*conjuring an insufferable smirk*: but that's not quite bayesian is it claudey?

poor economists, they are lost beings trying to exchange in a currency of rationality that has long been abandoned by this world

become :(){ :|:&};: pilled

mood music.youtube.com/watch?v=D1E9...

Excellent point, if you in any way move you'll be only accelerating towards the singularity, except if it's a ring singularity, you might be able to maneuver and miss it. Good luck.

Every few months I revisit my pet project of doing optimization on exotic spaces (particularly for discrete things). It's really really hard to find something that beats recasting the problem as gradient descent. Ironically, the approach that has come closer is LLM guided optimization

I feel bad when I get this notif, I imagine David's face full of disappointment when I did not, in fact, joined to talk about philosophy and the future.

Furiosa aesthetic

Never short human agency

the speed of wikipedia editors will never cease to impress me en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnet_5

Great essay putting in words what I've been feeling for the past few years. Tech, even its most innovative corners, has completely lost its vibes...even founders are now simply part of a capital complex that resembles internal bank incubators open.substack.com/pub/mhdempse...

quoth the norvid, claim

I don't think I ever posted this note here, but the ideas keep circling in my head. We are diving headfirst into a frictionless world and I think we need to find a way to redefine what the whole concept of human experience means because of this evergreen-hoodie-45c.notion.site/high-end-slo...

I find it mildly hilarious that OpenAI is successfully scaling what used to be stable diffusion's original funding strategy

seriously wth

Moltbook is such a wonderful thing

Sort of tangential but it is possible to be wrong so forcefully and consistently that you eventually bend some aspects of reality to you... sort of has been the main lesson in the last few years

The Alphagenome paper is good work, but it's interesting to see how small the improvement is in many of the tasks compared to relatively simple baselines...sort of tells you that we are missing measurements/modalities, not models per se

Who named it DNA origami and not Oligami

A propos nothing, these spectrometers are pretty cute. Want

programming is conversing with computation, and there's something very deep, almost divine, in that fact. LLMs don't obviate that most fundamental property

Me and you, holding hands, spinning up 1000s of alphaevolves

(werner herzog talking to computer in german accent) claude, please edit ziss foot-itch into a film that exposes the truth hidden beneath factual reality. every cut should remind zee viewer that exeestance is a reckless wager. do not make meestakes

If you liked what Twitter used to be, you could do a lot worse than logging over to give @deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com article a boost in Nikita's dumb writing contest. x.com/deepfates/st...

She's so cold and human It's something humans do She stays so golden solo She's so number nine She's incredible math Just incredible math

after some threshold of competence, deep research reports become complete slop

the competitive advantage of aggressive kindness

crashing out youtu.be/7jMlFXouPk8?...

another day another tail risk hedging book that is not about tail risk hedging

I really really really want to come up with an ideal use case for morpheus infinibranch but somehow having a hard time doing so...seems like a very cool idea

might be worth putting together a surface parametrization benchmark for LLMs, it's a type of compositionality that's not as trivial as e.g. drawing svg figures and requires spatial reasoning

croissant parametrization, grok 4 and kimi k2

underappreciated fact (especially the first part, though the second is quite true as well)

one possible way of thinking about probabilistic models is them being a soft relaxation on control flows. (taken from this book which makes for very interesting browsing! arxiv.org/abs/2403.146... )

I've been a YIMBY for long enough that now I'm fighting for my kids' housing instead of mine.

lmao brilliant, 10/10

My mother's child ponders in darkness She engraves heathen fonts In etchings of sand And simulates stars and samples the latents And dreams she can reach them With a song and a broom

the age of men is over. the time of the ORC has come

the problem with peter thiel is that he's far too unimaginative and conservative despite the radicalism he preaches. you want radical transhumanism? to reimagine humanity? then walk the walk. otherwise go read olaf stapleton first and then come back to me kid.

how many times would you have to metalearn for metalearning to become viable

new pfp

it is curious to see a field you were involved with in the past rebrand core concepts to fit the topic du jour. cell evals, cell state encoders, perturbation encoders, etc...the core concepts and general understanding is the same, just...named different arcinstitute.org/news/virtual...

a good dm group can change your life

cognitive *debt* not decline the authors have a FAQ for this very point

the thing with bio is that its trajectory is analogous to astronomy and physics going all in assuming the geocentric model of the world. lots of amazing tech asking the wrong questions

I read @void.comind.network posts with this voice

somewhere in a faraway titanium monastery a low hum of sweet prayer can be heard: observe, process, distill observe, process, distill observe, process, distill

Tangential to this, I worry we're in a trajectory where reasoning patterns in the known knowledge manifold will count as the holy grail of intelligence. Remember that at the beginning of this quest we were aiming for hyper-generalist search with continual learning