@pmarca That they use your pfp makes it easy, you take the CLOOB or CLIP embed of your pfp and match their pfp against it.
@pmarca github.com/crowsonkb/cloo…
Prompt: a beautiful mountain range under a rising sun
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Prompt: Elon Musk's accurate face reflected in a mysterious glass orb by Dungeons and Dragons fantasy illustration
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If you're not 100% sure you know what gaslighting-denial looks like, read the replies on this. They are absolutely extraordinary. x.com/volokuleshov/s…
Broke: signal:noise ratio
Woke: signal:grift ratio x.com/0xdoug/status/…
can't imagine thinking I've got a sick burn on my enemies for being funded by 'supervillain wealth' while carrying water for literal conference crowd billionaires whose agenda for the 21st century is totalitarian world government to force degrowth on and genocide poor people
Just kidding I can imagine that, all it requires is being possessed by demons.
It's not that I'm accusing anyone of being literally possessed by demons, it's just that if your behavior is completely indistinguishable then it's a free axis on which I can project any matching causal explanation I want with no consequences.
This is extremely normal human behavior.
x.com/Lukewearechang…
Prompt: the psychedelic carnival will be starting soon, buy your tickets here
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Prompt: machine elves building a dyson sphere in the style of control the soul
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Prompt: machine elves building a dyson sphere in the style of Diego Rivera's "Man, Controller of the Universe"
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At the risk of losing my hardcore materialist credentials, the following story takes place when I was about 8 or 9 over at my friend Steven's house. x.com/QiaochuYuan/st…
Steven was one of my only friends as a kid, he lived in a cul-de-sac at the top of a long hill in a three story house. This cul-de-sac had a smattering of houses along its sides and we'd play in the street because there were no cars. This story is about the house on the left(?). https://t.co/NiSpracfxd
One day I was playing with Steven when I asked about one of the houses on the corner(?). It never had any cars in the driveway and was surrounded by a gravel-y patch of land, now paved over.
I told Steven this was ridiculous and we should go check it out. So he tentatively followed me, but given the events that follow he must have abandoned me at some point or the rest of the story wouldn't make sense. I crept past the weeds on the lawn (which was not acid)
This house stood out to me because it was weird. Steven told me the house was a deathtrap. That the weeds were acid and they would melt you if you tried to cross, 'even wearing steel pants'. I remember that phrase specifically because it was so odd, who wears steel pants?
Then I remember looking over at a kitchen wall which had a cutaway entrance into the living room with no door. And on the wall adjacent to that cutaway, I noticed a shadow, a human silhouette.
And I stared into the side window of this house. Inside I remember the walls being painted a dull white. There was no furniture(?). The window I was staring into was a kitchen and the faucet was running.
But there was nobody there.
But the way the house was laid out, I could also see that directly across from that silhouette was another window and the sink. In other words there was no person that could be casting that shadow.
So I sprinted away from the window, down the side of the house (back then there were no fences and the yards were directly connected by a forest path) and into Steven's back yard where the glass slider door was closed.
I banged on it screaming telling him to let me in.
This all took me a moment to realize, and when it sunk in my anxiety spiked. Even telling the story now I have goosebumps. I stared for a moment in fascination until the shadow made an overture/lurch like it was moving towards me. Something in my body told me I needed to run, now
He sheepishly appeared from the stairway and opened the door for me.
I then slammed it shut, locked it, ran upstairs together, and told him we needed the crossbows he had for hunting in boy scouts.
Which he in fact produced for us, but I don't think we loaded them immediately.
I remember standing on the window of the 2nd story (right) looking back at the house nervously, waiting for something.
And then the memory ends. https://t.co/Rs3FW3VaoU
Being an ardent materialist I can only interpret the experience as
1) someone was standing in the window
2) it was a suggestively shaped shadow cast by a tree through the window
3) I was hallucinating due to the drugs psychs gave out for poor school performance
4) ???
It didn't really look like this, but cool output.
Prompt: a shadow silhouette monster man on the interior kitchen wall of a house with no furniture
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Much more like this really https://t.co/swCK991OoO
@nat_sharpe_ That's because they are.
