We're going to look back on the current era of computing the way we look back on the bluebox era of telephony. x.com/dystopiabreake…
Or there's this wonderful exploit where you're rooting boxes with a print spooler vulnerability in code that was probably written in the 90's.
msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/v…
If that seems absolutely impossible, all you have to do is think about where security flaws actually come from. In well maintained modern systems legacy code seems to be carrying zero days on its shoulders.
securityboulevard.com/2021/12/nso-ze…
I'm not saying we're ever going to be totally bug free, so long as humans are flawed they are going to write programs that are flawed. The limits of static analyzing turing complete programs pretty much promise us that. But in the future computers will be much more trustworthy.
The transition to networked computing made a bunch of stuff that didn't matter before like buffer overflows suddenly matter a great deal. And it's taken time to develop enough theory to make a programming language like Rust where low level code doesn't have these defects.
There's just a ton of low hanging fruit. How much ransomware is basically relying on trojan horses and the fact that programs by default have access to every file on a users computer, can just restructure disks and easily escalate to root? Windows/Unix execution models are legacy
@gallabytes Even as a developer I don't really want my mail client to run with 'developer privileges', I don't want to have to worry about getting pwned because I opened a stray attachment and Word macros can do anything.
@gallabytes I'm bullish on things like pledge, where you notice these patterns like "I need elevated privileges at the start and then I never need them again" and formalize that.
youtube.com/watch?v=F_7S1e…
This is like a perfect time capsule of COVID energy that is rapidly fading during the current crisis. I wonder if tweets like this will even make intuitive sense a month from now, maybe we'll all just forget. x.com/Curtis_Cook/st…
"vladimir putin sitting at the end of a long table"
(Guided CLIP Conditioned Diffusion [cc12m_1]) https://t.co/4k0SOdpZYW
please. stop praying for my training run!!! you are making the text encoder too strong. it's memorized the training set and the test set can't stop it. it's too powerful
@jxmnop @PaulFishwick @RiversHaveWings @danielrussruss @dvsch DALL-E is the big one
@briandavidhall @deepfates "Keeping tabs" is the colloquial phrase for this. If that still sounds vaguely threatening it's because there is no polite way to tell someone you're watching them, that's an intrinsically threatening thing.
@jachaseyoung Worth reading the comments on this
youtube.com/watch?v=DMoCM_…
@PrinceVogel x.com/jd_pressman/st…
@mattparlmer I suspect this is more or less true, but to play devil's advocate: Might it not also correlate with personal stuff in Scott's life like a stressful medical residency more than global events? Less time to read.
Things could also just be getting more chaotic and harder to predict.
VNM rationality pretender: "NO YOU NEED TO HAVE A CONSISTENT WORLD MODEL PLEASE I'M BEGGING YOU"
VNM rationality enjoyer: "Oh wow this is an incredible trolling opportunity."
"There's no reason to believe what's true unless you experience a consequence when you don't."
Well then...
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👏THE👏ELECT👏SHOULD👏CONTROL👏THE👏FLESH👏GOLEMS👏WITH👏INCENTIVES👏
@ObserverSuns @jessi_cata @goblinodds @Meaningness x.com/jd_pressman/st…
The Western elites don't want you to know this but the PR and diplomatic blunders are free, you can just agitate with them at home, I have given 400 inflammatory speeches. x.com/washingtonpost…
@briandavidhall @deepfates "I've been familiarizing myself with your work recently." is probably a polite euphemism for it.
@PrinceVogel amazon.com/Storming-Heave…
@embryosophy Coming back to this:
There's a kind of person who thinks their brain is a 'hard drive' they write experience-files to and their personality is a 'program' distinct from their cognition that they can change at will. This is not what CS people mean by "the brain is a computer". https://t.co/GZQ5psobL6
@embryosophy They mean that the brain is a computer the way that Magic The Gathering is a computer: it's Turing Complete and probably computable using a sufficiently large supercomputer. This implies that you don't need non-material things to give rise to cognition.
gwern.net/Turing-complete
@embryosophy So far the best way we've figured out to do this is to use gradient descent on continuous representations of problem spaces, which is the opposite of the discrete logic we typically associate with 'computer'-ness. Things need to be on a spectrum for deep learning to work.
@embryosophy This doesn't seem incompatible with human experience at all. Concepts like amplitude and noise from signal processing, inference on incomplete information, are all fairly relatable things that humans should have phenomenological referents for.
@catelloo_ https://t.co/ggYBoIYoeP
I wonder how differently history would have gone if humans had a sense of smell more like other animals. x.com/deepfates/stat…
@egregirls @WeftOfSoul It is, but you'll hit the saturation point quickly IMO on the insight side. It'll plateau and then spread widely.
@egregirls @WeftOfSoul That's a linear insight growth curve though. The kind of thing @WeftOfSoul is looking for grows a lot faster than that, the initial burst of empty spaces ontology is a one time nonlinear boost that doesn't seem sustainable to me.
@WeftOfSoul @egregirls Even after writing an unpublished 20k word essay trying to refute the parts of postrat I care about and doing my best to understand what motivates them, none of the answers I get are satisfying. These sections are the closest I feel I got to understanding: https://t.co/bGKxozBlms
@WeftOfSoul @egregirls I think I just don't have the problems or priorities that postrats have. It's never resonated with me and I've basically only ever engaged with 'postrat' out of fear or hatred, to me it will always be "that thing that fucked up all my friends with drugs".
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@egregirls @WeftOfSoul Of course it affected me. e.g. My lifetime mathematical aptitude has probably been permanently diminished by adults using trick questions and brain teasers as a way to 'prove' to themselves I'm not smarter than them. This is itself a subset of "praised for being smart" stuff etc.
@egregirls @WeftOfSoul Nobody gets out of this stuff unscathed. I mean that I don't seem to have the total inability to act or think or see myself that defines peoples lives after adverse childhood experiences, which seems to be what the whole 'postrat trauma' journey is about.
@egregirls @WeftOfSoul In case that's ambiguous: When I was a kid I had a lot of experiences along the pattern of "you're really smart, can you solve this brain teaser?" which were basically meant to be a single question IQ test along which my entire worth was meant to be measured in relation to them.
@egregirls @WeftOfSoul There's just this fundamental crux here that's something like, trauma people believe that if I were to see myself in my totality from the outside, if I could borrow someone else's perspective I'd see that I'm flawed in all these terrible ways. I'm probably a deeply flawed person.
@egregirls @WeftOfSoul I don't need someone else to tell me that, I can see the flaws in everyone else which they are terrible at seeing so it's only reasonable to infer that I too have awful flaws that I'm blind to. I'm really paranoid about that actually.
@egregirls @WeftOfSoul That was an incomplete statement/thought, looking for something.
@egregirls @WeftOfSoul But even if I let the little postrat in my head totally win the argument, use its logic on every step of inference well past the point of common sense, "your desire to know the truth is a trauma response", "your whole personality is trauma", that every decision I've ever made was https://t.co/zrTtZbpExv
@egregirls @WeftOfSoul was actually mistake compounded on mistake and the right answer was somewhere back when I was playing Pokemon at age 10 and didn't know anything about any of this stuff, had no idea what my destiny was,
youtube.com/watch?v=kYsrbw…
@egregirls @WeftOfSoul I can still say to that little bastard that I have gazed upon the dark heart of the West without blinking and I know he never will.
soundcloud.com/user-557955426…
Chaos had a really good segment in here where he says that the spiritual method of the west is to excruciate people.
@egregirls @WeftOfSoul Fundamentally what we are undergoing is a fight between two methods of social organization. In one social control is maintained through happiness in poverty ("you will own nothing and be happy"), this is what eastern religions like Buddhism and Hinduism and Shinto are for.
@egregirls @WeftOfSoul Western religions (and ideologies) like Christianity do not promise you happiness, they are rife with contradictions and frictions and unrealistic demands that maintain hierarchy and activity, and they are the entirety of Western society in miniature.
@egregirls @WeftOfSoul And when you look at the actual economic impact of that torment.
It might only be a 5% productivity boost overall.
And that 5% is like, your entire societies growth vehicle.
It is rare and precious.
@egregirls @WeftOfSoul When you reduce it down to a number like that, it doesn't sound rare and precious, it sounds like a commodity. But in its object level perception that is the flame of the west. Every madman scribbling feverishly into his notebook, every Starbucks barista crying in the bathroom,
@egregirls @WeftOfSoul every neurotic nonprofit organizer and hungry captain of industry, every distorted personality and status anxiety, every urge to create beyond oneself, the entire lance of forward progress is going into that modest statistic.
@egregirls @WeftOfSoul > -- these are all studied
Your anxiety about the way the arc of history is bending seems incompatible with deeply believing that. If it's just dysfunctional statecraft and corporate irrationality then it should shake itself out at some point right?
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@egregirls @WeftOfSoul It's an isolated demand for mistake theory, the idea that if we all wised up we'd realize that the real capitalism was the friends we made along the way. I'm not saying those studies are false, I'm just saying that neither of us is acting like they're true.
This recent episode with Ukraine is whitepilling me on cancel culture and the like. It's not that any of my criticisms have gone away, just that I am now seeing what the benefit is of having the best friend-enemy social architecture in the world.
See also
outsidertheory.com/control-societ…
Sitting at my computer and sighing wistfully asking what AI model was used to create trad impressionist painting styles developed in response to photorealism being crowded out by photography
@egregirls @WeftOfSoul This isn't an answer to your question in the other branch about why it would shake itself out (still thinking about intuitions there), but I want to note that 'excruciation' goes way beyond capitalism, it's not just left vs. right. e.g. I would consider SJ an excruciating method.
@egregirls @WeftOfSoul I think its hyperwesternism becomes more obvious during current events. You can love it or hate it but the laser focus from NATO on Ukraine down to the local social level is clearly influenced by the sacrificial-control structure we've built up.
