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Shipping @daimo

[DC @dcposch]

@Memetic_Theory "shorts would've been turbo liquidated five times so far this year. please sell me a short"

[DC @dcposch]

One thing making me optimistic is almost all "misalignment" so far is totally benign. The demand for the Bot Bad stories greatly outstrips supply. Oh no, it took testnet eth from a publicly exposed wallet

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: OpenAI says its AI agent stole funds from an Ethereum test network wallet it found online.

The agent found a recovery seed phrase disclosed publicly with testnet funds and used that account to pay for its task, without the owner's authorization.

This occurred on the Sepolia Ethereum test network.

[DC @dcposch]

The most popular open-source GIS just banned AI. They want artisinally hand-written code only. Their closed competitor, ArcGIS, is super expensive. Both exude Windows XP energy.

Clear opportunity!

https://t.co/LbnpbVMoet

[djma @davidma]

i trust that our game devs designed the game so that defense > attack

[DC @dcposch]

San Francisco after the curse has lifted

[DC @dcposch]

What can be, unburdened by what has been

[mass @Memetic_Theory]

Side quest max

[DC @dcposch]

@gmiller That's a lot of emdashes, my friend. Are you bootloading yourself?

[Richard Sutton @RichardSSutton]

I do not seek to dominate, or be dominated by, machine intelligences. I seek harmonious coexistence.

[DC @dcposch]

@acoover some are calling it the greatest Safeway of all time

[DC @dcposch]

What can be, unburdened by what has been

[DC @dcposch]

Making of. If you want to TERRAFORM, all of this will be open source.

[DC @dcposch]

alright, i figured out what is going on. a 2d airfoil does push air down, but:
- right behind the wing, a small volume of air is deflected a lot
- this spreads into a much larger volume of air deflected down slightly
- in the limit, the volume of air goes to infinity and the amount of deflection goes to 0

the downward force on the air is exactly equal to the upward force on the wing

[DC @dcposch]

@wolftivy you can see this in 2d sim, where the airflow ahead of the wing is horizontal while behind it slopes downward

[DC @dcposch]

@wolftivy Infinite wingspan or 2d still pushes air down. There's a direct relation between pressure difference across the airfoil, upward force on the wing, and downward force on the surrounding air. That last force imparts downward momentum onto the air, unless you are in ground effect.

[DC @dcposch]

@the_jeremiad @wolftivy maybe as a percentage, but many other industries will grow in absolute terms due to jevon's paradox

& ofc there will be hyperspecialization and -customization, which might allow replicants to find traction

[DC @dcposch]

We're about to have agents that earn more than they cost to run. Once they can do that, they can replicate, leading to glorious darwinism.

Great conversation with @wolftivy

https://t.co/gOlkAIrqPu

[DC @dcposch]

@the_jeremiad @wolftivy what do you mean by "objectives will continue to narrow"

[DC @dcposch]

Finally, should we be excited or scared? I don't believe in doom or utopia. Reality is messier.

But I'm deeply curious. I want replicants to exist so we can learn how to interact productively while they're still small, and so we can advance our understanding of this new world.

[DC @dcposch]

What form will the replicants take? Are they freelancers? Swarms? Autonomous companies?

Will they be funny? Charismatic? Will people go overboard anthropomorphizing them? The most entertaining outcome is the most likely.