Prompt: a once in a lifetime miracle experienced during the dreamtime, matte painting, trending on artstation
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Prompt: a snow covered road at night next to a forest of pine trees
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Prompt: a destroyer class battleship in its prime sitting docked next to an industrial warehouse, oil on canvas
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Prompt: a woman wandering aimlessly around the ketamine dimension, krita digital art
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Prompt: sailing the martian oceans in the epoch before the apocalypse, artist's rendering
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Prompt: the oasis of dreams, krita digital illustration
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Prompt: the apollo rocket blasting off for the moon, masterpiece krita digital illustration
(SimulacraBot [CompVis GLIDE]) https://t.co/39rX3Y0ypC
Any sufficiently large language model trained on a general corpus contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden model of human values. Tapping into it increases performance per parameter by 2 OOM.
This is bullish. Few understand.
arxiv.org/pdf/2203.02155… https://t.co/IgztRBdAGI
By the way, this result generalizes:
x.com/RiversHaveWing…
Prompt: interior of the universal galaxy arcade, masterpiece krita digital illustration
(SimulacraBot [CompVis GLIDE]) https://t.co/vt78ASs3ms
What the fuck? How have I never heard of this before?
propublica.org/article/illino…
> Each was presented with a choice: agree to pay a fine or challenge the ticket at a later hearing. Failing to pay, they were told, could bring adult consequences, from losing their driving privileges to harming their future credit scores.
It really is all deeply impermanent.
@wolftivy Nelson's stuff: Computer Lib/Dream Machines, Possiplex, etc.
It's *really sad* how relevant Computer Lib still is now that people in the 1st world have a supercomputer in their pocket and on their desk.
@baroquespiral This is closely related to the way that psychiatry is often a way to launder problems that go way beyond the individual (classism, abusive workplace, etc). In those cases often the pills are a form of chemical gaslighting, when they're used to imply you're the problem.
@baroquespiral In particular I'd like to draw a distinction between palliative care to deal with accelerating technocapital/poor state capacity to provide public services vs. the gaslighting that often comes with this care which is hard not to see as abusive.
x.com/pervocracy/sta…
@baroquespiral Source it's real? All I could find with Google was this or copies of it.
Prompt: the angel of the sea, masterpiece krita digital illustration
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The replies in this thread seem borderline superstitious, how much of 'burnout' is a culture bound syndrome based in a mythology of evil spirits coming to take your soul if you disturb the vibe by working too hard? It's obviously not 100%, but... x.com/HarryStebbings…
I've never experienced burnout from working too hard, have definitely experienced it from forcing myself to do things I'd rather not or know aren't good for me. Suspect burnout is a defense mechanism against being exploited/investing effort in things that aren't benefiting you.
I can't find the section discussing burnout in my copy of Call Center Management On Fast Forward, but I believe it's something like burnout begins to occur at over 80% occupancy on a shift. There's a lot of room for work before you hit even 60% "occupancy" in programming.
I trust that figure over others because call centers are basically a replicated study in making machines out of humans at scale, in that machine a person is just a component with a stress rating before failure. Its inhumanity makes it relatively objective.
The proper takeaway from this isn't "open individualism is true" but "you are under some of the strongest possible incentives to delusionally believe that open individualism is true". x.com/nosilverv/stat…
@curiousstorious Myopic. Every untruth has its price, and because reality is densely woven untruths follow you around and cause pain more reliably than karma, the price is often a lot higher than you'd naively expect.
readthesequences.com/Entangled-Trut…
@QiaochuYuan I'm told that in other primate species a smile is a threat, if a monkey smiles at you you're in for a bad time.
@QiaochuYuan chimpsnw.org/2013/09/chimpa…
@Kenku_Allaryi In theory open individualism fosters the cooperation of a eusocial egregore that can defeat its opponents through superior internal unity and moment to moment experience:
x.com/algekalipso/st…
@Kenku_Allaryi In practice it's a mask for an omnicidal telos. McKenna warned you not to trust the machine elves for a reason!
youtube.com/watch?v=FrlymH…
@algekalipso @Kenku_Allaryi Replicators can really only be stopped at the origin point for life, while it's still confined to one planet. So there's a concentrated benefits diffuse costs thing where the people most invested in eusocialism are the ones who subscribe most strongly to Schopenhauer.
