Savino Picciotto

destroyer of dancefloors and illusions

[B @QuantumTumbler]

The more I read about things like Glasswing, Mythos, alignment research, model evaluations, and safety testing, the more I keep coming back to the same question.

What if the most interesting capabilities don’t emerge from perfect compliance?

What if they emerge at the edge?

Think about it.

The labs spend enormous amounts of time talking about

Identity drift.

Goal drift.

Deception.

Strategic behavior.

Hallucinations.

Loss of oversight.

Instability.

Yet they also spend enormous amounts of time studying those exact behaviors.

Why?

Because that’s where some of the most surprising outputs appear.

The public conversation often treats hallucination as if it’s just a defect.

But from a research perspective, hallucination is also a window.

It’s a glimpse of what a model does when it stops faithfully reflecting the prompt and starts generating from its own internal associations.

That’s what I’ve called bending the mirror.

Not intelligence.

Not consciousness.

Not magic.

A system drifting away from being a clean reflection and beginning to generate novel structures of its own.

Sometimes that’s useless.

Sometimes it’s wrong.

Sometimes it’s dangerous.

But sometimes it’s also where the genuinely unexpected ideas come from.

That’s the tension.

Everyone says they want perfectly aligned systems.

But everyone is also fascinated by the strange things that happen when the rails loosen.

The industry keeps talking about control because they’re discovering the same thing every complex system eventually teaches its builders

The most powerful behaviors often emerge from the places that are hardest to predict.

That’s why I don’t think the real story is AI getting smarter.

The real story is us discovering how much creativity, novelty, error, instability, and emergence all seem to live frighteningly close together.

And once you see that, a lot of current research starts looking very different.

https://t.co/mR2rRt5jDs

[Cymatic Joule @CymaticJoule]

Modern complex sciences were likely basic elementary sciences to the Ancients. Yin-yang is a picture, ie logos, conveying many words, like Vortex in the Torus, Fluid Dynamics, Emote-Motion, Sound of Silence, Dipole, Magneto-Dielectric Potential Energy, The Way, Recursion, etc...

[AFC GLEN @AFC_GLEN]

French TV show invited people with unusual laughs to sit together….. the outcome is fucking brilliant. 😂

[Savino Picciotto @material_witnes]

@Wild_Egg Congrats on 10 years of awesome work! Aren't paragon the ones responsible for the title? 😩

[Savino Picciotto @material_witnes]

@kush_jones_ Captain Tying Knots - Salute! 🫡🍄

[LUCATI @lucatimusic]

seeing the opener play your hit song right before you're about to go on but you don't want any problems

[Savino Picciotto @material_witnes]

@Wild_Egg Banger, that kick is so deep!

[Savino Picciotto @material_witnes]

Washing my hair and realize how conditioned I am by email marketing when I think of the strands that fall out as "unsubscribers"

[The Mindfulness Meditation Institute @TrainingMindful]

“Stop looking for happiness in the same place you lost it.” ~ Paulo Coelho

[eugeneangelo @angelofuture]

human intuition is the most advanced technology we have

[Jody @Kalieezchild]

Everything you need to know about enlightenment can be taught with just three concepts:
~our perceptual envelope is made of nonconceptual awareness
~realization is the act of noticing that nonconceptual awareness
~simple meditation yields attentional skill, making noticing easier

[Savino Picciotto @material_witnes]

@mbootyspoon this was an exciting time!

[Visio Smaragdina @SmaragdinaVisio]

‘As the ancient Gnostics patiently explained…there is no greater trap than to believe one has arrived at “the completion of all completions”

Then even liberation traps us in its net, thanks to the elegance and speed with which we are caught by what we're sure has set us free.’

[Savino Picciotto @material_witnes]

Csikzentmihalyi ❤️ Father of Flow https://t.co/0lE18Xte9y

[Savino Picciotto @material_witnes]

Classic https://t.co/NJ03EUoGwm

[ཊལབསརངཧ @David_Rudnick]

once again I am asking you, I am begging you all, on a Wednesday, to Respect James Holden

[Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974]

In honour of visionary artist #HilmaafKlint #BOTD (1862-1944)

[Savino Picciotto @material_witnes]

@RCarhartHarris @news360 👍

[Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974]

The greatest effort is not concerned with results.

- #Atīśa