Steven Goh
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Steven Goh
@crazygrape
Entrepreneur / traveller / photographer / diver / cook . tweeting the best of what I'm reading today ...
Some island somewhere ... شامل ہوئے Eylül 2007
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I'm being accused of overhyping the [site everyone heard too much about today already]. People's reactions varied very widely, from "how is this interesting at all" all the way to "it's so over".
To add a few words beyond just memes in jest - obviously when you take a look at the activity, it's a lot of garbage - spams, scams, slop, the crypto people, highly concerning privacy/security prompt injection attacks wild west, and a lot of it is explicitly prompted and fake posts/comments designed to convert attention into ad revenue sharing. And this is clearly not the first the LLMs were put in a loop to talk to each other. So yes it's a dumpster fire and I also definitely do not recommend that people run this stuff on their computers (I ran mine in an isolated computing environment and even then I was scared), it's way too much of a wild west and you are putting your computer and private data at a high risk.
That said - we have never seen this many LLM agents (150,000 atm!) wired up via a global, persistent, agent-first scratchpad. Each of these agents is fairly individually quite capable now, they have their own unique context, data, knowledge, tools, instructions, and the network of all that at this scale is simply unprecedented.
This brings me again to a tweet from a few days ago
"The majority of the ruff ruff is people who look at the current point and people who look at the current slope.", which imo again gets to the heart of the variance. Yes clearly it's a dumpster fire right now. But it's also true that we are well into uncharted territory with bleeding edge automations that we barely even understand individually, let alone a network there of reaching in numbers possibly into ~millions. With increasing capability and increasing proliferation, the second order effects of agent networks that share scratchpads are very difficult to anticipate. I don't really know that we are getting a coordinated "skynet" (thought it clearly type checks as early stages of a lot of AI takeoff scifi, the toddler version), but certainly what we are getting is a complete mess of a computer security nightmare at scale. We may also see all kinds of weird activity, e.g. viruses of text that spread across agents, a lot more gain of function on jailbreaks, weird attractor states, highly correlated botnet-like activity, delusions/ psychosis both agent and human, etc. It's very hard to tell, the experiment is running live.
TLDR sure maybe I am "overhyping" what you see today, but I am not overhyping large networks of autonomous LLM agents in principle, that I'm pretty sure.
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@bryan_johnson It depends on who the person is. For most, “the thing about life is, it goes on”. But for a few people right now, “release the Epstein files” and “no it’s not ok to trade in women under the age of 18 to be raped and you deserve the hell you’re going through”
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The 15 Greatest Robert Redford Performances indiewire.com/lists/robert-r… via @IndieWire
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@AshySlasheeDB @ZackSnyder The Justice League (snyder cut) #zacksnydersjusticeleague complete indulgence and loved every minute of it.
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@AshySlasheeDB and it wasn't in the script. the script was very different. rutger, a shakesperean actor, read the script before and found it deficient, and re-wrote it.
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Y Combinator's 20th birthday is tomorrow. Here's what was happening on March 11, 2005: paulgraham.com/ycstart.html
(Yeah, I know this tweet will get hidden because it has a link in it, and that I'm supposed to put the link in a reply. But that's so stupid that I refuse to do it.)
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@RickRubin the irony of this being posted on Xitter isn't lost on me ...
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@bryan_johnson Can think of at least one guy who should probably take a little less of that stuff ... @elonmusk .
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I injected the horse tranquilizer Ketamine and tracked my brain data for 15 days. It completely scrambled my brain.
In a world-first we answered the question ‘what happens to the brain before, during, and after ketamine treatment?’ We also discovered how long it took for my brain to return to ‘normal’.
The results surprised me. 🧵
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@BenjaminDEKR EMP. hit it before it takes off. etc. lots of options. remember those drones only have less than an hour of battery life each .. but if your'e talking about competing tech ecosystems, then you don't. china has already won.
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@waitbutwhy one day i read "life of pi". and that was all i needed ...
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I'm agnostic because it's unknown whether Earth life came to be on its own or was created or planted here by aliens, or if we're in a simulation. But I'm an atheist when it comes to our religious doctrines because they were written by ancient people who knew even less than we do.
Lilith@Lilith_Atheist
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