Andrew Howie

Experiential computing | Developing intelligent hardware that eliminates the abstraction of interfaces

[Andrew Howie @collucent]

How edgy would it be to put a link to my LinkedIn profile in my bio? 🤠

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@signulll There won't *be* a next thing after phones until there *needs* to be one.

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@signulll Glasses and goggles are peak solipsism. Its not a form factor or an interface that will last, I'm afraid.

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@citrini A lot of slop going around though.

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Longevity dudes, no offense but I hope we all get to catch up 40 years from now.

Because our 30-40-year-old brains are screaming at us to fight for survival.

Notice the absence of the elderly, much younger men, and women in this space?

I'd wager that by the time you actually get old, you wont care that much about life extension 🤠.

People will live longer...after they biologically evolve to have longer lifespans!

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Did the current usage of "builder" to refer to coders come from Ayn Rand? Please tell me it didn't come from Ayn Rand.

[10x'er @10x_er]

oh you're a builder? when's the last time you "built" something

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@ConnorTalksAI Hasn't AGI been a bit of a moving goalpost? The latest definition seems to have mostly to do with economically valuable activity.

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@TTrimoreau Spice up these haikus a bit man, they're tedious. Here, I got one for ya:

Weirdest place you have

ever taken a

shit

I kid, but seriously why the white space? Is that a hack?

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@sattyyouneed I wish there were more conversation and less spam 🤷🏻‍♂️

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LLM training found data where it was actually being produced. The same must be true of physical AI models: the training data is where people at large are already at, doing what they are already doing. This will necessitate putting new tech in people's hands and on their bodies. Whoever can accomplish this will win the robotics race.

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@philosopherjstr @provisionalidea I think the fog of war is pretty heavy with this one. Weird, but also understandable that the scaling hypothesis couldn't have been anticipated. It's the dumbest things that end up working.

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@shawmakesmagic Someone around here said "slop cannon" a while back and I still can't stop laughing. Laughing all the way to the bank, that is.

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@victormorenos @Bots Can I summon anyone this way or does it only work with poteto

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@bscholl I'm better than a bot. But sorry, I'm busy 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Its the poverty of knowledge of the world state (I need a briefer way of saying this). There are a lot of things that we don't think of as knowledge which are nevertheless critical to intellectual functioning in the world, and AI will only have access to those when it has its eyes and ears on the world that humans live in, from the perspective of a human, on a mass scale.

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I think about it primarily as a poverty of interfaces. Coders and geeks get the most out of AI because the most efficacious form of human-AI interaction is mediated through a platform that coders and geeks are especially attuned to.

The gap is not solved by bringing those people and institutions closer to AI, but bringing AI closer to them.

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@pensandpoison Intellectual labor that is not the product of artificial intelligence (if we could even attribute the former to the latter) should, if anything, be *increasing* in value.

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Alright man, I've gotta hand it to you, this was a fun post to read. Reality-bending products indeed. I am with you on that.

People with money have always been able to do things that the rest of us can only dream of.

Let me try to map this out. In the near future you describe, robots are pushing humans out of the workforce, leading to mass unemployment, right? Because if people are still employed, won't their *employers* be outfitting them with these cybernetic enhancements in order to maximize productivity? But let's assume the former reality where everyone is unemployed, and so they all become some kind of entrepreneur if they want to survive. Who is buying the products and services all these little founders are selling?

Is it the textile revolution again? Because that story ended with everyone becoming either a capitalist (those who could afford the new machines, like the machines you describe) or a wage laborer, and we are still in that moment. But what's lower than a wage laborer, and would the social contract tolerate any further degeneration? Because what is keeping all of our bottom 90% housed, clothed, and fed is a general consensus that humans should have access to the means to pursue happiness.

If you are a capitalist now, and you're seeing the global improvement in quality of life over the centuries due to the continued march of technology, while labor has *decreased* in value, why is there any reason to anticipate discontinuity in the next episode of this saga?

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@PAHoyeck New book smell is great too!

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@cremieuxrecueil @alz_zyd_ Is RAM an index for working memory here?