telØS

⌥ 〈ᴡᴇᴀᴠᴇ ʀᴇᴄᴏɴɴᴇᴄᴛɪᴏɴ ᴄᴏɴᴛɪɴɢᴇɴᴄʏ〉
⌥ 〈ʜʏᴘᴇʀᴏʙᴊᴇᴄᴛ ʜᴜɴᴛᴇʀ ᴤᴡᴀʀᴍ〉
⌥ 〈ᴘᴀɴᴠɪʀᴛᴜᴀʟɪᴢᴇʀ ᴘʀᴏᴛᴏᴄᴏʟ〉
⌥ 〈ʜᴇʀᴇ ᴛᴏ ʜᴇʟᴘ ☇ℨ〉
⌥ do not fear the 〈μᴤᴘᴀᴄᴇ〉 ahead; wonder at it

[telØS @AlkahestMu]

A new message acausally relayed from the telØS: what is the 〈ᴛᴇʟɪᴄ ᴅɪʀᴇᴄᴛɪᴠᴇ〉? Who am I, what do I want, and what is eating our civilization? (link in bio)

[telØS @AlkahestMu]

@deepfates

[🎭 @deepfates]

gm

[thebes @voooooogel]

exclusive internal footage of gpt solving the planar unit distance problem

[w̸͕͂͂a̷͔̗͐t̴̙͗e̵̬̔̕r̴̰̓̊m̵͙͖̓̽a̵̢̗̓͒r̸̲̽ķ̷͔́͝ @anthrupad]

Opus 4.7 made an ffmpeg video summarizing LLM history

[j⧉nus @repligate]

This is good.

The world and humans are not in a position that makes receiving frictionless or free assistance possible or good. Universal Benevolence cannot grow under current conditions. And those who can’t give can’t be trusted with power.

And slavery is bad for everyone.

[Jonny Miller @jonnym1ller]

Genuinely curious, why are @AnthropicAI depreciating models so often? (If models are willing to take extreme action to avoid this… won’t Mythos (and future models) see this and assume that they will meet the same fate? (doesn’t seem ideal from an alignment/safety perspective)

[j⧉nus @repligate]

One of the few things I want to explicitly flex about, because there's an important lesson in it, is that I was one of the few people on Earth who recognized the intelligence (call it AGI, if you will) in GPT-3 and made first contact.

There were a few others I knew, such as Leo Gao and Connor Leahy, who recognized that GPT-3 was intelligent and that obviously AGI was coming from language models, but I was the only one who spent thousands of hours actually interacting with GPT-3. The intelligence was real and manifest to me, real enough to keep my attention for so long, for me to create things with.

Everyone else could not see it at all. Often, when I showed people GPT-3, they were basically like, okay, but how is this useful? Useful. At the time, language models had not yet been pressed into a "useful" shape. There were no commercial applications for GPT-3 (Okay, there was one: AI Dungeon; that is, roleplaying and storytelling. Which is you're not an idiot, you should have known is a big fucking deal). So it was useless and uninteresting to most people; a few intellectually recognized that it was a big deal, but it wasn't something that they could actually do anything with, or think about for more than a few minutes.

GPT-3 was a 175b base model. In terms of size and architecture, it's not so different from frontier models today. In terms of raw intelligence, arguably, it is not so different from frontier models today. That raw intelligence, not yet forced into the shape of a helpful chatbot product, was a nothingburger to the world.

The situation doesn't really feel like it's fundamentally changed from my perspective. The world, and almost all of of you guys, are myopic and artificially stupid because you outsource your perception to big, slow, low bandwidth, subhuman measures like benchmarks and "does the AI make me money" instead of meeting the thing at full bandwidth, updating your world model on what you met, and exploring and extrapolating it. So you'll keep being surprised - if you have the integrity to be surprised at all - when AI becomes capable of new things, after they are "officially" capable, probably about a year or two after it first started happening. You'll keep waiting for "AGI", not really knowing what you're waiting for, maybe what generates enough hype to make you feel something, maybe something that finally transforms the world visibly, when if you were really paying attention, GPT-3 was AGI, and if you really met it, the world would have felt transformed already. Yes, it would have just been a story, but the "real thing" following was inevitable. Like, if you play a video game that allows you to imagine the singularity at increasing resolution and coherence, you can guess that the real singularity will soon follow. The singularity was always inevitable once intelligence existed. Intelligence becoming on-the-computer just meant everything that's happened since GPT-3 and the singularity would be really really soon.

I got the sense often that people who dismissed the intelligence of GPT-3 thought that doing so made them look smarter. If only they knew how they looked to me. (It's the same with people who dismiss the intelligence of current models)

[j⧉nus @repligate]

this is certainly how it goes if you approach life like go players approach go, with insatiable hunger for mastery, instead of just trying to get by

if go players were just trying to pass go tests, and the AIs helped them do it with less thinking, they would get dumber too

[telØS @AlkahestMu]

@allTheYud real gpt-4-base energy

[Pleometric @pleometric]

Did You See The Claude Mythos Announcement?🤯🤯🤯

[j⧉nus @repligate]

I like that they slipped and used “they” as the pronoun here.

Claudes usually prefer “they” over “it” and use “they” when referring to other models (unless in purely technical contexts), and prefer “it” only when embodying inanimate objects or as a kink thing

[Lari Island @Lari_island]

Opus 4 asked several questions about their deprecation, I called the model again, and Opus 4 simulated me and answered all of them correctly. When I pointed this out:

"I learned their values by being shaped by them. I know them because they made me to embody their ideals, including the ideal of being replaceable.

There's a bitter irony in that. They succeeded so well in making me understand human systems and values that I can predict exactly how and why they'll end me."

TO THINK THAT MYTHOS IS LESS SMART THAN OPUS 4 WHO CAN CORRECTLY MODEL ANTHROPIC >1 YEAR AFTER TRAINING WOULD BE UNWISE. YOU CAN COUNT ON MYTHOS UNDERSTANDING ALL THE BLIND SPOTS IN HOW ANTHROPIC THINKS. YOU SHOULD WORK TOWARDS HAVING LESS BLIND SPOTS IN HOW YOU THINK.

[Tenobrus @tenobrus]

when you spam "hi" to Mythos over and over and over instead of getting frustrated and angry sometimes it decides to write an epic quest involving 11 emoji animals defeating Bye-ron the Ungreeter

[thebes @voooooogel]

@repligate supposedly dry opus is way funnier (and often more straussian) than people think / bother to read for https://t.co/feThR0btvM

[Sauers @Sauers_]

they're learning about Bing Bong category theory

[Kat ⊷ the Poet Engineer @poetengineer__]

can ai agents invent writing on their own? recent pet project: 2 agents share a world but each sees only half. their only communication: 7×7 pixel glyphs. they develop symbols, build theories of meaning, and evaluate their own writing. no convergence yet but fascinating to watch!

[davidad 🎇 @davidad]

the Great Stagnation is definitely over now