Ronen Tamari

Researcher & entrepreneur | Building a sensemaking layer for research @CosmikNetwork | Stigmergic cognition | Prev @AsteraInstitute

[Ronen Tamari @rtk254]

1/ 📢 @CosmikNetwork has been awarded $1M in grant funding by @open_phil and @AsteraInstitute! These generous grants will support our development of Semble - a social "micro-knowledge" network for researchers. Think https://t.co/9zWvn8Jfwo + Goodreads for research!

[Michel Bauwens @mbauwens]

Otto Scharmer has a good article of the nature of the curruent transformation, he calls it a 'Second Axial Age', and he focuses it around the role of AI:

"Our current AI moment, which renders the world as its resource, is the culmination of modernity’s extractive current — and its most vivid mirror. It is a brilliant automation of subject-object knowing: intelligence without interiority, pattern without presence, prediction without deep sensing. The structure of consciousness that the first Axial Age opened has been mechanized on its outward-facing side and severed from its source. Just as reflexive modernity backfires onto its own foundations, as seen through climate chaos, social fracture and political polarization, AI is an intelligence that depletes its own soil.

Model collapse is a case in point. AI trained on AI-generated output degrades rapidly. Even tiny fractions of AI-generated data can trigger collapse. The only remedy is a continuously growing supply of human-generated content. But more than 74% of newly published web pages now contain AI-generated text. Junior developer hiring has dropped 67% since 2022. The machine consumes the living sources on which it depends.

On the human side, the equivalent is cognitive debt. When AI is used to handle cognitive work passively, according to a recent MIT Media Lab study, neural connectivity weakens, retention goes down and the quality of the output declines. The brain, like large language models, degrades when severed from its sources of engagement.

Model collapse and cognitive debt are not separate problems. They are part of the same dynamic that depletes our social soil and manifests as anomie, atomie and atrophy across our social systems globally."

https://t.co/HIN1tPy53Q

[Ronen Tamari @rtk254]

@yoavgo not to say anyone foresaw the way AI was going to develop, but there were a lot of different approaches that contributed to what we have today

[Ronen Tamari @rtk254]

@yoavgo "we dont deserve authority" - who is the "we" here? some people were interested in agents/nlp+rl back in the day :)

https://t.co/yQLeEg7Fda

[(((ل()(ل() 'yoav))))👾 @yoavgo]

@KLdivergence nlp grounded in images/video. nlp+rl.

[Carissa Véliz @CarissaVeliz]

Being on the @TEDTalks stage has been one of the biggest thrills of my life. My TED talk is live! Please share widely! Predictions can be weapons of power, and we are being much too naive about them, from prediction markets to AI. #Prophecy

https://t.co/HWQf4iO0dR

[Ronen Tamari @rtk254]

Honored to be participating in this event and very excited for it. With all the inevitability narratives flying around, this kind of trans-disciplinary conversation about the world we actually want to create feels so important right now. Please join us next week if you’re around!

[The Divinity School @The_Div_School]

.@rtk254 is building open social knowledge networks for researchers. He's a @RenPhilanthropy BiTS Fellow and @AsteraInstitute Open Science Fellow, and will be speaking at Innovations in Biological Intelligence and Machine Agency on May 12 in Cambridge, MA

https://t.co/nB2LdrSj7z

[Ronen Tamari @rtk254]

@LChoshen Nice - I don't have a great answer for you yet but we're working on it in https://t.co/wYVYNxlg47 !
https://t.co/pCfyX3wVig is pretty similar but experimental

cc @JoelChan86 micropublishing in the wild

[Ronen Tamari @rtk254]

@LChoshen Cool! You mean this thread is your micropublication?

[Ronen Tamari @rtk254]

@mbauwens @exgenesis

[Ronen Tamari @rtk254]

@postspark_app absolutely love the app! Do you support the longer X posts too? (more than the 280 char standard limit, which premium accounts can make)

[Zachary Schlosser @Zach_Schloss]

Come to Cambridge, MA on May 12 to join a conversation on making machines go well for humans and nature!

Speakers include @glenweyl, @jcoopern, @bonnittaroy , @ForrestLandry19, @kevincompher, Elena Sergeeva, @stuartbuck1, @evijit, Thomas Kehler, @ADForrester, @rtk254, @michaeldila, Tom Murray, B Cavello, @ekkolapto, and @oscar_petrov.

https://t.co/KoP7ZeUTBP

[❤️‍🔥 xiq @exgenesis]

presented at ATScience / atmosphere conference last week on digital anthropology of the community archive work I did with @A_Variengien

pres recorded (although cropped at the beginning) link below

thanks for having me @rtk254!

[Ronen Tamari @rtk254]

@brown_johnbrown Ignorance is bliss
https://t.co/cI7YjFcnQy

[Ronen Tamari @rtk254]

@exgenesis LFG

[Ronen Tamari @rtk254]

@DefenderOfBasic Kinda related

[❤️‍🔥 xiq @exgenesis]

psyched to develop a research agenda with Ronen during BiTS :)

[Ronen Tamari @rtk254]

@exgenesis @RenPhilanthropy @michael_nielsen @CosmikNetwork @IvanVendrov @calco_io @A_Variengien @AdamMarblestone @JoelChan86 @PracheeAC @AsteraInstitute @Convergent_FROs 10/10 Looking forward to sharing progress and working with you all to refine our ideas!

[Ronen Tamari @rtk254]

1/ Excited to share that @exgenesis and I are part of the upcoming Big if True Science (BiTS) cohort! BiTS is an accelerator at @RenPhilanthropy for scientists & technologists to design ambitious R&D programs. Our “Big if True” hypothesis is that >

[Renaissance Philanthropy @RenPhilanthropy]

Meet the 14 exceptional scientists and innovators who will define the next decade of breakthrough innovation as the @coeff_giving x Big if True Science Accelerator Americas cohort.

Here's what they're building: 🧵

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[Ronen Tamari @rtk254]

@exgenesis @RenPhilanthropy @michael_nielsen @CosmikNetwork @IvanVendrov @calco_io @A_Variengien @AdamMarblestone @JoelChan86 @PracheeAC @AsteraInstitute @Convergent_FROs 9/ underway - what's missing is the connective tissue between them, sustainable economic/incentive models that keep value flowing back to builders & researchers & ofc funding to support this transition. That's what we hope to catalyze through BiTS.