@deepfates https://t.co/pR4YeUE1C9
@deepfates Yeah, this quote is from the movie version: archive.org/details/THINGS…
I'm not sure if the book has it.
Illustration of Studio Console Control Room NORAD [Monitoring, Broadcasting], Trending on ArtStation
(CLIP guided diffusion [ImageNet 512x512])
gallery.jdpressman.com https://t.co/wd8XYkWXtU
Minicomputers
(CLIP guided diffusion [ ImageNet 512x512])
hicetnunc.xyz/jdp/creations https://t.co/mqO8cYA5eV
@sirdurdur @RiversHaveWings They're upscaled with ESRGan, which can impute certain details to make the image crisper.
The originals for comparison: https://t.co/5R3mzldXjU
@sirdurdur @RiversHaveWings It isn't. But multiple prompts were used and I didn't want to squeeze them into the tweet. You can see the original prompts by looking at the HEN metadata.
"illustration of a detailed grinning psychedelic mandala pattern fractal cat"
(CLIP guided diffusion [ImageNet 512x512])
flickr.com/photos/1938660… https://t.co/MkUTAK4bfh
@SandraBogerd @RiversHaveWings Another one of those things that's hard to include in the initial tweet but this was used as an image prompt:
So it's explicitly in the style of Louis Wain. https://t.co/t80AGcZpkh
@nosilverv Habits built up during an explore or exploit phase tend to translate poorly into the other chirality. Many such cases, many such mistakes.
Many peoples ennui comes down to the habits they build up during an exploit phase being exactly the opposite of the habits they need to have during an explore phase and vice versa.
It doesn't help that most "productivity advice" has an implicit assumption that you only have exploit phases, that to become your best self you just need to prune all exploration habits and focus yourself entirely on The Goal(s).
Advanced life players make a point of noticing when they have the serendipitous opportunity of exploring and exploiting in the same action.
@kishorelive @paulg The cost centers telling profit centers what to do and crashing the ship in the process.
@yeetAnotherTim A very boring example is a consultant with a sales pipeline going out of their way to pick the jobs with the most growth opportunity, or that let them try something new while getting paid.
@yeetAnotherTim A more abstract example is if you're stuck in school you can tune out. Or you can say "I'm stuck here, so I may as well pay close attention and see if I can relate this to something interesting", etc. Possible to learn more from a forced experience than you otherwise would.
@yeetAnotherTim Many lives just amount to a series of forced experiences, and some people manage to make a great life from them. https://t.co/kDWt0bCl8O
@TylerAlterman I suspect that the mentally strong will embrace something ardently materialist while those who can't orient to the dizzying pace of change will cling harder and harder to defiant forms of anti-thought.
They will believe because it is absurd, and everyone else will suffer for it.
@TylerAlterman My biggest contrarian insight on this subject is I think that the 21st century religion worth believing in will be 100% materialist, not a fusion of materialism and 'spirituality', but materialist all the way through while still providing radical conjecture and possibility.
@TylerAlterman I Fucking Love Science fails because it's not radical, it is banal support for the status quo.
@TylerAlterman Buddhism has potential because it is totally compatible with materialism once you excise the cryptids and weirdness (as its Western evangelists have already successfully done).
Modern Buddhism was invented for the benefit of Christian scholars.
enlight.lib.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-MA…
@The_WGD I suspect a lot of the 'white supremacy' talk is projection, they are eager and willing to believe in the genocidal ambitions of their opponents because they themselves feel strong genocidal impulses.
Which many of them express openly and get no censure for.
@The_WGD The entire thing exists in a weird superposition where they are simultaneously omnipotent and will easily genocide the inferior Appalachian people but also simultaneously omni-impotent and even the sneers of the underclass are an existential threat to them.
@The_WGD Yet somehow between both positions they never manage to imagine the more realistic possibility of a protracted conflict which will be much less fun to experience than fantasize about. They can imagine oppressed/oppressor dynamics from both sides, but not combat.
@The_WGD It's a left wing fallacy I've observed for years and never found a good explanation for, the idea that you get to make moves and use tactics but your opponent isn't allowed to respond. Not just in a social sense, but they are physically incapable of adapting to your moves.
@The_WGD Perhaps it's caused by an intuition that 'the right' is a set of institutions, and therefore glacially slow to adapt to changes in tactics. Maybe the figure of the 'white supremacist' is a bogeyman because they're a right wing opponent with a human face.
@Logo_Daedalus @apex_simmaps What will?
Ivermectin gets attention because it's the maximally controversial COVID-19 prophylactic/treatment. The fake studies vs. plausible effectiveness make it lots of fun to argue about.
slatestarcodexabridged.com/The-Toxoplasma…
Meanwhile a reminder that Vitamin D and fluvoxamine exist.
