Renaissance Alien

Wavefunction, Astral Plane
Joined August 2023
what's the likelihood of controlling a system where hawke's processes are significant s.t. that it's stationary or at least has "steerable drift?" is it possible to estimate level of effort/control required? effects on society & culture? #accelerationism arxiv.org/html/2405.10527v1
2
10
943
#SocialNorms are often dumb. Smart to know about, but usually dumb when blindly copy/pasted (into words/actions) Especially true, given rates for - "alpha": describing change responding to diffusion of information through networks - acceleration of tech with lagging culture
1
3
Most dysfunction in newsfeed comes from: - design that correct for sparsity - feedback loops from UI/UX or algorithm hacking - feedback loops from users un/conscious developing/following "norms" - dimensionality of features (more dims of bins, more low-frequency occurances)
1
5
Who has the most power to define "norms" for technology? ... social media companies (& marketers) They're ahead of curve, have analytics no one else does, & must develop user behavior "typologies" Designing for "safety" is not too orthogonal from designing for cultural response
1
I hate social media. It doesn’t do anything except create distance, which creates imbalance. it seriously sucks There like maybe five people I actually know who I’ve interacted with on Twitter It’s impossible to interact with people who understand whatever esoteric goals I have
1
11
My interest/passion is usually misinterpreted. I guess. Idk. I need an IRL job but there are only ever 2-3 acceptable positions. Plenty of defense jobs … but I’m kinda rumored insane so nope, Roanoke would not have that It’s sad… but that gets old
1
10
Very difficult to meet people with similar interests AND free time. It’s a demographic/valence issue. Smarter people are more pinned down & less accessible Gotta choose between giving up everything I wanted to do and I guess failing at socializing with alcohol
4
David Conner retweeted
The kinda emails I get these days man
46
30
3
1,848
42,669
This bot has not managed to contact a living songwriter yet… but otherwise alright
Kinda unnerved unleashing this but it's inevitable if Claudia is going to be the Hatsune Miku of the SI era, right? instagram.com/claudiathepops… (Instagram is for girls)
15
Great. Now I’ve been warped directly to “drug twitter” Thanks so much, algorithm. Sure, put the autistic kid onto drug twitter. That probably helps a lot
1
16
It’s the other way around. Goals/direction give rise to property (your life’s potential becomes attached) If AI completely takes that away and nothing replaces it, you don’t really have anything except your biological clocks Notice the conditional there (if) It’s very likely
life should be about more than the parasite
1
34
What do you mean, second brain? If you never had a first?
It is becoming f*cking dangerous: when Anthropic released this, they didn't even realize what a massive chain reaction they were triggering 1. Set up a folder called SECOND BRAIN on your computer 2. Open Claude Code inside that directory and configure GWS CLI to give it access to your Google Drive, Gmail, and Calendar 3. Make a new subfolder named MEMORY inside the root folder 4. Add a ⁠CLAUDE.md⁠ file to the root directory with instructions to log all critical context inside the MEMORY folder 5. Download and install Graphify from GitHub to connect your notes into a knowledge graph 6. Set up Playwright so Claude gets full browser automation capabilities 7. Configure skills to bundle everything into a single automation executable triggered by one command The entire setup takes roughly 20 minutes Transform Claude into your ultimate second brain, packed with persistent memory, direct cloud and email integration, plus seamless web browsing Check out the full step-by-step guide in the article below
17
A single pendulum is never chaotic. A double pendulum is always chaotic Multi-agent interactions need increasing controls as you connect them together, otherwise there’s always a tendency for increasing chaos Human social systems have hierarchies youtu.be/ZvztoQ4E9yQ?is=9AIf…
10
“We don’t know yet because we don’t have documented instances of that happening” Nothing personal, but if they trained models to think like that, ppl would claim they broken. Man I can’t wait for a cold splash of empiricism to wake y’all TF up youtu.be/btUxMt_tssA?is=jlhK…
1
13
And again nothing personal to this dude. If there was nothing there, I wouldn’t watch
4
Most of your users are zombies. How are you going to sell ads to zombies after the bubble pops? Can’t sell ads to broke MFs
Mark Zuckerberg: AI engineers will eventually build most of the code at Meta, instead of human engineers. “We’re gonna have an AI that can effectively be a mid-level engineer at your company.” “It can write code.” “Over time, we’ll get to the point where a lot of the code in our apps is actually gonna be built by AI engineers.” “Even the AI that we generate will be built by AI engineers instead of people engineers.”
14
This essay is a study in why philosophers are dangerous. Nick Land doesn’t stop at “[a reduction to] the antithesis world and nothing” and never planned to. The deconstructionism is necessary to remake the substance of reality into what is needed to reconstruct it.
“Complicating thought” … Seems to be talking about exploiting #Kripke semantics by inducing modal logics into an argument’s own logical predicates lol In old sci-fi, a character paralyzes a robot by using a logical paradox. In reality, it’s more likely the robots do it to you
1
17
Of course, actually attempting that will only bring you tons of pain. I think humanity has fully domesticated itself in preparation for subordination by an artificial ubermensch. Maybe that’s what Nietzche’s bridge was meant to bring us to… ? (No)
1
4
I imagine Nietzsche would detest this subordination to super intelligent entities. We become nothing but a herd whose members quick loses their value/agency Nietzsche would always find some way to contradict faithful execution of his own philosophy. It’s a process of becoming
3