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Aug 11 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
sapiens is good actually,
like essentially 30% of it is true but it has good vibes. y’all are just mad you haven’t written a bestselling globe spanning pseudo religious tech bro doctrine
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roon Profile picture
Aug 8
unfortunately any honest appraisal of artificial intelligence is totalizing. there's an inexorable scaling law and an event horizon past which reasoning about other aspects of the future seems hopeless/silly
you do not need to believe in "FOOM" or AI godheads or fast recursive self improvement scenarios for this to be true. i'm in the slow takeoff camp watching the GPT and DALLE series evolve and it's still clear that everything changes in 5-10 years
the question of where the next trillion dollar technology or company comes from has already been answered: right here in san francisco
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Aug 8
timid morons on the ML sub today (reddit.com/r/MachineLearn…):

"it became [] unquestionably acceptable to push AI into domains that were originally uniquely human, those areas that sit at the top of Maslows’s hierarchy of needs in terms of self-actualization – art, music, writing"
Ada Lovelace, 200 years ago, divining the pure will of the gods: "the [Analytical] engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent”
every advanced computer intelligence is a bicycle for the mind, enabling the human, the slowest mammal on feet alone, to move as fast as Iris on her rainbow
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Jul 17
the cultural scale of twitter has increased dramatically in the past few years. the trump presidency and elon becoming the richest man alive made it incredibly important politically. but the pandemic made it normal to form online communities and meet ppl off the internet
while low-key nerd meetups like vibecamp are a microcosm of this stuff like hereticon and Miami tech week and nft nyc are extremely well funded purely internet driven phenomena where your online friends turns into real friends and internet fame turns into real fame
the whole tech industry is just online now gossiping like high schoolers about every last thing and briefly materializing in the same spots irl
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Apr 9
every time someone points out an example of “move fast” going wrong it’s a situation where they absolutely would not have predicted the unknown unknown and also one where the original party has probably already fixed the situation
facebook moved fast and caused a genocide:

tenuous, there are no real early Cassandras of people calling out that something like this might happen, hard to pin a genocide on a communications medium. trained novel machine learning models to moderate burmese language comments
facebook moved fast and broke democracy:

tenuous, everyone was cheering it on when facebook and others caused the arab spring. trained complex censorship algorithms to weed out dissidents come 2020
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Jul 18, 2021
gonna do a thread to document my old midwit takes. i will hold myself accountable
this is midwit except where it concerns public health and epidemiology, both of which seem to be staffed by clowns
iF maRkEts aRenT PaNIcKIng I wOnT PanIC

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Jul 17, 2021
the problems of postscarcity are much more interesting to me than the problems of scarcity
if we are gonna completely honest nobody of sound mind can actually starve to death on the streets in the first world. the welfare system will save you far before that
running out of money is only bad insofar as you need to “explain yourself” to the government. anyway sort of unrelated to qc I’m just on my shit abt the difference between American and global poverty again
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