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American Diaspora | Kardashev-2 or bust | core dev Mentat | builder of curiosities: https://t.co/LHAqqpGqxQ https://t.co/Ue0DBYDipg Mailogy and Rawdog
Joined November 2010
STANFORD TORUS MEGATHREAD.You’ve seen the pictures, but you probably don’t know the full story. It's the result of a 10-week engineering study at Stanford University in 1975, funded by NASA and led by Girard O’Neill - the most thorough study on free-space settlement to date. 1/
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"I'll pickup the check". "George you don't have a job, you're living with your parents, what are you talking about?". "I'm FINANCING it Jerry. I'm FINANCING LUNCH"
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YOU DON'T HAVE THE CARDS.
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Thrilled to say I passed my viva with no corrections and am officially PhDone.
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This book is massively anxiety-inducing. Strongest physiological reaction I’ve had to a book since American Psycho.
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Heartbreaking that tons of people's introduction to Rebillet is "weird Google AI guy". In case you somehow missed it,
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It's called the Venture Capital Equation:. Each investment has a small chance of hitting it big, say 1%. Make 10 investments, that's a 10% chance. Make 100 investments and, well, let's just say the word "pregnant" comes to mind.
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Apple will probably win LLMs. They'll release a model that runs locally/native on your iPhone, is good enough, has great privacy/security and has access to all your personal data. The advantages of larger foundation models will be negligible for 99% of tasks.
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The masculine urge to.> move to a small midwestern town .> marry a cute mid who laughs at your bs .> join the local parish.> have 7 children.> become a regular at Carl’s Bakery.> buy 12 acres with a USDA loan.> beg/borrow/steal 3 Optimus’s to work it.> cultivate a novel strain of.
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By age 34 you ought to have.- made then lost a largish sum of $.- failed publicly at something big.- permanently injured some body part.- made 2-3 sworn life-long enemies.- had a terrible experience on psychedelics.- overcome an addiction.- been arrested in a foreign country.
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Neuralinked beavers will rebuild ecosystems, revitalize manufacturing and bring harmony to the animal kingdom
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The algorithmmmm.displays connntent .which is similaaaa.to the content which I have viewwwed.but the content I have viewwwed.is retarded
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when I found out Lex Fridman is gay, so many things made sense.
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BIOSPHERE 2 MEGATHREAD.Could humans maintain an ecosystem on the Moon or Mars?. In 1991, 8 researchers locked themselves inside this 3.14-acre sealed structure in the Arizona desert for 2 years to test just that. It remains the largest and longest experiment of its kind, ever. 1/
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WAKE THE F*** UP shouts Jocko as I rise leisurely at 5:51am. HAVE FUN STAYING SOFT taunts David Goggins as I finish a light 3 mile run . DOES THAT THING COME IN MENS roars Joe Rogan as I step into a balmy 40°F shower . SLOP SLOP SLOP tweets Yacine as I fire up VSCode to write.
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I built a natural language CLI. It generates Python scripts to answer your question, then auto-executes them in the cwd. You will not believe how capable this simple pattern is. Rawdogging gpt-4 from the command line. Rawdog. 1/
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JD Vance is under fire for his views on embeddings databases. "This is a feature, not a product, Margaret. You know what Postgres and SQLite do? Store data. What are embeddings? Data. I'm not adding a whole new dependency stack just because YC was out of ideas in late-2023."
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This weekend I hacked up something I’ve been going on about for weeks:.ELO EVERYTHING. - See two objects.- Pick which you like more.- Their ELOs adjust accordingly.- (Repeat).- Check the leaderboard. (ELO is the ranking algorithm from chess). Check it out!
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You need to be Friedberg maxxing. You need to be launching hard-tech startups so revolutionary they're literally named after the miracles of Jesus. You need to be ignoring political arguments and giving common-sense pragmatic takes when pushed. You need to be selling your startup
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Unbelievable. 30 months after ChatGPT the best answer is "build your own using an API key and vector embeddings database like Chroma". How is this possible.
What is currently the best solution for turning a large collections of personal notes and chats into an LLM-interrogable dataset?. It seems like most off-the-shelf options can't keep context at scale.
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lmaooo
Today we are launching our next agent capable of doing work for you independently—deep research. Give it a prompt and ChatGPT will find, analyze & synthesize hundreds of online sources to create a comprehensive report in tens of minutes vs what would take a human many hours.
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Just got Tom Meuller pilled -. "The amount of power to run compute by 2045 will be like the base power of earth right now. The drain on resources is so high - you need to put that compute in space. Make the solar cells and do the compute in space and just beam the results down."
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the base-spec M1 Macbook Air remains the apex compute device for 94% of people change my mind.
