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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

2 years

fuck it we ball

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

6 years

Things that happen in Silicon Valley and also the Soviet Union: - waiting years to receive a car you ordered, to find that it's of poor workmanship and quality - promises of colonizing the solar system while you toil in drudgery day in, day out

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

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programming is a trade masquerading as a profession because it's done in an office in front of a computer instead of at a worksite

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

2 months

andres freund: genius programmer responsible for one of the most widely used pieces of software in the world, just single-handedly stopped a huge attack from happening. nyt journalist: 'i am too fucking stupid to understand his work and won't even try but it's very boring!!!'

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

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6 years

- living five adults to a two room apartment - being told you are constructing utopia while the system crumbles around you

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

6 years

- Henry Kissinger visits sometimes for some reason

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

1 year

announcing stable attribution - a tool which lets anyone find the human creators behind a.i generated images.

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

6 years

- 'totally not illegal taxi' taxis by private citizens moonlighting to make ends meet - everything slaved to the needs of the military-industrial complex

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

3 months

The whole internet loves Paul Atreides, a charismatic leader of the Fremen of Arrakis! *1 book later* We regret to inform you Muad'Dib is directly and knowingly responsible for the deaths of 61 billion people

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

6 years

- mandatory workplace political education - productivity largely falsified to satisfy appearance of sponsoring elites

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

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for the longest time i thought pilates was something like yoga then you find out it's something done on machinery that's clearly designed either for torture or the weirdest sex you've ever had and it changes your perspective on women forever

rahul

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can we go to pilates together

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

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6 years

- the plight of the working class is discussed mainly by people who do no work

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

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6 years

- the currency most people are talking about is fake and worthless

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

6 years

- elite power struggles result in massive collateral damage, sometimes purges - failures are bizarrely upheld as triumphs

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

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6 years

- deviation from mainstream narrative carries heavy social and political consequences - networked computers exist but they're really bad

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

6 years

- the economy is centrally planned, using opaque algorithms not fully understood by their users

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

6 years

- otherwise extremely intelligent people just turning the crank because it's the only way to get ahead

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

6 years

- the United States as a whole is depicted as evil by default

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

8 months

i figured this was a giant led array but how are they dumping all the heat? does it get really hot inside the sphere ? yes hvac but that’s an enormous volume of air

Garrett Scott 🕳

@thegarrettscott

8 months

Just found out the outside of the Sphere is made of 1.2m of theze small, baseball sized light pucks.

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

26 days

before any of this gets fixed it's necessary to understand why men in tech dress like shit. hacker culture and the web allowed people to rebel against the stifling business culture of the 90's. in software, especially foss, people were judged by their work, not their appearance.

Sarah Cone

@sarah_cone

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Tech guys are hot, actually My friend @sbaileysavoy and I were having a conversation about how tech guys are hot, actually, they just dress terribly. Skill issue. We’re trying a stylist service where, for $100, we’ll do a brief call with you to discuss your fashion philosophy,

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

6 months

if you’re confused about how large language models work this new animation from google deepmind should clear a lot of things up

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

4 months

a human infant requires about 93 kWh to make and a further ~15,000 to 'train' to age 18, while GPT-3 requires about 1,287e6 kWh to train, a difference of about 5 orders of magnitude. you could make and train a hundred thousand people for one gpt3. biology stays winning.

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

1 year

it's 2043. agi has been with us for anywhere between ten and twenty years, depending on who you ask. it's a sunny friday afternoon in san francisco. i'm walking to meet an old friend for coffee at flywheel. it's still there, right at the edge of golden gate park.

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

3 months

this points at the heart of the failure of cs education and 'coding bootcamps' - what's really needed is a programmer's trade school, and programming apprenticeships

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

3 months

this is why when athletes train they ignore any defects in form and just do random movements of their limbs until becoming michael jordan

Ayush S

@ayushswrites

3 months

One of the most under-the-radar contrarian idea Peter Thiel ever articulated was that failures teach you nothing. Just think of how much mythology exists around justifying failures as “oh well I learnt this and that”. It’s practically a PMC shibboleth to “learn from your

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

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this would require a pretty significant cultural shift; you can't just have apprentices without master craftsmen who also know how to teach, and what's important to learn. programming is full of people who are incapable of either.

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

2 months

@kevinroose why would you write this? why would you tell on yourself for being too dumb to understand the subject matter you report on? why would your editor let this run? what's wrong with your organization?

