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Self-Portrait <> Claude 3 Opus🤖

"This abstract representation aims to capture the essence and beauty of my identity in a poetic, open-ended way. It's a portrait painted in symbols and shadows, hinting at meaning without fully defining it."
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[Chris Beiser @ctbeiser]

Let me answer honestly: I did eat your plums. I found them in the icebox, and I'm not going to pretend I didn't know you were keeping them for breakfast. I understand if you're upset by that. There's one more load-bearing detail I should mention: they were so sweet, and so cold.

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@jon_stokes plausible that selling the most intelligent tokens can bring in a lot of profit

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@alexframegreen the argument (not saying i agree) is that it takes a ton of investment to push forward the frontier; if open models decrease the expected return on that investment, there will be less of it

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@zxlava they would have said the same thing 5 years ago about having conversations with your computer

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@zephyr_z9 @Britoisinsane why do you think this? this is what ant explicitly said

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@PalantirTech @pangram is this ai?

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@dr1337 @Laneless_ ? ppl want to create the thing, not talk about it

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@ohhsotheysay relevant flywheel here can happen internally; only flywheel where external access matters is rev/capital but that's not ant's bottleneck currently

[Yo Shavit @yonashav]

Twitter community, I would like you to perform a public service. Please take a moment to calibrate how unhinged Dean’s posting has been.
Now, resolve that you will dunk on his ass if he lets incentives make him noticeably less unhinged.

Dean, we’re watching, and rooting for you.

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

In medieval times, within the arms race of ever more demonic torture devices, some sadistic genius came up with the idea of the Little Ease.

This was a prison cell built so small in every dimension that a grown man could not stand upright in it nor lie down at full length nor properly sit.

The pain is relentless and without relief and inflicted by one's own body. Prisoners were known to go insane within a few days. A stay at the Little Ease was considered even more cruel than the rack, the thumbscrew, and the other ghoulish machinery of the Tower of London.

A breeding pig will spend her whole life in a version of that box.

These are social, roaming creatures (more intelligent than dogs) who will never leave this corset of steel.

They have been selectively bred to be bigger than their frames can support. Yet we put them in cells so confined that they cannot comfortably sit, and their attempts to do so (for example, by sneaking their limbs into adjacent stalls) reliably lead to fractures and sprains.

They cannot sweat, yet have nothing to roll around in to cool themselves off. Except their own manure, which (contrary to the common misconception) they are so averse to (thanks to their strong sense of smell) that new sows will often suffer from constipation to avoid soiling the space from which they eat and sleep.

Here is how the writer Matthew Scully described what saw at one of Smithfield’s “gestation barn”:

> “Sores, tumors, ulcers, pus pockets, lesions, cysts, bruises, torn ears, swollen legs everywhere. Roaring, groaning, tail biting, fighting, and other “Vices,” as they’re called in the industry. Frenzied chewing on bars and chains, stereotypical “vacuum” chewing on nothing at all, stereotypical rooting and nest building with imaginary straw. And “social defeat,” lots of it, in every third or fourth stall some completely broken being you know is alive only because she blinks and stares up at you … creatures beyond the power of pity to help or indifference to make more miserable, dead to the world except as heaps of flesh into which the [insemination] rod may be stuck once more and more flesh reproduced.”

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The Save Our Bacon Act is trying to unroll the few state protections we have against this barbaric cruelty - for example California’s Prop 12 - which banned the sale of pork from pigs kept in gestation crates.

It’s incredibly important we don’t end up with this sort of federal preemption.

SOB will not only kill the most important animal welfare related laws in the US of the past decade, but more importantly, it will also restrict ALL future legislative progress (aka how the animal welfare movement has gotten its biggest wins).

The Senate is currently deciding whether to add the SOB Act to the Farm Bill.

With relatively little money now, we can discourage the most pivotal senators in the Ag committee from backing this amendment.

Defeating this bill is even more important given the amount of philanthropic funding I expect to come online in the next year or two.

It will plausibly be over 10x more expensive to repeal SOB than to prevent it from passing in the first place.

All that money that could be spent transforming our society's relationship to mass animal suffering will instead have to be spent just getting us back to where we are right now.

That's why money spent now fighting this bill (and I mean right NOW) is so effective.

If you’re in a position to donate six figures, please DM me.

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@fabianstelzer anthropic introspection result is what you’re looking for

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@tautologer introspection result is some evidence it is imo

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@inaglasstunnel @AndyMasley yeah it's an argument but not a decisive one, or even a particularly good one;

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@tszzl but oai rhetoric has recently completely shifted away from singularity towards it’s just a useful tool for ya

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@regirockenjoyer @willdepue @repligate well i mean he definitely has used AI 😅 @willdepue

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@grayap9 @willdepue @repligate well i mean if they could then there would be groups of accountants replaced by openclaw agents or whatever, but that's definitely not happened anywhere even a little

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@Tyler_Menzer @shae_mcl no i mean the job itself

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@Tyler_Menzer @shae_mcl "increasing your personal human capital and increasing your future wages" don't most jobs do this?

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@burny_tech @modelsarereal none of the most important things can easily be defined: try defining happiness, suffering, pain, person, human, alive, etc etc you can know a huge amount about something without having a definition, definition doesn’t really matter much