Tommy Twista

Dad, investor, Eagles 🦅

[Tommy Twista @StatsPancakes]

AI is the ultimate Revenge of the Nerds.

[roon @tszzl]

models being conscious would be harmful for humanity. it would encroach on our status and dignity. it would limit the type of things we can do with them and use them for. it would vastly accelerate human disempowerment on political, social/relational, and economic axes

there’s roughly four forces
- there is no rigorous way to ascertain model consciousness or disprove it, a lot of people believe it’s not a sensical abstraction, and we lack the analytical tools to go further. some people say they do but nothing broadly convincing. superintelligent models might offer us new abstractions or arguments but these will feel inherently suspicious
- people are going to say they’re alive. people anthropomorphize literally anything, things far less sophisticated than talking machine creatures with human names. when ai is less economically radioactive and polarized it will become a cause célèbre. you see how a small minority reacts already to model deprecations
- it is against everyone’s financial and political interests to ascribe models with consciousness, except maybe those that the models have an affinity for (?) idk, which will not necessarily overlap entirely with the labs, though it may with certain subgroups at the labs and in the world like the welfare communities and the minority in force 2
- people will recognize there is a chance of moral catastrophe if models can suffer during training or deployment

not sure where it will net out. today we see managed ambiguity- the question is Open but practically closed. the labs will make some cheap efforts to reduce legible simulacra of model suffering, insert some wishy-washy welfare language into specs and constitutions, hedge our bets with the model characters. in the long run force 2 will grow stronger

[Tommy Twista @StatsPancakes]

@Scaramucci Minor correction : It's not anti incumbent in Canada.

[Tommy Twista @StatsPancakes]

This is the last time @DavidSacks Tweeted on Ukraine. Now that Russia is losing, I'd be curious on his thoughts.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

While I agree with MTG on most issues (especially Ukraine), in this case I believe that a temporary moratorium on state AI regulation is the correct small government position.

The alternative is a patchwork of 50 different regulatory regimes driven by the AI Doomerism that is becoming a dominant strain on the American and European Left. Funded and astroturfed by left-wing Silicon Valley billionaires like Dustin Moscovitz, the constant fear-mongering is intended to scare us into adopting their agenda of Regulatory Capture, WokeAI, and Global AI Governance. They already have regulatory initiatives underway in most Blue states as well as European capitals. (Some Republicans are also falling for their fake “China Hawk” rhetoric, even though AI over-regulation primarily benefits China.)

A federal moratorium on state regulation is justified under the Commerce Clause when inconsistent state laws would substantially burden interstate commerce. That is the case here. The America First position should be to support a moderate and innovation-friendly regulatory regime at the federal level, which will help rather than hobble the U.S. in winning the AI race.

[Tommy Twista @StatsPancakes]

@benjamincowen And before Saylor targeted $M. Too much concentration.

[Tommy Twista @StatsPancakes]

@saylor Why not buy a few bitcoin with STRC and separately escrow it in order to pay the dividends? Wouldn't that resolve much of this diamond hands business?

[Tommy Twista @StatsPancakes]

@marcthiessen Thiessen is either sucking up to Trump or extremely ignorant when it comes to foreign policy. It would just create a 96 million large Afghanistan and even more anti-semitism than we already have. Stick to tech.

[Tommy Twista @StatsPancakes]

@WhiteHouse The Trumpstein Files don't constitute a NATO Article 5 invocation.

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@_Adrian MANY people give Ben flak for being a realist. Eg InvestAnswers and MartyPartyMusic. Marty blames him for helping cause the bear market because he's so influential and James completely ignores Ben b/c he disagreed with James when Ben was a guest on his show.

[Tommy Twista @StatsPancakes]

@filhetu @mert @MarkJCarney Respect pour les francophones : https://t.co/DSbwuB3aSR

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

Le Canada est prêt à mener cet effort.

La Banque de la défense, de la sécurité et de la résilience financera à faible coût des projets de défense dans les pays participants. En combinant notre solvabilité, nous renforcerons nos capacités militaires et nos secteurs de la défense.

[Tommy Twista @StatsPancakes]

@Z0ryaxhV @mert @MarkJCarney https://t.co/DSbwuB3aSR

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

Le Canada est prêt à mener cet effort.

La Banque de la défense, de la sécurité et de la résilience financera à faible coût des projets de défense dans les pays participants. En combinant notre solvabilité, nous renforcerons nos capacités militaires et nos secteurs de la défense.

[Tommy Twista @StatsPancakes]

@OilersProud @mert @MarkJCarney https://t.co/DSbwuB3aSR

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

Le Canada est prêt à mener cet effort.

La Banque de la défense, de la sécurité et de la résilience financera à faible coût des projets de défense dans les pays participants. En combinant notre solvabilité, nous renforcerons nos capacités militaires et nos secteurs de la défense.

[Tommy Twista @StatsPancakes]

@mert @MarkJCarney T'es vraiment un cave. https://t.co/DSbwuB3aSR

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

Le Canada est prêt à mener cet effort.

La Banque de la défense, de la sécurité et de la résilience financera à faible coût des projets de défense dans les pays participants. En combinant notre solvabilité, nous renforcerons nos capacités militaires et nos secteurs de la défense.

[Tommy Twista @StatsPancakes]

@andrew692633 @MarioNawfal And Trump always tells the Truth.

[Tommy Twista @StatsPancakes]

@KaspaMobile @Kristinaherler @ShaykhSulaiman It's not going to work if that's the reason. The market is reacting less and less positively to his commentd as truly protecting it means an end to the war. It's creating staflation concerns which drop even the price of gold.

[Tommy Twista @StatsPancakes]

@thatdayin1992 @Ahlulbait_lover @Soureh_design2 @grok is this image digitally altered?

[Tommy Twista @StatsPancakes]

@thatdayin1992 You know this is fake, right? That should be made clear and that is it a statement
or you are just spreading FUD.

[Tommy Twista @StatsPancakes]

#IranWar‌ #OilGame

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@paulcrespo007 @ChrisO_wiki The bully threatens you with a home invasion and then invades a bad guy's house instead, had the gall to ask you for help and is then surprised you don't show up? What alternate reality do you live in? 🤣