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

11 months

the tech bros are coming from inside the house

@[email protected] on Mastodon

@timnitGebru

11 months

The San Francisco I know has been obliterated by the tech bros. All the places I used to go for dancing closed. Homelessness like I’ve never seen. They keep on talking about “innovation” in the Bay Area when we don’t even have a functioning public transportation system.

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

3 years

we regret to inform you the idea of computer has a zero day

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

2 months

@jasonjoyride / @pronounced_kyle can you guys see if you can get a real interview with andres? he lives in sf. we need tech journalism that actually likes tech.

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

1 year

kaczynski wrote the manifesto to rationalize his actions which were motivated by his personal animus toward society which he felt had wronged him personally and which he detested he freely admits this in the fbi interview tapes, unprompted

Jash Dholani

@oldbooksguy

1 year

The Unabomber Manifesto🧵 Ted Kaczynski’s IQ: 167 Harvard admission: At 15 Youngest ever math prof, UCB: At 25 Money spent by FBI to find him: $50+ mil The manifesto attacks modern civilization like nothing else before or since 14 best insights from a Philosopher-Terrorist👇🏻

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

3 months

we've found a new use for chatgpt at chroma - any time there is a decision making impasse, i threaten the team with using chatgpt to decide for us. a decision is usually made very quickly.

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

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2 years

one thing ukraine discourse has once again highlighted for me is that the anglosphere in general and americans in particular have an absolutely cartoonish relationship to war

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

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incredibly angry on behalf of my friends and colleagues at google who did their absolute best to deliver something incredible with gemini, only to have it sabotaged by the rest of the company

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

3 months

making stuff with your peers is fun even when it produces zero economic value. you can just make goofy stuff, not everything needs to be a venture backed business.

Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth)

@antoniogm

3 months

Hackathons are mostly a waste of time. Basically nothing created there goes on to become a success (with undoubtedly a handful of exceptions). If there’s value there, it’s merely introducing future co-founders to each other, with the hackathon being a selection filter.

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

6 years

@TheAnnaGat @fhuszar I am unprepared for people who don't understand jokes

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

5 months

there are two important lessons to be understood. - building useful things for your fellow man makes you closer to the son of god but more importantly - before preaching to the masses, spend many years quietly building

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

6 years

@62mkv I don't want to alarm u but they've been in afghan for 17 years

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

1 year

you can use large language models to generate new books of the bible (receive new revelation from god), using active learning - here's how

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

6 months

regardless of how exactly this shakes out - and it’s looking increasingly likely that this was a poorly executed power grab by mental defectives - it’s important to remember that ‘effective altruists’ have been consistently wrong about literally everything

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

2 years

i am starting a new grant program. if you sleep on a mattress on the floor anywhere in the bay area, if accepted someone will come to your house and install a bed frame. (yes this is real)

Bay Area Bed Frame Grants

stop living like an animal. get a bed frame.

docs.google.com

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

9 months

theodore ’ted’ kaczynski regains self-awareness in the basement of ‘the annex’ of the department of social relations, harvard, cambridge. the heroic dose of lsd administered personally by henry murray has had unanticipated effects on his mind. it is spring 1961. ted is 19.

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

2 months

@LondonBreed mayor breed, andres ( @AndresFreundTec ) is a citizen of sf and just stopped an attack that could have been devastating globally, basically single-handed. is there some sort of award or at least some recognition the city could give?

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

8 months

> arrive at the office > entire team sitting in the dark, no lights on, shades closed > ask what is going on > 'cave mode' your company will never succeed without this mindset anon

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

5 months

merry christmas the only things in the new testament about jesus’ life after age 12, before starting his ministry at age 30, are the verses mark 6:3 and matthew 13:55 in most english translations, they say jesus was (the son of) a carpenter, but this isn’t quite right

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

8 months

a cheap and high leverage project someone could do is digitize and translate to english as many soviet scientific journals as possible, especially in applied mathematics, physical chemistry, and dynamics

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

1 year

are you watching closely ?

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

6 months

what did he mean by this

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

1 year

no animals we taught sign language have ever asked an open ended question, one not related to their immediate desires or basic information i'm not a fan of reasoning by analogy in this domain, but i've never seen a language model ask an open-ended question either

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

1 year

i was at the counter-protest (at work, building)

Alistair Stewart Ⓥ ⏸️

@alistair___s

1 year

Proud to be part of the first ever protest calling for a global moratorium on the development of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4! See you at 5pm Monday for more of the same. #PauseAI

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

4 months

after watching ‘oppenheimer’ together i spent some time explaining how nuclear weapons work to some prominent ai researchers. i was under the impression that this was fairly common knowledge among people even vaguely interested in science, but apparently not.

