Sebastian Arnström

Musician. B Sc. in Environmental Technology, M Sc. in Sustainability Science.

[Sebastian Arnström @simianghost]

”It can't happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.

- Karl Popper

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.

[Sebastian Arnström @simianghost]

Once people have to pay the true costs of running LLMs, usage is going to drop off a cliff. We’ve already passed peak AI in terms of fundamental capabilities.

It’s all downhill from here.

[frankie @FrankieIsLost]

openAI is working overtime to shift the narrative from 'AGI will take your job' to 'AI will empower people'. meanwhile, talk to the researchers and they just look at you like this and say you have two years of employment left, tops

[Sebastian Arnström @simianghost]

The only truly random thing in this post is the sprinkling of techno-mysticism on actual scientific theory.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Consistent with the simulation hypothesis.

Like a video game, objects are randomly generated, with positional certainty only when observed.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

As I said when Musk bought Twitter, it’s always "free speech = my speech", and if you think otherwise you’re a sucker.

[Emmanuel Ruimy @EmmanuelRuimy]

Pousser un peuple à se soulever, l'abandonner au massacre, puis pactiser avec ses bourreaux : connaît-on escroquerie morale plus achevée dans l'histoire diplomatique ?

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Trump said he demanded unconditional surrender, we just didn’t know he meant America’s.

[Valerio Capraro @ValerioCapraro]

Finally, a big name has the courage to tell it: we are nowhere near AGI.

Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind and Nobel laureate for AlphaFold, put it neat and clear:

"Today's systems are nowhere near [AGI]. Doesn't matter how many Erdős problems you solve… I think it's far, far from what a true invention, or someone like Ramanujan, would have been able to do."

This is the elephant in the room that many AI enthusiasts prefer not to see, or are actively trying to hide.

Erdős problems are well defined, often combinatorial, on finite spaces. They are exactly the kind of problems on which current AI can achieve spectacular performance with a lot of compute and knowledge.

A neural network can search a huge graph of possibilities. It can recombine existing knowledge at unprecedented scale. It can discover surprising solutions inside an already defined conceptual space.

But true invention is something else.

True invention is not only solving a problem.

It is inventing new objects, new dimensions, new connections. It is inventing new problems.

From resolving to inventing there is a discontinuity that we don't know how to bridge.

We are making extraordinary tools.
But we are nowhere close to AGI.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

So the US policy of taking Russia’s side and trying to force Ukraine to surrender to occupation and slaughter has stagnated thanks to the fierce resistance of Ukrainians and their allies in Europe. Good.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

As I’ve said since that first Trump term, we may never know why Trump is so loyal to Putin. Bribery? Blackmail? Affinity for dictators & oligarchs? KGB asset? All of the above? More important is stopping him, because if he were a Russian agent, what would he do differently?

[Peter Hague @peterrhague]

No system in human history has allowed more people to sit in their garden making art than capitalism

[Sebastian Arnström @simianghost]

I guess that’s what freedom looks like when you worship authority.

[Alexander Dugin @AGDugin]

The West is pure and absolute evil.

[Bakhti Nishanov @b_nishanov]

Whatever you think of this war, if this doesn’t give you goosebumps, you have never experienced tyranny and the universal euphoria a promise of freedom holds.

All can still go very wrong but the joy and power of hope can be reality-shifting.

[Sebastian Arnström @simianghost]

@noa_lange She should be unelectable after making noises like this. But I’m guessing she won’t be.

[Sebastian Arnström @simianghost]

You can free people by killing their oppressors.

[Rashida Tlaib @RashidaTlaib]

You cannot ‘free’ people by killing them and destroying their country.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

As usual, a dictator's people celebrate his demise, his long-suffering victims dance in the streets, and Western pols and pundits who have never known repression or hardship, let alone torture, criticize for partisan reasons of their own.

[Niyak Ghorbani (نیاک) @GhorbaniiNiyak]

Persian and Jew celebrating together in London

[𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ @NiohBerg]

Amazing.

Iranians are playing music and DANCING IN THE STREETS.

Everyone waited for this day.

[Khosro K Isfahani @KhosroIsfahani]

People are celebrating Khamenei's death in Tehran.

Chants and whistles are heard.

Javid Shah, Long live the King!

Khamenei, the oppressor, we toppled you!

[مملکته @mamlekate]

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