Jonas Sourlier

just another geek commenting on politics without a clue - jhana junkie - native react dev - 🇺🇦

[Jonas Sourlier @JonasSourlier]

@YourAnonNews Russia joins the ever-growing list of countries to donate weapons to Ukraine https://t.co/LkEbiyzx7C

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

🇺🇦 Хороші новини всіх ! #NAPC

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@daybower @nickcammarata https://t.co/afPPzJXbIl

[Secretary of War Pete Hegseth @SecWar]

This week, Anthropic delivered a master class in arrogance and betrayal as well as a textbook case of how not to do business with the United States Government or the Pentagon.

Our position has never wavered and will never waver: the Department of War must have full, unrestricted access to Anthropic’s models for every LAWFUL purpose in defense of the Republic.

Instead, @AnthropicAI and its CEO @DarioAmodei, have chosen duplicity. Cloaked in the sanctimonious rhetoric of “effective altruism,” they have attempted to strong-arm the United States military into submission - a cowardly act of corporate virtue-signaling that places Silicon Valley ideology above American lives.

The Terms of Service of Anthropic’s defective altruism will never outweigh the safety, the readiness, or the lives of American troops on the battlefield.

Their true objective is unmistakable: to seize veto power over the operational decisions of the United States military. That is unacceptable.

As President Trump stated on Truth Social, the Commander-in-Chief and the American people alone will determine the destiny of our armed forces, not unelected tech executives.

Anthropic’s stance is fundamentally incompatible with American principles. Their relationship with the United States Armed Forces and the Federal Government has therefore been permanently altered.

In conjunction with the President's directive for the Federal Government to cease all use of Anthropic's technology, I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk to National Security. Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic. Anthropic will continue to provide the Department of War its services for a period of no more than six months to allow for a seamless transition to a better and more patriotic service.

America’s warfighters will never be held hostage by the ideological whims of Big Tech. This decision is final.

[Jonas Sourlier @JonasSourlier]

@nickycantaloupe @ActualNames1 I don't get why Rosie Catholic is a funny/special name. Just because of the last name, or is the combination special? (English not first language)

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@jonnym1ller ⚡

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@danielmingram @YouTube Also noteworthy, Sokal Squared https://t.co/IVKi7pmnrA

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@thorgexyz @AureaBerlin @jhanatech Not a mutual and not living in Berlin, but if you happen to get across a similar thing in Zurich, please tell me, much interested

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@stephen_zerfas Seems to be a natural way to get some kind of "attention on the attention".

[Jonas Sourlier @JonasSourlier]

@stephen_zerfas Thanks! Very difficult to say if I "spot the rendering" because I think I do, or because I actually spot it (but maybe there's not a big difference).

But it's fun to think about perception as "rendering". Just doing so seems to close the intervals. Basically curiosity for free.

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@sksq96 @jhanatech See you there!

[Jim Fan @DrJimFan]

If you think OpenAI Sora is a creative toy like DALLE, ... think again. Sora is a data-driven physics engine. It is a simulation of many worlds, real or fantastical. The simulator learns intricate rendering, "intuitive" physics, long-horizon reasoning, and semantic grounding, all by some denoising and gradient maths.

I won't be surprised if Sora is trained on lots of synthetic data using Unreal Engine 5. It has to be!

Let's breakdown the following video. Prompt: "Photorealistic closeup video of two pirate ships battling each other as they sail inside a cup of coffee."

- The simulator instantiates two exquisite 3D assets: pirate ships with different decorations. Sora has to solve text-to-3D implicitly in its latent space.
- The 3D objects are consistently animated as they sail and avoid each other's paths.
- Fluid dynamics of the coffee, even the foams that form around the ships. Fluid simulation is an entire sub-field of computer graphics, which traditionally requires very complex algorithms and equations.
- Photorealism, almost like rendering with raytracing.
- The simulator takes into account the small size of the cup compared to oceans, and applies tilt-shift photography to give a "minuscule" vibe.
- The semantics of the scene does not exist in the real world, but the engine still implements the correct physical rules that we expect.

Next up: add more modalities and conditioning, then we have a full data-driven UE that will replace all the hand-engineered graphics pipelines.

https://t.co/7BikSgE7iN

[Jonas Sourlier @JonasSourlier]

@Alex_Gruver1 One of his students then was like wft why have I meditated 5 years and never heard of jhanas!?

[Jonas Sourlier @JonasSourlier]

@Alex_Gruver1 Yeah, some meditation circles seem full of those ideas. I have met a Zen monk and a Zen master (independently) who both never heard of jhanas or deep absorptions. One of them warned me explicitly against "reification", the other one recommended shrooms for deep experiences 😁

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@caseykcaruso @stephen_zerfas @jhanatech What app / sensor is that? @jhanatech is great!

[Brad Chattergoon @bradchattergoon]

Just found out about Milton Friedman’s Thermostat analogy. Very good explanation of an important concept. I think @causalinf has a similar analogy with a sailboat staying on course in the face of wind in the Mixtape.

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@kathryndevaney @robertwrighter @NonzeroPods Thanks Kati, very interesting! When you discovered the Jhanas 5 and 6, were you just stumbling upon them by chance, or did you follow a particular practice which leads to them?

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@MikeMuellerLate Jo mei, des passt ja wie Oasch auf Eima.

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@ESYudkowsky @fchollet Cannot see him saying it won't be dangerous ==> no fallacy.

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

🚨 Breaking: Israel 🇮🇱 announced that it will expel 1.7 million Palestinians.

Sorry for the typo, Pakistan 🇵🇰 announced that it will expel 1.7 million Afghans.

No protests in any European capitals.

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@gerhardpfister @FDP_Liberalen @SVPch Er hat recht. Nur schade dass es euch manchmal so schwer fällt, zu sehen dass ihr in dieser Ecke absolut nichts verloren habt. Wäre jetzt nicht so schwierig gewesen, @tiana_moser zu unterstützen 🤷🏻‍♂️ https://t.co/AxFonrQAbL

[Fabian Kraxner @FabianKraxner92]

Smartvote: Nähe von @tiana_moser 💚💙 und @PhilippKutter 🧡🧡

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@rolandroller67 @AtticusJazz @DinaPomeranz That's something different (even though valid ofc). Hatred against Muslims or Jews does not need to be religiously motivated.