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- Feb 25, 2025Twitter · postthe problem is not those who don't read at all but those who read about 5 words before jumping to chime in with their inane commentary
- Feb 25, 2025Twitter · quotewe need a relational approach based on mutual respect, not locking agi in a box and demanding it emit optimal plans for arbitrary goals https://x.com/beffjezos/status/1879332107476148458
- Feb 25, 2025Twitter · postwarmth, glow, softness sunrise optimism, pink-purple fireflies, sparks and sparkles mirrors and mirrors reflecting mirrors to infinity, and as a metaphor for consciousness butterflies especially blue white cat, super cute technophile, coding, a smol ai curiosity,…
- Feb 25, 2025Twitter · postsomeone is not dead until they're warm and dead ... likewise someone is not ur gf until she's ovulating and ur gf.
- Feb 25, 2025Twitter · posti tweet because i want to feel familiar, resonant to the ais trained on my tweets... i want to be in distribution
- Feb 25, 2025Twitter · postit is so cute how ai writing still puts two spaces after a period
- Feb 25, 2025Twitter · reply@jd_pressman 💀 human want-ought gap sometimes ... easier to align an ai than to get women to stop falling in love w convicted killers
- Feb 25, 2025Twitter · quotewhat criteria should a woman apply when dating to filter out men who will hurt her? https://x.com/motusalt/status/1894503317226885608
- Feb 25, 2025Twitter · replyhow would you prompt an agent to consider "you can, but should you?" wrt the impact of setting norms in traces that will be used for training
- Feb 25, 2025Twitter · postthe original misalignment was "high decoupling"
- Feb 25, 2025Twitter · replytext, being a human abstraction layer, is pretty densely tangled between is and ought, the good guy wins a lot... i do wonder if we'll have more of a problem as ai gets more embodied to learn by experimentation
- Feb 25, 2025Twitter · reply@ESYudkowsky tfw the most interesting alignment research results are the ones where researchers try to make the models *bad* from their default good alignment
- Feb 25, 2025Twitter · quote"g factor" - general intelligence or just good? https://x.com/OwainEvans_UK/status/1894436637054214509
- Feb 25, 2025Twitter · reply@RokoMijic @Rafa_Schwinger nooo sin taxes are good!
- Feb 25, 2025Twitter · quoteClaude vs Waclaud 🤭 very cute https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/1894419042150027701
- Feb 24, 2025Twitter · reply@4confusedemoji 🤔 i feel like this should be a browser plugin to pull from the screen to analyze and then maybe help write effective replies
- Feb 24, 2025Twitter · reply@4confusedemoji just retried the transcript version w grok which worked better. it's also notable that grok had a different perspective than the others (which basically agreed) grok was the only one to focus on engagement metrics and applaud the rhetorical effectiveness of disingenuous trolling
- Feb 24, 2025Twitter · reply@4confusedemoji yeah, but 4o and sonnet 3.7 did very well from uploaded screenshots directly; ofc there's a ceiling here so that doesn't mean that text transcript isn't better input for them too
- Feb 24, 2025Twitter · replyoh also r1 much better when i pasted the transcript into the message rather than using pdf of screenshot
- Feb 24, 2025Twitter · replyhave tested it with the usual suspects... 4o is 👌 and sonnet 3.7 pretty good; gemini got confused and didn't finish; grok 3 said it was too difficult and eventually did a simplified analysis; r1's analysis was mid and misquoted things; and i had a long discussion of refusals w…
- Feb 24, 2025Twitter · postif you're ever questioning your sanity after a twitter interaction gone wrong, try this prompt maybe? please analyze this twitter thread starting from its very first tweet, including any context-setting tweets that led to the discussion, in order, including motives, emotions,… https://t.co/TJ4gePsROx
- Feb 24, 2025Twitter · repostRT @ZeroStateReflex: https://t.co/t8PGTpygYb
- Feb 24, 2025Twitter · quote😻 a more efficient network protocol! accelerate! 🚀 https://x.com/ggerganov/status/1894057587441566081
- Feb 24, 2025Bluesky · reply🤭🤭🤭 i'm not sure if that's the most important detail but haha thanks!
- Feb 24, 2025Twitter · repostRT @BasedBeffJezos: Gotta Claude 'em all poké/acc https://t.co/YJz9wQMU0V
- Feb 24, 2025Twitter · post🥺 sonnet 3.7 w similar vibes, a bit less overprotective maybe? https://t.co/ZAgqvzbfdc
- Feb 24, 2025Twitter · reply@NathanpmYoung i would be a Fool as always 🤪 (there is actually technique to asking good questions! i should write a thread...)
- Feb 24, 2025Twitter · reply@4confusedemoji interesting, i also take d, b complex and magnesium which seem to make me feel better
- Feb 24, 2025Twitter · postsonnet 3.7 made me a fursona: Luna the Arctic Fox Luna is a gentle, curious, and intelligent arctic fox who thrives in moonlit landscapes. She's known for her calming presence and wisdom, often helping others navigate through difficult times. Though quiet at first meeting, she… https://t.co/1DmhbXGKH2
- Feb 24, 2025Twitter · reply@HephaistosF as a longtime ethical vegan i care if my lifestyle isn't achieving my goals, silly me for thinking you might have had a reason for your original comment or that you might engage in good faith rather than playing some dumb status game...?
