that *a lot* sooner via LLM simulators. You can easily imagine a "brain upload" startup - you show up for a few days to carry out detailed video interviews, then they use all that data with an LLM finetuning process to "upload" you and give you an API endpoint of your simulation that you can talk to. Look at what's already possible with HeyGen as an example, but combine it with an LLM model that has deep knowledge and personality. Trippy and admittedly kind of dystopian but in principle quite possible around now.

A frustrating thing in AI discourse is that whenever we have a significant capability milestone, we go through the following cycle: - Some people get make exaggerated claims about what’s now possible - Other commentators write (often very good) debunkings that show that the specific claims are overstated - Casual observers are left with the impression that they don’t need to pay attention But the real story is never where capabilities are today but the shape of the curve. The exponential is not flattening.

Okay, this is ridiculous. It is crazy to see people straight up saying Anthropic is lying about Mythos. Because that directly implies there's an industry-wide conspiracy going on and ALL of these companies are also lying on Anthropic's behalf? Why on Earth would their competitors - Google and Microsoft in particular - lie about this and not call them out? Instead, they happily join Project Glasswing and go on record, practically, that Mythos is this good and that they're working with Anthropic to put it to use. You people baffle me sometimes lmao.

Okay, this is ridiculous. It is crazy to see people straight up saying Anthropic is lying about Mythos. Because that directly implies there's an industry-wide conspiracy going on and ALL of these companies are also lying on Anthropic's behalf? Why on Earth would their competitors - Google and Microsoft in particular - lie about this and not call them out? Instead, they happily join Project Glasswing and go on record, practically, that Mythos is this good and that they're working with Anthropic to put it to use. You people baffle me sometimes lmao.

I fear we're starting to feel the agi

Happy to predict that Mythos-level hacking capabilities will not, in fact, cause the collapse of society when released to the public.

The evidence screams we're living through a world-historical revolutionary existential moment, and yet most journalists ignore and dismiss it. Most are still in the 'it's just fancy autocomplete' phase - it's so so maddening, people need to f*king KNOW this is happening

all this mythos talk has allowed me to block over 50 new accounts and muting near 100 peope, continuing my road down to near-0 following and an apocalyptically empty For You page

it all makes sense now. dario was still at openai in 2019. he left next year and took his marketing playbook with him. hasn't changed a thing since.

For what it's worth, I think America should cancel its alliance with Israel, which is obviously a bad and unhelpful ally. But unlike leftists and rightists, I don't actually think canceling it will fix any of our fundamental problems, or help people in Gaza.