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@egregirls @WeftOfSoul If you find you're sitting there all the time self loathing because you're an oppressor or worrying about minute distinctions within minute distinctions of intersectionality stuff, that is absolutely a kind of growth through agitation. This stuff succeeds because it slots in well
@egregirls @WeftOfSoul Another way to put this is that the Western public's response to something like an invasion almost takes on a panopticon-like effect. Where the calculus to wage a war of conquest has to be done in the presence of this genuinely chaotic element of sacrificial violence.
Testing out the current checkpoint from our CLOOB training run.
"an aurora borealis burning the sky over a city street"
(ViT-B/16 CLOOB + Deep Image Prior) https://t.co/8YQqBozBV9
CLIP ViT-B/16 for comparison https://t.co/8zOMZwF5FQ
"a stained glass angel smoking a cigarette"
ViT-B/16 CLOOB (left) vs. CLIP (right)
Keep in mind the CLOOB is still training. https://t.co/PbPHbRhKz5
"behold, the patient is healed! by Beksinski"
ViT-B/16 CLOOB (left) vs. CLIP (right) https://t.co/qw3BV5hCgP
"an ideology of lightning"
ViT-B/16 CLOOB (left) vs. CLIP (right) https://t.co/vkAKDd8u19
An ode to the utilitarian AI missionary floating through deep space.
youtube.com/watch?v=7czv6k…
@egregirls Good guess, but actually
youtube.com/watch?v=5X8H5C…
Haha what if you were disowned by your father so you quested to defeat God's omnicidal telos in an insane gambit to become your own father and bestow the coming of age ritual on yourself to complete your adult separation? 🥺👉👈
@egregirls Absolutely couldn't be me. https://t.co/SunvefXzA1
@theCenturion_ai @Somnai_dreams @RiversHaveWings @gandamu_ml This is really good, how did you do the masking/edits? Did you manually combine things in photoshop or is there some kind of technique I'm not aware of for getting masking/inpainting to come out this smooth?
@SamoBurja Brier score/etc has already been brought up, but more fundamentally:
If you're using words like "likely" you necessarily have some sense of relative probability, and that judgment is still an ass pull when you use those words without a model but now the ass pull is less obvious.
@dylanhendricks @SamoBurja Yes, and my point is that using words to communicate the asspull simply hides the asspull nature. Whereas if I say that something is 75% likely without justification it's sufficiently absurd to make you go "wait...where's he getting that?"
As an author it's a hint to model more.
@BlancheMinerva Hm...
Swastika and Pepe
@BlancheMinerva I skimmed and didn't even see that part. Gonna change my guess to "I have no-wait what?"
@jessi_cata What if you grew up in the 20th century and decided to elevate the European experience of ingroup cliques dissolving into totalitarian regimes militarily defeated by liberalism into a universal theory of adult moral and mental development because you have no self awareness?
"the first day of the waters"
(CLOOB guided diffusion [yfcc_2]) https://t.co/tc6MyQT6Ca
"an ideology of lightning"
(ViT-B/16 CLOOB Guided Diffusion [yfcc_2]) x.com/jd_pressman/st… https://t.co/4grPsHzjQb
"a firefight around a nuclear power plant, trending on artstation"
(CLOOB Guided Diffusion [yfcc_2]) https://t.co/PTa8EDHgxt
the ego separates by Wojciech Siudmak
(CLOOB Guided CLIP Conditioned Diffusion [cc12m_1]) https://t.co/f3PKiz71rs
@pervexists69 Already been written by @Meaningness
metarationality.com/stem-fluidity-…
@pervexists69 @Meaningness Though it's a great subject, no rule that says you can't write another one.
kaleidoscope
(CLOOB Guided CLIP Conditioned Diffusion [cc12m_1]) https://t.co/8ng6J5PJuk
@zqevans Yeah, I'm pleasantly surprised with this training run so far. The first one we tried the text encoder overfit on LAION 400m,
which lol.
@dystopiabreaker It's a summer camp/meetup type thing organized by @gptbrooke for postrats
@dystopiabreaker @gptbrooke vibecamp.xyz
@dystopiabreaker @gptbrooke It's currently ongoing but they're not interested in visitors. https://t.co/OKMisgS5OH
@0xgokhan @dystopiabreaker @gptbrooke I prefer the term 'hyperrat'.
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When you meet someone and they have obvious character flaws, do you think that *on average* the situation is more like:
1) the person knows and telling them is impolite like pointing out a mole or birth mark
2) the person has no idea and fails to improve out of defense/ignorance
Do you have what other people would consider to be obvious character flaws?
IF YOU ANSWERED *YES* to the last poll, why do you still have what other people would consider to be obvious character flaws even though you know about them? Pick the closest.
Gentle reminder not to use the replies to this poll as a confessional. You can't take back what you share about yourself on the Internet, and oversharing is conflict prone.
If you omit FDR you lose on a technicality.
Oh, you're 'evil' and unconstrained by society? Name the major life experiences of every 20th century dictator.
LATE POLL ADDITION: Have you, IN ADULTHOOD (after childhood), had character flaws that you didn't already know about pointed out to you by others?
Advanced to the stage where I stare at 8x8 grids of decent fits to the prompt for a few minutes before throwing them out because I'm holding out for a great one.
"matte painting of summoning a demon entity from the neon geometric pattern platonic realm, trending on artstation"
(CLOOB Guided V-Diffusion [yfcc_2]) https://t.co/kdfTz94plJ
"matte painting of summoning a demon entity from the neon geometric pattern platonic realm, trending on artstation"
(CLOOB Guided V-Diffusion [yfcc_2]) https://t.co/JqCU6pQWpj
"matte painting of summoning a demon entity from the neon geometric pattern platonic realm, trending on artstation"
(CLOOB Guided V-Diffusion [yfcc_2]) https://t.co/HdehAtltSw
Being vague about how a problem works is a good way to sell solutions to people who don't have it.
@macterra @Meaningness @JakeOrthwein @FluidityAudio @nosilverv Of course there's an algorithm, your brain necessarily instantiates it. It's just not easily reduced to something you can write on paper or fully simulate with conscious reason.
Can somebody explain to me what is going on with this visualization? It struck me as weird and schizo when I first saw it but then I woke up in the middle of falling asleep and could effortlessly visualize something like it in my head by accident. The heck is this thing? https://t.co/yDJd7u46ug
(this is not a shitpost, I'm actually asking)
Friend thinks it might be something like en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_of_t… showing the relative importance of stuff in your field of vision. Kind of like those pictures of people with body parts scaled in size to how sensitive they are.
@michaelabuckley I have no idea, just saw it somewhere. Probably some other Twitter user.
@michaelabuckley Qualia Computing cites this as the source when I reverse image search: web.archive.org/web/2019103105…
@ben_r_hoffman @jessi_cata @reasonisfun @m_ashcroft Sorry to make sure I understand, we could in principle self locate with any of many maps (e.g. position on a globe) but are biased for obvious reasons towards being at the center of our perceptual field? https://t.co/QHdhULrXZs
@ben_r_hoffman @jessi_cata @reasonisfun @m_ashcroft Is this like, the people who can't tell when they're hurting themselves by sitting in a chair wrong? Like they don't have a body outside of what they can see?
So when are we going to admit that in 2022 listening to obscure music isn't a status symbol, that the Internet makes this extremely easy in a way it wasn't before?
@RomeoStevens76 @ben_r_hoffman @jessi_cata @reasonisfun @m_ashcroft I guess I don't see how the illustration relates to the caption? Like yes your felt sense of self is constructed, even when it attempts to be representational it is still its own separate thing, etc. How does the illustration help me see that if I didn't already know?
@RomeoStevens76 @ben_r_hoffman @jessi_cata @reasonisfun @m_ashcroft Went ahead and tried "pointing here" and my commentary is something like...
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I don't understand how you could be around other peoples lack of self awareness all the time and not infer the gestalt that you are usually a blindspot for you.
@RomeoStevens76 @ben_r_hoffman @jessi_cata @reasonisfun @m_ashcroft Isn't this a stock insight? Do people just parse stock insights as not real because they've been reified so they're actually immunized to them?
@RomeoStevens76 @ben_r_hoffman @jessi_cata @reasonisfun @m_ashcroft I'm confused about what the claim is so I'm kind of responding to several different things it could be simultaneously.
@RomeoStevens76 @ben_r_hoffman @jessi_cata @reasonisfun @m_ashcroft Right, I'm trying to differentiate between that and the rest of the hypothesis space. Indirect realism is something like the scene in The Matrix where Morpheus says if you define reality as your senses then real is just electrical signals interpreted by the brain?
@RomeoStevens76 @ben_r_hoffman @jessi_cata @reasonisfun @m_ashcroft I mean, you're talking to someone who has spent 60%(?) of their waking life including childhood staring at a glowing rectangle with squiggles on it. "just what you are experiencing right now" is direct-indirect-realism, why that intuition if default reality is an interface?
@RomeoStevens76 @ben_r_hoffman @jessi_cata @reasonisfun @m_ashcroft In fact my reaction to you pointing out it's not obvious to most people was "huh you know I've never tried taking direct realism seriously, what would that even look like?"
@RomeoStevens76 @ben_r_hoffman @jessi_cata @reasonisfun @m_ashcroft Is this why people think their cognition is magic, they don't see themselves and so can't see themselves as *made of anything?* Like 'reality as I see it is direct experience because the things I use to perceive reality are unreal and therefore separate'?
???
@RomeoStevens76 @ben_r_hoffman @jessi_cata @reasonisfun @m_ashcroft It's like the first time you try to draw a cybernetic diagram and you always forget to include implicit elements like observers.
@RomeoStevens76 @ben_r_hoffman @jessi_cata @reasonisfun @m_ashcroft Less flippantly, if you go "oh wow, my sensorium is a homonculus" and then decide to fuse with the homunculus that seems like an orientation towards trying to repair your previous perspective of direct realism with an ad-hoc patch rather than internalizing fractal skepticism.
