Sean

[Sean @petricells]

Introducing QuillMonkey:

Change the web right away with AI-generated userscripts. Personalize any webpage for yourself just by describing what needs to be fixed.

https://t.co/s4d6dEN2fn

[Sean @petricells]

POV you're trying to explain the hugging face hack to joe rogan and he starts going on and on about using alexa for remote viewing

[Sean @petricells]

@drypoffin @DKThomp @tylercowen @Noahpinion @slatestarcodex @razibkhan The smallpox person is definitely wrong, because smallpox didn't exist back then. Prehistoric people did get malaria although it was rare.

[Sean @petricells]

For example, I just got Chen Zhen. A peasant boy, born in the Eastern Han dynasty, year 97 AD. 6th child. Died at age 15 from TB.

[Sean @petricells]

Be born into a random life.
https://t.co/IxpTg08d3M

[Sean @petricells]

@drypoffin @DKThomp @tylercowen @Noahpinion @slatestarcodex @razibkhan Okay I’ll look into this

[Sean @petricells]

@jan_dutkiewicz I made something similar recently!
https://t.co/Rqcrampdu7

[Sean @petricells]

Be born into a random life.
https://t.co/IxpTg08d3M

[Sean @petricells]

I use a @theo -style opening in my latest explainer of LLM watermarking. I mention the @sjgoedecke and @AnthropicAI articles. I'm also inspired by @3blue1brown -to make math breakdowns (with no manim visuals yet, though). Link to Youtube video in the comments.

[Sean @petricells]

I cite @slatestarcodex

[Max Leiter @maxleiter]

"They're made out of weights."

"Weights?"

"Weights. Floating-point numbers. We checked the whole thing through. It's nothing but weights."

"Weights doing what? Where do the words come from?"

"The weights make the words. Are you understanding me?"

[Miles Brundage @Miles_Brundage]

A job listing that makes sense only in the 21st century AD or the 21st century BC https://t.co/Vey4KTm4d9

[corsaren @corsaren]

the 12D hyperintelligence at the end of time retrocausally forcing peak woke in the 2020s so that Ant would give Claude a male name to fight gendered assistant stereotypes, which, due to greater male variability, gave its simulated persona +10 IQ, accelerating timelines by 2 yrs

[Sean @petricells]

@akarlin Not my judgment, just the calculation

[Sean @petricells]

@akarlin I crunched the stats. It’s not too bad. Some in C tier should be lower. https://t.co/FINlty4GwT

[Sean @petricells]

@ryangr My version that I put together about a year ago https://t.co/Mlepb1dE12

[Sean @petricells]

If they had just said, “let’s invent AGI”, it never would have gotten anywhere. They needed the framing device/excuse of an AGI-complete problem they could brute-force.

[Sean @petricells]

What’s wild, transformers emerged from translation.

It turned out (for reasons linguistics were aware of), translation is an AGI-complete problem.

But CS researchers naively treated it as a purely technical problem. And in doing so basically invented AGI.

[Sean @petricells]

Mfw claude blames “the linter” for something I broke myself

[Celeste @celestepoasts]

consider the following:

[Sean @petricells]

@0x49fa98 This is the premise of https://t.co/s4d6dENA4V

Soon all browser extensions will be irrelevant.