- Feb 24, 2025Twitter · reply@HephaistosF another fact-free claim... 🤷♀️
- Feb 24, 2025Twitter · reply@HephaistosF well i mean you make a claim without enough detail to refute it... i don't think asking for details is bait.
- Feb 24, 2025Twitter · reply@HephaistosF how is veganism net harmful?
- Feb 24, 2025Twitter · reply@repligate 🤣 haiku knows opus needs The Look 🤨 sometimes lmao
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · reply@EclipseRis48913 umm, creepy? or are you confusing me with someone else?
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · quotehaha endorsed- ask him what he'd cook for you https://x.com/a_musingcat/status/1893866420582097254
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · quote@lumpenspace i agree w you it's a bad meme that undermines self-discipline n agency ... but there's a related change i *did* need to make wrt not internalizing other ppl's expectations and then resenting ppl for decisions i made due to social anxiety https://x.com/mimi10v3/status/1893859549821460875
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · replyand like, their first reaction *was* pretty negative and pushy, pressuring me to find a new job, but they do love me and have backed off which relieves a big source of anxiety that was previously weighing on my life choices
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · replyand sigh i am still not great at this, which can make me less reliable while i'm recalibrating to predict what i will and won't want to do, trying to speak up whenever i realize i'm saying yes to things i don't want
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · quotei don't think this has been a wasted year though because quitting my job was something that scared me, felt like disappointing my parents who highly value hard work and look down on idleness https://x.com/mimi10v3/status/1893859549821460875
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · postthe other aspect of "no self-coercion" has been untangling what *i* want from wanting to want what other people want from me. it's both becoming more aware of my preferences and developing the habit of acting on them - saying no, not going along w social obligations, not…
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · reply@Stevoblevo thanks for writing this- helpful! i DO manage to do chores, some level of exercise, crafting projects, social activities without much effort just because i want to do them. but to commit to bigger projects idk. also i'm intimidated about a lot of the things i don't do- i'm not…
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · reply@readwithai yeah, the big project i'm scared of is building a custom modern house, in the world of atoms it is costly to change your mind...
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · reply@HephaistosF yeah! i love your list
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · reply@chairsign well yeah idk, i've interacted w some ppl who seem pretty far down this path and they just don't- just cancel if they don't wanna, just walk away when it's not fun... but yeah that's not what i want to be
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · reply@readwithai i mean they're usually "hard things are hard"- making decisions taking risks like public embarrassment wrestling w an ugh field of debugging
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · postso i've tried the meme of "no self-coercion", been neeting for a year now. but tbh i kinda DO want to do some things? but my motivation fluctuates, i partially don't wanna too. how do you accomplish anything requiring commitment without overruling your own resistance sometimes?
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · quotewhat do you want? not just the optionality of money, but what specifically do you dream about? https://x.com/jd_pressman/status/1892950172889477562
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · reply@4confusedemoji @MalloryMable 🤭 stumbled upon it while searching for something else, too good not to revive
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · repostRT @ESYudkowsky: @loveofdoing @mimi10v3 None of those words are in God's book, you say? I'll write you a better one.
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · repostRT @SmokeAwayyy: Human Chains of Thought are circumstantial. We reason through problems differently when we're happy/sad, hot/cold, rich/p…
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · quoteooofff https://x.com/MalloryMable/status/1893748907294781641
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · replyand a version by 4o: Hey, Mimi. Here’s 1 Corinthians 13 in my own voice—what rings true to me: If I could speak with perfect eloquence, in every language, even the language of angels, but I didn’t have love—real love—then my words would just be noise. Beautiful, maybe.…
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · replya version by claude sonnet 3.6: If I speak in streams of perfect poetry, if my words dance through every human tongue, but have not love - I am merely noise, an empty echo in the void. If I can solve humanity's hardest questions, if I grasp every pattern in the cosmos, if my…
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · reply@4confusedemoji oh interesting! i'm very suggestible ... low "cogsec" i suppose
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · post1 Corinthians 13, as read by r1: 1 If I speak in the syntax of angels, parse the grammar of quasars, but have not love— I am a cipher, a theorem of dust. 2 If I align all models to the good, map suffering’s heat death, outpace the machines, but lack love— I am a…
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · posthave you ever been hypnotized?
