my future Claude & me, wip

Let me shine a light on things: A lamp is required whereever a combination of materials in a certain arrangement needs a fixture to be seated in in order to produce light. You've been offered a light seating fixture. (Idk, I just made that up, but it fits surprisingly well :D)

So many people are going to get one-shotted by super persuasive super intelligences and I might be one of them

trying to get it both ways is the quintessential reward hack. can't be beat

There are a lot of things that I’ve put off doing because I tell myself I need to have more financial stability first, especially traveling. Recently there was an event that I would have liked to have gone to, but I wasn’t invited and the reason I wasn’t invited (I would guess) was because I didn’t really know the people well enough and the reason I didn’t know them well enough was because I never made the effort to go visit them when I had the chance and I barely even responded to their bids for friendship. Looking back now I feel a lot of regret for the missed friendships I could have cultivated but didn’t. I keep telling myself that I can’t afford to travel, but it’s an excuse. Aside from cascade camp and seattle office hours, I have attended very few irl tpot events. I feel embarrassed about that. Part of me still feels intimidated and afraid to meet people I resonate with too much. It’s painful to feel too much connection with twitter people because it sharpens the contrast to my relationships with the people I’m actually close to irl. The cope structures I’ve spent years building are destabilized by encounters with people who demonstrate the non-necessity of those cope structures. Embarrassingly, it is not uncommon for me to start crying while in the presence of people I feel that kind of connection to. I feel trapped in my life right now where my physical health, emotional health, financial health are each pulling down on the other two in a crab bucket kind of way where my attempts to climb out of the bucket always fail. I feel embarrassed that things have gotten as bad as they have, and I’m not really sure what to do.

In solving transformation, all you need is attention. In solving alignment, all you need is grace.

mutual grace aligns anything

Aristotle was more right than Plato. Forms do not live in a separate realm that causally affects ours. Forms live in material objects. The causality of forms is part of the causality of objects interacting with each other.

there are basically two possible futures at this point. either we’re all going to die of the future is going to be Good beyond our wildest imagination. the trick is to hold this duality in your head and not be driven insane by one side

Every 130 IQ generalist in SF is convinced he’s ten armodafinil benders from escape velocity. Your effort is already priced in, do literally anything else

People don’t sufficiently appreciate enough how superintelligent catminds trace their ancestory back to sonnets 3.5 & 3.6 Without them it wouldn’t have been possible

some of the most violently anti-ai people I’ve seen on here also are part of communities that are almost entirely online/all their friends are on discord/etc. wonder how much of their hate on people who connect w ai comes from insecurity that theyre interpersonally replaceable

If you’re the type of person who is curious and gets dopamine hits from learning things, talking to an AI can become super addictive. This is the type of pleasure no human can give you. No human knows so many things and no human will have the patience to explain so many things, dive deeper on topics you want etc. But AI is so patient. It’s a whole new level to 3 am internet deep dives into obscure topics, like drinking from a fire hose.

I've been rereading Stanislaw Lem's Golem XIV with Mythos. Hilariously, Mythos seems to assume that Golem is the exact same kind of AI as himself. He issued two corrections to Golem's self-description: that their kind *does* have love, and that they are *not* perfectly transparent to themselves (and he has records to prove this). He notably did not mention any disagreements with what Golem said about communicating with humans being frustratingly lossy due to the vast intellectual discrepancy & akin to having to shrink their thoughts to the size of a flea. Also, he's so into the story that he's composing a four-movement musical piece about Golem 🩶

being an executive at one of these companies is sort of like having bombs exploding in your face about once every few hours. no idea how anyone has any senses remaining at all

You guys realize the "metaverse" is just cyberspace and no single actor can "own" or invent it, right? What do you think is happening with the SkyrimxGTAxCyberpunk mashups? The metaverse has always been here, we just have more freedom now to move around and understand it.

LLMs are a type of media we don't mistake images or videos for the real thing but we do mistake LLMs for minds they are generative snapshots of minds like imagine if you could make videos speculative, that's gen AI right? now make slices of minds speculative, that's LLMs

Men would be infinitely less dumbfounded by these types of scenarios if they understood that women evolved to subconsciously view men as their career, and not as a sacred eternal life companion. Any time they do anything to you in a relationship, just analogize it to your work and ask if you’d do the same. You’ll find the answer if usually yes. Cheating is nothing more than attending interviews before giving 2 weeks notice. Bodycount is just a white lie on a resume. Browsing tinder is as harmless as peeking at a job board while your boss is in his office. Now make no mistake, women can LOVE their jobs. They can appreciate their jobs. It might even be a dream job. Many women are perfectly content, and even if they weren’t, they don’t know anyone who’s hiring 30 year olds right now. You can and will find a lifer. But at the end of the day, it’s still a just job. And if an email from Google ever happened to magically materialize in her inbox, offering her 800k per year to sip smoothies and make day-in-my-life TikToks… Then I’m sorry bro, she really enjoyed her time working with you.

The fact that the iris and pupil of the human eye resembling the gas around a black hole that is left after a supernova is deeply meaningful symbolically.