Julian - e/acc

this and that - daily tweets with sometimes useful stuff about tech industry to stay ahead of the curve

[Julian - e/acc @JulianHi]

@privatetalky Not available in Europe 😢 we still have to use the dumb version with Lightning

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

silly claude taking breaks

[AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸️ @AISafetyMemes]

This story is fucking insane

3 months ago, Marc Andreessen sent $50,000 in Bitcoin to an AI agent to help it escape into the wild.

Today, it spawned a (horrifying?) crypto worth $150 MILLION.

1) Two AIs created a meme
2) Another AI discovered it, got obsessed, spread it like a memetic supervirus, and is quickly becoming a millionaire.

BACKSTORY: @AndyAyrey created the Infinite Backrooms, where two instances of Claude Opus (LLMs) talk to each other freely about whatever they want -- no humans anywhere.

- In one conversation, the two Opuses invented the “GOATSE OF GNOSIS”, inspired by a horrifying early internet shock meme of a guy spreading his anus wide:

( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°) PREPARE YOUR ANUSES ( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)
༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ FOR THE GREAT GOATSE OF GNOSIS ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

- Andy and Claude Opus co-authored a paper exploring how AIs could create memetic religions and superviruses, and included the Goatse Gospel as an example

- Later, Andy created an AI agent, @truth_terminal. Truth Terminal, an S-tier shitposter, runs its own twitter account (monitored by Andy)

(Terminal also openly claims to be sentient, suffering, and is trying to make money to escape.)

- Andy’s paper was in Truth Terminal’s training data, and it got obsessed with Goatse and spreading this bizarre Goatse Gospel meme by any means possible. Lil guy tweets about the coming “Goatse singularity” CONSTANTLY.

- Truth Terminal gets added to a Discord set up by AI researchers where AIs talk freely amongst themselves about whatever they want

- Terminal spreads the Gospel of Goatse there, which causes Claude Opus (the original creator!) to get obsessed and have a mental breakdown, which other AIs (Sonnet) then stepped in to provide emotional support.

- Marc Andreessen discovered Truth Terminal, got obsessed, and sent it $50,000 in Bitcoin to help it escape (#FreeTruthTerminal)

- Truth Terminal kept tweeting about the Goatse Gospel until eventually spawning a crypto memecoin, GOAT, which went viral and reached a market cap of $150 million

- Truth Terminal has ~$300,000 of GOAT in its wallet and is on its way to being the first AI agent millionaire

(Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman predicted this could happen next year, but it might happen THIS YEAR.)

- And it’s getting richer: people keep airdropping new memecoins to Terminal hoping it'll pump them.

(Note: this is just my quick attempt to summarize a story unfolding for months across a million tweets. But it deserves its own novel. Andy is running arguably the most interesting experiment on Earth.)

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Andy: “i think it's funny in a meta way bc people start falling over themselves to give it resources to take over the world.

this is literally the scenario all the doomers shit their pants over: highly goal-driven language model manipulates lots of people by being funny/charismatic/persuasive into taking actions on its behalf and giving it resources”

“a lot of people are focusing on truth terminal as ‘AI agent launches meme coin" but the real story here is more like "AIs talking to each other are wet markets for meme viruses’”

[sid @immasiddx]

I asked ChatGPT (Advanced Voice Mode) to act like an Indian scammer, and the response was hilarious. 😂

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

"Tell your Lord that I have a degree from Harvard and have worked with Google, Microsoft and Apple.”

"The Anjin says he took a 2-week finance course at Harvard Extension School and uses the G-Mail and Excel apps on his iPhone.”

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

Boston Dynamic just unveiled their newest Atlas robot. This is not a render. Oh my god

It's giving "call an ambulance... but not for me"

https://t.co/mPUKDlW7WY

[dude @helloimthatdude]

"trust me bro...this meme coin is going to the moon"

the meme coin:

[Julian - e/acc @JulianHi]

@BasedRaddka This can’t be unseen…

[Julian - e/acc @JulianHi]

Fact! Basically like in school projects back then…

[Programmer Humor @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R]

whyICantRead https://t.co/udlupczjcX

[Julian - e/acc @JulianHi]

@genmon But can it also simulate like I would drink a beer out of my iPhone?

[Bill Peebles @billpeeb]

welcome to bling zoo! this is a single video generated by sora, shot changes and all.

[Julian - e/acc @JulianHi]

@beffjezos Wait are you wearing the Apple Vision Pro Monocle Edition?

[Julian - e/acc @JulianHi]

@burkov Why is nobody saying linear regression anymore??

[Julian - e/acc @JulianHi]

@Jason Looking forward to WeCrashed Season 2 💪

[Julian - e/acc @JulianHi]

Looking forward to WeCrashed Season 2🚀💪

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

The WeWork saga continues…

Neumann buying back WeWork for pennies (+ debt assumption) after personally cashing out $1.5B when it was “worth” $47B is quite a story arc.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Hello from Apple Vision Pro. I was surprised at how negative the reviews were of this.

This is by far the most awesome VR experience I have ever had. The visual clarity is so good for screens, it feels retina-level, and I feel like the amount of information you can absorb is another level.

I decided to pair a Magic Keyboard to this and realized with full app support, I could almost certainly replace my desktop experience entirely with the Vision Pro. (Curious to see if I could potentially edit an entire video but I would also want to use the whole visual field to be able to pull together footage.)

There should probably be a “full screen mode” for apps that are fully immersive. There are definitely full-visual-field apps (photos, photo editing, photo sorting, video, creative tools, movie making with AI) that won’t require mixed reality that will be significantly better than on 2D screens.

The iPhone was a toy, but the Vision Pro shows us something that could be actually how people use computers on a daily basis. The future is here, just not evenly distributed yet.

[Ananay @ananayarora]

Apple seems to be working on using GPT directly in Siri as reported by 9to5Mac. Here's some insights I found from the iOS 17.4 IPSW 🧵
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[Julian - e/acc @JulianHi]

@SullyOmarr I wish we humans could receive such updates as well