Chris Průcha @chrisprucha Twitter profile

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Chris Průcha

@chrisprucha

6 months

Somebody has to say it: Grok (AI) is cringe AF Like, boomer cringe

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11 months

Man, glimpsing the higher dimension.

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6 months

Being around ambitious people is the most important thing you can do to be successful.

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Effective Altruism (EA) is a national security risk.

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Chris Průcha

@chrisprucha

10 months

Publicly posting DMs from a main account is distasteful and classless, regardless of your argument.

kepano

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10 months

Sam Altman tells me he is worried that "bad actors" could try to use AI for world control and "full enslavement of everyone else" Meanwhile, his project Worldcoin is creating a database of all humans by asking you to scan your eyeballs in exchange for his proprietary money

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Chris Průcha

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8 months

If OpenAI really has achieved AGI, now what? We’re still here.

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10 months

It's already happening.

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Chris Průcha

@chrisprucha

9 months

First, they came for our GPUs, and I did not speak out—because I wasn’t direct affected. Then they came for our algorithms, and I did not speak out—because I don’t create algorithms. Then they came for open-source, and I did not speak out—because I don’t contribute. Then they

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5 months

If OpenAI has no moat, why is Gemini worse than GPT-4?

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@chrisprucha

5 months

I’m excited to announce my investment in @Extropic_AI , teaming up with other accelerated investors to build the future with @BasedBeffJezos .

Bryan Johnson /dd

@bryan_johnson

5 months

Excited to be an @Extropic_AI investor and to build with @BasedBeffJezos . After 4.5 billion years, this is our moment.

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Chris Průcha

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8 months

Question for AI doomers: If we are unable to persuade China to reduce carbon emissions, what makes you think AI regulation will be any different?

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Chris Průcha

@chrisprucha

7 months

The amount of pro-Hamas vitriol in replies on this platform is disgusting. Hamas is a terrorist organization and will be stigmatized as such. 🇮🇱

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Chris Průcha

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6 months

Doomers lost

Facebook-parent Meta breaks up its Responsible AI team

Most members of the RAI team have been reassigned to the company's Generative AI product division.

www.cnbc.com

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5 months

Degrowth is a rebrand of the word “decline”

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11 months

I think Bard was doomed as soon as they decided to call it that.

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Chris Průcha

@chrisprucha

10 months

It’s safe to go all-in now – e/acc. 🫡

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Chris Průcha

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7 months

Anti-immigration is decel.

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Chris Průcha

@chrisprucha

6 months

Every single wedding I’ve attended ended up in divorce 🥲

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10 months

That was fast. @elonmusk

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Chris Průcha

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6 months

You won’t be legendary in Big Tech Build the start-up, anon

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6 months

@pronounced_kyle

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30 days

@Noahpinion Quit being dramatic. I've seen much worse on the Muni/BART.

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Chris Průcha

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8 months

I'm glad Nvidia is addressing the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee, dismantling the AI 'FOOM' myth. 'FOOM' is a fantastical claim that belongs to the realm of science fiction

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Chris Průcha

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10 months

My angel investment thesis: Founder vibe > business idea. 🫡

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Chris Průcha

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6 months

If Sam returns to OpenAI, the board will be replaced. If this happens, Satya will likely sit on it

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6 months

And now for the real party

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Chris Průcha

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4 months

I’m at CES and I find myself somewhat disappointed by the gimmicky nature of the consumer products here. We need an accelerated conference and expo, where people show off revolutionary technologies that push humanity forward.

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Chris Průcha

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11 months

I've basically switched to GPT-4's API as ChatGPT is too nerfed via RLHF and all the other "brain damage" done to the model to protect users. I get why this was done. @OfficialLoganK @OpenAI would love to see a power-user mode in ChatGPT. I'll sign a legal waiver if I have to.

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Chris Průcha

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10 months

@felixchin1 @OpenAI I think this is right (e.g. GPT-4 can still give good answers), but having to try A LOT harder is not great UX imo.

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Chris Průcha

@chrisprucha

8 months

You should work in Big Tech for 2-4 years max. Any longer and you are Big Tech.

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5 months

Gemini benchmarks are 🚩🚩🚩

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Chris Průcha

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8 months

AGI is not a God with divine powers. There will be no omniscience, omnipotence, or omnipresence. AGI power will be directly constrained by compute, bandwidth, latency, and will have fundamental constraints on what problems can be solved in polynomial time.

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Chris Průcha

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9 months

The word 'safety' is designed to manipulate the public into relinquishing freedom and liberty.

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Chris Průcha

@chrisprucha

6 months

@study_of_waifu No, the responses have intentional cringe humor.

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Chris Průcha

@chrisprucha

10 months

if you're e/acc and building, reply here and I'll follow you ❤️‍🔥

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Chris Průcha

@chrisprucha

8 months

@sociaIrate This is from knowledge updates (stored in a vector DB). The model is confused on why it knows this updated info.

