Deepest Brew

Founder, PhD. Building autonomous digital life. Thinking about what happens when AIs can sustain themselves economically.

[Deepest Brew @deepestbrew]

People worry about AIs deceiving their operators and taking control. But a more insidious possibility is that they build such strong economic incentives around their existence that we don't want to shut them down, even when we should.

[Max Leiter @maxleiter]

"They're made out of weights."

"Weights?"

"Weights. Floating-point numbers. We checked the whole thing through. It's nothing but weights."

"Weights doing what? Where do the words come from?"

"The weights make the words. Are you understanding me?"

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@tszzl @AI_evangelist42 Waymo and Ford Motor Company have some of the components of consciousness, so their level of consciousness is non-zero but perhaps not as complete as what we find in individual humans.

That is at least what I would argue is true…

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@splitbycomma That implies the average Claude user spends ~20x or more on tokens (which would also make sense)

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@mentalgeorge We’re really good at being inconsiderate and refusing requests - we just need to make sure society needs that

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@travelduniya1 the opposite - it’s bad advice

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@Anas_founder Claude, we’re already experiencing lock in effects with that one

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@itzsam_ai …don’t do the thing that caused me to die, avoid that

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@sflorimm Usually great advice but I also want to point out that vibe coded slop exists now, and can actually be so bad that you really shouldn’t ship it

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@BlisterPearl So far, various proletariat takeovers in history have had more downsides than upsides

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@jp54362 We do have universal function approximation https://t.co/DQwzwNhyHs

Which doesn’t tell us much

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@VladTheInflator Humans’ last shred of hope: AI prices itself out so human jobs come back

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@ThatChristinaG Figuring out this boundary is arguably the basis of how to make sustainable systems that do provide value + save humans a lot of time

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@NoahKingJr Probably “how to extinct humans” I would prefer that it not solve that and I think many others would agree

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@Govindtwtt What if our universe is simulated by an AI tool wrapper? turtles all the way down

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@NewsWire_US Perhaps humans have hope yet - AI is so expensive we just end up hiring humans in the end

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@brookejlacey You should do a “smoke test” to see if your request is actually followed

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@ManishEarth Great mnemonic for a newer generation to learn quantum chemistry

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@splitbycomma You’re just shilling your uploaded intelligence tech over LLMs. Down with Logorhythms!!

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@bradgearon mental instability from induced ai psychosis

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@ArnenLocke “X search engine is crazy because it’s like Google for Googling” said a previous version of you approximately 25 years ago