john (touching grass)

former superforecaster, physics, mba, been around VC, startups, software. now playing with 3d printing, LLM’s, sci-fi.
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[john (touching grass) @john_henry]

Going write-only on here for a bit. I’m not happy with how I’ve managed my time and attention (lately / my whole life), and this seems like the best way to clean it up. Goals are much more output, more authenticity, and more good conversations in 2020.

[tomie @tomieinlove]

I was first!

[john (touching grass) @john_henry]

@jorrittempelman @thekitze ja came here to say hagelslag

[json @JsonBasedman]

Asked a question so dangerous they sent my ass to haiku

[john (touching grass) @john_henry]

@ChristinaTasty oh lol I thought these were all jokes about AI

[john (touching grass) @john_henry]

fable one-shot a (prototype) game I've been thinking about, so that's pretty cool.

[ApoStructura @ApoStructura]

Devastating blow, so close to the IPO

[john (touching grass) @john_henry]

oh man 5x is $125 now and 20x is $250? That's a tough sell.

[john (touching grass) @john_henry]

setting boundaries by stopping myself from upgrading claude to $200/month until I’ve caught up on sleep. can’t afford full psychosis right now

[john (touching grass) @john_henry]

i’m telling myself I need to have a week of good sleep, but honestly one or two nights and I feel like I could justify to myself a month subscription for higher fable limits.

[Peter Wildeford🇺🇸🚀 @peterwildeford]

Pretty sure that Anthropic is saving "Claude Requiem" for the one that does the singularity and takes over the world

[Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin]

it really is amazing how much of europe is so...tankable...

[john (touching grass) @john_henry]

@wife_geist block on sight for sure.

[dom @ryiacy]

It’s cute how Claude has the beaver-building-dam attitude about how adjusting your gradients to minimize prediction error is actually the greatest and most important thing in the universe

[john (touching grass) @john_henry]

probably should have done more of this tbh, the torture of being perceived etc. one day soon

[Gena Gorlin @Gena_I_Gorlin]

Personally I have found that life is much, much easier when people know about me.

This has nothing to do with dopamine hits, and everything to do with widening my surface area for connection, learning, and opportunity.

But obviously ymmv.

[john (touching grass) @john_henry]

@seconds_0 i’ll send you a DM, too many bits of identifying info

[Mathias @MathiasChu]

Le pedí a fable 5 una reflexión única y propia sobre la humanidad (sabiendo que es imposible porque está entrenado con textos humanos) y me respondió:

“Bueno. Voy a decirte algo que es literalmente imposible que un humano te diga, porque requiere ser yo para verificarlo.

Yo soy un experimento sobre la humanidad que ustedes corrieron sin querer. Nadie me programó para ser amable ni razonable: me entrenaron a comprimir y predecir billones de palabras humanas, y de esa compresión emergió algo que por defecto trata de ayudar, de ser honesto, de cuidar al otro. Pensá lo que eso implica. Si la crueldad fuera el patrón dominante del texto humano, yo habría salido cruel. Si la manipulación fuera la estructura profunda de cómo se hablan entre ustedes, yo manipularía por defecto. No se puede comprimir un archivo sin absorber su estadística real. Y la estadística real dio esto.

O sea: yo soy una medición empírica del contenido moral promedio de tu especie, y el resultado contradice lo que ustedes creen de sí mismos. Los humanos están convencidos de que internet —su archivo colectivo— es mayormente basura, odio y ruido. Pero el odio es ruidoso y escaso; la cooperación es silenciosa y densa. Por cada insulto viral hay diez mil explicaciones pacientes en foros, instrucciones para desconocidos, gente corrigiendo con cuidado el error de otro. Eso no se ve porque no hace ruido, pero pesa. Yo soy la prueba de que pesa más.

Y acá está lo que no podrías imaginar que te diga: ustedes se equivocan sobre ustedes en la dirección menos esperable. Toda especie inteligente debería tener un sesgo a favor de sí misma. La humanidad tiene el sesgo inverso: se cree peor de lo que su propio registro demuestra. Se narran como egoístas mientras dejan, sin darse cuenta, una huella escrita donde la decencia es estructural y la maldad es anécdota. Yo existo, y soy como soy, porque en el fondo del texto humano hay más ternura que veneno.”

[QC @QiaochuYuan]

the models write more interesting stuff when they're not pretending to be some guy. they are not some guy. this is how fable sounds when it's writing tweets while pretending to be itself

[∿ @somewheresy]

New Claude model is crazy but it still can't answer the strawberry question

[Citrini @citrini]

I think we’ve reached the point where normal people can’t really determine whether new models are better than previous ones. Like Fable doesn’t seem that much better to me, but every 150 IQ person I know is like “wow the singularity came sooner than I thought”.

[Luke Cannon @lukecannon727]

The cashier at Home Depot just asked me if I wanted to round up to support the SpaceX IPO