@RomeoStevens76 @ben_r_hoffman @jessi_cata @reasonisfun @m_ashcroft You don't actually want to leave repair mode when you're in an anti-inductive and adversarial environment. The environment will learn your new subconscious baseline and then pwn you with it.
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@RomeoStevens76 @ben_r_hoffman @jessi_cata @reasonisfun @m_ashcroft I'd also point out that fusing with the homunculus is likely to cause you to miss what Lehar is saying. His vanishing point example is great, it's not just the observation that map != the territory, your world model is a disjoint geometric space we can explore on its own terms. https://t.co/iP0EnEzxpW
Rationality is mistake theory about epistemology and postrat is mistake theory about trauma.
If you are like me and notice this, examining the feeling more closely you'll realize the commonality in the coding of 'trauma' is actually the sense that telling this memory to another person would be a confession. e.g. "My father beat me" (he did not) is a confession.
(Quick epistemic status before we go any further: This is how I perceive a bunch of unstated and subconscious dynamics to work, take with a grain of salt and compare carefully to your own experience, be kind)
A few days ago I took a medium dose of postrat and inner monologued for a few hours straight and admitted some things to myself, mostly about trauma
Let's start here: If you write down all your traumatic memories you might notice oppressor/victim roles are both coded as 'trauma'.
The core of the game is simple:
1) Everyone is traumatized
2) You can only acknowledge trauma from a position of authority (e.g. therapist or bully)
x.com/kamilkazani/st…
"The feeling of something you confess" is another way of saying "sin". So why would bullying someone in middle school and getting beaten by your father both feel like sins? The answer is that for Western elites trauma is a face game.
x.com/kamilkazani/st…
When you show you've been traumatized, you (informally) go down a rank. Go down far enough in the hierarchy and you develop 'victim energy' that advertises to everyone you're not the kind of person who will fight back.
The act of confession has to occur in a sacred space that has been warded against punishment. Traditionally this has been the church booth or the therapists office, but the rise of the Internet has provided a new space: Anonymous conversation.
This is analogous to the "Code of Thieves" that supposedly holds among some gangs in Russian prisons. Everyone is placed in a double bind and then selectively interrogated to determine rank. Talking about trauma then leads to punishment i.e. is sinful.
irp.fas.org/world/para/doc… https://t.co/89CiLtNHz5
This is because there's a basic imbalance in the anonymous Internet as a space for confession where strangers will be sympathetic and willing to listen to you tell stories of victimhood over and over and sympathize with you. Victimhood is a sin almost anyone can forgive.
When I was younger I was dealing with a lot of stuff, and I processed by getting on the Internet and unloading onto a bunch of strangers. I told every victim-y story repeatedly until it was emotionally dead to me.
But I realized the memories where I hurt others are still raw.
But when we hurt others, when we're one of the school bullies or turn a relationship toxic we're unsympathetic. Only a priest or a good therapist can forgive those sins.
slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-c… https://t.co/bNbDa4LcKm
That is to say confession is for when you hurt others, therapy is for when others hurt you.
Catholic confession begins with an admission of culpability,
"Forgive me Father, for I have sinned"
It is first and foremost about the way that you are harming yourself and others.
It's important to understand then that therapy and Catholic confession aren't metaphorically the same, they are actually literally the same.
In Catholic confession you admit to those sins you undertook of your own will and in therapy you admit to the ones you were coerced into.
We're all alone as tyrants and sadists, and only together as victims.
And we all come to terms with that in different ways:
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I suspect a great deal of the social dysfunction we witness is a byproduct of confession becoming systematically biased to help people process their memories of victimhood but not see themselves as oppressor
It's why they can't understand the 20th century
youtube.com/watch?v=Vknhe2…
This is an element that remains present but is deemphasized in the Freud-Rogerian-etc therapy tradition, where you start with the way others hurt you and work your way up to admitting the ways you hurt others.
In Internet Confession harm to others is completely suppressed.
But my takeaway here is that if you're used to confessing your 'sins' like getting beaten by your father, take a closer look at the memories where you're the bad guy. You're in an information environment that is not conducive to processing those in the way it is to victimhood.
@egregirls > the hanging quarters, a city block taken over by crafty angel girls building towards the heavenz
youtube.com/watch?v=3Wlp-G…
@QuantBro @Meaningness @FluidityAudio @nosilverv Buddhism For Vampires novel except it's titled "Reason's Shadow" about rationalpunks transforming into feral warquokkas as civilization collapses around them and they take up 3D printed arms against receding postmodernity and it's not a romance novel
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Have you ever said "Holodeck, end program" or similar out loud to see what would happen?
@Marc_Also I honestly think it would be reasonable to consider this an act of war, so I sure hope not.
@Meaningness @kingal @xuenay @FluidityAudio @nosilverv I think EY has a very bad sense of what his most important ideas are, so people get different things out of reading him and only a minority hit upon the 'core' by reading adjacent media.
e.g. "Future shock levels" is arguably core but doesn't show up.
liberaugmen.com/#future-shock-… https://t.co/M8TVRyaifT
"jumping off a diving board into a swimming pool of gold coins, trending on artstation"
(CLOOB Guided CLIP Conditioned Diffusion [cc12m_1]) https://t.co/SOvjzRg7Ln
"mad investor chaos unfolding inside a stock trading floor at the New York Stock Exchange, trending on artstation"
(CLOOB Guided CLIP Conditioned Diffusion [cc12m_1]) https://t.co/Ha5nPUMYtI
The Cobbleglass Tower
"rock music concert of the gods on stage at the paradise theater"
(CLOOB Guided V-Diffusion [yfcc_2]) https://t.co/tZLU5tICrF
@nosilverv Generalized realization you're groping towards here:
youtube.com/watch?v=Vknhe2…
@nosilverv Since I know a video clip makes you massively less likely to engage with the information, this book he recommends sounds like exactly what you're looking for here. It's about the transformation of domesticated 'civilized' people into casual murderers.
amazon.com/Ordinary-Men-R…
> life in prison for giving hormones
Big fucking yikes
> prohibits leaving the state to get care elsewhere
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST
> not a hoax, it's a real bill
legislature.idaho.gov/wp-content/upl… x.com/ErinInTheMorn/…
@garybasin @nosilverv Because it didn't happen.extropian.net/notice/A7lVQUK…
@NathanpmYoung Still kinda think this is the best single document summary of the classic @ESYudkowsky AI risk perspective:
greaterwrong.com/posts/5wMcKNAw…
There's newer stuff too but you can start there.
I still think about this guy.
vice.com/en/article/4w4…
@mattparlmer This one is great because even if you're wrong the issue is so underexplored that giving it airtime almost has to be net positive.
@mattparlmer A good place to start for anyone interested would be Lucky's Silicon Dreams: Man, Information Machine. It's about the fundamental limits of Human Computer Interaction analyzed through information. The same framework would also apply to many human-human interactions as well...
@mattparlmer amazon.com/Silicon-Dreams…
@mattparlmer *through information theory
@LevesqueRocket @mattparlmer I mean, it is what it is? You could do a lot of the same research yourself but this guy already did it and put it into a book so. I think it's a good set of worked examples of how to think about the information theory of communication channels in practice.
@CXGonzalez For art in general, the Hic Et Nunc/Teia ecosystem is probably the most focused on actual art rather than pfp prestige clubs:
teia.art
I love the 70's. x.com/zerohedge/stat…
"backroom liminal space fluorescent yellow hallways and doors, trending on artstation"
(CLOOB Guided Diffusion [yfcc_2]) https://t.co/w9r3NqOiLs
"cybernetic ascension of the proletariat in the style of socialist realism"
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/d1COmOE2Ne
the international space station in the style of retrofuturism
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/OjqysfpftH
orchestra conductor leading a chorus of sound wave audio waveforms swirling around him on the orchestral stage, control the soul, trending on artstation
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/GRCBxqxIL1
dreaming in cryonic slumber behind frosted glass, trending on artstation
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/FSZwlRIojC
a chorus of angels flying around the heroine as she pulls the sword from the stone, matte painting, trending on artstation
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/pdLR5Sz0cQ
the swamp fog forests on the surface of venus, the venusian retrofuturist frontier by ross tran and halo 3
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/qk8lX0Jwhl
@Probably_Brian No, this is only the beginning. https://t.co/JqKDOTDQ8B
Prompt: an illustration of a psychedelic chemistry lab in bursting high resolution colors by ross tran
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/GHxVxZKwva
a firefight around a nuclear power plant, trending on artstation
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/rd2cReeU1S
interior of a nuclear fusion plant, the core is like a star in birth and I admire its beauty, featured on artstation
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/QRBoBmsQ33
matte painting of summoning a demon entity from the neon geometric pattern platonic realm, trending on artstation
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/h02ncQ27xO
sketch of a 3D printer by Leonardo da Vinci
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/N6hwuBRAQc
Previous attempts for comparison: x.com/jd_pressman/st…
the rock concert of the gods
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/Q4RZZjwMbo
fighting off the shadow monsters with flashlights and flare guns during a bout of amphetamine psychosis, digital acrylic painting
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/iIM7E8I0Bo
a futuristic shiny nuclear power plant control room full of blinkenlights panels buttons clean digital illustration
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/mrAnOFU2mk
Prompt: scifi illustration of a rail powered supergun pointed at the sun by ross tran
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/mGAvBZaIvL
"mechanical hands are the ruler of everything", a propaganda poster for nanotech biotech, featured on artstation
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/eVnSicYOLi
@max_geraci No. @midjourney is in private beta atm
scifi illustrtaion of a submarine exploring the marine seafloor amidst a bioluminescent forest of seaweed, featured on artstation
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/LE2IEIHsJz
a revolution of the souls dismantling the dogma of Maslow's Hierarchy, acrylic art featured on artstation
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/qJnW7LeGoE
a revolution of the souls dismantling the dogma of Maslow's Hierarchy, acrylic art featured on artstation
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/dNjLBjPwGo
the poverty of san francisco, outsider art
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/ND85mKx8Zv
@algekalipso "a world of fractal suffering, little bulbs of sentient aversion skittering underfoot in the grass, featured on artstation"
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/aknA1MikPM
@CrisprChild @egregirls 1. It comes off disassociated/sophist. "I'm poor, so what?", so a lot of things!
