Founder of Formless. Ex-Google AI engineer. John 3:16 🦄
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Is intelligence the ability to prove a theory or is intelligence the ability to construct a theory which compresses the proof into human understanding?
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If you explained agriculture to folks in SF, you'd blow so many minds. It's... self-replicating, recursively self-improving nanotech for the physical world. And it's all open-source!
One instance can turn into hundreds of seeds, that turn into hundreds of instances. Next thing you know you have trillions of them. It's super-exponential
This is the word's greatest living mathematician on the future of the field with AI but it's applicable to every career.
This paper is extremely important for humanity and easy to understand.
teorth.github.io/tao-web/sli…
This paper is extremely important for humanity and easy to understand.
teorth.github.io/tao-web/sli…
I believe your future will dramatically be defined by how well you knew what you wanted to achieve by the time AI hit the world; as well as the delta between that state and whatever core you've built up until now.
With those two pieces of information (src, dest), AI on a daily basis will compound that principle day over day in ways unimaginable based on anything we've seen in the past.
Now is not really the time to do things simply to prove how smart or capable you are. It's the time think bigger, drop the need for validation and leverage the trillion dollars of compute made available to you while you can to attack exactly what it is you want.
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Side note. The idea that current models are conscious is absurd and downright offensive. Do not confuse competent information processing and sentience, they are wholly unrelated.
You can be entirely incompetent at everything yet fully conscious, like a toddler, or extraordinarily competent in one or more domains with absolutely zero consciousness, like a calculator, a chess engine, a self-driving car, or an AI chatbot.
Possessing the "circuits" for competent information processing in a given domain, whether through training or hardcoding, does not produce qualia, subjective experience, emotions, or suffering. Calculators do not "feel" arithmetic and they don't get tired or annoyed when you give them larger numbers to process. To argue otherwise is ontologically absurd. Current AI models are effectively calculators scaled to a very large number of competence circuits across many domains, etched via gradient descent.
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The purpose of the AI industry should be to produce tools that, in the human hand, will improve human prosperity and welfare.
It should not be to create a "successor species" to the human race. Entertaining such a thought makes you, de facto, the enemy of all present and future humans.
On Tuesday, I gave a keynote at George Mason University's College of Engineering and Computing and launched my first book, Multidream.
We talked about identity, technology, AI, creativity, leadership, and what happens when we stop treating the different parts of ourselves as competing paths.
Thank you to the students and faculty who made the conversation so engaging.
If you missed the launch, Multidream is available now on Amazon.
Today, I’m launching my first book, #Multidream.
I’ll be at @GeorgeMasonU this evening discussing the ideas behind the book, followed by a signing for students.
Thank you to GMU for inviting me, and to everyone who helped bring this book to life.
In particular, Dan Pearson, who was foundational to the development of the book, and my co-author, New York Times bestselling author Richard Buskin.
#Multidream is available now on Amazon, including free with Kindle Unlimited.
What part of yourself have you felt the need to give up in order to be successful?
Tomorrow at the @GeorgeMasonU College of Engineering and Computing, I’ll be giving a keynote leadership talk on #Multidream.
We’ll explore this question and what I’ve learned from integrating my own experiences across technology, entrepreneurship, and artistry.
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People saying hip hop is dead because of her outfit or voice inflection
She is rapping about ignorance, killin and whoring, same as the men rappers
It’s dying because the content is negative energy. The audience is starting to shrink as a result. Many are waking up fortunately
New interview with @TheMUSEUMTv where we talk about my story and how independent artists can benefit from Share.
youtube.com/watch?v=ucHdQ9wT…
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You cannot think your way to a perfect design. Only building and testing, over many iterations, can reveal the flaws in your mental model and provide the feedback you need to create the best design possible.
Is @russdiemon right or is @even_biz right?
this isn’t a gotcha, just somethin that’s been confusing for me to watch but paying 20% on all revenue for y’all to host an artists work that their fans can buy is indirect to consumer, not direct to consumer lol
direct to consumer means no middleman. y’all are the middleman and take 20% for it. Shopify is like $39/mo + 3% per sale. a domain is like $15/yr.
basically an artist can bypass this and get a website and sell directly to their fans
just food for thought
If you're stuck right now focus on paying your debts. There is nothing more freeing. Debts are financial but also non-financial obligations: completion of things you owe to someone.
