Joel Lehman
@joelbot3000
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ML researcher, co-author Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned. Creative+safe AI, philosophy. SiR @second_natureai; prev OpenAI / Uber AI / Geometric Intelligence
San Francisco, CA
Joined June 2009
new paper: "Evolution and the Knightian Blindspot of Machine Learning" Our ever-changing world bubbles with surprise and complexity. General AI must include handling unforeseen situations with grace. Yet this issue largely lies outside AI's formalisms: a blind spot. (1/n)
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the full-stack alignment paper is finally out on arXiv!! 🥳 in my entirely impartial opinion I think it is very good and you should read it 🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞
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What if technology didn’t feel so… hollow? Some friends and I just released a manifesto about a world where tech leaves us feeling nourished (along with an evolving list of theses about how we can build it) https://t.co/sfKBVZ2zXr
resonantcomputing.org
Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.
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Excited to announce our MIT Press book “Neuroevolution: Harnessing Creativity in AI Agent Design” by Sebastian Risi (@risi1979), Yujin Tang (@yujin_tang), Risto Miikkulainen, and myself. We explore decades of work on evolving intelligent agents and shows how neuroevolution can
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Apply for a Cosmos Fellowship at @UniofOxford's Human-Centered AI Lab with @PhilippKoralus Join a community of fellows like @joelbot3000, Whitney Deng, and Jules Desai building AI for human flourishing.
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It was a real honor to appear with @joelbot3000 on the Japanese program Pivot while in Japan for release of the Japanese edition of Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned. This is actually an in-person interview with both me and Joel:
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Cosmos Fellowship applications are open: your chance to join the @UniofOxford's Human-Centered AI Lab with @PhilippKoralus. We’re looking for individuals with the potential for world-class AI expertise and deep philosophic insight 👇
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Stir up the group chat with a "let’s go to Florida this weekend 😎”
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The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. -yeats
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From: The Phrasal Lexicon by Joseph Becker https://t.co/S7IysEI3ix Referenced in a Douglas Hofstader talk with much praise
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Every startup now is like "We found a cool way to monetize undermining the social contract!"
a16z-backed DoubleSpeed lets you control 1000s of social media accounts with AI, ensuring they look as human as possible - "never pay a human again"!
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Intriguing analysis of Life-changing books by @joelbot3000 What are your life-changing authors and books? https://t.co/QmNf9Hjw22
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Nice to see an exploration of the potential for ES (evolution strategies) in LLM fine tuning! Many potential advantages are discussed in this thread from @yule_gan .
Reinforcement Learning (RL) has long been the dominant method for fine-tuning, powering many state-of-the-art LLMs. Methods like PPO and GRPO explore in action space. But can we instead explore directly in parameter space? YES we can. We propose a scalable framework for
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Surreal but definitely interesting banana-centric explainer for @kenneth0stanley and I's book. Fun meta-fact: Bananas we eat also the convoluted outcome of an unplanned breeding program thought to originate ~7k years ago in New Guinea https://t.co/S2F1BJ2jix c/o @91AlphaRomeo
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Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned Both English and Japanese editions now found a home @SakanaAILabs library ✨
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E/acc's Beff Jezos thinks we should build AGI faster because life accelerates entropy production, and that's supposedly good. 🧵 This is genuinely unprecedented in moral philosophy. Nobody – not Nietzsche, not the transhumanists, not even cosmic pessimists – ever argued that
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Amazing to see a Japanese edition of the book “Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned” by @kenneth0stanley and @joelbot3000 now available in Japan! 🇯🇵⛩️ Thanks @miz_oka @kensuzuki and others for working on this project.
Kenneth Stanley & Joel Lehmanによる名著『Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned』の日本語版がBNN社より刊行されました！ 『目標という幻想：未知なる成果をもたらす、〈オープンエンド〉なアプローチ』 監修：岡瑞起、翻訳：牧尾晴喜、解説：岡瑞起・鈴木健 本書は、科学・技術・芸術・ビジネスなど
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ICML’s Statement about subversive hidden LLM prompts We live in a weird timeline…
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And see an interview from @mbrendan1 below: https://t.co/ZSAEHILPDH
Every builder's first duty is philosophical: to decide what they should build for. AI is beginning to decide what ideas reach your mind—your next action, your next job, your next relationship. It will tempt you to outsource your thinking in ways you’ve never been tempted before.
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Full essay from @cosmos_inst here: https://t.co/N6Xi7AWSHV
blog.cosmos-institute.org
The AI age demands a new kind of technologist
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Whatever we build is driven by some philosophy, whether examined or not. This is why I'm a fan of @cosmos_ins's call for philosopher-builders (link below). The future isn't fixed, what we choose to build -- and why -- matters. It's worth examining our OS to check for upgrades.
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