ubaldo

Programmer and entrepreneur.

[ubaldo @ubaldo]

@EricLDaugh @grok what is the market value of the ship cargo

[Roger This @RogerThisdell]

Just differences in degrees of phenomenological richness

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@nickcammarata There is the good old Bill Hamilton quip:
So Bill, what it like to be enlightened? Suffering less, but feeling it more.

[Meditation Vil @WoohkaStylie]

Of course, if our true nature is loving awareness, this also means that the true nature of the hawk snatching a baby bobcat is also loving awareness, of the lyme infected tick borrowing in my armpit, of the lioness attacking a sick and injured fawn. Expressions of the same loving awareness?

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@johnsonmxe @dkazand and now I have a useful mental model with those maladaptive latches that stay longer than needed and cause waves to diffract and reflect in unhelpful ways. Thanks for such great work.

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@johnsonmxe @dkazand Also, In my first Goenka retreat, the talk of sanskaras trapped as knots in the body was totally off putting to me. Hundreds of hours of meditation have updated my priors :-);

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@johnsonmxe @dkazand Same instructions everywhere: unclog pipes (Bhikkhu) and trying to create resonance, get the organs (pun intended) to play in the same key, circulate the chi (Tai-chi), etc

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@johnsonmxe @dkazand spreading breath energy, circulation to the entire body. Also "connecting" parts of the body with awareness and "making the breath feel good". Burbea further developed it in his famous Jhana retreat with his concept of energy body, probing, sensing, etc.

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@johnsonmxe @dkazand This is wonderful, too bad that the audio isn't that great (even the previous episode audio is lacking) Any transcripts?.
It all matches my experience climbing through jhana 1-3 and it's very compatible with Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu (one of Burbea's teachers) instructions about about

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@algekalipso .. continuing. Anyhow, https://t.co/XheVJqlyW9 is full of gems. The basics section of the app and the straight delivery of DO concepts are spot on. Similar ideas as Rob (ie energy body framing) but different naming. More elaboration I think on the right effort side of things.

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@algekalipso You might want to check Burbea's sources as well. After going several times over his magnificent jhana retreat (and retreating myself with his audio) I've decided to find out where he got his ideas from. Here is a pointer: https://t.co/mf0poGKfNN .

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Altman, Hassabis, and Amodei are the ones doing massive corporate lobbying at the moment.
They are the ones who are attempting to perform a regulatory capture of the AI industry.
You, Geoff, and Yoshua are giving ammunition to those who are lobbying for a ban on open AI R&D.

If your fear-mongering campaigns succeed, they will *inevitably* result in what you and I would identify as a catastrophe: a small number of companies will control AI.

The vast majority of our academic colleagues are massively in favor of open AI R&D. Very few believe in the doomsday scenarios you have promoted.
You, Yoshua, Geoff, and Stuart are the singular-but-vocal exceptions.

like many, I very much support open AI platforms because I believe in a combination of forces: people's creativity, democracy, market forces, and product regulations.
I also know that producing AI systems that are safe and under our control is possible. I've made concrete proposals to that effect.
This will all drive people to do the Right Thing.

You write as if AI is just happening, as if it were some natural phenomenon beyond our control.
But it's not. It's making progress because of individual people that you and I know. We, and they, have agency in building the Right Things.
Asking for regulation of R&D (as opposed to product deployment) implicitly assumes that these people and the organization they work for are incompetent, reckless, self-destructive, or evil. They are not.

I have made lots of arguments that the doomsday scenarios you are so afraid of are preposterous. I'm not going to repeat them here. But the main point is that if powerful AI systems are driven by objectives (which include guardrails) they will be safe and controllable because *e* set those guardrails and objectives.
(Current Auto-Regressive LLMs are not driven by objectives, so let's not extrapolate from their current weaknesses).

Now about open source: your campaign is going to have the exact opposite effect of what you seek.
In a future where AI systems are poised to constitute the repository of all human knowledge and culture, we *need* the platforms to be open source and freely available so that everyone can contribute to them.
Openness is the only way to make AI platforms reflect the entirety of human knowledge and culture.
This requires that contributions to those platforms be crowd-sourced, a bit like Wikipedia.
That won't work unless the platforms are open.

The alternative, which will *inevitably* happen if open source AI is regulated out of existence, is that a small number of companies from the West Coast of the US and China will control AI platform and hence control people's entire digital diet.
What does that mean for democracy?
What does that mean for cultural diversity?

*THIS* is what keeps me up at night.

[ubaldo @ubaldo]

EZ: "If capital wishes to call labor entitled, capital must acknowledge that it is the most entitled creature in society, craving eternal growth at the cost of the true value of any given service or entity." https://t.co/HuVlpKDugo

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JC: "Y un código risible no es código para respetar." https://t.co/4slXWKumhu

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Here is a gem: https://t.co/lf3SW5FAMU

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@bayeslord Another good resource here: https://t.co/UaljlaS70q

[bayes @bayeslord]

Rob Burbea has taught me so much. But his work doesn't have enough visibility; finding/listening to it is harder than it could be

So I created a YouTube channel and uploaded over 500 talks+meditations, which are carefully organized into 37 sorted playlists (one for each retreat)

[History Photographed @HistoryInPics]

Cow shoes used by moonshiners during the prohibition to disguise their footprints, 1922.