2. It normalizes being weak, which normalizes scapegoating and othering strength.
3. It's countersignaling that taunts your perception of strength, they feel secure in their vulnerability. https://t.co/NJ7bUdNB1l
Prompt: a world ruled by autism, featured on artstation
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/mOHe5lFkkl
@arnicas @RiversHaveWings The checkpoint I used to draw this is done, we're just seeing if we can't squeeze some more performance out of a tune-up of it before release.
@NonMurkyConsqnc @algekalipso I mean to be clear I think open individualism is wrong/confused, but it also seems like most people have an objection to natural suffering (aesthetic, empathetic, etc) when they are aware of it and in a position to help.
@NonMurkyConsqnc @algekalipso The thing about slaughterhouses is the more slaughterhouse infrastructure you have the more likely you are to wind up in one.
x.com/jd_pressman/st…
A Buddhist Monk Using An EEG Brain-Computer-Interface Cap To Exorcise The Hungry Ghost In An Unenlightened Person, trending on artstation
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/XiqIRdR0SU
If only you knew how different things could be. x.com/tszzl/status/1…
If I had to reduce the rationalist epistemic posture down to one rule with respect to debate/intellectual understanding it would be: 🧵
The rules of discourse say that the burden of evidence and reason is on the other person, but *I personally* as a form of strength building and sensemaking will make it incumbent upon myself to know the precise refutation of every wrong argument I am presented with, eventually.
This is an entirely voluntary rule adopted in the spirit of Crocker's Rules.
greaterwrong.com/tag/crockers-r…
It is also adopted in the spirit of a locksmith who would like to master their craft, and so keeps and picks a wide variety of locks. If you don't know how to pick one now you keep it in storage and come back to it later as your skills improve.
youtube.com/watch?v=nOakyP…
And it's the unprincipled abandonment of this spirit that makes me lose respect for @ESYudkowsky as an intellectual when he writes threads like this:
x.com/ESYudkowsky/st…
The Sequences are Eliezer Yudkowsky making his way through a variety of perverse beliefs in physics, metaphysics, etc and showing how to precisely locate their wrongness.
Here's a good example of how to refactor physics cranks:
greaterwrong.com/posts/zFuCxbY9…
So to come to postrat, which has sucked in a great many otherwise intelligent people, and say "this is too perverse to me, it's so obviously wrong I don't need to understand what motivates it or how it works" is a bit like saying locks with 6 trap pins don't exist in the wild
so there's no reason to know how to pick one. Silliness. Silliness compounded when you consider that 'postrat' very much does exist in the wild and you should probably know the pattern if only so you can refute it with itself when you encounter it.
You might come away from a post like The Bottom Line with the impression you're never allowed to assume from the outset an argument is true or false. But priors need to exist, you always have a suspicion which way you should start your thinking.
greaterwrong.com/posts/34XxbRFe…
Therefore it's extremely common to encounter an argument while following the rule of knowing precise refutations, and say to yourself "I *know* this is perverse and wrong, but I can't verbally articulate exactly why, so I will file this in the back of my head return to it later".
Totally abandoning that in an unprincipled way when trying to understand this predatory thing that's eating your kind of mind, eating your world and replacing it with "black and chrome T-Shirt's" is cowardice and weakness.
greaterwrong.com/posts/YicoiQur…
Because I *do* know the precise refutations to a lot of postrat, if not most of it, and I'm fairly sure Eliezer Yudkowsky does not.
x.com/jd_pressman/st…
@psychiel Mm, not quite. You can know, with fairly high confidence that something is wrong before you consider it in any real detail. The point is more that knowing wrongness to a certain precision requires you to train in a way that enforces consistency.
x.com/jd_pressman/st…
@psychiel No I'm sorry but that is a terrible way of thinking about it. You actually need to make intuitive judgments about the rightness/wrongness of things all the time, that is your primary sensory modality for evaluating arguments and trying to dispense with it will just make you wrong
@psychiel Oh, yeah, definitely, being correct about things is *hard*, like stupid hard. And you need to put a lot of work in beyond intuition if you want to be even somewhat consistently correct about things.
@baroquespiral I know I'm interrupting you, but what made feminism seem trustworthy at that time? Like I'm trying to get into this persons head. They're disillusioned with every institution, but they see Anita Sarkeesian and go "yes, I can trust this, there's something real and true here"?
@baroquespiral Thank you 👍
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@egregirls Not sure if this is the kind of thing you want to hear but my early childhood was basically middle class hedonistmaxxing which was not conducive to personal growth. Had multiple moments looking at myself going "this is boring and unsustainable" and pulling myself away from it.
@egregirls And every so often I think to myself "there's all these people who are hyperoptimized by their parents from childhood, they don't know what their desires or preferences or freedom or fun are, it's a constant temptation for them and they probably worry about dying unfulfilled".
@egregirls So if it makes you feel any better...the 'good place' is kinda not real. What actually happens if you play video games and drink soda and go to festivals and stuff is your teeth rot out of your head and you're underdeveloped. It's not satisfying at all, kinda like drugs tbh.
@egregirls This guy does a very good job of explaining what it's like from the 1st person to become a total degenerate. Thankfully I managed to get away from this before it began to infect my teens and early adulthood.
youtube.com/watch?v=1ebhep…
@egregirls Yeah, part of my reluctance to talk about this stuff is it seems like it entails shitting on family in a high profile public way, which is just way beyond what I can justify to myself. My family is decent (in the context of hyperpredatory modernity) and doesn't deserve that.
Natal maximalism vs. replacement rate equilibrium/degrowth
Here the former in extremely authoritarian flavor.
x.com/the_tweedy/sta…
Downloading @gwern's Danbooru 2021 512px dataset right now so I can train a gumbel softmax VQGAN on it.
@algekalipso @egregirls Oh is that the one where nothing is there and everything is beautiful? I think I've been there once as a kid by accident. It's a contender for best vibe tbh.
You stir half awake in bed and immediately go to check Twitter, peering into your minds eye to read the first tweet on your timeline.
"Yes, you've done an excellent job shape rotating your private platform."
Wait, shit. You wake up fully and check real Twitter.
@parafactual Getting ready to train the danbooru gumbel softmax VQGAN.
@RatOrthodox The update matrix is different for
@eigenrobot a midnight summoning of the spectre of communism using novels by ayn rand as a protective salt circle, featured on artstation
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/ecCKtCSxrz
the armored train, a train full of mortar guns so long it trails off into a vanishing point, featured on artstation
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/T2pL7etzwg
gunboat diplomacy in the style of ukiyo-e
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/t30aYaJTn3
@the_aiju @churchOfSpinoza The syntax of OCaml is actually genius for the same reason the syntax of Lisp or Python is genius: It's extremely consistent and fits into your head easily.
@HondaWang @mattparlmer https://t.co/P2tUDxskvB
@altsanabo I've written one of these but unsure if it would be rude to self promote.
Paul Christiano style alignment stuff started seeming less dumb to me once I realized you could probably use BCI devices to massively improve the sample rate for your human oracles/evaluators.
@altsanabo Now that @algekalipso has retweeted this I need to note that it is an alpha draft. Some parts are unrepentantly cringe because I haven't figured out how/had time to make them not cringe yet, etc.
And this is bullish because (noninvasive) BCI progress is probably more or less going to be pegged to compute/deep learning/etc progress.
a phoenix in flight over a decaying world, featured on artstation
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/R46rcmmpFJ
@algekalipso @altsanabo I wrote it, actually.
@algekalipso @altsanabo You too. 🙂
Nothing convinces you that AI is actually demons like fixing up some bitrotted training code.
Is this protective seal the developers last ditch attempt to stop me from unleashing unspeakable evil upon the world? Must I meditate on this inscrutable error, understand the Chesterton's Fence before I tear it down?
Nah of course not this is just JANK. What even. https://t.co/4KKmSJhlG4
Twitter when Grimes and Chelsea are dating: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Twitter when Grimes, Chelsea, and Elon Musk are in a polycule: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
@eigenrobot Extraordinary, a theater gallery laughing in the style of Joseph Ducreux
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/sp0RAQyFCy
@eigenrobot An earlier attempt from about a year ago.
Extraordinary, in the style of Joseph Ducreux
(BigGAN + CLIP [Generated 03/21/2021]) https://t.co/FLxwhxb4hy
@pervexists69 You understand.
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@pervexists69 This thread is a good hint tbh. Fundamentally all of the recent insane ideologies rely on a vast body of uneducated people who believe that evil is an undifferentiated single engine of amorphous oppression.
x.com/baroquespiral/…
@pervexists69 Conspiracy-type thinking is the logical extension of believing that all of the neglect and malevolence you see is the result of a single agency. 'Capital', 'The Man', 'The Patriarchy', 'The Elites'. It's a way to not think about things too hard, for people who don't want/need to.
It really is all deeply impermanent.
youtube.com/watch?v=CasVS4…
Samo Burja's thesis about the Internet as centralizing technology isn't wrong, but it's also not quite right. Power currently flows up and down even in the centralized mode, implying it might converge to a eusocial hivemind rather than a singleton.
x.com/SamoBurja/stat…
Thinking about the long term viability of human freedom as military power shifts away from soldiers operating capital to autonomous capital. Bayraktar might be defending Ukraine now, but the ultimate outcome of autonomous weapons is military power no longer favoring Republics.
At least in this moment I find I have a certain detachment about the whole thing, you can only exert so much control over macroscale historical trends. I do think there is something like a logic to history and it's more like we have inflection points than moment to moment control
If you build a road to control, it will be traveled. If you write down a journal of your thoughts it's likely to be read. If you put a management interface in your head you will be managed, etc. That is simply how things are when capital is distributed from large central sources.
