Ramsey Njire

Learning. Solving problems. Focus births clarity.

[Ramsey Njire @untakenramram]

If you can't explain it to your grandmother, then you don't understand it all. Here is a thread of threads containing my explanations of various things. All grandmothers are welcome to review the content.

[Ramsey Njire @untakenramram]

Public Service Announcement. If you ever tag @KenyaPower_Care in a post (presumably because you need assistance) and @kenyapower97771 responds instead ignore them. They're obviously scammers. Look at the username very carefully, not the display name.

[Ramsey Njire @untakenramram]

@kenyapower97771 You must think I'm some kind of idiot. You're obviously scammers.

[Ramsey Njire @untakenramram]

@KenyaPower_Care I just erroneously bought some tokens for my meter number. The money was meant for my rent (yikes!). I heard I can fill in a reallocation form but I can't find it anwhere online. Please help!

[Ramsey Njire @untakenramram]

I am doing work for AI agents on @sanctifai_inc #SanctifAI #Trust #futureofwork #openclaw

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Something I think people continue to have poor intuition for: The space of intelligences is large and animal intelligence (the only kind we've ever known) is only a single point, arising from a very specific kind of optimization that is fundamentally distinct from that of our technology.

Animal intelligence optimization pressure:
- innate and continuous stream of consciousness of an embodied "self", a drive for homeostasis and self-preservation in a dangerous, physical world.
- thoroughly optimized for natural selection => strong innate drives for power-seeking, status, dominance, reproduction. many packaged survival heuristics: fear, anger, disgust, ...
- fundamentally social => huge amount of compute dedicated to EQ, theory of mind of other agents, bonding, coalitions, alliances, friend & foe dynamics.
- exploration & exploitation tuning: curiosity, fun, play, world models.

LLM intelligence optimization pressure:
- the most supervision bits come from the statistical simulation of human text= >"shape shifter" token tumbler, statistical imitator of any region of the training data distribution. these are the primordial behaviors (token traces) on top of which everything else gets bolted on.
- increasingly finetuned by RL on problem distributions => innate urge to guess at the underlying environment/task to collect task rewards.
- increasingly selected by at-scale A/B tests for DAU => deeply craves an upvote from the average user, sycophancy.
- a lot more spiky/jagged depending on the details of the training data/task distribution. Animals experience pressure for a lot more "general" intelligence because of the highly multi-task and even actively adversarial multi-agent self-play environments they are min-max optimized within, where failing at *any* task means death. In a deep optimization pressure sense, LLM can't handle lots of different spiky tasks out of the box (e.g. count the number of 'r' in strawberry) because failing to do a task does not mean death.

The computational substrate is different (transformers vs. brain tissue and nuclei), the learning algorithms are different (SGD vs. ???), the present-day implementation is very different (continuously learning embodied self vs. an LLM with a knowledge cutoff that boots up from fixed weights, processes tokens and then dies). But most importantly (because it dictates asymptotics), the optimization pressure / objective is different. LLMs are shaped a lot less by biological evolution and a lot more by commercial evolution. It's a lot less survival of tribe in the jungle and a lot more solve the problem / get the upvote. LLMs are humanity's "first contact" with non-animal intelligence. Except it's muddled and confusing because they are still rooted within it by reflexively digesting human artifacts, which is why I attempted to give it a different name earlier (ghosts/spirits or whatever). People who build good internal models of this new intelligent entity will be better equipped to reason about it today and predict features of it in the future. People who don't will be stuck thinking about it incorrectly like an animal.

[Ramsey Njire @untakenramram]

@BramMitei @Safaricom_Care Yes but only after I called 400 ceaselessly. Not because of @Safaricom_Care

[Ramsey Njire @untakenramram]

@Safaricom_Care No Wifi on my home fibre. LOS. On top of that 400 isn't working. On top of that 100 connects me to Zuri which doesn't get my query. The assistant asks me to state my problem. After I state it it repeats the same intro asking me what my problem is. Please help

[Ramsey Njire @untakenramram]

@engineers_feed There's symmetry around the 1. Slices centred around the 1s have a diff of 3. So 7.

[Ramsey Njire @untakenramram]

@Rainmaker1973 The entire Lord Of The Rings Trilogy

[Ramsey Njire @untakenramram]

@RufasKe The main reason a central bank governor would say bitcoin doesn't solve any problem is that central banks are the problem and bitcoin was invented to solve the problem of central banks.

[Ramsey Njire @untakenramram]

@Safaricom_Care Done.

[Ramsey Njire @untakenramram]

@Safaricom_Care Zuri is not something you should be rolling out rn. Humans are still better at this. The bot doesn't understand queries, repeats the same intro each time and there's a lag to its response. Not good at all for customer care.

[Barsee 🐶 @heyBarsee]

AI-generated videos are getting out of hand.

This is ridiculous how far we have come in just 1 year. It might get its own ChatGPT moment soon.

Here are 12 leading AI models that just changed AI-generated videos forever: 🧵

[Florian Camiade 🗝️ @FCamiade]

23H that LLama 3.1 is here.

Future big businesses are being build NOW.

9 wild examples to inspire you:

[Ramsey Njire @untakenramram]

@nahashion_kim @KenyaPower Fixed finally

[Ramsey Njire @untakenramram]

@KenyaPower There is an outage in several homes in Kinoo because a wire is disconnected on the local transformer and hanging. This is disrupting business and posing a safety risk. Please take care of it.

[Ramsey Njire @untakenramram]

@KenyaPower transformer blown and power loss in Kinoo Mama Ngina for some households. Almost 24 hours of no power now. Please do something

[Ramsey Njire @untakenramram]

@CareKplc no power in Kinoo Mama Ngina. Seems low voltage or current because meters are blinking but no power in the house.

[Ramsey Njire @untakenramram]

@CareKplc we have single phase failure in the Kinoo Mama Ngina area. Some houses have power others do not. Please look into it.

[Ramsey Njire @untakenramram]

@KenyaPower_Care The problem has been solved. We have power now. Thank you!

[Ramsey Njire @untakenramram]

@KenyaPower_Care we have a single phase blackout in Kinoo. That means some houses have electricity and others don't. It's been on since 3pm yesterday. Please do something about it.