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“An organism that sees reality as it is will never be more fit than an organism of equal complexity that sees none of reality but is just tuned to fitness.”
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@cosine_distance Bro we need a follow-up post saying you brought her flowers and asked her to out to play pickleball. - doesn't matter if she says yes or no, anything less is straight-up antisocial.
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If rumors be believed, tomorrow (March 4 2024) we'll get:.1. Another LK-99 paper giving new evidence on RTSC.2. The Q* paper from OpenAI which is effectively AGI.
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Listening to my very-pregnant wife describe her pain for 25 minutes (thinking about my green circuit factorio build) then replying “I’m sorry honey”
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"Lemme just turn down some of the highest-salary positions in history and educate the proles".
New (2h13m 😅) lecture: "Let's build the GPT Tokenizer". Tokenizers are a completely separate stage of the LLM pipeline: they have their own training set, training algorithm (Byte Pair Encoding), and after training implement two functions: encode() from strings to tokens, and
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Just ran into a friend who’s WAY smarter than me at the cafe and accidentally talked for 90 minutes. He believes:. 1. The API model is dead for Foundation Model makers because models are interchangeable. 2. Hence they’ll shift toward creating and selling their own tools for.
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I literally podcast-binge-and-shitposted my way into an AI job.
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NOO MARC IT WAS JUST A JOKE
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This is a 1-weekend viral website waiting to happen.
A dictionary, but it shows you position in embedding space relative to some synonyms/antonyms instead of a definition.
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fun fact: Data is actually Bryan Johnson 400 years from now.
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LATENT DICTIONARY. A dictionary, but it shows you position in embedding space relative to some synonyms/antonyms instead of a definition. I tweeted about this a couple months ago and finally got around to building it. Enjoy! 🦾.
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"I mean, we could increase the speed of human cognition 100x with thicker myelin sheathing. This is all very low-hanging fruit."
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"Raptor 3 looks like its missing a bunch of parts, but actually those parts have either been deleted or integrated into the system with integral cooling channels.
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@lightxvision Find the biggest, baddest looking dude you can and punch him straight in the mouth.
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@fortelabs This right here.
High point of the genre. Best of the Le Carre adaptations. Endlessly re-watchable.
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"The practical ceiling on intelligence is the computational irreducibility of the ruliad, and we're not even close."
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the Mechanistic Universe is a lie - everything is diffusion. atoms, electrical charges, the strong and weak forces - just heuristics (generated lazily) with high enough resolution that we mostly don’t notice.
Wow, diffusion models (used in AI image generation) are also game engines - a type of world simulation. By predicting the next frame of the classic shooter DOOM, you get a playable game at 20 fps without any underlying real game engine. This video is from the diffusion model.
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"Converting the asteroid belt to O'Neill Cylinders would yield ~2000x more livable area than we have on Earth."
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🚨RAG is dead, long live RAWDOG🚨.Recursive.Augmentation.With.Deterministic.Output.Generations.
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181,295 games of #eloeverything have been played since I reset the database ~12 hours ago.
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This is like 100 9/11s for me
I want so badly to be blocked by him. Come on J-bird. Lemme have it.
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POST SCRIPT.I found the doc above 3 years ago, got obsessed, and decided to go all-in on it. I'm currently building simulations of mars habs for NatGeo and Biosphere 2 - check it out at One way or another, we're gonna make this shit happen 🫡🔥🙏.
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"You know if earth's gravity were 50% greater, it would not be possible to reach space using chemical rockets."
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It'll be much better than ok.
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LLM agents are a nothingburger. show me an agent framework that's doing something significantly better than a single call to a SOTA frontier model with RAG. I'm begging you.
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The Torus (donut-shape) has a 130m tube diameter and a 1800m total diameter, rotating at 1 RPM to produce earth-normal gravity. It includes everything needed to support 10,000 people working and living in space, indefinitely. Let’s go through design considerations one by one. 2/
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it should be 1000x simpler to tinker and build physical stuff. how isnt there just a place with a bunch of tools I can use??.
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Dad, are we propaganda?
X is a $44 billion propaganda machine. Yet it attempts to disguise itself as a defender of unfettered free speech, a source of factual information, and a substitute for professional journalism.
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Non-invasive BMIs good enough to play video games 🤯.
WE DID IT. Shadow of the Erdtree, first boss, COMPLETED with mind control, and ZERO HANDS. I can't believe it. This was the hardest thing ever. We've come SO FAR! Let's gooooooo
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IV. THE END.Hope you found this thread interesting and inspiring! If you did, like and share it far and wide. If you see something that’s outdated, leave a comment. If you want to learn more, there’s tons of published research available on Google Scholar. Ad Astra!
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