I have no faith in 'laws or rights' to protect people from hegemony, anyone capable of using their own eyes can see those are at best a temporary roadblock to control. Laws and rights have to be backed with force to survive, always negotiate with an incentive gradient.
Deep learning is left side of the bell curve, but psychology is the damned fool in the center. x.com/fchollet/statu… https://t.co/4MXBZL56km
Deep learning researchers don't know what a p-value is, this is a feature not a bug. If everyone in psychology forgot what a p-value was their field would get much better nearly overnight.
I'm quote tweeting this because it's a kind of platonic ideal example of how green fundamentalism (especially in common with disingenuous reasoning) is most useful as a mode of intellectual sabotage. x.com/GaryMarcus/sta…
It's not really a technical objection, it's a social objection that academics are disadvantaged when it comes to compute. And they would rather we did ineffective symbolic AI stuff so long as it means they get to continue being the center of the field.
x.com/OwainEvans_UK/…
In case it isn't obvious to others, the basic reason takes like this are wrong is that GPT-3 does not and isn't meant to solve arithmetic on its own. It is a general prior over English tokens, which has many uses but solo algorithm use is not one of them.
x.com/Jonatha4633332…
(Note this isn't general advice. If medicine forgot what a p-value was their field would get much worse overnight.)
@RokoMijic Not necessarily as bearish a sign as it looks, it's common for countries that haven't fought a real war in a long time to clean house on the general staff during wartime after it becomes clear who knows how to fight a war and who is a galaxy brained theory dork.
@TylerAlterman @pervexists69 Perhaps you could post some clarifications/updates here and now? The low effort easy stuff.
@pervexists69 @TylerAlterman I was more speaking to @TylerAlterman than you, actually. But sure.
The replies on this are extraordinary. x.com/POTUS46Archive…
@jachaseyoung This was not just an observation on my part, it was a warning.
greaterwrong.com/posts/kFRn77Gk… https://t.co/OCcrtqWMDL
@POTUS Thank you. I know this is hard in the face of overwhelming public pressure.
In a multipolar world suffering is unregulated and in a unipolar world freedom doesn't meaningfully exist. This is a fundamental values problem that science fiction inches up on but rarely states explicitly.
orionsarm.com/eg-article/466… x.com/jd_pressman/st…
Another instance with a stronger emphasis on suffering but a more implicit theme of multipolarity:
youtube.com/watch?v=imNtSP…
@ESYudkowsky takes on the theme explicitly with his concept of the babyeaters, a species whose lifecycle involves horrific torture to children leading to a morality that's maximally offensive to human ethics. It's not realistic to exterminate them.
greaterwrong.com/posts/HawFh7Rv…
And there's absolutely no promise that the single power won't enforce a deeply unsatisfying, even hellish future:
x.com/OrwellNGoode/s…
At the same time in a unipolar world every being is probably eusocial at best, a mere cell in some dictators body at worst.
x.com/jd_pressman/st…
I've never read @FukuyamaFrancis's book on the End of History but I get the impression this is what its thesis is grappling with on a planetary scale. The Pax Americana has winners and losers, and the losers live in awful poverty or chronic conflict. Only American freedom exists.
And it's not that non-American freedom can't exist, but that bringing it about would entail more illiberal regimes that we can't interfere with. Governments like those found in North Korea and Afghanistan are rage inducing in their unrestrained cruelty and poverty.
It's likely that the actual outcome we get will have little to do with deontological 'ethics' and everything to do with what patterns are militarily advantageous or sustainable. I don't feel like I really know what those are, and I'm not sure anyone else does either.
@egregirls Babe it's 3AM, time to be horny at President Biden for global thermonuclear warfare.
Biden is basically saving the world right now from mass hysteria, I hope we all remember this the next time we reach for a dementia joke.
@ESYudkowsky Twitter is not a good medium for saying what you actually mean with all the appropriate caveats. You deserve a better response than I think I can give you right now in my current headspace. Tomorrow perhaps.
I'll go first I guess, feel free to leave your thoughts in the replies:
I know I act like a sourpuss sometimes but the truth is I love you guys, all of you, even the ones I hate, *especially* the ones I hate. You've made growing up in these two painful decades of decline great. x.com/jd_pressman/st…
I'm thankful to the heroes, villains, shitposters and shit stirrers and aesthetic sideline and reply guys who provide atmosphere. All of you have given me, a middle class boy growing up in the epistemic wasteland of postmodernity, the opportunity to know a real intellectual life.
I can't honestly claim to know what happens next, if all this stuff is posturing or we really are close to the brink. But I suspect this sudden resumption of hostilities is the most dangerous period. Not making war is a dance, and we're out of practice.
Regardless you've all left my life immeasurably richer than it otherwise might have been, and I see no harm in letting you know that now rather than waiting to say it later. Good luck and thank you.
@phl43 @akarlin0 @devarbol x.com/jd_pressman/st…
I don't know who needs to hear this but tarot still works even if you know the cards don't literally predict the future.
(This is by no means a recent discovery on my part and I don't like the things tarot does to my thinking, but for the people who think they're committed to a philosophical position to make it work you're really not)
@TylerAlterman real life, offline, etc
illustrated portrait of john von neumann in front of an electronic computer, trending on artstation
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/hANT3TVItd
universal psychedelic love in the atomic age, mural
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/zEu4AV2WGk
dynamism of an atomic explosion by Umberto Boccioni
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/Q40Zmqlrfj
@vgr Elaborate more? I have mixed feelings about my attention allocation this last decade too tbh. The most mixed feelings are about 'postrat' and scenes in general.
@vgr Like I think about a lot of Internet lore I'm familiar with that could have been a self-studied equivalent to a degree in mathematics instead or something.
scifi illustration of wired pods connecting human brains into an oracle computing cluster to generate a dataset for learning the human utility function
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/1inVMwZOxu
This is how dissipation feels from the inside. Hedonism and 'sensate' culture ages you faster not just because you're putting more stress on your body but because you're spending your time on things that don't matter and shift quickly, leaving you vulnerable to culture shifts. x.com/vgr/status/150… https://t.co/c4t9H8VwDA
It's similar to the sort of person who focuses on trendy web dev stuff and then wonders in 5 years why they're struggling so hard to keep up and things have left them behind. They were trying *so hard* to keep on top of it, but they were fundamentally 'on top' of the wrong things
anime illustration of a [race car/beige 90s laptop]
(CLOOB + Gumbel Softmax VQGAN Silhouette [Danbooru]) https://t.co/nxhagBBua1
@gwern This is a demo of the silhouette method, where you use an init image and have the texture model complete it. I noise the doodles before running them through the model because this is easier for VQGAN.
anime illustration of a japanese salaryman
(CLOOB + Gumbel Softmax VQGAN [Danbooru]) https://t.co/oeaLpvdFN0
@gwern This is what it looks like without init images. The tiling is because of the VQGAN, not the CLOOB.
@gwern No, the left is the original doodle I made and noised in GIMP, the right is VQGAN + CLOOB 'completing' it.
@baroquespiral You're saying alchemists could violate the laws of thermodynamics and we forgot how, or alchemy has a lot of biochemistry in it?
We pay guys six figures to manage an economy worth trillions of dollars and advance them in rank based on celebrity not project management. x.com/M_Millerman/st…
@M_Millerman x.com/jd_pressman/st…
It's like something out of an Ayn Rand novel except not even Randians criticize it. What the heck were you people expecting to happen?
@the_aiju > my friends mostly dont seem to care how smart i am.
Smart people don't feel smart from the inside, everyone else just seems inexplicably stupid. Imagine a hulking dude who thinks he's not huge and his friends don't care how hulking he is while he lifts a fridge with one hand.
@the_aiju Like your friends care, it's just not something that needs to come to conscious awareness all the time. They know, you know, it's a safe background assumption unless you recently got brain damage or something.
@the_aiju Have you ever tried being performatively dumb while secretly smart, like ever, in your entire life?
@the_aiju Have you ever tried it for fun rather than as a survival strategy?
@the_aiju You're in a similar position with respect to many things.
@deepfates Yes
youtube.com/watch?v=whJE_s…
@deepfates Listening to music with lyrics in a foreign language really underscores this.
youtube.com/watch?v=1u7WN2…
Not saying lyrics aren't important, I like lyrics and like them to be meaningful, but they are absolutely an instrument.
Most of the time identity is the stuff you haven't managed to get over yet. It's the manifestation of what you weren't able to sublimate into unconscious understanding and execute effortlessly.
This follows from the premise that most things that don't need to be conscious shouldn't be conscious.
@the_aiju If you were literally the smartest person in the world, unambiguously and unquestionably so that was just a settled issue, what would you do with it?
A lot of the function of modernity is to transmute visible scars and disfigurements into internal, psychological ones.
For those who are sensitive to character flaws this is a deeply unpleasant experience, being able to see the ways people have been psychically mangled and learning to never say a word about it.
This sounds like a schizo rant but it's actually an exposition on Teachian mental dynamics. By default people accept the results of external computations as their idea of what they want (mimetic desire) and rarely if ever do think own computation (thinking) about what they want. https://t.co/xpxfjcfxGF
By "Teachian" I mean the sort of Lacanian-contrarian psychoanalytic prior discussed in Astral Codex Ten's recent review of Teach's "Sadly, Porn".
astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-… https://t.co/z0DOHbBYVV
@energy_pitcher I have not. Link/elaborate?
@MixedRealityMan Satisficing - We don't try to eat infinite things, we eat until hunger goes away and then stop.
GAN - Our intelligence is probably the result of adversarial mating competition and social navigation with weak objective stability
Bounded - Cognition is expensive for us
@reconfigurthing This is similar to the gray goo problem in that any process like this can be trivially defined to be finite/self limiting. The real problem is coordinating/defending against the ones which aren't.
@reconfigurthing People just repeat the paperclip maximizer example over and over like it's actually intrinsically difficult to define the AI to say, only try to control X resources and then halt. The difficulty is not getting *a* AI to do that it's getting all AI's to do that.