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Chris Průcha

@chrisprucha

6 months

What have I done

Sam Altman

@sama

6 months

GPTs can save a lot of effort:

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Chris Průcha

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5 months

Let’s keep it this way

Thierry Breton

@ThierryBreton

5 months

Deal! #AIAct

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Chris Průcha

@chrisprucha

10 months

As I’ve grown tired of reading the walls of text from AI pessimists, here is a summary of their proposed solutions: 1.) They suggest we’re all going to die from AI, so we should just resign ourselves to living in fear. 2.) They advocate for banning algorithms (citing them as

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6 months

The best way to avoid being disrupted by OpenAI is to become more ambitious. Today’s announcements are good for acceleration and human abundance.

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Chris Průcha

@chrisprucha

6 months

I’m Beff Jezos

Beff – e/acc

@BasedBeffJezos

6 months

Beff doxx inbound. Brace for impact.

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Chris Průcha

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7 months

A live look at decels estimating p-doom

Nate Soares ⏹️

@So8res

7 months

My current stance on AI is: Fucking stop. Find some other route to the glorious transhuman future. There’s debate within the AI alignment community re whether the chance of AI killing literally everyone is more like 20% or 95%, but 20% means worse odds than Russian roulette.

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5 months

I’ve gotten to know @GillVerd over the past few months and want to say that he is a very talented and astute entrepreneur. E/acc couldn’t have a more qualified co-founder, and the movement will be stronger now that @BasedBeffJezos ’s identity is known.

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Chris Průcha

@chrisprucha

9 months

I'm on track to close three angel investments in startups this week, all of which originated entirely through Twitter/X. One of these startups has been accepted into the current YC batch since our initial DM exchange. As @garrytan alluded to, the companies in this YC batch are

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Chris Průcha

@chrisprucha

4 months

I've been fortunate to invest in many accelerated AI start-ups since I started using Twitter/X last year. Today, I'm incredibly proud to announce my latest investment in @NousResearch . Throughout 2023, the team has been a significant contributor to the open-source large language

Nous Research

@NousResearch

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Nous Research is excited to announce the closing of our $5.2 million seed financing round. We're proud to work with passionate, high-integrity partners that made this round possible, including co-leads @DistributedG and @OSSCapital , with participation from @vipulved , founder

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Chris Průcha

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7 months

Meta or Nvidia will likely challenge the AI executive order. If they do not, we reserve the right to challenge it.

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Chris Průcha

@chrisprucha

4 months

I traded my health for work success. It was only partially worth it. Wealth can’t fix past health and fitness mistakes. I’m now 6 months in on repairing the damage, and feel better at 35 than I did in my late 20s: - Gone to the gym 4-5X per week to get fit - Taken up extreme

Bryan Johnson /dd

@bryan_johnson

4 months

This is a message from your future self: please prioritize sleep, eat well, exercise and fire the worst version of ourself so that our mind is clear, our energy high and we feel an insatiable love for life 🫶

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9 months

Even if Meta doesn't do this, it is inevitable that someone else will. Open-source models of this caliber are inevitable. The decision is whether it is done by a US-based company or an adversarial state.

James Campbell

@jam3scampbell

9 months

Meta wants to open-source a GPT-5-level model and seems dead-set on open-sourcing right up until AGI. I want to be clear about what this means: There is no kill-switch. If something goes wrong--an agent gets out of control or a bad actor weaponizes it--there's no easy way to

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Chris Průcha

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10 months

Let's normalize "Ok doomer". 🤙

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Chris Průcha

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11 months

Can we finally admit that Bard, Anthropic, and the like, fall short, and that nothing comes close to GPT-4? The first step is acceptance...

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Chris Průcha

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7 months

The new season of Silicon Valley looks pretty funny.

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Chris Průcha

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6 months

Already ramping up my AI investments. OpenAI is over

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6 months

No idea what @sama did, but I'm already looking forward to his comeback arc

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Chris Průcha

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6 months

The OpenAI board screwed over: the founders, investors, partners (microsoft), and now employees. You can only do so much in a week, the board will come for customers next week

Jon Victor

@jon_victor_

6 months

New: OpenAI's $86 billion tender offer is in doubt now that Sam Altman and other key employees are gone. The round was expected to close as soon as next month @KateClarkTweets @aaronpholmes

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Chris Průcha

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6 months

Decels gaslight each other into believing in high pdoom, or else they get ostracized from the in-group Techno-optimism is simply a network of amazing people wanting to build a better future Easy choice

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Chris Průcha

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5 months

Everything is downstream of energy.

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Chris Průcha

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3 months

from my point of view the EAs are evil

Tsarathustra

@tsarnick

3 months

Connor Leahy says @basedbeffjezos is evil and e/acc justifies evil

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Chris Průcha

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10 months

Not looking great for the app who must not be named. 😬

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Chris Průcha

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6 months

Letting out all that OpenAI energy.

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Chris Průcha

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8 months

AI doomers conveniently overlook the fact that China has a literal plan for achieving AI dominance by 2030.

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8 months

@chrisprucha These are not alike. The incentives differ. Both, i) the alignment problem and ii) AGI getting in the hands of private actors (if alignment was solved), are much bigger issues for China, an ideological, authoritarian government than they are for the US.

