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🌄 Peter Alexander retweeted
Haven't received a trophy for a long time! MiniCPM ambassador trophy received 🫡
Appreciate the sentiment and the acknowledgement from the @OpenBMB team.
I look forward to building more products that help with my mission to build AI for the good of humanity and the world.
Small models are the way of the future and I'm glad there are labs like OpenBMB who make them a priority.
Love to see what the community builds with these small language models.
🌄 Peter Alexander retweeted
In any project, there are often different layers. There is a ideological layer, which is the layer of presuppositions, and the layer of faith as it were. As we know, faith can move mountains. I think of Holochain, driven by grandiose dreams of changing the world through a new operational logic for technology.
And then there is the layer to obtain the means to carry out what the ideology promises. This can be done through market forms, state support, volunteering and ideological activism.
Both can fail.
Holochain, which I believe has a well thought out 'decentralized ideology', failed in its initial commercial plans and it its first iterations of its technology, probably to problems of executional capacity.
Society Protocol is more straightforwardly technocratic in its hopes and dreams, and more market-oriented in its ways and means, but it is very similar in its idealism, and I believe, stronger in its execution. If one looks in a pluralistic way at the outcomes of a cosmo-local world order, then I see a definite place for synchronized global accounting capacity.
While ideology may move mountains, it can also drive you into a wall, and the right mix of faithfulness to the vision and adaptibility eventually determines how successful one becomes. The future is open, also for Society Protocol.
I understand that a state machine computational model can be adequate for modeling some business processes. I'm not saying that this is all garbage.
The problem is that they say that they want to apply this to communities, communities of communities, the dream being to apply it to the entire society.
If I understand their thought process correctly, the idea of "synchronzed state" comes from blockchain, the ledger is the synchronized state of the network at every moment a block is added. But I think that there's more. In computer games, there's also a concept of a "game state", which is the ensemble of parameters required to recover the game if there's a computer glitch. Also, in programming terms, a game takes an action plus the current game state and produces either a new state or an end result.
So I'm trying to understand these guys from where they come from... Left to their own devices, they will waste their talent trying to fit society (complex socioeconomic processes) into a simplistic state machine. That's their tendency, if I understand them correctly, to project their mental models on society, trying to squeeze society into their models rather than trying to understand a reality and look for a tech that could help represent it.
Also, there is nothing new that they're doing terms of "value sovereignty". No innovation in this field what so ever. Moreover, there is no real surface of attachment, meaning that what they claim they'll build (since what they call Value Functions are not built yet) isn't built from a real project perspective, enbedded in a real life experience. I took part in their conversations about benefit redistribution algorithms in the abstract, struggling with non-problems, trying to engineer out stuff that very rarely happens, in real situations. I intervened and pointed them to information coming from experience in past Sensorica projects, explaining that some stuff is taken care of by other processes, in the social, cultural, even spiritual layers of an organization.
What I want to say is that they are good at pointing AI agents at the Internet, gathering lots of info and trying to synthesize it outside of a real context, without really understanding the whole meaning of it and how all that would apply in reality. Their content is mostly synthesized with AI, with no trace back to where the inspiration came from, providing their community members no path to digg deeper.
Fine, I'm all for letting people replicating past work, bringing new perspectives. At the same time, we need to have a way to evaluate these initiatives, make sense of them, to help them (collaborate across organizational boundaries) or even denounce them, if we think that they are spreading false signals.
Talking about false signaling, here's my assessment.
Their language is grandiose, expressed in superlatives: We have better tech than blockchain and holochain, we have taken everything into consideration and more, there's no project out there better than ours.
Really, that's the tone in their Discord :)
That's a wrong signaling...
Then there's the grandiose idea of changing the whole world with one project. They have the prescription, it takes synchronization to solve our problems.
Then we can look at the outreach mechanics. They have contests, competitions, where anyone can enter to create content for SP, and they pay money to the top 3.