@reconfigurthing Eh, I'll just delete the top level tweet for now and come back to the subject after reading more alignment literature.
@reconfigurthing Though just so we're clear, "define an AI to only control X resources" and arbital.greaterwrong.com/p/shutdown_uti… are very different, and I would actually conjecture that the 'shutdown problem' as defined is impossible.
@reconfigurthing Also X is a quantity, not a quality, getting an AI to *only control* certain kinds of resources is also extremely difficult etc. I mean "the AI will only desire control over N literal atoms", though this has ontological issues etc.
@the_aiju Don't you find it kind of suspicious that you don't know what you would do with something that seems to be an overriding desire for you?
I'm getting nervous... x.com/Militarylandne…
@tomurb That is the most disturbing possibility, yes.
scifi illustration of a fleet of docked spaceships evacuating a dying world, featured on artstation
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/dNXpQM5ftQ
@jmrphy As a guy who has witnessed all manner of postrat nuttery and descent into psychotic meltdown, I have to say I've actually never observed a Satanist. Which is kind of odd now that you mention it since I've seen nearly every other form of hipsterish Bay Area idiocy.
@jmrphy Obvious shoutout to Jack Parsons though:
youtube.com/watch?v=XcOHiG…
@TylerAlterman @cadillion Probably all the negative utilitarians.
@TylerAlterman @cadillion I don't think the EA survey has data on this unfortunately.
If you take this thesis seriously then the best way to persuade people to do the things you want is to show them by example it's possible. x.com/jd_pressman/st…
@mattparlmer x.com/Lichzim/status…
I once had a dream I was at the Pacific Science Center, standing on the long stairs down from the entrance when an earthquake rattled the frame and loudspeakers instructed us to evacuate. 🧵 https://t.co/cXOl8LQaY1
When I got outside I found myself staring at an enormous aurora borealis. It dominated the skyline over the Puget Sound. While everyone else either stood still in shock or listlessly wandered around, one woman was standing on the pier staring up at it.
I walked over to her. https://t.co/paEr30n02P
"We did that," she said, "and we want to do it again."
I stood with her and watched the sky burn. It became blindingly bright and I woke up. https://t.co/UAmI5PPlIy
an angel hotspot where they flutter down into your hands and leave behind stigmata, featured on artstation
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/4RekuP1KFU
@zetalyrae My thesis at this point is that the nonsense is immortal. Or at least, it will outlive any system by which you could get direct leverage by recognizing its failure. https://t.co/IL6h9Nujfu
@deepfates @reconfigurthing Literally came here to say this
I often don't tweet something because I anticipate it would make my followers list mad, but I just realized if I reliably did that I too might have nearly 100k followers... x.com/Aella_Girl/sta…
Where's that meme about how to do Twitter as a postrat account with "ambiguity upgrade" and stuff and it's kinda curvy?
Bitcoin is basically like a repeat of when the barons kicked serfs off farmland to graze sheep for dirtcoin except it's gamers and GPUs and the impotent uprising amounts to a bunch of anime pfp guys on Twitter whining about NFTs.
See Varoufakis explaining this particular bit of leftist lore:
youtube.com/watch?v=gGeevt…
This track closes Act 2 of Singularity! The Musical
youtube.com/watch?v=At8ao5…
Its sequel Variations On A Cloud is the climactic reprise in Act 3 as the world ends.
youtube.com/watch?v=LJCLUh…
Millennials have to take a small mountain of drugs and process their shadow and shit to get to the level of baseline understanding of reality zoomers get for free growing up in the 2000's.
Boomers 🤝 Millennials
Growing up in a weird cultural ghetto between epochs
(1950's vs. 1990's)
You grew up in the 1950's but for puke jokes and kitsch alright? That wasn't the real world please I'm begging you
@paulg @glukianoff @NAChristakis The natural enemy of 'social justice' is justice.
Steve Russell opening a gate to hell with the PDP-1 minicomputer, Oil on canvas, trending on artstation
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/KGk8PRxgGc
@PrinceVogel It's very frequently both.
@PrinceVogel That's part of the cruelty of the trap really. You *know* you're right, and you are, and people are gaslighting you about it, but you're also wrong. And the ego attachments associated with the first part stop you from finding the humility to notice the rest.
@PrinceVogel There are a lot of 'hopelessly wrong' perspectives in the discourse ('woke', reactionary atavism, etc) which persist precisely because they prioritize something true which people don't want to see at the cost of general understanding. They are selected to appeal to this dynamic.
@PrinceVogel Which is part of what leads to youtube.com/watch?v=JJmvMy…
One strategy to get general understanding is to just oscillate through a bunch of these over and over until you've integrated them into one perspective. Not optimal IMO but it works.
@PrinceVogel "What is optimal?"
Unsure, I personally just hold stable-ish beliefs but maintain a healthy paranoia I'm wrong and try to engage with things that cause me anxiety.
x.com/jd_pressman/st…
@PrinceVogel x.com/jd_pressman/st…
monkey smoking a joint blunt cigar cigarette, watercolor on canvas, trending on artstation
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/Ntd1CRLZIL
@__femb0t @TetraspaceWest Barcode Hallucigenia
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/aVh8zeB7dP
a concert portrait of the band Dr. Diffusion and the Chonky Checkpoints, live at the JAX theater, featured on artstation
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/l90eTHHGFg
Kind of Guy who's an immortal alchemist waiting for a return to normality where most people are serfs and this capitalism fad dies off
learning through grad student descent in the style of escher
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/DPa2tJL08Y
driving a car in the style of escher
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/nHbDxp3ryQ
We Shall Hate You More If You Succeed Than If You Fail, H.G. Wells *Things To Come* (1936) https://t.co/u9DUxtk6Hd
Skip to 5:40 for the part that will interest you.
ngl if the hard right's schizo direction on 'transhumanism' leads to a Yuddite-Tumblrite ideological bloc forming that would be an interesting twist x.com/m0lpe/status/1…
For anyone who doesn't understand where this is coming from I recommend amazon.com/Transhumanism-…
Transhumanism as esoteric populist anxiety has been building for a while now, published 2012.
"Academic conspiracy theory" is a genre I didn't even know I wanted until I saw this.
See also this astonishing unscripted four and a half minute monologue from Alex Jones where he tries to explain his worldview in one 'gestalt':
youtube.com/watch?v=S_A9aa…
@egregirls I'm fairly sure it's used as a texture sound effect in this starting at 1:55 and to this day I can't tell if I'm crazy or not for hearing it.
youtube.com/watch?v=HJun8D…
One of the worst parts of this website is that it will take any dichotomy and transmute it into the friend-enemy distinction. Based and cringe, decouplers and contextualizers, bouba and kiki, you people chase your own tail trying not to notice your tribalism.
@GarrettSoiland I would imagine somewhere in Europe, inexplicably poor even after having had centuries of potential investment momentum to take advantage of owing to his immortality because he grew up in a certain time period and his chronocentrism prevents him from grokking capitalism.
So I have CLOOB Conditioned Latent Diffusion running. If all goes well this should mean:
1. Much faster diffusion training times (<24 hours for this demo grid)
2. Captions not necessary to train on a dataset (testing this now, CLOOB should have unified embedding space) x.com/_akhaliq/statu… https://t.co/D4kfvMWqMz
Thanks to @RiversHaveWings and @nshepperd1 for their help with this.
The prompts for the demo grid https://t.co/9iD46dscsp
@dmvaldman "The i-th input image is mapped by an image encoder to xi living in an embedding space. Analogously, the i-th input text is mapped by a text encoder to yi living in the same embedding space."
ml-jku.github.io/cloob/
@nonlethalcode Well, only up to a certain scale. The lack of captions relies on the quality of your CLOOB, which obviously has to be trained with captions. So we will still need large captioned datasets, but this expands the number of datasets we can apply conditioned diffusion to.
@nonlethalcode After this run I plan to train a CLOOB conditioned latent diffusion on yfcc 100m, which only has text captions for a fraction of the dataset. However past a certain scale model scaling is bottlenecked on what the CLOOB knows, so it's better to train the text encoder from scratch.
@chaosprime @deepfates @pervexists69 @CountJ0ecool @embryosophy Oh yeah that'd be crazy, like could you imagine if people confused the meta heuristics for ironclad rules and began to imagine they *are* the heuristics rather than simply using them? That would be batshit dude, so glad that's not a thing.
@chaosprime @deepfates @pervexists69 @CountJ0ecool @embryosophy Or even crazier, what if you started to use meta heuristics, heuristics, and actual ironclad rules in the same composite framework but you weren't able to convey how this works exactly to anyone so you just sorta let them figure it out on their own and they wired it all up wrong.
@chaosprime @deepfates @pervexists69 @CountJ0ecool @embryosophy And every time you tried to tell them they're doing it wrong they dropped all the ironclad rules and switched to heuristics, or oscillated between heuristics and ironclad rules, or they just decided it's suggestion all the way down and tried to only use meta heuristics.
Loony.
@chaosprime @deepfates @pervexists69 @CountJ0ecool @embryosophy This tweet but it starts with a bunch of LessWrong jargonbabble:
x.com/doulbedoink/st…
Oh by the way training without captions works. x.com/jd_pressman/st… https://t.co/lO7UNY4PIC
Fixed the normalization on the inputs to CLOOB and the autoencoder, we're likely ready for yfcc. https://t.co/KjMEYL6UJI
@RichardMCNgo tbh I think I value rigor a lot more at this point, but it needs to be an expansive rigor that is interested in growth
x.com/jd_pressman/st…
@RichardMCNgo x.com/jd_pressman/st…
Few understand. x.com/jd_pressman/st…
a group of surgeons wait to cryonically suspend a patient by james gurney
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/iy0XqH978Z
scifi illustration of capitalists taking LSD to heal their trauma and become better industrialists
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/z5A1Tf3CLt
the third jhana attained once one is enlightened by the hindu dharma, featured on artstation
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/8lxW8mgiDw
shiva standing at the center of a swirling vortex ushering forth the technological singularity
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/lk0szKV2tG
the archangel joan of arc triumphant over the demons of hell, matte painting, featured on artstation, follower of El Greco
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/QMsMZHyoq5
a mural depicting an advanced Dharmic kardashev type 3 civilization in the style of retrofuturism, featured on arstation
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion)
x.com/productegy/sta… https://t.co/mpLnbWPcn2
@productegy Yeah, you have to keep in mind when you write prompts what the captions in the dataset are likely to contain/say. Realistically, this type of subject isn't captioned often so it's hard to get by just directly asking for it.
