Jonas von der Heyden

[Nick @nickcammarata]

in 2028 bernie sanders forces the oligarch labs to hire every human as an approval engineer

ai swarms run civilization. we’re assigned random subsets and green approve buttons appear now and then. humans get the nobels, patents, equity, and bylines if they clicked approve on a major discovery. they are the heroes. the swarm-written papers mention in the acknowledgments that the discovery was “ai assisted”

everyone agrees this is basically what has always been going on. we aren’t our thoughts, and einstein wasn’t his either. he couldn’t choose which thought to have next. all he could do was watch them arise, approve the good ones, and hope they discovered something great. he was essentially an approval engineer, and now we are too

[Jonas von der Heyden @jvdh_]

https://t.co/bVXSXBSctt

[Jonas von der Heyden @jvdh_]

"Every few months, some group of bright nerds in San Francisco has the same idea: we’ll use our intelligence to hack ourselves to become hot and hard-working and charismatic and persuasive, then reap the benefits of all those things!"

[Jonas von der Heyden @jvdh_]

@nickcammarata Daniel Ingram and others make it sound like the benefits of enlightenment are very hard to explain: "Highly recommended, can’t tell you why" is the strongest you can get out of them.

[Jonas von der Heyden @jvdh_]

@HotForMoot You might wanna date Matthew Scully https://t.co/ybsTQS3YyK

[Jonas von der Heyden @jvdh_]

@noampomsky What did you like about Three Women? All three of the stories seemed somewhat tragic to me, but not in a way that you could learn anything from them. Or is that the point?

[Jonas von der Heyden @jvdh_]

@nickcammarata arc teryx ionia merino

[Agnes Callard @AgnesCallard]

As academia became more competitive, high-achiever types flocked to it & outperformed the weirdos who used to populate it; the result is widespread unhappiness, bc academia is more suited to ppl who obsess over Aristotle's theory of sleep than ppl who want to change the world.

[non aesthetic things @PicturesFoIder]

Zurich's new Bike Tunnel 🚴🏻‍♀️🚲

[Nick @nickcammarata]

are there any towns that give property tax reductions proportional to how pro social your home is, pretty trees, cute animals, etc. I want to live in a neighborhood where everyone has rabbits, aviaries, kids, and beautiful flower gardens. a town vibe dictator judges all the homes

[Nick @nickcammarata]

your heart gets blinded by the learned contractions trying to protect you, and over time if never felt and purified this accumulates until almost no one makes it through. but usually so slow it's hard to notice

[Nick @nickcammarata]

I think one of the best critiques of modern day (by @rivatez) is our time’s big drug is literally a general anesthetic. terribly sad. we can do better than that

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

I hassled @tylercowen about why he doesn't expect explosive economic growth from AGI. How could we possibly add 100 billion extra workers and only get 0.5% more growth?

Also featuring Stalin's library, EU decels, and how Churchill was an underachiever.

Hilarious and provocative throughout.

My 4th interview with Tyler. He surprises me every time.

Enjoy!

Timestamps
0:00:00 - Economic Growth and AI
0:15:45 - Founder Mode and increasing variance
0:30:19 - Effective Altruism and Progress Studies
0:33:53 - What AI changes for Tyler
0:45:45 - The slow diffusion of innovation
0:50:41 - Stalin's library
0:53:07 - DC vs SF vs EU

[Boaz Barak @boazbaraktcs]

@lambdaviking I’m sure most of what we call now research *will* be automated. It will just take more time than some in the industry believe. (Not because of any slowdown in AI improvements but more because of the gap to deployment.)

[Jonas von der Heyden @jvdh_]

@nickcammarata @threadreaderapp unroll

[buck @Exposing_apes]

@WatcherGuru

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

Here's a beautiful statement of the prime duty of the intellectual, from psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, 1956. There have always been political pressures on intellectuals. I thank David Lubinski for this quote:

[Jonas von der Heyden @jvdh_]

@sama A machine learning algorithm drawing a self-portrait