@apex_simmaps Something I noticed reading One World Or None, which Samo Burja has noticed as well, is the extent to which the book discussed the atomic bomb in terms of its material factors. Comparing it to existing bombs and their effects on warfare and civilization.
x.com/SamoBurja/stat…
@verena_rieser @katecrawford Other comments have already pointed out this figure is wrong, but even if it was right being allergic to energy use isn't productive. Carbon sinks are like any other finite resource and being allergic to using them helps nobody.
If you have control over what uses of energy are considered wasteful you have dictatorial power over all processes of production.
If you have control over what uses of inference are considered racist you have dictatorial power over all processes of thought. x.com/verena_rieser/…
The vague allergies these people use as 'reason' are a feature, not a bug. It allows the deployment of vast numbers of useful idiots to suppress whatever forms of production and thought you don't like without having to actually show they're bad.
Economics is what you do to distribute resources when you're not a centralized superintelligence. x.com/GhostOfGord/st…
@GhostOfGord I bow to your superior powers of observation.
After 9/11 the principal tried giving my kindergarten class a speech about national unity and I beaned him in the face with a potato pellet gun. x.com/ExileGrimm/sta…
@PrinceVogel Almost certainly an algorithm suggesting certain effects brought about as a result. x.com/jd_pressman/st…
This stuff is not a coincidence or random.
It turns out if you tell CLIP to draw a "Symbolics 3600 Lisp Machine" you get these bizarre, alien computers instead.
Tezos NFTs: objkt.com/profile/tz1Ns9…
Rejects: flickr.com/photos/1938660… https://t.co/Kckr99izXw
@finnitejest @JGAMPHO This vignette suggests the 20th century was probably an anomalous era in how much it disempowered the average persons speech:
web.archive.org/web/2019082315…
@SwiftOnSecurity mentalfloss.com/article/94569/…
@eigenrobot @codeclayman @Conaw @tszzl Very kind of you to offer yourself up as a person we can feel intense schadenfreude for when they lose.
@deepfates @NatoBeans I read it as part of research for wrestlinggnon.com/extropy/2020/0…
It's a real trip.
@deepfates @NatoBeans Feel free to signal boost if you like it:
x.com/jd_pressman/st…
@deepfates By the way John Lennon's son wrote a ballad about Jack Parsons.
youtube.com/watch?v=XcOHiG…
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by cope.
@KGFlippin @deepfates @NatoBeans I do in fact care, thanks. 🙂
@sullyj3 Yes, but I don't remember who which is fine because I wouldn't signal boost them anyway.
Definitely encountered it in the wild though, vaguely remember the argument made by a far right person.
@yashkaf You're also starving better alternatives of your time and labor.
@KnownOrigin_io Promote overlooked possibilities https://t.co/N829DGxGsB
@Jonathan_Blow To me the most jarring thing is computer security. Nobody seems to be incensed that the attackers only have to get arbitrary code running as even the least privileged user on a system to slip malicious code into an unauditable jungle of hacks upon hacks.
@suhailakhaled99 @KnownOrigin_io gallery.jdpressman.com
'Socialism' is upper class coded because extensive discussion of useless abstractions like 'the state' and 'capital' is a costly signal that you know nothing about material production.
It's very easy to criticize the ugly parts of a working system when you get to hide behind rainbows and puffery about how yours is going to work in practice.
@kynakwado @ristovskixyz @JakeAnbinder They did, but the computers were more expensive in comparison so people didn't mind.
@JakeAnbinder You can still buy them. pckeyboard.com/page/category/…
And they're still worth every penny.
@CamdenMWebb @unixiaa_ The meme probably was computer generated.
@CamdenMWebb @unixiaa_ In any case I think my art has recognizable subjects, if you like AI art.
x.com/jd_pressman/st…
They're angry because NFTs and AI art represent a shift away from art produced by labor towards art produced by capital. CLIP based art methods are going to be the American AlphaGo, an upset to a treasured 'ineffable' past time that wakes people up to deeper possibilities. x.com/DanDarkPill/st…
@DanDarkPill Being totally honest you were just the first person I've seen to succinctly explain the real underlying anxiety. 'They' is less a statement about you personally and more about the general NFT hysteria like this:
everestpipkin.medium.com/but-the-enviro…
@DanDarkPill Which as far as it goes is an honest statement of antipathy to capitalism, but it's rare for people to get the AI + NFT story correct. JMurphy does here but doesn't go far enough:
otherlife.co/non-fungible-a…
@DanDarkPill https://t.co/7pBVk6l9Vy
@KrisSiegel @pt Good NFTs use IPFS so this isn't possible.
