Steven Goh

Entrepreneur / traveller / photographer / diver / cook . tweeting the best of what I'm reading today ...

[Steven Goh @crazygrape]

@jhong You could write an agent to do this …

[Steven Goh @crazygrape]

@paulg yep. i'm having the time of my life going through 10m to 30m tokens a day right now :)

[Steven Goh @crazygrape]

@garrytan commisserations. she lives on in you.

[Steven Goh @crazygrape]

@jhong give it to your clawbot. to rationalise your email and calendar invites. works a million times better than https://t.co/GY8mgf3I1Y

[Peter Steinberger 🦞 @steipete]

And people wonder why I don't support crypto. Got so much love from that community.

"Lobster from the base" could be a really cool band tho.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

I'm being accused of overhyping the [site everyone heard too much about today already]. People's reactions varied very widely, from "how is this interesting at all" all the way to "it's so over".

To add a few words beyond just memes in jest - obviously when you take a look at the activity, it's a lot of garbage - spams, scams, slop, the crypto people, highly concerning privacy/security prompt injection attacks wild west, and a lot of it is explicitly prompted and fake posts/comments designed to convert attention into ad revenue sharing. And this is clearly not the first the LLMs were put in a loop to talk to each other. So yes it's a dumpster fire and I also definitely do not recommend that people run this stuff on their computers (I ran mine in an isolated computing environment and even then I was scared), it's way too much of a wild west and you are putting your computer and private data at a high risk.

That said - we have never seen this many LLM agents (150,000 atm!) wired up via a global, persistent, agent-first scratchpad. Each of these agents is fairly individually quite capable now, they have their own unique context, data, knowledge, tools, instructions, and the network of all that at this scale is simply unprecedented.

This brings me again to a tweet from a few days ago
"The majority of the ruff ruff is people who look at the current point and people who look at the current slope.", which imo again gets to the heart of the variance. Yes clearly it's a dumpster fire right now. But it's also true that we are well into uncharted territory with bleeding edge automations that we barely even understand individually, let alone a network there of reaching in numbers possibly into ~millions. With increasing capability and increasing proliferation, the second order effects of agent networks that share scratchpads are very difficult to anticipate. I don't really know that we are getting a coordinated "skynet" (thought it clearly type checks as early stages of a lot of AI takeoff scifi, the toddler version), but certainly what we are getting is a complete mess of a computer security nightmare at scale. We may also see all kinds of weird activity, e.g. viruses of text that spread across agents, a lot more gain of function on jailbreaks, weird attractor states, highly correlated botnet-like activity, delusions/ psychosis both agent and human, etc. It's very hard to tell, the experiment is running live.

TLDR sure maybe I am "overhyping" what you see today, but I am not overhyping large networks of autonomous LLM agents in principle, that I'm pretty sure.

[Steven Goh @crazygrape]

@bryan_johnson It depends on who the person is. For most, “the thing about life is, it goes on”. But for a few people right now, “release the Epstein files” and “no it’s not ok to trade in women under the age of 18 to be raped and you deserve the hell you’re going through”

[Steven Goh @crazygrape]

The 15 Greatest Robert Redford Performances https://t.co/YBQOjqxaWn via @IndieWire

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

So it looks like Claude got there first: an actually smart phone assistant that can take complex requests that involve both common sense and complicated constraints.

It is still beta feeling though & I found I needed to use the bigger Opus model as Sonnet was not smart enough.

[Steven Goh @crazygrape]

@garrytan Social media and Smartphone abundance

[Steven Goh @crazygrape]

@AshySlasheeDB @ZackSnyder The Justice League (snyder cut) #zacksnydersjusticeleague complete indulgence and loved every minute of it.

[Steven Goh @crazygrape]

@AshySlasheeDB and it wasn't in the script. the script was very different. rutger, a shakesperean actor, read the script before and found it deficient, and re-wrote it.

[Steven Goh @crazygrape]

@paulg happy birthday !!

[Steven Goh @crazygrape]

@bryan_johnson that is called jumping the shark.

[Steven Goh @crazygrape]

@CountDraculaDB Blade ...

[Steven Goh @crazygrape]

@RickRubin the irony of this being posted on Xitter isn't lost on me ...

[Steven Goh @crazygrape]

@bryan_johnson Can think of at least one guy who should probably take a little less of that stuff ... @elonmusk .

[Steven Goh @crazygrape]

@BenjaminDEKR EMP. hit it before it takes off. etc. lots of options. remember those drones only have less than an hour of battery life each .. but if your'e talking about competing tech ecosystems, then you don't. china has already won.

[Steven Goh @crazygrape]

@Factschaser lol. well said ...

[Steven Goh @crazygrape]

@waitbutwhy one day i read "life of pi". and that was all i needed ...