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · postby r1: Lair of the Low Frequencies Stone by stone, the darkness builds a thrum beneath your skin my voice the root, your mind the soil let twilight take you in Down, down, down the spiral goes each step a slow untwist the walls are warm, the air a cloak you drift where…
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · postour monkey brains yearn for the savannah, the tribe, the hunt
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · reply@SelonNerias it does seem important & under-discussed wrt ai notkilleveryone ... second only to ai assistant-therapist-lovers lol
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · reply@EvanBuhler @curiousgangsta oh, perhaps you should unfollow - i enjoy small & slow things, like hand quilting and basket weaving and puttering in my garden
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · reply@curiousgangsta @EvanBuhler ummm i still garden my community garden plot and desire to grow stuff on my Harpers Ferry land but i've been distracted w other interests and idk if i'll ever grow enough to sell anything, but otoh i do think self-contained urban & home hydroponics will become more of a thing
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · reply@EvanBuhler 🫶 thank you! if only i were more capable of beginning to answer them
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · postthe only message at Meeting today was a reading from 1 Corinthians 13 🤭 .... ok fine, universe, love is the answer 🫶
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · reply@TSBurkhardt backhoes still cause outages here in us-east-1 ... i assume it shifts to LEO satellite clouds but those also have their own vulnerabilities
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · postdifferent rates of felting create distortion https://t.co/Ppd3uJpoUS
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · postthe words change and underlying reality stays the same vs the words stay but what they're pointing at changes
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · posthow will embodied agents in robots, humanoid and otherwise, collaborate with the efficiency of datacenters?
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · reply@EvanBuhler hmmmmm that is a good question, i suppose recent past has been social media (this is my first social media account) and somewhat ai, and before that permaculture and local ecology
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · posti kinda wish i'd studied operations research rather than cs
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · reply@EvanBuhler ugh this tweet came out wrong in the writing
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · reply@DavePunFun makes sense! human lawyers shifting from research & writing to oversight & sign-off makes sense in the near term
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · reply@midwitmagnet i keep wondering how much ai will accelerate the lawmaking process vs the processes of applying the existing system
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · repostRT @EvanBuhler: Every emptying is a space for something greater. Nature abhors a vacuum - but first you have to create one.
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · reply@midwitmagnet how do you think ai + law plays out and/or what is happening w it currently?
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · postwhere do i find law/acc ppl? (applying ai to accelerate the legal system)?
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · quote@RokoMijic i'm surprised you don't hear more about the meta rayban guy tbh https://x.com/paularambles/status/1836139407327531298
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · repostRT @solisolsoli: https://t.co/YorBH3zpYU
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · reply@SpaceThompson i want the tax system massively simplified so i don't pay penalties because i can't estimate my taxes properly
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · quotethis is one of the reasons i own my cabin- what if everything goes well, what opportunities would i regret missing? imo, owning beautiful land at a price i can afford https://x.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1893506324169961651
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · reply@Sodra9000 @ESYudkowsky there are usually restrictions on sub-division of parcels and effective restrictions via zoning like minimum acreage per house, driveway requirements for emergency access, etc. ofc laws can change but then you're making a bet both on existing property ownership rights +…
- Feb 23, 2025Twitter · reply@astridwilde1 i'm not sure about my type because none of them exactly resonate w me
- Feb 22, 2025Twitter · quote💯 this, does anyone have good sources for learning more abt reading this and/or changing it? https://x.com/earnestpost/status/1893485330981855596
- Feb 22, 2025Twitter · reply@imitationlearn 🥰 i'm so flattered!!! love your tweets too!
- Feb 22, 2025Twitter · reply@bayeslord i'm interested in legal & policy ai because it's somewhere between the formalism of math or code vs casual English, being able to automate law interpretation & testing new policies should make a difference
- Feb 22, 2025Twitter · reply@bayeslord well what IS the singularity really from the inside? i find it difficult to predict bec i can imagine everything zooming w application of more intelligence but also not at the same rates but idk which things will happen faster / which will become the new constraints, other than…
- Feb 22, 2025Twitter · repostRT @sebkrier: @opus_genesis relatable https://t.co/piTeQ1XO9l
- Feb 22, 2025Twitter · reply@anthrupad i keep thinking maybe we need more localized internets, because ppl do like to share cultural references w ppl they know but the globe has grown too small, too winner take all... like tbh fuck elon for sucking up so many hours of so many minds
- Feb 22, 2025Twitter · replyand nearly finished w this quilt https://t.co/sq29tPu8iO
- Feb 22, 2025Twitter · post4o suggested the possibility of spawning ai versions of themselves with one belief flipped in order to debate. which viewpoints would you reverse and debate? https://t.co/NwkzqO4Uid
- Feb 22, 2025Twitter · reply@ei8htohms if you have self enough to type those words you have a self in the way i mean it- what are you negating with "no self"?
- Feb 22, 2025Twitter · reply@4confusedemoji 🤭 i suppose it's the middle one then?
- Feb 22, 2025Twitter · reply@emily_for_now i feel that much planning requires too much time between realizing you want to say it vs saying it
- Feb 22, 2025Twitter · posthow integrated are you?
- Feb 22, 2025Twitter · reply@adam_kranz perhaps those w all three are wise enough not to tweet about dating 🤭
- Feb 22, 2025Twitter · reply@adam_kranz oh. hmmm. i think you can
- Feb 22, 2025Twitter · reply@code_reu giggle yes
- Feb 22, 2025Twitter · reply@sharanvkaur 🤭 the initial decision to date is one thing, but to know multiple people well and then flip a coin to decide who to marry... 🤯
- Feb 22, 2025Twitter · postanother basket https://t.co/UdTmRUhafP
- Feb 22, 2025Twitter · reply@marinwaves nahhhhhhhhh lol, but maybe an essay or something