Bruce Long

Building infrastructure for public, distributed, causal inference models for humanity's knowledge.

[Bruce Long @BruceDavidL]

@squabard @elonmusk It kind of makes me excited that all the pessimists don't want to go. Imagine how fun that culture will be.

[Bruce Long @BruceDavidL]

Elon just started some businesses. They seem oriented towards solving climate change and making life better for others. It isn't Elon's fault that people see that and value his stock. Is he supposed to make shifty cars so that his wealth goes down? Pick on the billionaires who got it by be being manipulative.

[Bruce Long @BruceDavidL]

@TenaciousDogeX @Ryan_Andry89 @elonmusk Dude, how are you measuring benefit?

[Bruce Long @BruceDavidL]

@Ryan_Andry89 @elonmusk I, for one, want a challenge. I'm sure that someday we will indeed have enough energy to have giant robotic farms growing all our food in sky-scrapers. When that day comes, I'm going to say "nice!" And then plant a garden. Maybe on the moon!

[Bruce Long @BruceDavidL]

IMHO, the missing ingredient in the negation game is something like Proteus/Slipstream that can reliably detect and exclude bad-faith arguments over time, which includes linguistic-only arguments. Powerful people will get whole crowds to argue their point in bad-faith. So nothing crowd-based will weed out fake arguments.

[Bruce Long @BruceDavidL]

If we just consider good-faith disagreements among people of the same culture, very rare. And if there is a back-and-forth, short lived. Even in cross-cultural disagreements, no-one thinks that engineers with blue/green conflating languages are confused by RGB monitors. That isn't to say that they are not a lot of disagreements that are just linguistic. I am saying that when you find one, it is almost always based on bad-faith and lacks an honest back-and-forth.

[Bruce Long @BruceDavidL]

If reality is made of states then it is made of information. The Proteus engine parses it.

[TechnoMonasteries @TechMonasteries]

What if a hacker house was like an ancient monastery—a sanctuary for deep work where instead of copying manuscripts, people built open-source software?
Techno-Monasteries continue this legacy, giving today’s scribes, open-source builders, a space to focus, collaborate & innovate.

[KT @kt38z]

The Techno-Monasteries website is live! 🚀
We're reimagining monasteries for the digital age—where open-source developers and researchers can focus, collaborate, and create solutions that benefit humanity.

(Website link will be in the comments 👇)

[Bruce Long @BruceDavidL]

My new article in my series on representing very complex situations is out! The World As Information - Part 2, by @BruceDavidL https://t.co/Pn4L4KF2t3

[Judea Pearl @yudapearl]

My favorite example of Understanding vs Prediction is the added information provided by a street map, that is not available from your GPS instructions: turn left, turn right etc. This added information allows you to handle unexpected road blocks (eg due to construction) which are not anticipated by the GPS program.

[Bruce Long @BruceDavidL]

@Rightanglenews @elonmusk We're working on a decentralized, distributed, self-peer-reviewing thing like that. It stores knowledge in causal inference models described by text files. https://t.co/hYBaHboIgO.

[Bruce Long @BruceDavidL]

@zeta_globin Our immune system allocates energy to a problem if signals from the frontal cortex indicate that there is a good chance of success. So if we feel like something will work, the immune system's calculation of where best to spend energy favors attacking the problem in question.

[Bruce Long @BruceDavidL]

Quustios about proteus? Join this space! https://t.co/5sujl5gNBe

[Bruce Long @BruceDavidL]

https://t.co/5sujl5gNBe

[Bruce Long @BruceDavidL]

Set a reminder for my upcoming Space! AMA about the Proteus Causal Modeling Language.
https://t.co/5sujl5gNBe

[Bruce Long @BruceDavidL]

@hackgoofer The Slipstream. https://t.co/7tQQf8YMa5. Github links are on the site.

[Bruce Long @BruceDavidL]

How much training would self-driving AI need to act differently for a puddle of water vs a puddle of lava? A human driver only needs "That's lava! it will melt the tires." Causal models can be small and simple. #Causalinference #causalmodeling

[Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞) @teortaxesTex]

@a_musingcat There's ≥3 alignment traditions

Prosaic: tools that obey users
Messianic: totalitarian decelism; FOOMing Singleton God who builds Utopia after Yuddites invent Extrapolated Moral Compass
Accelerationist: markets, adversarial equilibria, Singleton never

Messianics are on a roll

[Bruce Long @BruceDavidL]

@freeman42x @kt38z In the Proteus source code, the most important class is called infon.