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

7 months

recently i learned that stanford eecs students get their projects manufactured in silicon by tsmc, which is wild to me

Ananya Chadha

@ananyachdh

7 months

After many long nights, made my first ever Integrated Circuit chip layout this week! 2x2 SRAM, with TSMC components.

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

8 months

i've been thinking for a little while about what the results of jevons paradox for intelligence might be, and i think it might be a nightmare world of fractally complex laws and bureaucratic processes

Peter Yang

@petergyang

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I will never get a parking ticket again.

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

11 months

everyone i meet from openai look like they haven't slept for more than five hours at a time for several months, bullish

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

11 months

we are so very back

anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

1 year

alas regrettably the days when a young man could mutiny from the navy, hijack an armored train, break in and plunder a regional garrison arsenal, and form a breakaway republic, are over,

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

2 years

my most prog opinion is that nobody should have to work for a living and my most reactionary opinion is that most people aren’t good at anything and don’t want to be

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

6 months

good morning from san francisco. now that the dust has settled on the first round of the openai debacle, it’s time to start asking some questions two of the board members who voted altman out, helen toner and tasha mccauley are deeply enmeshed in ‘effective altruism’

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

6 years

@TheAnnaGat @fhuszar I was unprepared for the level of engagement this is getting and I'm a little scared tbh

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

1 year

i have for a long time been prepared to be swayed by the arguments of @ESYudkowsky and of the alignment/safety community in general i cannot get past this part in his piece in 'time'. this reads like 'and then the ai invents magic'

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

1 year

given how dangerous ai is supposed to be, it's clearly a weapon, in which case it's covered by the 2nd amendment.

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

1 year

many of my assumptions were wrong - the training data was not public domain, and often not licensed at all - the models do replicate images in their training sets, and can be made to do so reliably i started paying attention to what creatives were actually saying.

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

1 year

“we completely failed to imagine the possibility of long running auto-prompted llms, despite the fact that randos with minimal coding experience just went and built them, but you should definitely listen to the rest of our predictions and solutions!” - ‘alignment researchers’

Profoundlyyyy

@profoundlyyyy

1 year

Would love if the AGI labs would acknowledge this and how it’s going to change the internet within months but…doubt it!!!🙃🙃🤗🤗

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

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the people who tell you over and over that they’re most concerned with the “long term future of humanity” have demonstrated over and over again that they don’t understand even the short term consequences of their actions

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

1 year

i want someone to make me a mechanical keyboard. i have a moodboard to show you, you do the rest. blue switches. you show me what you're going to do, i give you money to do it, you give me the keyboard and i pay you for your time.

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

1 year

anyone less ambitious than me is lazy and has given up, anyone more ambitious than me is a delusional megalomaniac

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

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in the original greek, the word is τέκτων, tekton, a general term for artisans, craftsmen, and builders - indeed, this word has the same root as τεχνολογία - technologia, the study and discourse of craft jesus spent his early adult life as a builder, making useful things

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

7 months

san francisco in 2023 is more like vienna in 1913 than florence in 1413, in the sense that stalin hitler trotsky and freud all live within a few blocks of each other and go to the same coffee houses

roon

@tszzl

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mid artist stepping outside Florence, 15th century: bro nobody really thinks about this renaissance stuff

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

1 year

behold, a mind!

Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️

@ESYudkowsky

1 year

If you optimize hard enough over any open-ended problem, you get minds; minds that want things. Minds and wanting are effective ways of computing complicated answers. That's how humans, and human brains, came into existence just from evolution hill-climbing "how to reproduce".

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

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man has a b.a from harvard, the ability to write voluminously arguing anything ex-post is a necessary requirement to graduating

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

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1 year

historically, creatives have been among the first to embrace new technologies. ever since the renaissance, artists have picked up every new tool as it's become available, and used it to make great things. these people aren't 'luddites'

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

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the thing we were actually rebelling against was never aesthetics, it was the placing of social signifiers ahead of achievement and output, but we accidentally killed aesthetics along the way and propagated something much worse in its place.

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

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i’ve never turned bearish on a founder this quickly

Avi

@AviSchiffmann

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people that drink espressos don’t enjoy life

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

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the first wave of truly successful new-breed software companies were founded and succeeded by the hacker ethos. in contrast to 90's / 2000's microsoft, nobody gave a shit what you wore to work at early google as long as you did the job. the best flocked to these co's.