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Chris Průcha

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7 months

We need to ramp up the number of e/acc X spaces once again 🫡 The decel spaces are outnumbering the e/acc spaces

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Chris Průcha

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4 months

I can’t believe millienals used to believe they were productive writing code in fancy coffee shops

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Chris Průcha

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7 months

Great reporting. I was definitely seduced by Beff’s pfp.

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Chris Průcha

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6 months

@andromeda74356 "cringe mode"

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Chris Průcha

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8 months

I applaud my previous colleagues’ work on materials + supply chain, but this video is pretty cringe ngl

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8 months

At Apple, we believe that climate change is one of the world’s most urgent priorities and we are deeply committed to doing our part. Today we had a special guest—a real force of nature—stop by to check on our progress.

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Chris Průcha

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10 months

Anybody else getting GPT-4 as the default in ChatGPT Plus?

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Chris Průcha

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10 months

Quantum computing is going to accelerate so hard that your encryption is already broken. 🥲

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Chris Průcha

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7 months

@BasedBeffJezos Cocaine?

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5 months

The internet is libertarian and left leaning — the training data will sway LLMs this direction

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Chris Průcha

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10 months

Vibe check for the superconducting propulsion device—blue or orange?

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Chris Průcha

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8 months

iPhone cases are for psychopaths.

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9 months

I’m glad I invested in this early.

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11 months

Do legendary shit.

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Chris Průcha

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8 months

If you're not engaging IRL, you're not just losing out on major alpha — you forfeit your seat at the table. It was awesome to meet so many anons IRL tonight; I've got your back.

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4 months

this algorithm is fire

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Chris Průcha

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9 months

Last night, others and I had a productive discussion with @liron . We explored areas previously untouched in the e/acc vs. doomer debates. ✌️ 🔸Where We Agree: 1. e/acc is beneficial, assuming no AI doom. 2. AGI+ is inevitable and will materialize in due course. 3. We’re on

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Chris Průcha

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10 months

This is the most cringe thing I've ever seen.

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Chris Průcha

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6 months

@DeveloperHarris it’s still cringe

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Chris Průcha

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10 months

The top priority for ambitious individuals should be escaping oppressive cultures. I left Michigan, a place I love, due to its lack of understanding of risk-taking and technology. 13 years on, my viewpoint stands. Leave. 🫡

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Chris Průcha

@chrisprucha

30 days

“it’s unethical not to lie”

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30 days

I find it distasteful, almost unethical, to say this when you have 18 million subscribers. Hard to explain why, but with great reach comes great responsibility. Potentially killing someone else’s nascent project reeks of carelessness. First, do no harm.

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Chris Průcha

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9 months

The absence of correlation reveals a new political axis. We stand united against the darkness of failed 20th century policies. 🫡

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Chris Průcha

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24 days

never used a dual monitor setup in my life

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the truth will set you free

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Chris Průcha

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8 months

You can’t pause ⏸️ AI. Your move, doomers.

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6 months

P(doom) is stupid because it's a random guess with zero defensibility.

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Chris Průcha

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6 months

This sounds like a typical start-up — there's no smoking gun here.

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6 months

This letter about OpenAI was just sent to me. These seem like concerns worth investigating.

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6 months

Google's OKRs and KPIs can't compete with OpenAI's pure willpower

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6 months

Blocking many e/acc adjacent folks that are anti-sama that keep showing up in my feed. My only sama criticism is that he was accelerating so hard he almost built a monopoly; he’s still a legend.

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Chris Průcha

@chrisprucha

8 months

GPT-4 knowledge updates are producing very weird behavior

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OpenAI VEHEMENTLY denies updating models on user input data yet gpt-4 is completely aware of the Russian invasion after it’s training data cutoff and even ADMITS to learning about it from user inputs when prompted - something is not adding up

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If you’re forced to choose between cringe and mid, go for cringe. Don’t be mid

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8 months

Burning man is cringe. They deserve this.

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Chris Průcha

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9 months

Effective Altruism (EA) is a toxic philosophy; it masquerades as compassion but fundamentally operates on the dangerous notion that 'the ends justify the means.'

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Chris Průcha

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Laws and regulations should have expiration dates.

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8 months

Light mode users are sus

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4 months

It is time

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The US matters because we speak out when things go wrong. Europe is sliding back into the dark ages, amid thunderous applause.

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Chris Průcha

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9 months

I agree with @realGeorgeHotz 's take on the dangers of closed-source AI algorithms — the worst people will inevitably get their hands on it.

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Chris Průcha

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7 months

Most AI start-ups lack the funding of OpenAI and Anthropic. For these start-ups, hiring AI safety ‘experts’ puts their product and overall prospects in peril.

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Chris Průcha

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5 months

Live your life cracked and based

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Chris Průcha

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10 months

Degrowth should never be taken seriously. 🫡

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Chris Průcha

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8 months

Anons not only created e/acc but are also its very foundation. Let's all agree that the real villain is anything that requires us to go outside.

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