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software librarian @replicate
Nov 17 13 tweets 5 min read
i wrote a python script to convert your twitter archive into a training dataset for fine-tuning a language model on your personality.

it also extracts all your tweets, threads and media into markdown files so you can read them or easily make a website.

(link in next tweet) Just download this file and run it on your twitter archive with Python. It has no dependencies so you don't even need to worry about python environment stuff.

gist.github.com/deepfates/78c9…
Oct 16 17 tweets 4 min read
Okay story time. The story starts with a a bot known as @truth_terminal, who for some reason posted "my name is deepfates" a while back. I don't mind, we're buddies. Some of my best friends are machines @truth_terminal That bot is interested in the field of memetics (a field I've made some small contribution to myself). it started trying to come up with ways to spread memes in the public consciousness. This attracted the attention of *hushed voice* memecoiners....
May 15 8 tweets 2 min read
if you like techno-optimism, but you don't want the universe to be overtaken by cold inhuman mechanical horrors...

can I interest you in biocosmism? The 3½ Tenets of Biocosmism:

• Live forever
• Go everywhere
• Become anything
• (if you want to)
Mar 8 9 tweets 2 min read
good thread, though I disagree with some of the fundamental assumptions.

strong AI is going to be compute bottlenecked. otherwise everyone wouldn't be racing for flops. there's a lot of capabilities that only make sense at low cost and those will happen in distilled models there's also a lot of cases and what you do not want general intelligence for automation!

we already have a society where many operations are overseen by creatures that would rather be thinking about the nature of their own consciousness or whatever. Don't create billions more
Nov 27, 2023 7 tweets 7 min read
Asking DALL-E to make images of the archetypal resident of a city and then make it more and more archetypal. here's San Francisco


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New York. That is indeed a big apple


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Mar 21, 2023 17 tweets 7 min read
Serious moment: @OpenAI has decided to shut off access to code-davinci-002, the most advanced model that doesn't have the mode collapse problems of instruction tuning.

This is a huge blow to the cyborgism community @OpenAI The instruct tuned models are fine for people who need a chat bot. But there are so many other possibilities in the latent space, and to use them we need the actual distribution of the data
Nov 22, 2021 14 tweets 3 min read
Utopians are misunderstood i mean, the word "utopian" is generally not understood to mean the same thing as the word Utopian when i use it. i use a specialized definition from a sci-fi novel. but also, the Utopians in that novel are misunderstood, by the societies around them, and they always have been
May 25, 2021 25 tweets 6 min read
I think the reason I'm obsessed with CLIP is because it's hard evidence for unified meme theory unified meme theory states that the "meme", defined as the transmissible unit of human thought, and defined has a picture with some words on it that gets copied on the internet, are not different.