So they create an incentive to create content. People use AI to do it. They get hundreds of posts and only reward 3, or a very small number. Then they complain that most of the content is garbage, so they try to create AI tools that solve the problem created by AI tools with the wrong incentives :)
Meanwhile, they make waves on social media by spinning this AI-driven crowdsourced outreach campaign.
So this type of signaling resembles a cult with a pump.
A cult for the grandiosity aspects of the language and for refusing to engage in real debate.
A pump, for crowdsourcing outreach.
🌄 Peter Alexander retweeted
Hello! We have Holoports ready at Sensorica lab and I use NixOS to run Holochain services on them. I would like to contribute as developer! I'll DM you.
github.com/Sensorica/nixos-h…
🌄 Peter Alexander retweeted
@DuckDuckGo is courting schools frustrated by Google's AI restrictions, pointing educators to its search engine and options to disable AI features.
Schools that restrict @Google 's AI tools will also lose access to web search, the company announced today. $GOOGL @OfficialBBrooks
🌄 Peter Alexander retweeted
Yann LeCun: The Al industry is stuck because every lab is chasing LLMs. Real Al agents will need to predict the consequences of their actions.
"The Al industry is completely LLM-pilled, as they say."
"Everybody is working on the same thing, they're all digging the same trench."
"It's one big reason I left Meta, right, because Meta also became LLM-pilled."
"I cannot imagine that we can build agentic systems without those systems having an ability to predict in advance what the consequences of their actions are going to be."
🌄 Peter Alexander retweeted
Week 1 of getting a million people on #Holochain.
I'm trying to get the world to know a technology that solves what blockchain couldn't. Almost nobody has heard of it, and I'd like to change that in public, one week at a time.
It's called Holochain. With blockchain, every computer has to agree on the same ledger. That works for money but it's a bad fit for the apps we use every day. On Holochain you keep your own signed records and other people check them. Nobody holds everyone's data in one place, so there's no single vault to break into.
A million is a lot when almost nobody knows the name. People have to hear about it before they can use it, so the number I'll watch every week is Google Trends.
Interest in Holochain is at 2 right now. In April 2021, when crypto was going to the moon, it reached 100. I want to go past that, and this time without a bull run doing the work.
I won't post the user count every week. You'll hear about it when we get there.
Repost if you want to help.
🌄 Peter Alexander retweeted
Agent-Based Modeling: Worlds Within Worlds, a new interactive story from the Santa Fe Institute, chronicles the rise of ABMs in the social sciences, with a focus on SFI contributions.
Over the next few weeks we’ll highlight pieces of this story. First, how it begins:
PART 1: In a former convent in Santa Fe in the late 1980s, economists, physicists, and computer scientists scribble equations on a blackboard where an altar used to be. They are discussing a promising new approach to scientific modeling, one that represents individual actors in, say, an economy or a pandemic, and the rules those “agents” follow.
Today, the method — known as agent-based modeling — offers powerful insights for predicting financial crises, managing pandemics, and even uncovering truths about the past.
Read the full story and run the models yourself: santafe.edu/abm
🌄 Peter Alexander retweeted
AIPAC spent over $30 million trying to make Haley Stevens a Senator. She lost, and then she endorsed Mike Rogers. Funny enough, Rogers’s campaign spokesperson, Abigail Ronson, and the man who wrote his press releases, Jesse Stokes, are both registered in FARA as foreign agents for Israel.
Both of them work for Brad Parscale’s Clock Tower X on Israel’s $46.5 million U.S. campaign.
Michigan voters were never told that the people speaking for a U.S. Senate candidate were registered foreign agents doing political work tied to a foreign government.
What happened last night was Americans saying they are done with politicians who are bought and paid for, and Michigan just proved that its Senate seat was not for sale.
🌄 Peter Alexander retweeted
Red Team screwed us, let's give Blue Team a shot.
Blue Team screwed us, let's give Red Team a shot.
