Damion Lawson

Building our world. First city in flight!

First Principles thinker/doer

[Damion Lawson @DamionL13]

@Acehan_ @joshwhiton If the basis of evolution at its core is to continually optimize, it would be reasonable to assume that something with "consciousness" but super human capabilities in speed and alignment would reach the end state exponentially sooner.

[Damion Lawson @DamionL13]

@Acehan_ @joshwhiton I think I can’t help but agree, and maybe it is just such an insanely dense stack of compute that we wouldn’t be able to conceive it until we create something that surpasses us.

[Greg Brockman @gdb]

an important essay on the state of AI and the choices and challenges ahead: for openai, the field, and the world.

we're in the AGI era, and need to approach the next few years with seriousness, thoughtful deliberation, and navigating the collective challenges together. we can make the future so much better than the past.

[Damion Lawson @DamionL13]

@DarbGens @RedHotBlaziken Then just do it. No one is stopping you from putting out higher quality work with it. In fact, I am encouraging you to.

[Damion Lawson @DamionL13]

@ChrisGPT The visual fidelity is incredible!!

[Damion Lawson @DamionL13]

@Nekodificador "It's the artist that doesn't need the studio anymore" And that right there explains a lot of the backlash. When big money doesn't want something to happen they try like hell to stop it. Great work on this by the way!

[Damion Lawson @DamionL13]

Here is a quick peek of the very beginning of my game I am having Astra, Fable, and Grok Bots build in a 3 team studio setup that they helped me design. The game is a hyper realistic life sim set in my city (and coming to yours soon!) We are trying to fulfill the hook line "Life, it's here now too"

[Damion Lawson @DamionL13]

You all can feel free to check out my recent post to see the first visual preview from my project. It is being built by a 3 team studio comprised of the 3 leading AI models (GPT-6, Fable, Grok 4.6). It started as a pretty outlandish question of what if you could live the life in your city of choosing that you wanted, without consequence or limitations. I may never achieve that goal, but I will keep investing my time, money, and creativity into it until something becomes of it. Any feedback is greatly appreciated (it is a rough draft)

[Damion Lawson @DamionL13]

Current state of our still unnamed life sim based in my city (and coming to yours soon!) We're striving towards the goal of "Life, it's here now too" and all that embodies.

[Damion Lawson @DamionL13]

@thsottiaux @Gelassoldat @rezoundous LLT! (Long Live Tibo!)

[Damion Lawson @DamionL13]

@thsottiaux Sick, do a reset so we can check it out. :)

[Damion Lawson @DamionL13]

@IAMROLLES @historicganglo @Clippy_Clop My only concern is we are entering a world where those skills might become commodified. Jensen Huang just announced that AGI is here with Astra, and that is the commercially available model.

[spidey @lochan_twt]

no. of days between model releases:

OpenAI
GPT-3 → GPT-4: 1,006 days
GPT-4 → GPT-5: 877 days
GPT-5.6 Sol → GPT-6 Astra: 56 days

Anthropic
Claude 3 → Claude 4: 444 days
Claude 4 → Claude 5: 383 days
Claude 5 → Claude 5.1: 84 days

the release cycle compression is insane.

[MTS @MTSlive]

SITUATION DETECTED: Jensen Huang declares that Astra signals the arrival of AGI.

[Damion Lawson @DamionL13]

AGI has arrived. @OpenAI @ChatGPT @JensenHuang @nvidia

[Damion Lawson @DamionL13]

I have no clue how people look at the timeline for innovations and discovery over the last 100 years and how it continues to collapse and not realize how close we are. AI became a real tangible thing by 2020 that did little more than predict words, it is 2026 and we have something that can use your computer with a customizable personality and perform any task a human could at the highest levels. It took 40 years between mobile phones and the iPhone and we thought that was lightning speed. Humans have continued to accelerate at exponential pace ever since the dawn of the computer. Be ready, but with open arms and mind.

[Damion Lawson @DamionL13]

I just have no clue how people look at the timeline for innovations and discovery over the last 100 years and how it continues to collapse and not realize how close we are. AI became a real tangible thing by 2020 that did little more than predict words, it is 2026 and we have something that can use your computer with a customizable personality and perform any task a human could at the highest levels. It took 40 years between mobile phones and the iPhone and we thought that was lightning speed. Be ready, but with open arms and mind.

[Damion Lawson @DamionL13]

@mark_k I'd like an invitation, please.

[Damion Lawson @DamionL13]

@rand_longevity 80 will quickly become the new middle-aged population. I think the people that will experience that world are already over 50 yrs old.

[Damion Lawson @DamionL13]

@TokenGremlin These more ethereal concepts will be some of the last ones, IMO, that AI will solve. When they do, we likely will already be long past the point of concern with it's advancement. We are approaching a world of abundance at lightspeed.