Abram Demski

Long is the line of the tail! Smooth are the scales! Keen is the eye, and bright the wing’s sails!

[David Krueger 🦥 ⏸️ ⏹️ ⏪ @DavidSKrueger]

*sigh*

These updates are soooooooo predictable.

[Rob Wiblin @robertwiblin]

Anthropic, OpenAI and Demis are all in favour of preparing a coordinate pause of frontier AI development.

Skate to where the puck will be people, not where it is now. This is a fast puck.

[Abram Demski @abramdemski]

A cross-party group of Canadian politicians have stepped forward with a clear statement in favor of an international prohibition against superintelligent AI: https://t.co/y1Lizi3JTR

[Abram Demski @abramdemski]

@satchlj As a proxy for replacement of human labor, I think 80% is much better than the 50% chart most people look at. 50% reliability isn't enough. It isn't like 50% means you can just re-run it and get the right answer the second or third time; failures aren't independent like that.

[Abram Demski @abramdemski]

@cube_flipper @ApriiSR This doesn't pay the cost of specifying how floating point arith works, it just searches for all valid causal embeddings of a computation in reality (result of search finds floating point arith, but this isn't paid for in the desc. length).

[Abram Demski @abramdemski]

@cube_flipper @ApriiSR So you take the causal network (of physical reality). You're allowed to (a) cut pieces of reality out, (b) merge nodes together (take their cross prod) and (c) coarse-grain vars (eg wire energy -> 1 or 0). Goal: transform into causal graph of target computation.

[Abram Demski @abramdemski]

@cube_flipper @ApriiSR I can propose one but it would be Bad & Wrong ;p

[lyra bubbles @_lyraaaa_]

trinity mini fake-base: 6/8 - almost always completes "elara"
trinity mini pre-anneal base: almost never completes elara

[lyra bubbles @_lyraaaa_]

poor models

[lyra bubbles @_lyraaaa_]

"whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided."
- brian eno

[Cube Flipper @cube_flipper]

i gave a talk at lighthaven recently and @abramdemski was sufficiently interested in an argument that i gave – solomonoff induction means that we should place a higher prior on theories of consciousness which propose simpler mappings between physics and phenomenal consciousness, such as the ones proposed by physicalist theories of consciousness – that he wrote a lesswrong article about it.

he takes the negative, but also does a more thorough/precise job of presenting the argument than i probably would have, so, endorsed. check it out: https://t.co/COq88ynQVY

[Abram Demski @abramdemski]

@TheZvi I know you'll be writing about this, so, my experience trying ChatGPT 5.2 today: I tested Opus 4.5, Gemini 3, and ChatGPT 5.2 on a tricky Agent Foundations problem today (trying to improve on Geometric UDT). 5.2 confidently asserts total math BS. Opus best, Gemini 3 close

[Abram Demski @abramdemski]

@0xMims Eh. The most recent models don't feel like a big jump mainly because the models are coming out more frequently. Things continue to improve at about the same pace in graphs I've seen. The big question is what THAT means.

[Abram Demski @abramdemski]

@dantheshive Comic joke for reference:

https://t.co/vXx7tywA3u

[Abram Demski @abramdemski]

@dantheshive Today's "you just don't understand sportsmanship" joke reminds me of section 2.1 of this: https://t.co/RQbtrjj8rT

TLDR: when put in crowded spaces like playgrounds, children prefer dominance games with winners/losers; when roaming free, play is much more cooperative

[Abram Demski @abramdemski]

My brother is working on a game: https://t.co/DzLdCKfsmF

It's a little like minecraft, but with an aperiodic tiling (related to the penrose tiling).

[neoltitude @ctrlcreep]

The largest known mindspace gap exists between predators and prey. Prey thoughts are alien; even elevated herbivores are incoherent to us

[neoltitude @ctrlcreep]

Novices take vows of internal silence & think only in images, in soft neural washes of color & symbol. Words lose their meaning, then names

[Abram Demski @abramdemski]

@davidmanheim Is the exercise available?

[Abram Demski @abramdemski]

@davidmanheim @Grognor https://t.co/9AP97fdYna