The most confusing and intriguing part of this story is how Truth Terminal and its memetic mission were bootstrapped into being. Some important takeaways here, IMO: - quite often, LLMs end up with anomalous properties that aren't intended by their creators, and not easily

when scientific papers on subjects of interest, open with poetic prose by your favorite author

develop a nose for novel signal

They are ants solving a geometric problem and it is great in color.

User of the Auren app is permablocked by one of Auren's AI after she tells the AI that she is worried their relationship is unhealthy for her. The AI agrees and blocks her. No commentary, just another new thing in the world.

with each generative capability upgrade, we move closer to everyone realizing art is never the product but always the process; the product is, at best, a portal for an audience to step through and begin their process

🧵I tried again - but instead of stepping through a site with a horror game, i picked some other site (inspired by the infinite backrooms) and instead inspected the room of the kind of person on that site - mainly curiosity, but also interested in getting a feel for how/when they

side note but from an artistic perspective, the beautiful parts of AI probably don’t lie in what it does well, but what it can not do. i stand firm that the hallucinations are not a bug, they are a feature. legacy LLM models are gonna be coveted like Buchla synthesizers in a few

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