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Michael Garfield Profile picture
@michaelgarfield
Jun 4 • 4 tweets • 4 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
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✨ A Message To The #AICommunity

📣 I can't stress this enough: #LLMs are designed to reflect and amplify what we feed them. They're like kids, or psychedelics. (My friend @NeseLSD co-authored a superb paper on #psychedelics as non-specific amplifiers I will post… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image
1️⃣ Okay, so! My first point in response to all of the fear-mongering and doomsaying in the tech world right now — beyond the obvious, which is that there's an inherent conflict in hastily bringing forth tools you fear and maybe that's worth some personal reflection, because it's… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
♻️ Side Note: I plan on writing all of this up into a more thorough and well-formatted article with an extensive bibliography, but for the time being I want to drop a couple of relevant tweets that serendipitously came up in my feed today.

Here's one from from @speakerjohnash,… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
🧠🔁💻 And here's another relevant nugget from @BuddhistGeeks' @VinceFHorn, speaking less to the LLM feedback loop specifically and more to the BCM #neurofeedback UI piece of what's happening:


For my own take on how these new interfaces and the XR… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… ImageImage

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May 20
People are asking LLMs to write stories like a waking mind does, then declaring their own supremacy as creators when tools structured to work like the dreaming mind spit out what have always been described by the engineers as dreams rather than coherent waking-state narratives.
The extra funny part is people thinking that in an era perhaps most accurately characterized as a collective psychedelic experience, the waking-mind economy is somehow going to maintain its tide wall against this tsunami of unconscious material.

Bad trip recipe, that.
It's like the foolishness of expecting kids to think like adults. These are distinctly different modes of cognition that exist together in an ecology of strategies adapted for different purposes. Exploration-tuned systems are vital complements to exploitation-tuned systems.
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May 5, 2022
🧵 I was recently accused of being a cynical dystopian, but disagree. Since I just finished the first draft of my book on plurality in speculative futurism as a consequence of embracing complexity and entropy, here's my "in case anyone cares" rebuttal:

1/n
My point is subtler than that. It's that as things get simultaneously better AND worse, and the scale of the problems continues to grow and the timetable to accelerate, it becomes harder to understand, and to intervene.

2/n
So the problem isn't any one problem and our ability to solve it but the overall issue of escalation, or "swallowing the spider to catch the fly."

3/n
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Dec 17, 2021
@tobyshorin See also @erik_davis' numerous insightful commentaries on the innate compatibility of Mormonism and Extropianism ("Get your own cosmos!"), which formed a major inspiration for this piece from 2011:
michaelgarfield.medium.com/godhood-is-bor…
...see also Roko's Basilisk and re-animism and and and
@tobyshorin @erik_davis Another good adjacent piece by Timothy Snyder at @nybooks:

nybooks.com/daily/2019/05/…
@tobyshorin @erik_davis @nybooks See also the shift from the tallest building in the city being a church to the tallest building in the city being a bank.

See also @robinhanson's Age of Em.
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