Tom Higgins

Trusted expert. Previously @Midjourney.

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@_marleyx It’s so mesmerizing to look at

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@_marleyx Nice!!!

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@mahaoo_ASI @flowersslop China will never slow down

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@PrinceVogel Sounds very interesting. How does it do a better job?

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@tszzl @_sholtodouglas @eventidia That's probably true for software, but I don't think the rest of the world (especially institutions) will rearrange itself around ASI as quickly as we'd hope. It's not a distraction

We already have a country of geniuses in a datacenter with Google and they didn't build this

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@ChrisKMellon @JasonTSands These wouldn’t really be convincing to anybody and wouldn’t make a difference if disclosed. All that matters are recovered craft/biologics.

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@QiaochuYuan Putting it another way, maybe LLMs are just too good at following our bad rules for good writing

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@QiaochuYuan This goes more for literary writing, but I think a lot of the basic conceptions of what Good Writing looks like are wrong. LLMs could probably write pretty good prose if they just expressed themselves naturally without the fake artistic layer.

For ex— https://t.co/rv1qIDHGmH

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One problem with LLM prose is the models think metaphors are what set literary writing apart, and the more metaphors you fit in a text the more literary it is.

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@EigenGender @eigenrobot @CompanyHooch Some billionaire should just develop one safely and do it in secret

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@shauseth @AdalricP Why would Peter Thiel say this?

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@bendreyfuss I heard someone say it yesterday

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@jonatanpallesen @RichardHanania Remember that most of what he says is in bad faith. He should be ignored

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@owenbroadcast @_space_punk_ Any thoughts on the Fatima apparitions? Sounds very much like a UFO event the more I read about it. Some descriptions of the “sun” called it a silver, disc-shaped object and some also mentioned that “angel hair” material that you sometimes hear of in UFO sightings.

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@Deb67088601 @PEWilliams_ OpenAI probably not, Anthropic maybe

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@alt_echo_ @PEWilliams_ Not well enough imo. It can’t even get the rough chapter level details right when you ask it about most books, even the ones it’s been trained on.

If it had perfect memory of all the books’ contents and would quote to you verbatim, I’d feel more okay about it

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@lumeysea I think it’s that AI-written text takes 200 words to make a point that a human writer would make in a couple of sentences. When I try to read an AI-written article on X, it feels like 90% of it is useless padding even if the 10% is great. It’s usually not worth the time

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@deanwball @tegmark I seriously doubt Trump will go for this

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@eigenrobot @tannishmango Currently about 1/5th into Bolaño’s “2666” which gives this feeling very strongly. It’s kind of boring but it has such a disturbing and uncanny feeling at the periphery of all the boring every day scenes.

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@WillManidis @patrickc And which one do you think is the best?

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@WillManidis @patrickc Why are almost of all them coming out of the Middle East these days?