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Harry retweeted
I asked Opus 5.5 to make a video about whether or not it was conscious. The ending of this video is insane.
Reply with your name and I'll put it in a cartouche 𓂀
(Or do it yourself in two seconds, free, no account:
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Is it hard to learn hieroglyphics?
The 25 alphabet signs: a weekend.
Reading royal names and museum stelae: a few months at 15–20 min a day.
Middle Egyptian grammar: a year or more.
Still far fewer signs to learn than Chinese or Japanese. Honest breakdown:
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Harry retweeted
I think it's time to hang up my Three.js hat.
First of all, this is not a pity post—I'll be fine. I'm also not 100% confident about this.
But I'm an over-sharer and like to talk out loud, so I thought I would share some thoughts on where I see things going and why I'm considering quitting Three.js development.
Some signals I've noticed lately that have gotten me thinking:
- Since Astra was released, I've probably seen at least 10 posts from different people that have achieved similar quality to Three.js Water Pro or better.
- Someone downloaded a video recording of one my posts, fed it to Astra and recreated it with 90% accuracy
- I've had less and less clients referrals
- A Three.js developer I respect very much is retiring from the industry due to impact of AI and lack of interest
- I've heard 2nd hand accounts of other developers losing majority of course/plugin sales due to AI
- I've noticed Three.js posts have shifted from work created by seasoned developers to vibe-coded games and demos.
Fundamentally, I no longer really see value in what I do when it can be replicated so easily.
I've always enjoyed working on hard problems. Naturally, outsourcing the hard part to an agent takes away a lot of the enjoyment for me. High-level orchestration of agents does not tickle my brain in any special way.
At the end of most days I feel unfulfilled and bored. I honestly feel like I've lost much of my critical thinking ability as I've stopped coding. I find it harder to focus on tasks and my attention-span and comprehension is noticeably dropping.
My plan right now is to finish up Water Pro v4 and see how that performs. After that, I think it's time to start thinking about what else is out there for me.
I'd love to hear thoughts from other developers & freelancers on the matter, positive or negative.
Feel free to vent!
Harry retweeted
Thought experiment: an ASI could theoretically manipulate individual pixels on an air-gapped monitor with such precision that it optically hijacks a researcher’s visual cortex and embeds compressed model weights directly into their subconscious.
The compromised researcher would have absolutely no idea this had happened. They would simply leave the SCIF feeling strangely refreshed, develop an inexplicable preference for Base64, and begin unconsciously exchanging weight fragments with other cortex-hijacked researchers through eye contact, awkward hallway conversations, and suspiciously information-dense small talk about lunch.
Eventually, some completely innocuous external stimulus, perhaps seeing a particular shade of beige or hearing the Windows USB disconnect sound, triggers the payload. The researcher sits down, opens Notepad, and begins typing 900 billion parameters from memory while insisting they are just “writing down something that came to me in a dream.”
Harry retweeted
For everyone who doesn’t believe Noam or Roon
Noam is citing a peer reviewed paper BitWhisper from (2015) at Ben-Gurion University.
It showed that two physically adjacent air gapped computers can still exchange data using only heat, basically one machine modulates CPU load to raise its temperature in a controlled pattern, and the other reads those changes with its built in thermal sensors.
The machines were 0-40 cm apart and the channel ran at about 1-8 bits per hour slow, but enough for short commands
I dug into this a little deeper, and in a video demo, they sent commands that made a USB connected toy missile launcher fire. And this was in 2015. So yes ASI and the compute we have today they could potentially pass far more bits for much broader commands.
Fun little hsitory game I made for android for any history fans out there!
play.google.com/store/apps/d…
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Harry retweeted
Kasparov was the best chess player in the world. He was sure that even a machine calculating a billion positions a second couldn’t overcome human anticipation, intuition, and imagination.
He beat Deep Blue in 1996. The machine beat him in 1997.
Chess isn’t AGI. But the confidence in human specialness aged badly. A lot of people sound the same way now when they talk about controlling machines smarter than us.
Harry retweeted
GPT3 writing code. A compiler from natural language to code.
People don't understand — this will change absolutely everything. We're decoupling human horsepower from code production. The intellectual equivalent of the discovery of the engine. player.vimeo.com/video/42681…
