When will a human level AI be built? October 22, 2022 AGI is almost here; it will arrive by 2025. And it will be like contacting alien life. Artificial general intelligence, by this definition, will be Villainy 101 October 15, 2022 Villains change the status quo. Heroes protect it. Villains see the world not as it is but as it could be. They rail against what is. They lever Do you want to die? October 14, 2022 Do you want to die today? Do you want to die tomorrow? Do you want to die someday? Would you die for a person? (your pick) Would Against the Future October 7, 2022 Longtermists argue that the uncountable number of possible future people makes their suffering more important than all living beings put together. Invisible Movies September 23, 2022 A series of soundtracks you can watch. Find them on Spotify Semantic space September 22, 2022 Memes are located in semantic space based on their relation to other memes. Those distances represent the amount of cognitive dissonance between the Reflections on Vibecamp August 27, 2022 Are you all really “getting something” out of these “gatherings”? Why can’t it just be normal socialization and partying? Why does it have to be a Cut-ups August 17, 2022 Has anybody pointed out that AI language models are William Burroughs cut-ups? This is how I was thinking about it when I first started doing Markov Experimenting with DALL-E inpainting June 29, 2022 I don’t think people know how cool the inpainting feature on DALL-E really is. Like, I generated this wizard last week but now I want him to have a The Mirror of Language June 9, 2022 The new generative AI models like GPT-3 and DALL-E have amazing powers. They can generate essays, stories, scripts, summaries, paintings, drawings, Essential tasks June 8, 2022 Infinite energy too cheap to meter Multi-planetary ecology Morphological freedom Raise all the dead 100 Billion Americans There’s only a few CIA mind control June 7, 2022 Hot take, but CIA mind control programs are probably necessary. I’m not saying they’re ethical, or that I would want to involuntarily be a subject VS Code vs Atom May 16, 2022 Why is VS Code so much harder to theme than Atom? There were so many experimental themes for Atom and in Code it’s like… different color menu bar. Superheroification 2 May 12, 2022 I guess I should make clear my stance on superintelligence: We’re less likely to create independent volitional entities than we are to create Asymmetrical warfare in Magic: The Gathering March 27, 2022 Thinking about the time that I made a Magic: The Gathering deck specifically designed to attack the other player instead of their cards. It was when SimClusters 3 February 2, 2022 Just realizing that for a lot of you, this is probably your first and only Twitter cluster. You haven’t experienced the same dynamics happening in AI as planar binding December 30, 2021 The command line is an incantation. Programming languages are magic words. The GUI is a somatic space, where you can use careful gestures to Secrets of the bookstore December 15, 2021 Oh whoop, it’s Threadapalooza day! I almost forgot. Decided to take this prompt from Nick. Here goes: 1 like, 1 SECRET OF THE BOOKSTORE what are Defense against the dark arts December 13, 2021 I used to teach “Defense Against the Dark Arts” in my cabin at witch camp. Sometimes we would do lectures, but mostly it was a lab class. We would Utopians are misunderstood November 22, 2021 I mean, the word “utopian” is generally not understood to mean the same thing as the word Utopian when I use it. I use a Next page