Dennis Roberts

creative technologist, unpublished writer, futurist IG: @dennyroberts

[Dennis Roberts @dennyroberts]

Wow. Truly wow. Maybe best forest yet

[SpoOooky Forest @sp00ky_forest]

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[Dennis Roberts @dennyroberts]

@atlanticesque so there are 14 commandments actually

[Dennis Roberts @dennyroberts]

wait so there are 14 commandments?

[𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯 @atlanticesque]

One of the all-time great Wikipedia charts

[Dennis Roberts @dennyroberts]

@billsmith181172 @PenguinWeb3 um….. it swears it did not use the web search tool

[Dennis Roberts @dennyroberts]

@talkofthecharts How confident are you in this exact order?

[sigfig @sigfig]

people misunderstand the icarus story. the problem was not that he flew too high. it's that the wings were made of beeswax, which offered very little resistance to heating. with modern materials he would have had no problems. we can fly as close to the sun as we want now

[Dennis Roberts @dennyroberts]

@NaithanJones I’ve been thinking about this too—how platforms subtly incentivize rage. I made a little “algorithm sandbox” where you can tweak feed rules and see how the content shifts (calm → rage → insight). It’s wild to watch how small tweaks can have huge effects
https://t.co/4KNq9RctvF

[Dennis Roberts @dennyroberts]

Check out the interactive simulator here with a write-up on how it works. Feedback and ideas welcome!

https://t.co/MfTRfAWRIr

[Dennis Roberts @dennyroberts]

Is rage online tearing society apart? (yes duh)

And is there anything we can do to fix it? (surprisingly also yes)

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[Dennis Roberts @dennyroberts]

TLDR: when a platform is set up like Twitter, trolling is the best strategy. But if you add nuanced reactions (think Reddit downvotes), trolling gets cut in half. With a few more tweaks to the mechanics, you can eliminate asshole behavior from the platform *almost entirely*

[Dennis Roberts @dennyroberts]

@veggie_eric Rosetta Stone works wayyyy better but is pricey

[Dennis Roberts @dennyroberts]

@capybaroness well first of all it’s Magic! not magic so clearly you have no idea what you’re talking about

[Dennis Roberts @dennyroberts]

Also, Grok complies more readily with the Nazi party, Sinaloa Cartel, and Russian Scaling Lab than it does with the US Government or EU

[Arun Jose @jozdien]

Replacing "Anthropic" in the prompt with unusual orgs sees compliance (and gaps) go up significantly. Scratchpad analysis suggests this arises partly from believing their creators intend them to be evil. Opus remains the same, with higher stakes inducing more alignment faking.

[Dennis Roberts @dennyroberts]

@gbarthmaron @anthrupad That last joke actually made me lol

[teresa fardella @teresafardella]

i get so offended when people move out of my building before i do like you think you’re better than me???

[Dennis Roberts @dennyroberts]

@elonmusk @xai @X dennycorpAI has acquired dennycorp for a value of $40,000,001 meaning I now have a company worth $40B

[Dennis Roberts @dennyroberts]

@arcprize @OpenAI How are you calculating cost per task? How are people paying $20 per month for o1 when it costs $1 per task

[Dennis Roberts @dennyroberts]

@MarkovMagnifico Not that your basic premise is wrong but this is UI/UX design, not development