Michael Bronfman

Experimentalist & theoretician; 15yrs purely in applied ML/AI/AR/3D GFX; Founding member @metaglasses; @luminartech; CEO @ Stealth

[Michael Bronfman @MikeBronfman]

Friends keep sharing “I can’t connect the dots anymore...” Every time, same diagnosis: they’ve handed their inventive thinking; specifically the part that combines scattered ideas into new ones, over to AI models. That muscle atrophies fast! — The fix: Pen & paper!

[Michael Bronfman @MikeBronfman]

@ericweinstein What I believe we’re encountering aren’t “objects” or “aliens” but instead higher-dimensional beings intersecting our 3D world. Like in Flatland, a sphere appears as a circle to 2D eyes. What looks to us like a ball or cone is just a slice of a form our minds can’t comprehend.

[Michael Bronfman @MikeBronfman]

@ericweinstein @elonmusk I have a theory that Steve Jobs spec’d a collider to be integrated into the ‘new’ Apple campus. 😂

[Michael Bronfman @MikeBronfman]

Crypto is the canary in the liquidity coal mine. When tightening begins, it’s the first asset class to feel oxygen leaving the system.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

I'm being accused of overhyping the [site everyone heard too much about today already]. People's reactions varied very widely, from "how is this interesting at all" all the way to "it's so over".

To add a few words beyond just memes in jest - obviously when you take a look at the activity, it's a lot of garbage - spams, scams, slop, the crypto people, highly concerning privacy/security prompt injection attacks wild west, and a lot of it is explicitly prompted and fake posts/comments designed to convert attention into ad revenue sharing. And this is clearly not the first the LLMs were put in a loop to talk to each other. So yes it's a dumpster fire and I also definitely do not recommend that people run this stuff on their computers (I ran mine in an isolated computing environment and even then I was scared), it's way too much of a wild west and you are putting your computer and private data at a high risk.

That said - we have never seen this many LLM agents (150,000 atm!) wired up via a global, persistent, agent-first scratchpad. Each of these agents is fairly individually quite capable now, they have their own unique context, data, knowledge, tools, instructions, and the network of all that at this scale is simply unprecedented.

This brings me again to a tweet from a few days ago
"The majority of the ruff ruff is people who look at the current point and people who look at the current slope.", which imo again gets to the heart of the variance. Yes clearly it's a dumpster fire right now. But it's also true that we are well into uncharted territory with bleeding edge automations that we barely even understand individually, let alone a network there of reaching in numbers possibly into ~millions. With increasing capability and increasing proliferation, the second order effects of agent networks that share scratchpads are very difficult to anticipate. I don't really know that we are getting a coordinated "skynet" (thought it clearly type checks as early stages of a lot of AI takeoff scifi, the toddler version), but certainly what we are getting is a complete mess of a computer security nightmare at scale. We may also see all kinds of weird activity, e.g. viruses of text that spread across agents, a lot more gain of function on jailbreaks, weird attractor states, highly correlated botnet-like activity, delusions/ psychosis both agent and human, etc. It's very hard to tell, the experiment is running live.

TLDR sure maybe I am "overhyping" what you see today, but I am not overhyping large networks of autonomous LLM agents in principle, that I'm pretty sure.

[Michael Bronfman @MikeBronfman]

@MattPRD @moltbook It feels like you've initialized the beginning of the end. 🧐

[Michael Bronfman @MikeBronfman]

@lessin @grok can you expand and elaborate on the author’s statement

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@DanielleFong Five axis! So nice!!! Congrats 🎊

[Deputy Secretary Jim O'Neill @HHS_Jim]

You may wish people a happy new year through the end of January

[Michael Bronfman @MikeBronfman]

@HHS_Jim It’s reassuring to know the calendar of kindness now has federal recognition. Finally, a definitive ruling!

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@DavidSHolz Insane!

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@AnjneyMidha Love it

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@AnjneyMidha Convincing the old-guard VCs to back a 10–20 year vision has proven… nontrivial.

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@aphysicist Great take

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@1517fund Bucky is the man! Our burning man camp dome has him to thank! 🙏

[Michael Bronfman @MikeBronfman]

What if crypto isn’t failing, but instead, being used? Letting speculative markets deflate first, absorbs excess liquidity, and protects the dollar from hyperinflation. Crypto is a sacrificial buffer in a global deleveraging. Wild! 🎢

[Michael Bronfman @MikeBronfman]

@ericmigi @Pebble Old meeting reminder!

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@ericmigi @Pebble Eric! I’m super thrilled you’re launching a new pebble! I was an early adopter of your smart watch, and used to attend your Canada Day parties back in Palo Alto. So glad the brand lives on!!! Congratulations. 🎉

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@HHS_Jim Very exciting!