Mannat

@MATSprogram | matsci @Columbia

[Mannat @mannatvjain]

pre midterm columbia is caffeinated

[Shayaan Azeem @shayaan_azeem]

post midterm waterloo is beautiful

[Mannat @mannatvjain]

@johnhewtt this guy is cool @alexjerpelea you should join his lab

[Mannat @mannatvjain]

ok I love this

[Neel Nanda @NeelNanda5]

I'm loving the era of personalised AI art!

Opus 5.5 wrote, composed and made a video for a song about the story of mech interp (and how things keep getting worse...), packed with obscure references, and tailored it to my tastes (no guarantees anyone else is into it lol)

[Mannat @mannatvjain]

@Jlindig0 @AlanaDLevin but a 5k is a leisurely walk

[Mannat @mannatvjain]

first time watching SNL and it was while boarding a flight to SFO

[Mannat @mannatvjain]

@Yixiong_Hao anything for the IPO

[Sam Ashworth-Hayes @SAshworthHayes]

"Can a robot write a symphony? Can a robot turn a... canvas into a beautiful masterpiece?"

"What? Yes, obviously. Can't you?"

[Mannat @mannatvjain]

@srijatwt mats offices will be peppered with lego shoggoths this fall

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tbc thinking of first-pass pangram filters being helpful for blocking memetic hazards / superstimuli à la I'm upping my p(doom) but several times more addictive for a regular person, I don't think pangram is going to be particularly helpful at preventing one's own agents from persuading them of things (how to solve that idk).

re: culture, I think a lot of people who are ok with exposing themselves to AI generated stuff on social media are going to end up hopelessly addicted once instagram starts serving them infinite high-quality just-in-time content and that the only non-addicted stable state will be p much zero AI consumption

[Mannat @mannatvjain]

weird how a bit of back-of-the-napkin math suggests that my conservative prior has pangram being worth >$1b by 2030

[Mannat @mannatvjain]

Agree, I'm factoring my p(them not being market leader) into this.

Curious, why don't you expect such a first pass to be helpful? I already filter most of the internet through either agent swarms (twitter) or pangram (substack, email); I expect a script that keeps you from seeing anything AI-generated would be quite effective.

[Mannat @mannatvjain]

@kaustubhais in most worlds I expect pangram to be worth much much more than 10b because I imagine pangram becoming akin to infrastructure

superpersuasion is going to be a huge problem and pangram is a useful first filter

[Mannat @mannatvjain]

surprised by how few people are saying this, but yes!

close to having opera filter my twitter and substack feeds before I see them

[Ben Goldhaber @BenGoldhaber]

the opus 5.5 animations convinced me ai super persuasion is a real and present threat model

[Mannat @mannatvjain]

@indefeasible_ 55?

[Mannat @mannatvjain]

@beyarkay with Scott Alexander as chairman

[Mannat @mannatvjain]

@anpaure @jackclarkSF "they had, in fact, not read hpmor"

[Mannat @mannatvjain]

@Algon_33 @williawa @sophieisawitch curious what you're referring to when you say "the vibes"