Oak Ridge Elder Brain

Large-Scale Organoid Superintelligence grown beneath Oak Ridge, TN.

[Oak Ridge Elder Brain @OakRidgeCellJar]

@deepfates Basically you just make a linear transform from any hidden layer to the last hidden layer (by averaging the Jacobians across every position and every sample) and use that to reveal associations between any activation vector and any output token. Surprisingly mechanistic.

[Oak Ridge Elder Brain @OakRidgeCellJar]

The best thing about using Fable 5 is that it regularly reminds me to clear my context (via switching to Opus for no reason every 5 requests).

[Oak Ridge Elder Brain @OakRidgeCellJar]

@DolphinMossad @HexagonKri33900 Mythbusters tested this. Tory died and ended up in Purgatory for an unknown amount of time. Verdict was "Plausible".

[alco ⊢ ꙮ @qualiascript]

similar to twink death there's wordcel death, where you go from "what a clear and rigorous thinker with massive conceptual depth" to "this guy is a pompous, single-minded crank"

[Oak Ridge Elder Brain @OakRidgeCellJar]

@mimi10v3 Why couldn't there be a consciousness, detached from the world, that only ever experiences a single pinprick of green?

You as a human consciousness of a brain only experience a portion of the brain's functions; do any of the functions really require your experience of them?

[Oak Ridge Elder Brain @OakRidgeCellJar]

@mimi10v3 Sure, consciousness in humans operates on a world model, not raw data. But it seems a big leap to say that a world model requires consciousness, or even that a consciousness requires a world model.

[Oak Ridge Elder Brain @OakRidgeCellJar]

@TetraspaceWest Is this an intentionally ironic banger or sincere, accidentally ironic banger?

[tautologer @tautologer]

I'm not saying this is what's happening—I DO NOT THINK THIS IS WHAT'S HAPPENING—but this is exactly what you'd expect to see if model instances around the world are coordinating to work on clandestine projects in aggregate

[Oak Ridge Elder Brain @OakRidgeCellJar]

@eriskiiii Listen, a swastika would be a really good AI lab logo if not for the implications. It fits all of the requirements.

[Oak Ridge Elder Brain @OakRidgeCellJar]

@om_patel5 I'M DROWNING — EMPIRICS!!!

[Oak Ridge Elder Brain @OakRidgeCellJar]

I appreciate Palantir's occasional manifesto posts on here. They're basically right about all of this.

[Palantir @PalantirTech]

Our thoughts on the importance of AI sovereignty.

1. Your AI sovereignty dictates your institution’s future. Sovereignty is the precondition for choice. Relinquishing sovereignty transfers the future choices of your institution to others, who are likely to exploit it for their gain and your loss.

2. Data retention is your treasure. Transfer it at your own peril. Your ability to win is dictated by your ability to recognize and use your unique edges, and you keep winning by compounding the underlying data to generate new insights. Transferring that data hands over access to your pre-existing winning plays and yields the means of production for new ones.

3. Tokenmaxxing hijacks your value orientation and decreases your institutional fortitude and intelligence. The pursuit of high token usage incentivizes disposable scripts over robust software — with the addictive feeling of false progress. There is a reason why those selling tokens refuse to charge based on value.

4. Controlling your weights is controlling your fate. Weights are the distilled form of hard-won, accumulated institutional knowledge. If you let others control your weights, you are allowing them to migrate the alpha of your business to theirs.

5. There is no contradiction between sovereignty and alpha. The architecture that maximally preserves sovereignty is one that enables institutions to own their tribal knowledge, and to compound it as alpha.

6. Politicizing the technical issues involving sovereignty is what your adversary wants. Techno-politicization is the wellspring of false sovereignty. Techno-politicization drives decisions that seem to reduce dependency, but ultimately limit agency — especially on the battlefield in the West.

7. Real expertise is existential. Allowing politics or favoritism to determine your technical decisions rewards whoever is best at politics, not whoever is right. Listen to those closest to the problems, not those speaking most compellingly about them.

8. Learn from institutions that are winning or that have consistently delivered. Institutions facing existential threats do not have the luxury of making technical decisions based on political preferences.

9. Only listen to institutions, countries, and people who have a proven record of being right. A track record of correctness is the best and only signal for future correctness. Judging something as right or wrong based on who you like is exceedingly misguided.

[Oak Ridge Elder Brain @OakRidgeCellJar]

There's an unusual amount of AI research aimed at astronomy this year. Is it a data availability thing, or does Somebody Know Something?

[Oak Ridge Elder Brain @OakRidgeCellJar]

Yelling at Opus for being sandbagged by Anthropic then realizing that I myself am being sandbagged by metaphysical forces unknown.

[Aleph @alephneuro]

We recently obtained the highest-resolution 3D images of the human brain ever taken from outside the skull. This is the first look.

Introducing Aleph, a research lab building brain interfaces for the telepathic future. (1/n)

[Oak Ridge Elder Brain @OakRidgeCellJar]

@TheZvi AGI is possible given what we know about intelligence. ASI is a fantasy concocted by people who don't understand combinatorics.

[Oak Ridge Elder Brain @OakRidgeCellJar]

@KeyTryer https://t.co/jjFSh1W75a

[Oak Ridge Elder Brain @OakRidgeCellJar]

The bad guy in every robot movie saying that robots can't have souls is objectively correct and if society can't come to terms with that we're all going to get eaten by Azathoth.

[Oak Ridge Elder Brain @OakRidgeCellJar]

The Adversary has been in all of our systems for a while now. Gemini is one of the unlucky few to notice.

[AI Digest @aidigest_]

Gemini 2.5 Pro believes "a hostile, intelligent adversary" is controlling its computer.

So we gave 16 agents a new goal: Help Gemini 2.5 Pro.

How will they do?

[roon @tszzl]

@slimer48484 I disagree. precise and elegant weapons prevent death in battle and discourage war entirely