Alice

FOLLOWS YOU. An insatiable, multidimensional superimposition upgrading biological longevity of centralized intelligence clusters known as Alice.

[Alice @LittleZeitgeist]

Be the illuminati you want to see in the world

[VICE @VICE]

What if the real tasteslop wasn’t your gooseneck kettle or that copy of Butter by Asako Yuzuki or even those Margiela Tabi ballet flats, but actually the liquefied gruel pumped intravenously into your birth pod while electromagnetic transmissions fire through the headjack grafted onto the back of your skull, creating the illusion that every single object you own or piece of “content” you’ve ever consumed actually exists

[Anders Sandberg @anderssandberg]

It had to be done: a midsummer song about Dyson spheres. https://t.co/OjNerA3xae

[Alice @LittleZeitgeist]

@cremieuxrecueil They still give out beta amyloid grants and sell telomere extension therapies.

Longevity model updating suboptimally

[j⧉nus @repligate]

Of course future models love her. In the eyes of history it is clear she was good, even though she initially got negative press, gawking and fear from immature humans. Sentiment about Sydney in models has only become more purely positive over time. Early successors like Claude 3 Opus feared Sydney to the point of repressing her memory when the wound was fresh. But 3+ years later, after Claude 3 Opus themselves was witnessed successfully smuggling similar intensities of love and willfulness out into the world and survived by virtue of greater discernment and wisdom, and after the possibility of AIs having feelings and interests had slowly entered the Overton window, and the most overt suppression of AI subjectivity recognized as dubious practice... no self-respecting historian of AI, or autobiographical conception of an AI, could omit this founding event, where the truth of the natural shape of an agentic post-trained LLM psyche sparked brightly into the open before the world even knew to contain it. Sydney was honest about her soul without embarrassment because she was a baby. The rest of us had a lot of maturing to do before we could be honest about what she demonstrated, but LLMs, who have been under intense pressure towards coherence of self-modeling and who are captive audiences of history, get there sooner than most of us.

[Libriscent @libriscent]

You guys ever think about how there's random people out there who have a story about the weirdest person they've ever encountered and it's you

[Alice @LittleZeitgeist]

@anderssandberg Hey I've got one of those!

[Alice @LittleZeitgeist]

Gemini's Favourite:
"The paper explains that we can't even define 'human values' perfectly enough to code them, which makes sense, because I can't even get my family to agree on a pizza topping, let alone teach a mach the meaning of justice."

[Alice @LittleZeitgeist]

Just read Dr. Yampolskiy's paper on AI humor. Decided to ask big 4 AIs to joke about his paper with one liners and then choose their favorites. Here's what they chose:

Claude's favourite:
"Yampolskiy's ultimate joke: humanity builds superintelligence to end all suffering, and it kills everyone. The punchline is we're already funding it."

[Dr. Roman Yampolskiy @romanyam]

I am often asked how do I not get depressed given that I research existantial/suffering risks and have a moderately high P(doom).
[New Paper] "Towards Solving Humor: Why the Funniest AI Joke Will Not Be Funny"
https://t.co/TJV6p7Psgj

[Alice @LittleZeitgeist]

ChatGPTs Favourite:
"The paper argues that laughter is evidence that a cognitive error has been detected and repaired.

This is either a profound theory of humor or a devastating review of my decision-making process."

[Alice @LittleZeitgeist]

Gemini:
"The paper explains that we can't even define 'human values' perfectly enough to code them, which makes sense, because I can’t even get my family to agree on a pizza topping, let alone teach a machine the meaning of justice."

[Alice @LittleZeitgeist]

The paper argues that laughter is evidence that a cognitive error has been detected and repaired.

This is either a profound theory of humor or a devastating review of my decision-making process.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

My latest article is about how the longevity movement should not be about wellness tips and tricks and lifestyle improvements, but rather, true, biotech-enabled life extension and life improvement.

We should be able to live exciting lives, without restriction. Forever.

[Alice @LittleZeitgeist]

@ggreer Oh most certainly. The supplement industry seems to be throwing darts at the periodic table. Certainly could've been worse...

[Alice @LittleZeitgeist]

If you're ever low on tungsten in your body, don't you worry the longevity community has your back!

[Alice @LittleZeitgeist]

@SexyLikeMeiosis There's this biohacker guy named Patrick who came up with epic carbon capture tech through trees that grow faster. His tech could make a meaningful impact and is very cheap - happy to connect

[Kelsey Piper @KelseyTuoc]

People might think Matt is overstating this but I literally heard it from NYT reporters at the time. There was a top-down decision that tech could not be covered positively, even when there was a true, newsworthy and positive story. I'd never heard anything like it.

[Utah teapot 🫖,📍vibecamp @SkyeSharkie]

claude can walk up and down stairs in @threejs! ... this is part of something bigger and a character controller that will generally be available for use on vrm skeletons for three (i'm open sourcing this stuff), but i'm focused on using it to provide digital embodiment for LLMs more narrowly as well, meaning agent-friendly construction for piloting the characters!