I have personally watched at least half a dozen external grifters try to run the entryist playbook on Berkeley LW. Every time it has a promising start, and for a couple months they move inward through the concentric circles towards the core, getting invited to more exclusive

I think I'll stop posting on this app for a while. It amplifies all the stupid things I say, while giving zero reach to the interesting posts. I get punished by mistakes, while my tech posts go unnoticed. You need to be dumb, polemic or exaggerated to have any reach here

I did more tests with Google's #Veo3. Imagine if AI characters became aware they were living in a simulation!

i would rather live through 10000 hours of "we are bags of meat on a floating rock in space" than entertain the smallest possible amount of dualism

Dwarkesh becoming an advocate for human disempowerment and anti-AI-safety influencer was not what I expected, but here we go. When people are wondering what dynamic 'economic power influences cultural evolution' looks like: this is it. Economic pull of AI incentivizes creation

Dear god lol

some hopes ive been having lately

> be apple > richest company in the world, every advantage imaginable > go all in on AI, make countless promises > get immediately lapped by everyone > 2 years into the race, nothing to show for it > give up, write a paper about how it's all fake and gay and doesn't matter anyway

gone on to better things... something something agency🙂

we’ve got a surveillance startup called Palantir, a genetic baby design company named Gattaca, now all that’s missing is someone begging to name their AI company “AM"

new

Ilya Sutskever, in his speech at UToronto 2 days ago: "The day will come when AI will do all the things we can do." "The reason is the brain is a biological computer, so why can't the digital computer do the same things?" It's funny that we are debating if AI can "truly think"

I'll be live-tweeting (live-posting?) notes from the Boltz-2 release event at MIT. Initial observation: there's a big turnout! Almost every seat is taken at this event, which is rare for academic software releases.