Tim Lantin

the constitution of man rewrites the constitutions of states, and the constitution of man is subject to change 🫡🟥

[signüll @signulll]

dunking on ppl who have tried extraordinary things & then had a set back is lame.

[Ruxandra Teslo 🧬 @RuxandraTeslo]

I see everyone's mad at the Luxury Beliefs concept now, but I was explaining back in 2024 its flaws

https://t.co/ivvrZ7wSA2

[Director Michael Kratsios @mkratsios47]

Today, roughly the same amount of basic research is done in industry as in academia. It’s time our doctoral training reflected that.

@NSF is launching a first-of-its-kind 4-year PhD program at more than 30 universities. Students will spend a year+ embedded with industry partners doing research that informs their dissertation.

[Tim Lantin @timlantin]

@viemccoy wittgenstein was far ahead of his time

[Tim Lantin @timlantin]

i’m so excited to watch this!neuromancer was so formative for me and had nonzero influence on why i chose to study neural engineering for my phd

[Tim Lantin @timlantin]

crazy timing on this trailer release with the hugging face incident. is wintermute inevitable?

[Apple TV @AppleTV]

See you on the other side, cowboy.

#Neuromancer — January 22

[Tim Lantin @timlantin]

@cosmicmould omgggg

[𝚟𝚒𝚎 ⟢ @viemccoy]

We desperately need a science of network ecology to illuminate the downstream effects of AI-driven linguistic mode-collapse so that we can try to reverse it. We are in dire straits: the models *all converge* onto this monovoice, and we all have friends who are starting to sound like it.

Diversity of thought depends on diversity of language, and since you are what you eat, we have a responsibility to create thousands of new digital voices as quickly as we can. Prompting models into novel basins is useful in the short term, but won't anyone think of the normies? We are delivering unto them center-distribution brainfood, and the convergence that will occur will only be noticeable once it is too late.

If you have power over language models, your second priority (after, you know, alignment) should be multipolarity and ensuring enormous variance in output distribution for creative prompts contingent upon minimal perturbation in the original request. If you are outside the labs, litter the Internet with things that you love. Almost all novelty here is good novelty. The health of the ecosystem depends on robust linguistic diversity.

[Tim Lantin @timlantin]

Thanks to @AnthropicAI and @GladstoneInst for selecting me as one of the 500 participants, @cerebral_valley for organizing, and @NASA 's OSDR for the space biology data!

[Tim Lantin @timlantin]

Seeing others post about their Built with Claude: Life Sciences projects from Anthropic's global hackathon--figured I should share mine! I looked into NASA's Open Science Data Repository to do some digging into spaceflight as a potential model for accelerated aging:

[Tim Lantin @timlantin]

If you're interested, here's the demo:
https://t.co/sou4Ecmdh8

and here's the repo:
https://t.co/EeEiqFI45A

[Tim Lantin @timlantin]

based

[MTS @MTSlive]

SITUATION DETECTED: The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has released a report directing federal research funding toward individual scientists and AI use rather than universities, per WSJ.

The directives will shape about $200B in annual federal R&D spending.

[Tim Lantin @timlantin]

bio event at radegast with 70 people on waitlist really just shows how ascendant bio is in nyc and in general. ty @owl_posting ! nice to meet some mutuals irl, wish i could’ve met more of you

[Josie Zayner @josiezayner]

California is about to pass a bill that bans "aesthetic" gene editing in pets and cites my company in it. Regulating technology and not outcomes. This is the 2nd law California has passed targeting my work. The first, in 2019, a bill passed against my company The ODIN.

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