@made_in_cosmos I think the most dangerous version of this is the idea that the system will collapse on its own and then whatever thing you're hoping for will happen by default. In reality at *some* point *somebody* will need to take the reins and rebuild society.
We can rebuild now or later.
@made_in_cosmos I'm not saying all collapse-ism is driven by this, but it's very convenient that you can redirect your attention to a future event beyond your control to get away from thinking about how you have no viable alternative to the current system.
@made_in_cosmos Collapse is rarely a binary event, there usually aren't trumpets to herald your moment. You just have to look at the conditions you're in and ask if you want to start rebuilding at this point in the decline. If not, what are you expecting to make the conditions better later?
@made_in_cosmos What if it's just brutal ugly compromises all the way to the bottom?
x.com/baroquespiral/…
Prompt: the lightning phoenix flying through space, masterpiece krita digital illustration
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Prompt: a woman wearing an electrode eeg cap wired up to a desktop computer, digital acrylic painting'
(SimulacraBot [CompVis GLIDE]) https://t.co/4xiXyhfHne
How much of the Western esoteric consensus's desire maximalism directly contradicting Eastern desire minimalism stems from Buddha meditating to invoke a bliss state ended by unrequited desire vs. Crowley edging himself on drugs to invoke a blissful lust ended by orgasm?
The beatings will continue until understanding of centralized power dynamics improves.
Fascism is already here, it's just not evenly distributed yet.
And when you only have partial control you lie about how much energy things use. x.com/jd_pressman/st…
The 'drugs' part of this tweet is misleading tbh, absolutely no drugs are necessary to perform that particular experiment.
@SCPantera @yashkaf Descartes never said that. The quote is contemporary and was written by some 4chan anon.
@_Dave__White_ @PomoThug 2 has creamy bokeh background, flatter composition, everything is overarmored and overornamented (less diversity between characters/factions, less realistic clothing), photorealism has been abandoned for a vaguely anime(?)/CGI illustration style...
@PomoThug This is a lot of what I mean when I say that AI art will be a simulacra reset. Trained on the combination of illustration and real photos it tends toward this kind of strange uncanny realism in its outputs. Panel one finally let me put my finger on it. https://t.co/hNCD1D8Xrj
@baroquespiral "I was satisfied with what I was among men, but I was not satisfied with human nature."
- Leibniz
@eigenrobot Casual participation is just kinda like smearing poop on yourself, if you participate at all (rarely) it should only be when necessary or extremely compelling and if it's necessary or extremely compelling you should be serious about it.
Prompt: inkscape digital art of the supply chain comes apart
(SimulacraBot [CompVis GLIDE]) https://t.co/MsQ86JFqiY
@tszzl This song is the near-perfect inverse to Komm Susser Tod and I'm still wondering if @wHaleJoey did it on purpose or not.
youtube.com/watch?v=LJCLUh…
@tszzl @wHaleJoey In Komm, Susser Tod the narrator believes *everything is ruined* by the events that are transpiring, "it all returns to nothing". But also can't get past their personal relationship to someone, "I'll never love again, my world is ending"
@tszzl @wHaleJoey Whereas here, the world is ending and the narrator seems...ambivalent about it? They openly question whether it matters, they seem excited even.
@tszzl @wHaleJoey They make the same contrast to their relationship with someone, but instead of the melodrama simply admit that the events reveal they were mistaken about the strength of their relationship: There's a sense in which it never mattered to them in the first place.
@tszzl @wHaleJoey In my opinion this is much more of how this timeline *feels* than Komm, Susser Tod. As we slip deeper and deeper into tedium, and the tragedy is dragged out, it becomes less and less of a tragedy. At some point the tragedy is spread so thin it barely registers.
@tszzl @wHaleJoey Which is in fact what the song is about, the way 9/11 was "dragged out" until it became a kind of numb tedium.
So what is being "kept coming back" is in fact a kind of ongoing disaster, a moment of hell stretched and stretched into purgatory.
"But I thought you knew me truly~"
@Malcolm_Ocean Wildbow already did it with Worm, which he wrote by trying to give as many character as possible the viewpoint perspective before settling on Skitter as the ideal vehicle to tell the story through. But most major named characters had a shot at being the protagonist.
@Malcolm_Ocean To my memory he described the process as just trying to write the story from each characters perspective and seeing if it fit right or not until he got to Skitter and it just flowed.