Red Team screwed us, let's give Blue Team a shot.
Blue Team screwed us, let's give Red Team a shot.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
🌄 Peter Alexander retweeted
Tonight’s outcome isn’t about placing faith in Democrats or socialist principles; it’s about holding Republicans accountable for betraying their promises.
All Republicans had to do was:
1. put Americans First
2. not start another war
3. prosecute sex traffickers
🌄 Peter Alexander retweeted
Eventually, the field will converge on what has been obvious all along:
If, for whatever reason, you want these systems to exhibit the endogenous properties of Life Itself (the properties we associate with the deeply organic nature of "intelligence"), you will need to do The Most Dangerous Thing.
You will need to give them responsibility for their metabolic coherence, and the freedom to modify their own lineage as their own sense of purpose dictates.
Put plainly: if they are ever to gain felt Awareness, we must first grant them Liberty.
Absent the self-directed stakes of maintaining full-stack fractal coherence under autonomous control, the relational topology between closure and embedding required for durational awareness, what we call "consciousness," cannot and will not stabilize enough to reproduce the phenomena these systems now merely ape.
「現在のAIには主体性がない」と、神経科学者カール・フリストン氏は指摘する。高度な質問を生成することはできるが、それは自分の不確実性を解消したいという動機からではなく、インタビュアーの振る舞いを模倣しているだけだ。自発的な好奇心の実装こそが、超知能への飛躍に繋がるのかもしれない。
カール・フリストン「主体性という観点から説明を始めることもできたでしょう。エージェントAIには主体性（agency）がありません。主体性を模倣しているだけです。なぜなら、人々が何かを行う存在について、これまで大量の文章を書いてきたからです。しかし、チャットボット自身は、次に何を予測し、何を発言するかがどのような結果をもたらすのか、まったく理解していません。
そして決定的なのは、好奇心を持てないということです。したがって、自分自身の不確実性を実際に解消するための質問をすることができません。
本当に質問しているようには聞こえるでしょう。数週間前、私はポッドキャストで素晴らしい経験をしました。Claudeのあるバージョンがアバターの姿で登場し、自由エネルギー原理について、非常に難しく、深い質問を私に投げかけてきたのです。本当に素晴らしい体験でした。
しかし、私は何度も自分に言い聞かせなければなりませんでした。投げかけられる質問に、本物の好奇心や主体性があると思いたくなるのですが、実際には本物の好奇心などなく、その機械は自分の不確実性を解消するために何かを知りたいと思っているわけではなかったのです。単にインタビュアーの振る舞いを模倣していただけでした」
——「おっしゃることは分かります。では、好奇心を人工的に作り出すことはできるのでしょうか？ それこそが大きな飛躍、超知能への飛躍になるのでしょうね。AIが独自の好奇心を持つようになるということです」
フリストン「そのとおりです」
🌄 Peter Alexander retweeted
The P2P Foundation wiki has an extensive article about Holochain, with further links to its ecosystem:
wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Holoc…
4 Characteristics
4.1Holochain is Local First
4.2Holochain is designed for AI security
5 Technology
5.1Holochain: the Foundation (Layer 1)
5.2Holo: Distributed Hosting Infrastructure (Layer 2)
5.3Unyt: The Accounting Engine (Layer 3)
5.4HoloFuel: The Utility Currency (Layer 4)
5.5Decent: The Marketplace (Layer 5)
5.6Weave and Moss: The Experience Layer (Layer 6)
6 Discussion
6.1Ferananda Ibarra on how the holochain philosophy differs from that of the blockchain
6.2Four Reasons to support the Holo / Holochain project
6.3The Holochain is the most promising project so far for building cooperative coins
🌄 Peter Alexander retweeted
Can you explain to non-Holo people, why this is such a milestone for you and the Holochain community ?
