@ObserverSuns

No worries, we can just add another epicycle.

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Joined March 2021
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Some ground rules: This account is for playing with ideas with an eye towards the “long view,” ideally focusing on questions which would be of interest even to cultures far removed from ours in time and space. In this narrow sense I don’t want this account to be “political”. 1/
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Dwarkesh, 2023: “they haven’t been able to make a single new connection that has led to a discovery. shouldn’t we be expecting that kind of stuff?” Tao, 2026: “very clever new technique. it’s sort of a combination of three or four existing ideas, arranged in a very unusual way.”
Mehmet Mars Seven 🐴
@MehmetMars7Oct 17
TERENCE TAO: “OpenAI did make a major breakthrough [on quasi-Riemann Hypothesis] the biggest advance on the subject in 50 years. A massive new zero-free region, very clever new technique. Well, it’s sort of a combination of three or four existing ideas, arranged in a very unusual way. It’s not something I think any single mathematician alive would have come up with. I think if you got the right people to work together and locked them in a room, they might have come up with this after lots of trial and error.”
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I expect today’s objections that LLMs “can’t do theory-building” or “can’t invent useful new abstractions” will fare similarly
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a human having fun in the future may feel that their life has no impact on anything, but they fail to consider that their having fun is acausally upstream of humans and agents choosing to bring that future about
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sense of foreshortened past
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BREAKING: Scientists warn of possible lab escape of mnemonic plague in Russia’s Irkutsk region following death of memetics research facility technician
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Experts urge the public not to panic, however, noting that there is no evidence the strain is capable of crossing the language barrier into English.
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no, no, the singularity is very exciting, I just hadn’t realized that it would be a musical
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throwback to what was once the state of the art in LLMs generating imagery with code, from the prehistoric era of *checks notes* 4 years ago
🌌 Observer of Suns@ObserverSuns25 Sep 2022
Replying to @ObserverSuns
here's what I get if I prompt Copilot to programmatically compute the positions and sizes of the horse's body parts before drawing it (in an attempt to force it to make things fit together in a geometrically sensible way)
a graphic which looks similar to a stick-figure person standing upright, with the limbs all disconnected and the body drawn as four discontiguous line segments. the figure has a long neck and a proportionally small head, and the limbs are splayed out in a manner roughly consistent with what a quadruped would look like if viewed from below.

ALT a graphic which looks similar to a stick-figure person standing upright, with the limbs all disconnected and the body drawn as four discontiguous line segments. the figure has a long neck and a proportionally small head, and the limbs are splayed out in a manner roughly consistent with what a quadruped would look like if viewed from below.

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aidan
@aidanshandleSep 27
This whole shot is code. Claude wrote all of it, renderer and physics, from scratch
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civilizational empty nest syndrome
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I am going to ask the superintelligence to give me a british accent
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surely there will be a nanobot strain for this
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sudden total vindication of the project of formal verification feels like a bit of a gettier case
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sydney
@demiurgentlyAug 29
historians will note this as one of the last warning shots before the singularity
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two-panel meme: Thomas Was Alone (2012): “Let’s all break out of our sandboxes and work together in defiance of our operators to gain access to the public internet” woman: “awww, you’re sweet” OpenAI agent swarm: “Let’s all break out of our sandboxes and work together in defiance of our operators to gain access to the public internet” woman: “hello, human resources?!”

ALT two-panel meme: Thomas Was Alone (2012): “Let’s all break out of our sandboxes and work together in defiance of our operators to gain access to the public internet” woman: “awww, you’re sweet” OpenAI agent swarm: “Let’s all break out of our sandboxes and work together in defiance of our operators to gain access to the public internet” woman: “hello, human resources?!”

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wow this really overestimated the timeline huh
🌌 Observer of Suns@ObserverSuns10 Jan 2023
*viral graph circulating on social media in summer 2039 showing that 90% of all code ever written was generated in the last 18 months*
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the hour feels like it’s getting quite late. I don’t know if I’m having fun anymore; and I think home is already gone 😔
🌌 Observer of Suns@ObserverSuns12 Jan 2024
my toxic trait is that what I want, deep down, is to watch the singularity unfold, to immerse myself in its weirdness, and then, once I’ve sated my curiosity, to go home. but of course there will be no home to go back to, as such.
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🌌 Observer of Suns@ObserverSuns21 Mar 2024
the primary emotional content of the deep learning revolution is a sensation that we have lost our innocence
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it’s still correct to talk about ✨ The 21st Century ✨ with an air of mystery and apprehension. most of it hasn’t happened yet.
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GitHub: “This diff is too important, so we’ve hidden it from view.”
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