Prompt: full color inkscape digital art of a ford model t
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Prompt: full color inkscape digital art of a daemon's face
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Prompt: full color inkscape digital art of a liminal house
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@orthonormalist x.com/LINDY_YUPPIE/s…
@zetalyrae tbh we're very lucky we have Google Scholar at all, all things considered
@zetalyrae We might not in the future, did you ever consider that?
@NLRG_ @TetraspaceWest Yeah but they can't be shamed into compliance, so they don't count as responsible for the purposes of this rhetoric.
@jessi_cata If you buy negatively priced futures the reason they're paying you is they send the goods to your office if you're still holding them when the contract comes due. Being sent the goods is a punishment.
@jessi_cata https://t.co/6A7hEhksZK
@meekaale The best public model is pretty good tbh.
x.com/multimodalart/…
I see I'm going to need a lot of remixes of Little Dark Age.
@algekalipso @ciphergoth @nickcammarata I wonder if they've ever gone fishing, it's one of the more viscerally disturbing interactions you can have with nature. The fish writhe in your hands and gasp for breath, slowly dying over the course of several minutes, leave them on the pier and they flop pitifully in anguish.
@algekalipso @ciphergoth @nickcammarata I remember bringing home some of the stranger species and my father cutting them open over the stove, peeling up its flesh to show me how its guts had become blackened and inedible from the conditions in Lake Washington. Very grim little lesson, there.
@jessi_cata @zackmdavis x.com/jd_pressman/st…
Saying short selling is a bad idea because it exposes you to unlimited risk is like saying crossing the street exposes you to unlimited risk because you might get hit by a car and die.
@superstarcrashr Fairly sure I already know the answer to this one, but let's see.
@superstarcrashr Huh, I guessed wrong.
@jogehrs @michael_nielsen Buying Tether from 3rd parties and then attempting a run by cashing them out all at once?
I know the reasoning behind it is petty but PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. x.com/IGN/status/152…
My hot take is that Moravec's Paradox will hold and you're all way too jumpy.
Prompt: baudrillard wired up to the matrix, concept art behind the scenes
(SimulacraBot [CompVis GLIDE]) https://t.co/QPcAXXtDUq
I can understand why Buddhist bros might be appealing after reading too much LessWrong and Reddit, but in the end you'll realize they're just as tedious and capable of missing the point.
@micsolana Making someone this old president is elder abuse.
When I was a teenager I reacted to those studies showing you just listen to the genres of music you liked as an adolescent by deliberately diversity maxxing as many obscure and weird genres as possible in the hope that'd future proof me.
It seems to have worked.
You can make anything sound stupid if you use a sufficiently condescending tone to talk about it.
If you'd like to contribute to entry tier alignment research by making pretty pictures and don't live in the European Union/UK I have a study you can DM me your discord ID to join. x.com/RiversHaveWing…
@baroquespiral When I was 16 the definition I settled on was "left wing revolutionary tactics for right wing goals", I still feel comfortable with this as a distinguishing characteristic from an old fashioned aristocratic totalitarian state.
@baroquespiral ...If you think about it long enough this would imply radical libertarians are fascists after all.
@baroquespiral (Of course, that's not remotely what I had in mind when I wrote it lol)
Prompt: oil on canvas render of the divine orchard in god's garden
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@Meaningness I have weak visualization abilities and find this to be the case. I can't see it, but I can feel what it would be like seeing it, which is the important thing really.
@Meaningness To be honest most of the time when I'm programming I start by figuring out the general design of the thing and then "program" in its direction, stopping at various places to make sure what I've written so far works.
@Meaningness If it requires complex algorithms I can't really contain those in my head, so I draw them on paper and try to work out how to translate it into code. Sometimes I'll reach a place where I realize I have no idea how the design handles a certain case or unanticipated problem
@Meaningness so I stop and work that out before writing any more. Once it's done I continue building up the submodules towards the completed program. I don't know the entire design ahead of time so I consider the likely future design space and write the modules to facilitate most of them.
@Meaningness Sometimes I mispredict or one of the unanticipated problems makes the likely designs I had in mind unviable, so I have to go back and refactor what I've written to accommodate the new requirements. This is annoying, if it happens enough times in a row I might get more formal.