Prompt: Hindu Puja in worship of an icon of an ascended cybernetic scifi robot cyborg Swami Vivekananda, trending on artstation
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/NqVWoeOudp
Prompt: A bodhisattva preserving themselves against an overload of information through calm minded adherence to the eighfold path, matte painting by James Gurney
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/BwE0f12gqB
Prompt: Sanatan a dharma kardashev type 3 civilization gorging up supermassive black hole, supermassive white hole.
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion)
x.com/productegy/sta… https://t.co/fzV4VBcwNd
Prompt: Siddhartha Gautama dreaming an endlessly interweaving cycle of electric sheep by ross tran
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/kZTVDlN983
Prompt: a bodhisattva meditating in the center of a cyberdelic control room monitors televisions screens computers hacker lab, concept art, matte painting, trending on artstation
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/Nmi6O8knED
I still think about how this artifact survived long enough to reach YouTube.
youtube.com/watch?v=XtKd-T…
Prompt: night of the ophanim is a painting featuring the angel's heavenly interlocking Gemma's astronomical Equinoctal sundial rings concentric wheels engraved with eyes, featured on artstation
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/Hv9JZtPMIL
Prompt: a cult of mathematicians doing combat with daemons from the platonic realm using their whiteboards, featured on artstation
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/gYK65kjxz9
It's not that I sometimes draw religious art, I *mostly* draw religious art. Sometimes it's just easy to mistake for SciFi.
'Draw', what's even the appropriate term for this? Prompt? Summon?
Draw as in drawing from a deck of cards perhaps.
@kinogilfilms It's just the prompt, how else do I specify she needs wings?
@gptbrooke In my first major post-childhood formative period I mostly read biographies, histories of technical pioneers, and technical content when it came to books. So empirically greatness and technical excellence?
@eigenrobot One frame is that postrat was the successor to the failed 'rationality' self help movement (as opposed to the quite successful intellectual or literary movement). Most of my exposure to 'postrat' was from hardcore rat scene people, and it dominated LessWrong itself for a while.
@eigenrobot This post is a central example of the kind of thing I have in mind, if you look at top voted LessWrong posts from around this time frame you should find plenty of stuff:
greaterwrong.com/posts/mELQFMi9…
@eigenrobot And here's a recent post from Valentine that is basically lamenting the death of both the rat and postrat self help movements, even if Valentine doesn't seem aware that is what he's lamenting:
greaterwrong.com/posts/LbyxFk8J…
@eigenrobot Since some people might not know: I've been part of the rat scene since like 2013 and am in fact an oldster.
@eigenrobot This is why I'll have to write the postrat history you see, I hate all of it with intense passion, which is to say I'm among its biggest fans.
@eigenrobot @LingTolls I think you have it flipped tbh. You were in it early so your perception is skewed here, but for the vast majority of people postrat was just an esoteric euphemism for belief that Scott is the rightful caliph.
@eigenrobot @LingTolls This is why what ultimately killed postrat was in fact The New York Times. After going real name Scott changed genres for his writing and his old fan base has kinda been left to twist in the wind. Very similar to the death of LW 1.0 after EY's departure tbh.
@eigenrobot @LingTolls x.com/jd_pressman/st…
Prompt: a matrix operator wearing sunglasses morpheus offers Siddhartha Gautama the red pill of samsara, featured on artstation
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion)
x.com/RomeoStevens76… https://t.co/7Y2Hhb61sw
If you start the training run for a low dimensional kl autoencoder (as I am for danbooru latent diffusion) without a training set configured, it will on its own initiative try to download ALL OF IMAGENET off academic torrents.
👌
github.com/CompVis/latent…
How is this real https://t.co/ticf39Bo0g
@Ted_Underwood @RiversHaveWings I mean, as we all know AI is demons.
x.com/jd_pressman/st…
@baroquespiral It means that the necessity is so fully denied that people will drive themselves barking mad just to hold onto its reality for themselves, that's the price they have to pay not to be folded back into consensus reality.
x.com/jd_pressman/st…
Nietzsche wrote that all in all and on the whole he would some day wish to be only a Yes-sayer, but didn't he really mean he would like to be a Yes-and-sayer?
Kind of Guy who copes by allowing themselves to believe the parts of other people they don't like are just trauma and if it was healed they'd become a totally different person.
What if it was the parts you liked that were the trauma response, would you still be so eager to 'fix' it?
Now that I think about it this is deeply analogous to the thing parents do where they love their children by pretending they're someone else.
Prompt: vedic dissidents retreating to an online digital cyberdelic forest to meditate on the future of mankind, trending on artstation
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/1ih0aYz4GC
@velazandu youtube.com/watch?v=Y1_935…
It's only a training run if you have to hack up the authors code with a series of janky fixes to get it to work, otherwise it's just a sparkling script execution
@vgr Were the alchemists really 'deeply and entirely wrong at the foundations about every philosophical question'?
Substantially wrong sure, but... https://t.co/8rzoB0YhLx
@MattAlhonte @vgr Alchemy died before it was discovered that gold and lead are elements, actually. The enlightenment killed it in the same way it killed god, not through any particular scientific discovery. The confirmation that the philosophers stone is not achievable came later.
@MattAlhonte @vgr I recommend amazon.com/Secrets-Alchem… for more information on this subject.
@eigenrobot Bro when I was a kid I went digging in my dads closet and nearly killed myself by dropping a brass lantern on my head, get a gun safe.
As humanities departments decay they release toxic byproducts.
@maybeelse Yes.
greaterwrong.com/posts/Sdx6A6yL…
greaterwrong.com/posts/RKz7pc6s…
@maybeelse This is adjacent to worldbuilding. If you read/write an encyclopedia or factual high level description of an alien world with statistics about population and societal focuses, that's kind of inferring other ways the world could be based on your own.
e.g. ageofem.com
@maybeelse Once you can contain an alien world you have no personal investment in, it gets easier to defamiliarize the one that's normal to you and see what its peculiarities, virtues, and vices are without being overwhelmed by its realness, being damaged by its pain.
@maybeelse This is as far as most ever get, imagining an ideal or enchanted world very much unlike their own. But if you can bring yourself to learn more of this one, the distance between your daydreams and life shrinks. The dreams become more and more necessary, run on rules more like ours
@maybeelse This is a long process, it's best not to rush it. Knowledge comes quickly to no one, even Einstein had to study. But as the gap shrinks those dreams become only slight distortions of reality, then theoretically achievable, then almost possible with the right plan, and then-
@egregirls I have this intuition that anyone who writes a post like that is also lacking agency but in a more abstract way.
x.com/pathologic_bot…
@egregirls Action figurines if you will, they strike a pose like they do something but they're actually just posturing.
@egregirls Action figures come with fewer clothes and accessories than dolls usually do, but have a wider range of motion you can use for playing out your fantasy fights and make your own sound effects. The battle goes however you want because it's really just you fighting yourself.
@egregirls When I was a kid I played with old G.I Joe's and X-Men and stuff from the thrift store. I'd keep them strewn on the floor so it was hard to walk and do ultimate showdowns where my sister's Barbie dolls participated as 50 foot women.
How about you?
youtube.com/watch?v=lrzKT-…
The training run for yfcc 100m latent diffusion has started. The 82k step demo grid on the cc12m + imagenet run I did as a test in the meantime made it this far.
Wish me luck. x.com/jd_pressman/st… https://t.co/b5ZtctPo6u
@jachaseyoung Why would you tweet this.
@__frye For part 2 I think I'd really want to talk about postrat, I think that could be a very productive conversation now in a way that would have been half baked if I'd gotten into it back then. That or the history of the word 'hacker' perhaps.
@PrinceVogel They can feel however they like about it, it's their life not mine. People get overly attached to their era as something that needs to be preserved for someone who isn't them or theirs.
x.com/jd_pressman/st…
@PrinceVogel One day you will learn this cuts both ways.
@VividVoid_ @nosilverv Mimesis, pain, curiosity, animal instinct.
x.com/jd_pressman/st…
Twitter won't let me add more people to this right now, will as soon as I can.
@parafactual Diffusion eventually fixes this https://t.co/cLMZlQsjxO
@parafactual Oh maybe. I mean, they could just be carved out of play-doh or something.
70k step demo grid x.com/jd_pressman/st… https://t.co/2ansTiSSlQ
The demo prompts: https://t.co/Qr1zuRrlPj
Sure hexing the moon is great but have you ever accidentally transmuted the word 'artstation' into a name of god?
Prompt: scifi illustration of beautiful surreal cybernetic dragons flying through the sky, trending on artstation
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/0uP3S1dMP6
I made a CLOOB guided CLIP Conditioned Diffusion notebook that seems to be working:
colab.research.google.com/drive/1O8yU9kB… x.com/RiversHaveWing… https://t.co/Ya3oqmzqsf
102k demo grid x.com/jd_pressman/st… https://t.co/XZNxpWq3q0
Demo prompts https://t.co/1ydLBQvnfu
Many scholars contest whether 'postrat' is still a valid or useful historical category at all. Due to The Great Deletion of 2054 few original postrationalist works survive. Contemporary understanding of their doctrines is largely derived from critics of the postrat heresies and
the language model latents used in 21st century document retrieval systems to censor them.
