Building infrastructure for public, distributed, causal inference models for humanity's knowledge.
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Bruce Long retweeted
What if a hacker house was like an ancient monastery—a sanctuary for deep work where instead of copying manuscripts, people built open-source software?
Techno-Monasteries continue this legacy, giving today’s scribes, open-source builders, a space to focus, collaborate & innovate.
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Bruce Long retweeted
The Techno-Monasteries website is live! 🚀
We're reimagining monasteries for the digital age—where open-source developers and researchers can focus, collaborate, and create solutions that benefit humanity.
(Website link will be in the comments 👇)
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My new article in my series on representing very complex situations is out! The World As Information - Part 2, by @BruceDavidL open.substack.com/pub/infoma…
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Bruce Long retweeted
My favorite example of Understanding vs Prediction is the added information provided by a street map, that is not available from your GPS instructions: turn left, turn right etc. This added information allows you to handle unexpected road blocks (eg due to construction) which are not anticipated by the GPS program.
This is precisely what statisticians used to say. "If you can predict well the next data point, they you understand the reality or the process that generates that point". They said it and said it until Causal Inference proved them wrong. Understanding takes more than prediction. #Bookofwhy
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Quustios about proteus? Join this space! nitter.net/i/spaces/1BdxYyqvEEExX
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Set a reminder for my upcoming Space! AMA about the Proteus Causal Modeling Language.
nitter.net/i/spaces/1BdxYyqvEEExX
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How much training would self-driving AI need to act differently for a puddle of water vs a puddle of lava? A human driver only needs "That's lava! it will melt the tires." Causal models can be small and simple. #Causalinference #causalmodeling
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Bruce Long retweeted
There's ≥3 alignment traditions
Prosaic: tools that obey users
Messianic: totalitarian decelism; FOOMing Singleton God who builds Utopia after Yuddites invent Extrapolated Moral Compass
Accelerationist: markets, adversarial equilibria, Singleton never
Messianics are on a roll
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Bruce Long retweeted
When you realize that current AI safety is optimizing for control instead of optimizing for wisdom.
Fear sells. It's easy to create a terrifying story & hijack people's amygdalas then the donations come pouring in. Try fundraising for protopia and people's response: "good luck with it." The irony is that hijacking the amygdala makes accessing the rational brain more difficult.
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Several people have asked about my master's thesis which is a sketch of a computable theory of ethics. An early prototype of Proteus is defined therein as a notation for representing ethics situations that can be passed into a function. Enjoy!: theslipstream.com/Computable…
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Bruce Long retweeted
Fear sells. It's easy to create a terrifying story & hijack people's amygdalas then the donations come pouring in. Try fundraising for protopia and people's response: "good luck with it." The irony is that hijacking the amygdala makes accessing the rational brain more difficult.
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Bruce Long retweeted
hey everyone i have an idea: what if we use web3 technology to make a protopian future instead of a dystopian one
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France's Mistral AI blows in with a $113M seed round to take on OpenAI tcrn.ch/3CrOhTC - after a month!
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Here is a better version of the metacrisis post Infrastructure for the 3rd Attractor: infomage.substack.com/p/infr…
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A new article: Infrastructure for the 3rd Attractor
infomage.substack.com/p/infr…
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