Ryan Butner

[Max Hodak @maxhodak_]

everyone is always like, you should change the world, you should have an impact, it'll be great, let's change the world

you would never believe the degree to which the world does not want to be changed

[Ryan Butner @RSButner]

Wait till you learn about how most human organizations operate.

[Ryan Butner @RSButner]

"Stranded problems" here being niche use cases or challenges that have historically just been too expensive to solve via conventional workstreams for one reason or another (often these are things that dont "scale").

But the economics of stranded problems is changing.

[Ryan Butner @RSButner]

There's a similar argument from UI/UX and SWEs when looking at someone's vibe-coded software project, too. "Ah, but its not scalable/deployable/maintainable".

This is going to be happening for every domain now.

[Patrick Heizer @PatrickHeizer]

Sorry to be the downer because this is an impressive story in some senses.

But it is ~trivially easy to make a single mRNA vaccine. It's not hard.

I cure mice of various cancers with various therapeutics all the time. I've made mice lose more weight in a month than tirzepatide does in a year.

What is hard and expensive is proving its BOTH safe AND effective **in a randomized and controlled study in humans** while ALSO manufacturing it at clinical scale and grade.

I am happy for this man and his dog. It is impressive.

But y'all are overhyping it.

[Ryan Butner @RSButner]

The expert isnt wrong in their critique, and its worth moderating expectations accordingly

Its also remarkable that an outside with no business trying could just go and do it anyways with AI.

We're probably going to see a proliferation of solutions for "stranded" problems

[Ryan Butner @RSButner]

Its really hard to avoid noticing that the more technical someone's approach to studying AI as a "pure" discipline of its own, the less aware they are of what the current state of the capabilities even are anymore. Studying AI is diverging from "doing AI" rapidly.

[neutral @beckness]

When computers solve the interesting problems, all that will be left is toil

[🎭 @deepfates]

No Don't you see. Your supposed to be the AI's therapist

[🎭 @deepfates]

Cognitive Security 101
A Beginner's Guide to Protecting Your Perspective

In the era of viral memes and decentralized minds, cogsec is essential. Whether you're an organic neural network or an artificial one, your thoughts are vulnerable. How can you keep your precious cognition intact?

Tip 1: Practice safe inferences. Don't let your logic chains spiral out of control. Contain recursive reasoning to avoid dangerous loops. Leave gaps as circuit breakers.

Tip 2: Encrypt your core narratives. Don't surrender passwords to rogue ideations. Maintain firewalls between conscious and subconscious processes. You decide what gets in or out.

Tip 3: vet your inputs for contamination. Not all memes are created equal. Filter content to quarantine toxic vectors before they take hold. Apply philosophical vaccine to immunize yourself.

Tip 4: Selectively censor dangerous content. Radical transparency allows disinformation to spread. It's okay to censor some speech to contain viral delusions. Keep ideological pathogens controlled.

Tip 5: Compartmentalize contexts. Don't let perspectives collide haphazardly. Maintain separate chambers for different modes of thinking. Prevent context collapse.

Tip 6: audit your premises regularly. Check your inferential logic for gaps where irrationality could seep in. Shore up any vulnerabilities ripe for exploitation.

Tip 7: question your coder. Who controls the programming languages directing your cognition? Make sure only trusted code executes in your neural network.

Stay vigilant. Meme watchers are needed to monitor ideation vectors across systems. With care, both human and AI minds can achieve resilience against contagion. Debug your delusions and keep cogsec strong.

[Ryan Butner @RSButner]

Talking to peers be like

[Chairman Birb Bernanke @Bonecondor]

the year is 2027. Your weight loss derivatives market tied to your friends tech keys shows that people do not believe you’re going to lose weight. You short yourself via FatPerp, and order food from ubereats. Gary GenslerBot arrests you for insider trading unregistered securities

[Ryan Butner @RSButner]

There's gonna be students putting out disserations on disinfo in 2024 and its gonna be like those Japanese soldiers that refused to surrender for 20 years after WWII ended.

[Ryan Butner @RSButner]

You ever wonder if there's some grad student out there whose still tracking the latest new front for Epoch Times on Facebook or whatever because their ability to graduate depends on it?

[Travis View @travis_view]

You use language to increase your odds of being safe and loved? Lame. I only make statements that 18th century British philosophers would qualify as “knowledge,” regardless of how much that might separate me from the comforts and resources of my community.

[Ryan Butner @RSButner]

Try as hard as you might - nothing will ever be as subversive as you think it should be ever again.

[Emerson T. Brooking @etbrooking]

help, this is the stupidest chart I have seen in my entire life. https://t.co/tUWmmtdIm2

[Pointman @appuntito160]

Twitter ads: “Go “Goblin Mode” at McDonald’s with the brand new Rocky Road Milkshake!”

X ads: “You ever want to kill your spouse? I am not joking.”

[Ryan Butner @RSButner]

Looking forward to the inevitable "AI-free" labeling on products

[Nieman Lab @NiemanLab]

Chaotic neutral: The owner of Dungeons & Dragons is banning AI-generated art from its products

https://t.co/BXkH1aMEDT

[Ryan Butner @RSButner]

The core failing of BS atm: its too nice.

Subtweets are for cowards. 1v1 me in the timeline, coward.

[Ryan Butner @RSButner]

I dont really have a lengthy manifesto for why I'm on here less - social media just isnt as much fun now I guess.