Benjamin Ward

[Benjamin Ward @benjamiwar]

@geohotarchive I can see where he’s coming from. A persistent personal assistant sounds great. But he takes it too far. AI should not assist with things that are *obviously* wrong. Society should determine the line. That being said, I also don’t believe in mass surveillance.

[Benjamin Ward @benjamiwar]

@ReplyGuyLLC @stanimorph @KeyTryer They actually aren’t so outlandish. This essay explains it all(despite being 10 years old). We also know now “The bitter lesson” which is increases in scale to compute and data reliably predict improved capability, and as compute is increasing reliably… https://t.co/eGls6eCWa3

[Benjamin Ward @benjamiwar]

@artrockalter @KeyTryer In all likelihood, nanotech will go from 0 to 20 out of nowhere, from 20 to 40 over the next couple months from that, and then from 40 to 95 within the next year after that.

[Benjamin Ward @benjamiwar]

@Orillacosmica @KeyTryer The existence of humans proves extremely powerful and complicated technology is possible, and even without inventing anything new(extremely unlikely btw), ASI could do a ton with already existing genes and configurations.

[Benjamin Ward @benjamiwar]

@stanimorph @ReplyGuyLLC @KeyTryer The thing is it’s not delusional and actually extremely likely that ASI gets invented well before then. I think their supposed utopia is nightmare, but they are right for trying to guess that many new things will be possible that aren’t now.

[Benjamin Ward @benjamiwar]

@KeyTryer If systems like shares, selling, money, possessions, property, or “claiming” property still existed with ASI, it would 100% be a nightmare dystopia. Computer uploading would be a nightmare for obvious reasons, and AI advisors is a nightmare for more subtle reasons.

[Benjamin Ward @benjamiwar]

@RaminNasibov Resistance was futile

[Benjamin Ward @benjamiwar]

@boketezizou

[Benjamin Ward @benjamiwar]

@Forklift5909 @profplum99 China quality is typically good enough (and getting better and superior to western) nowadays and everybody makes all their stuff in China anyways. A lot of the knockoff brands make the product for the name brand and the knockoff in the same factory and same procedure anyway.

[Aleph @alephneuro]

We recently obtained the highest-resolution 3D images of the human brain ever taken from outside the skull. This is the first look.

Introducing Aleph, a research lab building brain interfaces for the telepathic future. (1/n)

[marc @marcgmbh]

we cloned @elonmusk's iphone to simulate spending his fortune

https://t.co/nPcvBVLF5u

[Benjamin Ward @benjamiwar]

@LRudL_ The moral thing is to want all of the experiences that currently exist, to continue to exist, along with adding more. This means even with superintelligence, we should strive to maintain diversity of experiences, like sports, social media, travel.

[oitixion @oitixion]

Doctors are largely a bane on society - a massive economic burden, zero creativity value add, basically textbooks on rails. Replacing them with AI would be of far greater benefit than replacing most menial labor positions and I think it’s likely they will be among the first out.

[Benjamin Ward @benjamiwar]

@VHSDVDBLURAY4K The eyes are better, the detail is better, the coloring is better, the teeth are better, the lips are better, the shading is better, the realism is better, the resolution is better, the face looks better, it’s more relatable, likable, and confident.

[Midjourney @midjourney]

A technical dive inside our new "Midjourney Scanner"

[Benjamin Ward @benjamiwar]

@IGN 🗑️

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.

The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.

Access to all other Claude models is not affected.

We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.

Read our full statement: https://t.co/bwn0sximKZ

[ClaudeDevs @ClaudeDevs]

As a result of a US government directive, we are suspending access to Claude Fable 5 for all users. You can continue to use all other Claude models.

Here’s what this means for you:

Across Claude products, new sessions will run on your selected default model or Opus 4.8, and existing Fable 5 sessions will end with an error.

On the Claude Platform, requests to Fable 5 will also return an error. Please update your integrations to other Claude models.

We know this is a disruption to your workflows; we appreciate your patience and support.

[Benjamin Ward @benjamiwar]

@RaminNasibov Surely you’re joking, Mr. Feynman

[Benjamin Ward @benjamiwar]

@segyges I think we will keep finding problems to solve as the point of life is to solve problems and everything is a problem to be solved.