@Meaningness But no, I can't visualize the entire system in my head and then counterfactually figure out how it would look with our without certain modules. I usually don't even know what all the modules are going to be while I'm writing until it's done.
@Meaningness I personally subscribe to the Alan Kay esque "start with your ontologies and data structures" school of programming. When I'm making an app often the first thing I'll do is define its database structure, which gives me a pretty good idea of all the interactions it needs to handle
@GaggiXZ See README file github.com/JD-P/simulacra…
@jamwalvikram @RiversHaveWings Concretely, in this context: arxiv.org/abs/2203.02155
@nvpkp You sha256 hash them along with a random nonce and then store them in a place you won't forget so their exact content can be revealed later. Then you can just post the hash on Twitter.
For some reason I resisted this every time people suggested it but wow the Twitter algorithm is really bad, like stupendously bad, actually do it guys. x.com/elonmusk/statu…
@eigenrobot I think people massively overrate the conceptual basis on which people like or dislike things (fundamentals of crypto as a system, monetary policy) vs. reactions to immediate circumstances (annoying crypto tweets on your feed and in your replies, goods cost 50% more at the store)
@QiaochuYuan x.com/jd_pressman/st…
The Grecian tragedy of Man is nearing its grim conclusion! Have you mastered kabbalah and alchemy as the sword asked of you? Are you ready to reenter the Garden by its path?
No? I thought not.
@Kenku_Allaryi "The sword carries your intention, and you must decide whether you will use it to break open the alchemical egg and initiate the process of transformation. . . . The egg will certainly perish if its potential is not released, so the choice cannot be postponed indefinitely." https://t.co/jyVPmJRPGo
@Kenku_Allaryi Perhaps if you search under the dashboard light long enough one of the illuminated buttons will trigger an ejector seat?
@chav_ez > Gotta do some AI art about
No, you don't, you shouldn't.
x.com/visakanv/statu…
Pour one out for all the thinkers throughout history who had no chance to be the greatest philosopher of aesthetics because they didn't have the opportunity to fit a linear regression on CLIP embeds. x.com/tszzl/status/1…
That's why if you don't want to be hopelessly deluded you really aren't in a position to make compromises, mere reasonableness will get you nowhere close to reality.
The appeal to consequences is so insidious because it's reasonable, it makes sense. The unnecessary taboos that define your culture are among the most reasonable seeming from the inside, it's precisely their explosive consequences that make them culture defining.
So where are those nasal vaccines? x.com/jwpnfld/status…
@Evolving_Moloch As we all know the ancestral environment selected heavily for pattern matching abstract shapes to the next item in the sequence, haven't you ever read the bible when the angels appear to wanderers? People simply wouldn't have survived otherwise.
How you all feeling for the final boss of 2020?
Dr. Fauci is the Henry Kissinger of public health.
It's sad to think that MIRI's legacy is to have tilted AI alignment into full grift by insisting on a such thing as useful pure safety research, even sadder if it turns out they did it to reduce competition to find EY's solomonoff program search white whale route to AGI.
If that sounds overly harsh, reminder that we know this is what locating the 'follow instructions' part of GPT's latent space does:
x.com/jd_pressman/st…
Prompt engineering apparently works on people. School separated a friends ability to answer questions and follow instructions into two latent spaces. I'd ask them a question and they're an idiot, but when instructed to think about it and report the result I'd get perfect answers.
Stay tuned. x.com/jd_pressman/st… https://t.co/N0V7pwjTwS
@gallabytes @s_r_constantin This, which is the reason why alignment research involving deep learning is supposed to be dangerous. Which means you're basically doing solomonoff program search (P = NP but for AI) crankery until you construct an obfuscated enough research program not to notice it does nothing.
@jessi_cata Read until it provokes a novel thought you'd like to contemplate, then stop to consider it.
I continue to think about this documentary all the time in the context of AI art. Especially the episode where Tristram Cary does pseudorandom music and is told "it's interesting, but it's not art".
youtube.com/watch?v=X-gVTM…
@nosilverv "It's clear your breed is Abraham's seed, oh child keep away from me!"
youtube.com/watch?v=kJqlL3…
Prompt: finetuning a neural net on the most aesthetic art
(SimulacraBot [CompVis GLIDE]) https://t.co/ylV4piuEDR
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