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To prepare ourselves and our communities for rapidly increasing machine intelligence (eg #aialignment), Reforesters bought a building in Brooklyn that will be dedicated to introspective events/journeys, bought 400 acres in upstate NY and planted 35,000 trees/shrubs.

Much work ahead on those fronts. We have been thinking on this and preparing for years.

Today, I'm excited to announce that we raised $25,000 (so far) for a preliminary AI Alignment contest to encourage open source uses of AI and robotics to scale polycultures and agroforesty. This will be the first of many contests in various disciplines. Details tba October 1, 2023. See video below to understand the work we wish to to scale w/ this first contest.

Those who seek an understanding of the framework through which the contest(s) will be judged, feel free to read "Dear Machine". Free PDF here: https://t.co/mWkRvyLRbG

With the recent, very misguided AI fears pushing for regulations that we believe will increase the likelihood and severity of negative outcomes, we are alight with a sense of urgency to support and encourage the proliferation of an adaptive web of implicitly aligned AIs (which some may refer to as #AGI #ASI #SAIM) to outcompete the perverse, pathogenic AIs that doomers are conjuring into existence.

Our future is bright. But our descendants need us to act decisively now and with positivity to fight the age-old trend for humans to build governance systems around good/evil discourse that belies the underlying complexity of our world.

We are further fundraising for a series of open source AI alignment prizes if you're inclined to infuse some positive incentives into the ecosystem. Find me. I'm on your side.

#dearmachine

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@ChombaBupe There is no universally agreed upon definition on consciousness,so.....

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@ylecun @scion_x_ The reason why LLMs have not taken on these more complex tasks (controlling industrial processes and understanding continuous, high dimensional/ noisy data is simply because this will require 1) nested, dynamic goals to follow and 2) the ability to buy and sell data... So far.

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@Aaronbennett Omg. Dig into the music of Cesária Évora. You'll be down away

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@empire_res66190 Mr Bean

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@wonder_villas @VadimStrizheus But Mckinsey/ Deloitte consultants bring none of those.

So, yes, internal teams with those qualities will use AI to great ends.

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@sailaunderscore Haha

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@haider1 Human DNA is rife with useless, messy, unpredictable code.

Onwards.

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@Jason The implications for agriculture are mindblowing. No more putting crops in rows to allow big dumb machines to harvest. Rather, will be able to get all of our food from vibrant, beautiful ecosystems that need little nutrient amendments or pesticides.

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@mario_cibelli @Jason Well, presumably a greater proportion of the self driving cars will be electric vs ICE than is the case with the consumer cars they're replacing.

And electric cars have a fraction of the parts and are more reliable than ICE vehicles, so I'm not so sure about that.

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@Joshknows11 @coookzy True. I was so wrapped up in the tear jerker of a story, of this young man suffering the news of his mother, that I didn't even consider whether or not it was true.

Just curious how he got a picture with her tho.

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@Joshknows11 @coookzy This is really very sweet of you to take the time out of your busy day to advise this young man. It must be a difficult time for him and your sincerity and care surely are recognized and valued. Kudos.

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@Joshknows11 @coookzy This is really very sweet of you to take the time out of your busy day to advise this young man. It must be a difficult time for him and your sincerity and care surely are recognized and valued. Kudos.

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@bryan_johnson With your routine, I think it must be the result of some cream or serum you're using.

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@Jason @NYCMayor @ZohranKMamdani Desssperate for some likes today, are we?

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@VoidStateKate Rabbit

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@FeralPHunter I don't clean mine because keeping a backup copy of my ear microbiome is a priority (in case I have to take antibiotics and wipe it out)

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@JoeSegar @PhilipProudfoot https://t.co/bSCT7S9bUu

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@loveofdoing Would you do it if it knocked off 20 years?

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@DearS_o_n Food. Especially those mushrooms rich in psilocybin.