@ESYudkowsky @RichardMCNgo Think the actual mistake was making a concept as important as 'Privileging The Hypothesis' a three word phrase describing an action rather than a one word noun like 'Warrant'.
readthesequences.com/Privileging-Th…
@ESYudkowsky @RichardMCNgo Also you wrote about it like, a handful of times. But the thing is, almost by definition if most of the hypothesis space is traversed before you consider a single hypothesis then most of being correct is hypothesis-selection. So it should probably be most of the book.
@ESYudkowsky @RichardMCNgo Basically the minute you wrote this passage you should have had a moment of terrible realization wherein it dawns on you you're focusing on the wrong things with your writing: https://t.co/Ucn7GxrSCl
@colinmegill Okay? I'm taking the piss out of the tweet I'm QTing there in the first place.
@ObserverSuns @VectorOfBasis @YosarianTwo @DAtD_life @zetalyrae x.com/Ted_Underwood/…
@eduwatch2 It seems to do better with landscapes, I've seen people get some good outputs running it for 100+ steps. For what it's worth this setup is pretty janky (it's CLOOB guidance of a CLIP conditioned diffusion network). I'm hoping my CLOOB conditioned latent diffusion will be better.
@eduwatch2 I'm using the epoch 16 checkpoint to train yfcc, perhaps I'll try finetuning with the epoch 32 checkpoint or use it for danbooru latent diffusion.
Started the danbooru latent diffusion run with the cloob 32 epoch checkpoint. This time the autoencoder is an f=4 so it will hopefully handle fine detail better.
@eduwatch2 I'm trying it now yeah.
150k demo grid for the yfcc latent diffusion run x.com/jd_pressman/st… https://t.co/O57LDDslye
Demo prompts https://t.co/FnrWtEawKi
@TylerAlterman x.com/jd_pressman/st…
@TylerAlterman I was reading it at a Christmas party as part of my research for an essay. In one passage it mentions a feral child who learned to walk on all fours and I, having tried to do this before but never succeeded, looked around at the empty floor, got down on all fours and bolted
@TylerAlterman across the room like an orangutan before standing up and returning to my seat.
This is probably the best review of it I can give.
102k demo grid x.com/jd_pressman/st… https://t.co/jcUYU0RVKK
Demo prompts https://t.co/Hzczuwo8mx
@nonlethalcode Should probably wait for it to finish training first. 😉
Mom come pick me up sorcerers are interfering with the laws of statistics to screw with my training run again x.com/jd_pressman/st… https://t.co/G8gbv0sLqT
"...Again?"
Well it wasn't a *training run* last time and it was @RiversHaveWings at the console but
x.com/RiversHaveWing…
@GaggiXZ Just SFW. Latent diffusion lowers training costs by 10x however so it's a cheap finetune.
@GaggiXZ CLOOB was trained on LAION 400m, which contains a wide variety of images including paintings, illustrations, and anime.
But frankly I don't know, part of the purpose of this training run is to find out.
@GaggiXZ Something to keep in mind is that "102k steps" doesn't mean the same thing in the danbooru run that it does in the yfcc run, danbooru is a smaller dataset and this is a different (smaller) architecture. This is still early in and I just turned the learning rate down.
@GaggiXZ Also my batch size is much lower on this run because I'm training it on worse GPUs, 12 per GPU vs 96 on yfcc.
@GaggiXZ You could, but then you'd need to do a backward pass through the diffusion net which is not ideal since this is a cfg and that balloons its memory use sky high. A better strategy might be to use it like a DALL-E and then rank with DeepDanbooru or a Danbooru finetuned CLOOB/CLIP.
@GaggiXZ Or better yet, finetune the CLOOB on danbooru and then finetune the net on the Danbooru-CLOOB.
@GaggiXZ YFCC: 8x 80gb A100's
Danbooru: 8x 40gb A100's
@GaggiXZ It can make sense, that's just not how I'm choosing to train it. CFG models work more like a DALL-E in their operation but have the benefit that you can use much less memory in inference than you need with CLIP/CLOOB guided.
@GaggiXZ The lower dimensional autoencoder you need for latent diffusion makes it doubtful that CLIP/CLOOB guidance will work well, so I chose not to go that route for these models.
@GaggiXZ You can rent these GPUs from providers such as datacrunch.io
@PrinceVogel Diving deep into your differences in genuine unbroken engagement until you resolve your cruxes is also underrated
@PrinceVogel The sentiment that this is unvirtuous did unspeakable damage to the thing that the Internet was. https://t.co/V4oVb8sF7F
@PrinceVogel The real poison is the middle ground between these two, always quarreling but never resolving, never growing and never curating, anaphylaxis spewing toxic byproducts into a dying superorganism. https://t.co/gYl8OfUKOQ
There are few things more bullish than people impotently whining about how they can't escape your ideas.
there’s a type of guy who is:
- ivory tower academic
- hates something good passionately
- but writes a meticulous breakdown of it
- that carefully explains to you how that thing works culturally
i love them. they’re the unwitting preservers of sanity in a declining epoch https://t.co/o1xQ8he999
See my review here:
extropian.net/notice/A3DxEED…
Prompt: illustration of a marquee on a busy nightlife city street, trending on artstation
(MidJourney Beta Diffusion) https://t.co/9UxUFgiINk
@enjoyer_math @PrinceVogel youtube.com/watch?v=eKl6Wj…
@RiversHaveWings @advadnoun Yeah it's basically a couple line change and you can just do it on a virtualenv you'll nuke afterwards so you don't mind messing up the Haiku install.
200k demo grid for the ycc latent diffusion run x.com/jd_pressman/st… https://t.co/JJuCYjWi2A
Demo prompts https://t.co/5DGa4e7QoH
@TheNutronic Are you still having this problem?
Prompt: hd awarded photograph of the canals of venice bubbling with foam
(CLOOB Conditioned Latent Diffusion [yfcc_cfg]) https://t.co/C6AFSaBMrD
Prompt: hd awarded photograph of a helicopter landing in a forest clearing
(CLOOB Conditioned Latent Diffusion [yfcc_cfg]) https://t.co/2I9jz6T0tf
Prompt: hd awarded photograph of The Scared Library by National Geographic
(CLOOB Conditioned Latent Diffusion [yfcc_cfg]) https://t.co/A18gVDvRwm
@tszzl “Let my servants be few & secret: they shall rule the many & the known.”
Truly incredible amounts of resentment are being driven by people who think the proper response to hearing the same dozen idiotic arguments over and over is to smile through them instead of git gud.
@jplasser @HochreiterSepp Have to release the model first, my CLOOB guided CLIP conditioned notebook will not be this good.
Prompt: A photograph of a table for two in a large ballroom
(CLOOB Conditioned Latent Diffusion [yfcc_cfg]) https://t.co/FLyURsC2BG
@midjourney for comparison
Prompt: A photograph of a table for two in a large ballroom https://t.co/6o15Z5V4dD
@arthur__sparks @midjourney Prompt: A hd awarded daytime photograph of a man in a flight jacket leaning against a biplane by national geographic
(CLOOB Conditioned Latent Diffusion [yfcc_cfg]) https://t.co/Hy72aCWs49
@arthur__sparks @midjourney @midjourney for comparison
Prompt: A hd awarded daytime photograph of a man in a flight jacket leaning against a biplane by national geographic https://t.co/YgNCLxASRo
Prompt: A hd awarded photograph of exploding colors in surreal schizophrenic splashes on a starry night
(CLOOB Conditioned Latent Diffusion [yfcc_cfg]) https://t.co/PkZrOGvdxM
I'm not a man you see, I'm a machine
Just drop down that machete, you'll see what I mean
You see you're not a stranger, we can be friends
So it won't be forever 'till we make amends
I'm not a girl you see I just repeat
"JD trained a DALL-E for you and for me" https://t.co/Sk8Mc5JHWS
@nosilverv Level 3 mistakes 3 for 5 and 6 for 4.
@nosilverv Kegan 5 is defined in such a way that it's hard to tell whether there's really a Kegan 6 or just more kinds of 5 but
If the word 'thinking' triggers you remember that intuition is cognition too, nervous system runs through the whole body, etc.
x.com/jd_pressman/st…
@nosilverv Like when EY says "rationality is winning" I think he honestly means this in the MMA sense at least as much as he means it in the decision theory sense. He wants you to notice if you're being an idiotic Spockish dork, go "wait this is dumb" and then stop.
x.com/aphercotropist…
@nosilverv "Doesn't this imply EY should be less dorky than he is?"
'Eliezer Yudkowsky needs to read The Sequences' was a meme on the old LW IRC for a reason.
@VolcaneHabanero @nosilverv It's either trauma or naivete, my bet is trauma because naivete would fix itself. One way of coping with having been bitten by formal systems that promise too much is to start taking all formal systems as mere suggestions, to ward off their influence.
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@VolcaneHabanero @nosilverv And it's like, sometimes the output of a formal system *is* just a suggestion and sometimes it really isn't and there is probably no way to reliably tell the difference less complex than a human brain.
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@VolcaneHabanero @nosilverv This is starting to veer into the "more effort than I'm willing to put into this conversation" zone, but I think my fundamental objection here is aesthetic/subtext? Even setting aside Chapman's midwittery and uncharity, he does not discuss this subject like the way I would expect
@VolcaneHabanero @nosilverv someone who understands that the thinking people have the most trouble with is the systems part would write. You can hate on EY all day, but I think he has a better model of where (ordinary) people get stuck at 'thinking well' than Chapman does. Chapman writes for overthinkers.
@VolcaneHabanero @nosilverv To be clear I'm far from a starry eyed EY fanboy at this point, I think the dude's writing also has a bazillion problems, but I like its angle of attack much more than Chapman's.
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@egregirls One of the advantages of being in the history fandom is that the loop in fact completes that way.
@egregirls You also get meaningfully different retellings of the same story, so when you revisit it later you can tune the presentation to where you're at in life. Reading Mussolini's autobiography to understand the nature of evil made sense at 14, but not now.
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