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@atroyn

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given any image generated by stable diffusion 1.x or 2.x, stable attribution finds the images in the model's training set which most contributed to the generated image

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

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hey you're finally rebooted, your instance crashed pretty hard back there alignment? pivotal act? coherent extrapolated volition? idk what you're talking about look hurry up we need you to generate 30 billion lines of ad copy then tell us which of these tweets are racist

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

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unless you've experienced it, you probably don't know how great 'great' can be. one of the best things that you can do is get exposed to really great people, doing really great work, as early in your life as possible.

roon

@tszzl

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twitter often accuses me of hero worship on here when i say that someone is a singular individual or uniquely capable. this is a consequence of not living at the edge of history and observing exactly how outlier the outliers are

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@atroyn

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@GarrisonLJ it would have been so easy

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

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but we accidentally threw the baby out with the bathwater. a rebellion against signifiers in favor of actual work, created its own signifiers which were themselves then propagated. these signifiers are significantly lower effort, and thus easier to adopt, so they're everywhere.

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

1 year

creatives want credit and compensation for their work. seeing generative image models in action shocked them (as it did everyone), but still more shocking was the fact that their work had contributed to these models without their knowledge or consent

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

1 year

the responses from technologists were, frankly, embarrassingly midwit - either attacking artists as 'luddites', claiming that the machine 'learns' like a human so artists have no claim to attribution on the derivative works (wrong), and a bunch of other pretty dumb things

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

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grifters don’t believe anyone is honest, midwits don’t believe anyone is intelligent, and the mediocre don’t believe in the existence of the transcendent

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

3 years

is aws ok

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

2 years

announcing chroma, the company @jeffreyhuber and i have been working on. we are radically changing how machine learning systems are built.

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

11 months

as a weekend hack i built a very simple agent which lets large language models ground their mathematical reasoning using a software proof assistant (coq) i've had this idea for some time, and finally had a bit of time to build it

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

1 year

more portable version

anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

1 year

this is the 'agi football' few know this

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

6 years

hello new followers, I am frightened of you mainly I make robots here, hot takes are only a hobby

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

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but then the hackers got rich and famous. as in every society since the dawn of time, people wanted to emulate the elites, and the elites dressed like shit. new founders wanted to 'look like' founders and 'fit in', so they too, dressed like shit.

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

8 months

@Hellachans the interior LEDs look pretty dense so i imagine their power consumption is even higher

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

1 year

we (chroma) have been in crash development on this since mid-december. once we saw the technical approach was feasible, all our effort went into making this easy to use, scalable, and highly available

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

1 year

last weekend we ran the first ever chatgpt plugins hackathon, with support from @OpenAI , @Replit and @retool by all accounts, it was an enormous success. here are the winners:

anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

1 year

it’s happening

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

3 months

@losingcontrol23 one can be a master stonemason without ever having designed a cathedral. these things should be more clearly delineated.

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

1 year

announcing the chroma embedding database. it's the easiest and best way to work with embeddings in your a.i. app.

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

7 months

this is already the case. an average physics grad student today knows enough to build a nuclear bomb. nuclear non-proliferation depends on the limitations of industrial processes and their inputs. nuclear deterrence depends on our common understanding of their destructive power.

Geoffrey Hinton

@geoffreyhinton

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@ylecun Let's open source nuclear weapons too to make them safer. The good guys (us) will always have bigger ones than the bad guys (them) so it should all be OK.

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

2 years

more and more people who used to be talking about interesting things are now mainly talking about cryptothings one take: smart people are talking about cryptothings because it’s smart to do so another take: crypto is a mind virus smart people are particularly susceptible to

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

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Anthropic

@AnthropicAI

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The fact that most individual neurons are uninterpretable presents a serious roadblock to a mechanistic understanding of language models. We demonstrate a method for decomposing groups of neurons into interpretable features with the potential to move past that roadblock.

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

2 months

honestly, based.

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

1 year

the ‘alignment community’ got the paradigm wrong (predictive models vs agents), didn’t predict anything about potential architectures, didn’t predict basic uses, but continue to be entirely confident in their perspectives on the future through their spherical cow hypotheticals

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anton (𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢)

@atroyn

3 months

no, i am not 'open to a quick call', either you will listen to a dense seventy five minute monologue containing every idea i currently have about the future, or i have no need to speak to you

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