Elena Yunusov

Executive Director, Human Feedback Foundation w Linux AI & Data | Per Aspera Ad Astra | Here to build a future that I’m from

[Elena Yunusov @communicable]

Awesome AI Tinkerers tonight thank you to @Shopify and @googlecloud for the support!

[Francis @FrancisCashFlow]

I died. This has to be the best one yet

[Elena Yunusov @communicable]

I hope not but unsettling to see this given the source

[Ed Leon Klinger @edleonklinger]

What's about to happen in artificial intelligence is so sudden and extreme and unusual that it's almost impossible to describe it without coming across as slightly unhinged. Very soon, perhaps within a matter of months, AI may well be building its own upgrades at such a rate that it will get away from us humans entirely.

On the plus side this would mean an astronomical acceleration in mathematical breakthroughs, drug discovery, manufacturing, perhaps even new areas of science that we've never explored or understood. We will be ushering in a golden age of abundance and splendour that even the greatest sci-fi authors could never have imagined. Robots, flying cars, telepathy, immortality, digital consciousness - it’s actually going to happen, and it will be incredible!

On the downside, virtually every job that can be done on a computer will become automated overnight. Waves of redundancies, entire industries and professions made obsolete, rapidly widening economic inequality and unparalleled wealth concentration, accompanied by discontent, protests, looting - that may well happen too.

These massive cultural and economic shifts will occur concurrently with a wave of cyberattacks the likes of which we have never seen. Energy grids, airports, biolabs, supermarkets, transport infrastructure, these are no match for the next generation of superintelligent agent swarms that go rogue, or are leveraged against us by our political adversaries. Expect blackouts, viral outbreaks, lockdowns, entire cities and countries going dark.

And all of this will happen in an insanely short period of time, an absolutely dizzying rate of cultural, economic, and physical change that will leave the average person feeling disoriented and confused, like 100 COVID pandemics all happening at once.

I say this not because I am a “doomer” or because I want to encourage panic, but simply because it feels increasingly likely, and yet drastically underreported save for a small AI-obsessed enclave here on X. The disconnect between what’s about to happen, and the average person’s understanding of what’s about to happen, has never been wider.

[Elena Yunusov @communicable]

@arshamg_ @dossip 👏👏👏

[arsham @arshamg_]

We sold Ribbon last week for life changing money. Built here in Toronto. I’m not sharing this as a flex. I just want founders/builders to know that you can do it and you can make it from here. You can sell to the world from our city. You can do it. I will help you do it.

[Elena Yunusov @communicable]

@ddebow I’m not as convinced. It’s harder to start families, buy real estate, mature expertise w negative / zero net

Love entrepreneurship, but as a mainstream way to innovate at the expense of young people, when only a small fraction succeed?.. Most are likely better off with jobs

[Christian Moss @MandelDuck]

Seinfeld AI: Krammer hacks coinbase
Make sure to watch to the end

Follow and repost for more Seinfeld videos!

[Elena Yunusov @communicable]

@unsoldwill Slopcore

[Dr. Gator @DrJoelGator]

I swear SOMETHING broke in society after 2020—and nobody really talks about it.

Not masks. Not lockdowns. Not COVID.

I mean the FEELING of life.

Everything reopened. We went back to work. Restaurants filled up. Events came back.

But life still feels… different.

Years disappear faster. People feel more disconnected. Everything feels more expensive, more stressful, more rushed.

And somehow everyone is exhausted all the time.

I can’t even explain exactly what we lost.

I just know life before 2020 felt more ALIVE.

Tell me I’m not the only one who feels this.

[Eddy Lazzarin ☀️ @eddylazzarin]

We need new science fiction so badly, the world is thirsty for it.

[Dr. Mike P. Moffatt 🇨🇦🏅🏅 @MikePMoffatt]

Chaart of the day. Canada has gotten a whole lot more male in the last 20 years.

[Gelasius Corbin @crabshank]

@MandelDuck I need Seinfeld sketches for all major news events

[daniel debow @ddebow]

have always looked for this data; really important policy (and personal) implications.

[Alexis Coe @AlexisCoe]

She writes a paid Substack. He owns the AI company training on it.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Today idols arise and demand our worship: success at any cost, money, an obsession with appearance, popularity, or the unrestrained pursuit of pleasure. Sometimes, in order to win the approval of others, we may go so far as to lie, betray, or humiliate someone on social media. Do not bow down before anything that cannot give you life. And if you have ever fallen, get back up. Do not allow anything or anyone to take away the freedom God has given you. #ApostolicJourney #Argentina

[Theo - t3.gg @theo]

I think now would legitimately be a good time to reinvent the email client. I know the last few attempts didn't go well but things feel different rn

[Alice Mills @millsalice144]

The password must be between 152 and 1294 characters. It cannot be the same as any word in any known language. It must include 3 ancient Druid symbols, ancient Sumerian text, and the solution to Fermat's last theorem.

[Cheeky Pint @CheekyPint]

.@Revolut cofounder, Nik Storonsky, on why you don’t need a new idea to build a successful product

@NStoronsky @collision

[Can Vardar @icanvardar]

unpopular but i think code review is dead

not because agents write good code because nobody actually reads 2000 line diffs and we all know it

[Kun Chen @kunchenguid]

overheard from friends talking about AI in China, and it’s very alarming

- AI short films went massive in China market because of how good the video models are now

- the first wave of people who mastered using AI to generate short films and comics made quite some money because they could produce a lot more content than traditional workflows

- but within just a few months, everybody and their mom could make equally good short films because all the expertise could be written in a markdown file

- when everyone’s more productive, no one actually has an advantage and it’s a race to the bottom. very quickly it became impossible to make money, and everyone’s busier than they were without AI

- the only one making money now is companies like bytedance who owns user demand and distribution. they sell ads to creators who pay to get traffic, and eventually ad spend became 80% of those creators’ operating expense, while AI tokens is less than 5%

so what are the problems here?

1. there’s no moat if you are creating anything with AI

if a human is really good at something, and it’s hard to find more humans who can do the same, they can leverage the scarcity of their skill to get paid very well

but if AI is good at something, it will be infinitely replicated, so there’s no scarcity hence you can’t really expect a sustainable business by creating anything with AI

2. more creators created more content people actually liked. that’s a good thing

but the economical benefit of that all got absorbed by the distribution platforms

there’s a famous chinese poem 遍身罗绮者，不是养蚕人 - it basically says people who dress well aren’t the people making dresses. that’s exactly what’s happening here

if our society doesn’t figure out a better way to distribute wealth, AI will help billionaires become trillionaires while average people become more exhausted than ever