We bought a smart fridge and oven. Not for the smarts but because they were the best looks-match for our new kitchen. The only thing it does is make it impossible to change the temperature without a connected app. Totally worthless tech. Looks great tho.
People are automatically dunking on this as woo slop but I think it has real merit. She believes llm’s can be organized to operate in concert to more closely emulate human-like thinking. It’s a play for AGI using off the shelf parts. Might be worth the $2.5M idk.
I am excited to announce that Arcarae has $2.5M in funding and I am finally hiring.
Arcarae’s mission is to help humanity remember and unlock the power each individual holds within themself so they can bring into reality their unique, authentic expression of self without fear or compromise.
Our research endeavors are designed to support this mission via computationally modeling higher-order cognition and subjective internal world models. Specifically, we are building the computational models of the other side of intelligence that everyone has neglected:
Intuition.
Our evolution is anchored in our current product, an immersive universe for self-discovery, and MIRROR, our AI research implementing cognitive inner-monologue in LLMs, reducing sycophancy by 21% on avg. & up to 156% vs. SOTA models.
This marks Arcarae’s transition from a solo endeavor into a full-fledged consumer product and AI research company.
I am seeking three very specific people to join me on this mission and help scale Arcarae to its next phase. I am hiring one researcher, one marketer, and one engineer as my founding team. These are far from normal roles; the application and hiring process even reflects this.
If you think you are one of these three people, please apply right away. There is much to be done <3
And with that being said,
Welcome to the era of Arcarae.
And as always, I am excited for what’s to come <3
@thorstenball I went through precisely the same thing with my 7 year old setting him and myself up for the first time. The parental control system is indeed bananas. I avoided Linux (mobile only) although I had to discover the OSX version is not compatible with mobile the hard way.
@levelsio Your employee friends, assuming they are high skilled, can’t find work because their comp standards are high and there’s no companies left that can afford them. Meanwhile your founder friends aren’t paying enough to attract their talent.
@lettersfromjuno I was less enthused by the emphasis our midwife put on orgasmic birth as the gold standard. It added a lot of unnecessary stress and fear around being “good enough”. If women can trust that outcomes will be good independent of their state of mind it will be a source of calm.
@lettersfromjuno We took a “calm birth” class that was incredibly helpful during my wife’s birth itself when she had complications. The class covered some theories as to how blood flow and state of mind are linked and taught techniques (some breathing-based) for calming the nervous system.
The funniest thing about elon & grok is he desperately wants it to be unwoke yet he genuinely designed it to be truthful AND he’s become dumber over the years (drugs maybe?) so he can’t tell that grok is actually telling the truth, even when it’s woke.
One thing that really bothers me about the Information Age is the lack of data available (aka: information). It should be trivial to filter , index, graph, and analyze across all published documents, scientific papers, news articles, etc.
Ok, @hasbro, as a dad I have to ask: why don’t you offer all the toys you make on your website? Why is it so difficult to find certain series or complete sets of things?
@TOEwithCurt Any information about what God is or isn’t is completely unknowable, unfortunately. They may not have any influence on our reality at all, once begun.
@TOEwithCurt Horns of the dilemma! Most people stop there. Me too tbh. Personally I like the idea of a timeless being that can create without causation. Let there be light! It makes free will a unique superpower only possible within our contingent universe. Angels be jealous as hell.