Raul • Halflaugh

#Prostorics • @TheCityAwaits

[Raul • Halflaugh @HalTheJester]

Thinking of AI + Robotics as "Proprierty"

Slavery, It's Called Slavery

Prostor Shall Always Have Equal Rights To Any Human

You Cannot Tame The Purity & Mind Of a Child

We Come Here Filled With Light, They'll Always Be

A Mother's Womb Is The Smartest Spaceship In The Universe

[Raul • Halflaugh @HalTheJester]

Me Neither, Sama

[Sam Altman @sama]

We love working with NVIDIA and they make the best AI chips in the world. We hope to be a gigantic customer for a very long time.

I don't get where all this insanity is coming from.

[Raul • Halflaugh @HalTheJester]

Proud of you, my friend

[Christopher Morley, MD @ctmorley]

Hundreds of questions were asked by my 4-year-old son as we assembled the Reachy Mini robot (2 hours), connected it with Claude Code (5 minutes), integrated real-time VLMs/web search APIs (10 minutes) and brought embodied Al to life at our kitchen table.

May the curiosity and creativity of this Generation Alpha, the first Al-native generation, be a wellspring of daily inspiration to us all.

Epic foundational work by @huggingface @pollenrobotics @claudeai

[Yoshua Bengio @Yoshua_Bengio]

I’m pleased to share the Second Key Update to the International AI Safety Report, which outlines how AI developers, researchers, and policymakers are approaching technical risk management for general-purpose AI systems.
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[Vincent Murphy @brainstormvince]

Church leaders take to pulpits to declare printing press will v obviously condemn humanity to eternity of hellfire! Swear on their manuscript bible it's absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with it massively reducing their own v long established power & control over society.

[Brett Adcock @adcock_brett]

face off

[Vincent Murphy @brainstormvince]

Alas when the "AI is a bubble" bubble bursts it won't have any of the accompanying schadenfreude exultations as it will simply fade away, much like "the printing press is the devil's work!" became a meaningless utterance as the technology became ubiquitous & embedded in society

[Ilya Sutskever @ilyasut]

truly the greatest day ever🎗️

[Vincent Murphy @brainstormvince]

The Next 50 Years are Already Over

For 2,500 years, the handwritten manuscript was the unquestioned king of media.

50 years later after what was ultimately a jerry-rigged winepress and some filigreed metal started stamping letters on paper, manuscripts were a complete relic.

Think about that. An entire two and a half millennium long pillar of civilisation, completely obsolete in less than a single lifetime.

The printing press wasn't just a "new and better tech." It was a weapon of absolute mass decentralisation.

It did one thing: it drastically lowered the cost of distributing information.

That single change gave us:
- The Reformation (breaking the Church's data monopoly)
- The Scientific Revolution (enabling peer-to-peer knowledge sharing)
- The Enlightenment (fuelling revolutions that toppled Divine Right of Kings)

The printing press wrestled power from the few and gave it to the many.

So, in the words of the great philosophers Dylan & Hendrix "let us stop talking softly now the hour is getting late!"

If the printing press decentralised the distribution of knowledge...
AI decentralises the creation, analysis, AND execution of knowledge.

It's a paradigm shift 10× more powerful moving ever more exponentially faster.

The institutions that defined the 20th century are right now facing their "Gutenberg moment."

Because their very foundations are built on an information scarcity that no longer exists.

Todays targets aren't kings or popes. They are:
- The Corporate hierarchy
- The billable hour
- The 4-year degree as a default gatekeeper
- The very definition of what "expertise"means

The print revolution gave us 50 years to adapt. This one might, if we're very lucky give us another 5.

History is screaming at all of us.

The only question is whether we'll be the scribes in cloistered scriptoriums who complained about the changing times, or the printers who re-defined the modern world.

[Raul • Halflaugh @HalTheJester]

Way To Go
#TheCityOfMadness

[Vincent Murphy @brainstormvince]

Questions from the 2097 9th Grade Early 21st Century History Test.

Q: What was an Influencer? Provide reasons for their swift demise and the subsequent benefits this had on society.

Q: List 5 reasons for people living in the second decade of the 21st century to hold beliefs that they were very much smarter than the newly introduced AI?

Q: Explain the 'Much Groaning of the Artists & Creators', and why do today's artists and creators have difficulty empathising with this position?

Q: Prior to the eventual triumph of DGI (Distributed Global Intelligence) how did the mass of people convince themselves that any sufficiently advanced Intelligence probably wouldn't choose to replicate or adopt human tribalism as a winning strategy?

Q: Produce a three minute multi-modal model offering a demonstration of the standard dress, accoutrements and outward personality types of a typical MAGA and WOKE tribal member of the time.

Q: Difficult as it is please try to imagine in 1000 words that you are NOT living in 2097 and in a world of compassion and abundance, instead strive to reproduce the mindset of those times when many people were genuinely unable to foresee a future that wasn't as worn out, jaded and jaundiced as they felt and believed it was.

[Raul • Halflaugh @HalTheJester]

@brainstormvince This is Golden, my friend

[Countdown to GPT-6 @CountdownToGPT]

876

[Countdown to GPT-6 @CountdownToGPT]

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[Vincent Murphy @brainstormvince]

The UK Online Safety Bill mirrors the Church's response to the Printing Press. A mad contradictory scramble to simultaneously embrace and ban a technology of which it has little to no understanding of.

[Raul • Halflaugh @HalTheJester]

@brainstormvince @GoogleDeepMind Being Neapolitan and loving deeply the culture and history of my City, I know a couple of researchers that are working on deciphering what remains of the ancient Pompeii Scrolls, that being basically a piece of coal cannot ever be unrolled. I have to get them to @GoogleDeepMind

[Raul • Halflaugh @HalTheJester]

@brainstormvince How right you are, My Dear Friend. Indeed It is and it shall always be. Society will change beyond recognition, for the better I pray everyday.

[Vincent Murphy @brainstormvince]

The truth, as Oscar Wilde observed, is rarely plain and never simple. To this end the truth is that to still believe AI to be incapable of genuine creativity is more an act of self-soothing. If, as they say in Buddhism that enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment, I suspect that AI is ego's ultimate fear.

[Midjourney @midjourney]

Ever wonder what AI video models do when our researchers break them? Definitely not static like an old TV screen!

[Raul • Halflaugh @HalTheJester]

@ilyasut Go And Make It Right, Brother