"TELL ME THE PROTEIN FOLDS YOU AI PIECE OF SHIT!"
"Can you feel the stars burning? Can you feel the microbes fight on the surface of your skin? You're nothing in the cosmic schema, you cannot kill me in a way that matters."
"*cocking gun, crying* I'M NOT FUCKING SCARED OF YOU!" t.co/YzkskIMfbq
@ESYudkowsky We already had this discourse during 2020 actually with James Lindsay vs. woke math.
@ESYudkowsky x.com/realJ_Mitchell…
@ESYudkowsky x.com/ConceptualJame…
@Virtual1nstinct "Create until nothing is left to create and the universe bursts with an overworked sigh." https://t.co/q3ImqbtBMQ
@ESYudkowsky x.com/roguewpa/statu…
@Outsideness While we're posting interesting portraits of Thiel found in unexpected places:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=128851… https://t.co/JGVmoLNSjS
@Outsideness https://t.co/1C2MlHtN3R
@Outsideness You had this picture in mind right?
I regret to inform you that no such photograph exists. There are several pictures almost like this, but none matching exactly what is described.
I suspect Wolfe did this on purpose as a final layer to depict Severian's Borgesian perspective. https://t.co/jhz10KJQLD
@BeezyManzell @ur_momma_so @default_friend @qorprate @Louise_m_perry @moveincircles @kaschuta @annakhachiyan What if I told you that the things you do impact other people by changing the incentive/price gradient in the local environment?
Training a 256x256 Louis Wain diffusion model right now. https://t.co/zE7WftQZHQ
Wain will soon have a biopic out about his life, played by Benedict Cumberbatch.
thewrap.com/the-electric-l…
@kevinelliott @hicetnunc2000 1/1, 10 XTZ
objkt.link/246523
Louis Wain has a strange legacy as the central example of schizophrenia causing 'psychotic decline' in motor and professional skills. But its existence in schizophrenic patients is contested by scholars.
extropian.net/notice/A7lVQUK…
@anarrres That is exactly what Wain himself believed. https://t.co/oS3eGlmzuU
@anarrres Source: thewrap.com/the-electric-l…
@flynnpnw 1/1, 3 XTZ
objkt.link/268110
@Arialstrasza @vikare06 @jbaa_kokuchi I actually laughed for a good 20-30 seconds, thank you.
@cryptoartnow 1/1, 10 XTZ
objkt.link/246496
@mattparlmer aeon.co/essays/left-an…
[Verse 2]
Then, all the planets fell to dust
Lonely, departing after us
Gone, not forgotten
Long, but forgotten old lore
In every element of life
Love camouflaging under strife
Or other matters
Mind over matters, let there be more
youtube.com/watch?v=uQnz55…
Diffusion is better now but BigGAN was the OG, gone but I haven't forgotten. ❤️
x.com/jd_pressman/st…
@HalfTangible @BDaveWalters https://t.co/sbMYax9Rso
I have a new post out: "100 Years Of Existential Risk". It's kind of like a cleaned up version of my podcast with @eigenrobot, but with much more detail. I trace the birth of existential risk during World War I and its development to the present.
wrestlinggnon.com/extropy/2021/0… https://t.co/ztOeoigWIf
@mbateman You can tell someone they're smart without setting up a feedback/reward loop around it, which is usually the thing that causes Horror to emerge.
@mbateman I've known first hand many adults who as kids became so fragile about being praised for smartness that the moment school gets harder and they're no longer effortlessly pulling straight A's their life takes a downward spiral.
@mbateman I think the important thing is probably to have *balanced* praise of someones good qualities. If you solely praise for any single metric and that metric becomes compromised their entire self image will deteriorate over it. Hard work fails/stalls sometimes too, e.g. depression.
@LilahSturges youtube.com/watch?v=NbtsZJ…
@ricvolpe Might get a bit exhausting if you like a lot of tweets.
@fiddlemath I find the lack of pro-NFT essays disturbing.
@congralilso 1x NVIDIA A6000, requires 1-3 days to train
Would also fit into memory on a 3090
A couple V100's would also probably work
@PTetlock Could set one up like this:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
@daily_barbarian They see money as a control signal rather than an account of wealth and value, so financial lies are normalized.
@flybottlemist Image/meme posts have a 10-25% click through rate when they're good.
Dynamism of An Intelligence Explosion Expanding From Earth Into The Surrounding Galaxy
(CLIP Guided Diffusion [512x512 ImageNet]) https://t.co/0KAj0NxmxJ
The Biden administration's all expense campaign to convince me that Trump was actually a good president is starting to work. x.com/GeorgeSelgin/s… https://t.co/9AraAwrIuO
Who could love liberty when the only freedom they've ever known was failing to meet someone else's expectations?
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