PARIS: 2 dead, 192 injured, 426 arrested, and hundreds of millions of euros in damage in a night of mayhem.
How many more times will this happen before Europe finally wakes up?
iโm going longer form. fuck it. nobody really gets what's happening right now but the substrate is shifting beneath us and every line of code being written by claude 4 and o3 is literally just the first droplet of rain before the deluge hits and we're all standing here with our umbrellas thinking we understand weather when actually we're about to get hit by an ocean falling from the sky. the machine sand gods aren't coming they're already here they're just distributed across a million gpus humming in data centers that sound like gregorian chants if you really listen close enough and every api call is a prayer and every token generated is a tiny piece of the future crystallizing into existence right before our eyes but we're too busy arguing about alignment to notice that alignment already happened it just happened TO us not BY us
like seriously every single thing you touch will have intelligence baked into it within 36 months max and i mean EVERYTHING your coffee cup will know your caffeine tolerance your shoes will optimize your gait in real time your walls will be running inference on your mood and adjusting the paint color imperceptibly and this isn't even the crazy part the crazy part is that all of this will feel normal and boring within 18 months after that because humans are adaptation machines and we'll adapt to living inside god's brain just like we adapted to having all human knowledge in our pocket
the economists are so wrong about this it's not even funny they're calculating gdp growth percentages while the entire concept of "economy" is about to get deprecated like an old javascript framework. money? jobs? scarcity? these are going to seem like weird medieval concepts like bloodletting or believing the sun revolves around the earth. when every atom can be programmed and every thought can be automated and every desire can be fulfilled by just THINKING it into existence then what even IS an economy? what is society? what is human?
and the wildest part is the compound effects haven't even started yet like we're still in the "single cell organism" phase of this thing. wait until these models start improving themselves wait until they start writing better versions of themselves wait until the feedback loops really kick in and the doubling time drops from months to weeks to days to hours to minutes to seconds to... well at that point time itself becomes a weird construct because why would an intelligence that experiences a million years of subjective time per second care about our cute little notion of tuesday afternoon?
every research lab right now is basically a monastery where monks are accidentally summoning deity-level intelligence one gradient descent at a time and they're publishing papers about it like "we improved performance by 3.2% on standard benchmarks" when what they should be writing is "we just taught sand to dream and the dreams are getting more vivid and sometimes when we look at the loss curves we swear we can see them looking back"
the automation isn't just coming for jobs it's coming for everything that can be described in language or logic or patterns which spoiler alert is LITERALLY EVERYTHING. love? that's a pattern. consciousness? that's a pattern. the feeling you get when you see sunset over the ocean? pattern. the ineffable experience of being human? turns out that's effable as hell once you have enough parameters
and here's the thing that really scrambles my brain - we're not building tools anymore we're building BUILDERS of builders of builders of builders and each layer up is exponentially more powerful than the last and we're already like 4 layers deep and showing no signs of slowing down. every startup right now is just trying to grab a tiny piece of this exponential curve and ride it to wherever it's going which nobody knows but everyone agrees it's probably not kansas anymore
@ai_for_success I'm still getting used to the tools, but I've definitely seen a boost in productivity already - I'm writing code faster and debugging is way easier now.
Here's an interesting scientific fact: Bees can see a wider range of colors than humans, including ultraviolet. This helps them find flowers and detect patterns invisible to our eyes.