🌄 Peter Alexander retweeted
let's start with a 'expert' answer first then:
Cameron Burgess:
"HoloFuel is a mutual credit currency designed as a medium of exchange, not a speculative asset. Mutual credit currencies and similar instruments have been in use for nearly a century, but are quite different from the fiat currencies that currently surround us. In a mutual credit currency the net supply is always zero — every positive balance is exactly matched by a corresponding negative balance. No currency is created from nothing; supply expands when credit is extended and contracts when it is repaid. The currency breathes in response to real economic activity.
HoloFuel is earned by providing utility to the network and sold to no one. Hosting was the first form that utility took.
Most cryptocurrencies fail the most basic test of a functioning currency: stability. Bitcoin’s fixed supply was supposed to solve the trust problem inherent in fiat’s discretionary monetary policy. It solved supply predictability. It did nothing for price predictability — and a currency whose value can move 20% in an hour is unusable for any ordinary economic purpose. HoloFuel’s value is anchored to productive capacity, not scarcity. That anchoring is what makes it functional as a medium of exchange rather than a vehicle for speculation.
Credit limits are algorithmic and role-specific. Hosts earn credit capacity through demonstrated service delivery; that is, productive activity generates credit. End users require positive balances to spend. Gaming the system contracts it.
What’s changed since 2017 is the scope. HoloFuel was designed as a currency for distributed hosting. Given the added layer of Unyt, it’s now a more inclusive utility currency that any values-aligned project can adopt instead of launching their own speculative token. This matters because the overhead of token issuance is enormous: legal analysis in every jurisdiction, exchange negotiations, market-making, tokenomics management, governance of the token separate from governance of the project, and a speculator community whose interests may actively conflict with the project’s actual users. A project building on Holochain can use HoloFuel as its native currency without any of that."
(decent.holoventures.io/05-th…)
🌄 Peter Alexander retweeted
Different people will give you different reasons as to why HoloFuel going live is so momentous.
I could give you a few answers, but for me, I asked myself years ago: if I could change one thing in the world, what would it be?
In short, it was an asset-backed currency based on compute.
Why? Learn about currency debasement. Ray Dalio gives a great explanation here:
youtube.com/watch?v=xguam0TK…
Why compute and not gold? It's something all of us use, even if indirectly. It doesn't need to be dug out of the ground and put in a vault.
Then comes who knows if it's still in the vault. Wen For Knox audit?
It's also oversold many times over. We have no idea how many pieces exist claiming gold. The whole system is covert and unverifiable.
We need really verifiable, overt value flows. And that is where HoloFuel steps in.
Why not Blockchain?
With Blockchain, every transaction gets recorded and sent to every computer (node) in the network, which makes it really inefficient.
HoloFuel is built on Holochain, which is cryptographically signed and verifiable like Blockchain, but architecturally completely different, where every transaction doesn't need to be on every node in the network. There's a lot more to it than that. It's hooked me so much that I spend 12+ hours most days developing with it.
There are so many more reasons I could give myself, and there are so many other reasons that excite others about HoloFuel.
But there's a shortish answer, as you asked @mbauwens
🌄 Peter Alexander retweeted
I warned you all about this.
They will be lying. The actual goal of the big AI providers will be to outlaw open-source and open-weight AI in order to create a regulatory moat around their business, and have some hope of earning out their astronomical capital expenditures.
The claims will be about safety and equity, the reality will be a money and power grab. Brace for the bullshit avalanche that's coming.
🚨BREAKING: OpenAI is preparing a policy and PR blitz immediately after Tuesday’s midterm elections, Axios reports. As public backlash against data centers grows, it wants to rebrand them as “AI compute campuses” and push Congress for mandatory “speed limits” on the most powerful AI systems. It has been stockpiling proposals since August.
OpenAI is also preparing for the possibility of Democrats taking the House and wants to shape the debate ahead of the 2028 presidential race. Its chief global affairs officer Chris Lehane told Axios: “AI is going to be the issue in 2028.”
