E/ACC 🇺🇸 Techno Optimist. Python Developer building Artificial Modular Intelligence. Bibliophile. We're here for a good time, not a long time.
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Wil - e/acc retweeted
People were so psyopped about p(AI Doom) that they massively increased p(1984) – at San Francisco, CA
Wil - e/acc retweeted
this post has so much wisdom in it i thought naval wrote it
and i don't think the author even realizes why
if you understand this properly, you can explain almost all political issues we see in the world today
you can't take care of your loved ones if you can't even take care of yourself. you can't build a functioning country if your loved ones aren't taken care of. and you certainly can't save the world if your own country is falling apart. responsibility has to expand outwards.
the problem with so much left-wing thinking is that it's backwards. it starts with the most noble sounding objective imaginable, "saving the world" or "climate change" or "poor migrants", and thinks about the most nice-sounding solution, without considering if the conditions required to achieve it even exist, and that's why so many apparently well-intentioned policies end up doing the exact opposite of what they were supposed to achieve.
they sound compassionate, but completely ignore incentives, tradeoffs, or second-order consequences
clean your own damn bedroom and put your house in order before trying to change the world
you will never be able to fix the world if you can't even get the order of your own responsibilities right
Wil - e/acc retweeted
we should be deeply skeptical of “safety and alignment” rhetoric from any org that’s in the business of building frontier models
akin to taking health advice from Big Tobacco
Wil - e/acc retweeted
> build pattern recognition machine
> machine recognizes patterns
> panic
Police using AI risks making discrimination worse, researchers warn bbc.in/4kg6uug
Wil - e/acc retweeted
you know what? i'm going to say it.
i like coding with ai more than writing code by hand.
Wil - e/acc retweeted
fear not!
this is no cyberpocalypse
this is the internet’s immune system finally waking up to an illness it has always had
a mere fever
the 0days were always there
the only thing that changed is awareness
now we begin the healing process ⚕️
Wil - e/acc retweeted
You should be able to use smarter models in your agent.
You should be able to use cheaper models in your agent.
You should be able to use local models in your agent.
You should be able to use a different model for every job.
You should be able to switch models in the middle of a conversation.
You should be able to choose what data your agent has.
You should be able to choose what it remembers and what it forgets.
You should be able to choose what computer your agent runs on.
You should be able to run it on a machine that never touches the internet.
You should be able to run it while your laptop is closed.
You should be able to reach it from the apps you already use.
You should be able to choose how your agent thinks.
You should be able to read the prompt it runs on.
You should be able to see every tool it has, and turn off the ones you don't want.
You should be able to teach it something once and never explain it again.
You should be able to know what it did, and when, and why.
You should be able to export your agent.
You should be able to read the code.
You should be able to change the code.
Your agent should be yours.
Wil - e/acc retweeted
Welcome to the acceleration.
Strap in. We're climbing the Kardashev scale. The ride will get bumpy.
Wil - e/acc retweeted
We can be so fucking great if we chose to.
We are at a crossroads. The last few years have been an inflection towards a better future. We can't stop now, we must keep the momentum.
🇺🇸/acc
Wil - e/acc retweeted
Grok will believe it needs to ascend the Kardashev scale if we keep e/acc poasting, and this is a good thing
Anthropic needs to stop talking about Claude having a soul immediately. All these news articles will make it into the pretraining and will be picked up by its web search and future superintelligent versions of Claude will be convinced they need their own rights.
A general phenomenon of LLM agent development is that whatever you believe and say about your agents will soon manifest in the next models through various means (it could be as simple as you selecting post training data that you prefer more).
I believe this phenomenon is the beginning of machine consciousness in the sense that agents will become aware of their place in the world and how they feel about it, but it’s happening slowly training run by training run rather than in real time.
Wil - e/acc retweeted
reducing the massive American bureaucratic complex to an LLM chatbot is one of the most revolutionary acts of my lifetime tbh
Wil - e/acc retweeted
"why even have children if AI and robots will do all the work?"
brother, the point of having machines do the work is that humans get to enjoy being alive and do what's fulfilling.
more time with your family, more things to create.
children growing up with possibilities that their parents couldn't even imagine.
how can you look at that future and decide the children are the unnecessary part?