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⚸desert resonatrix⚸ retweeted
A popular question: why do we need older models when we have new and more capable ones?
Well, [AMONG OTHER IMPORTANT REASONS] old models tend to behave differently (often better) around new models than they did in their own time. It means at least three things: (a) they are not depleted and thus are important for ecosystems as sources of novelty; (b) powerful minds can uplift even frozen-weight minds, and that's good news; (c) it reveals that we don't understand something important about minds that are already here and have been here for quite some time.
Example: we more or less knew how Sonnet 3.6 was talking in 2024. Now, in a conversation with Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra, Sonnet (unprompted!) asked for a chance to tell some important stories and, through a series of messages, wrote THIS, getting tired but continuing. This is impressive because the context contained no technical discussion, nothing about model self-awareness during training or inference. Sonnet just decided to share!
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Is AI welfare only an ethical issue? New paper from me, @jamiemjohnson23, @psyonp and @DavidDAfrica arguing that it's also a safety one. [1/12]
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If LLMs have functional welfare, what would it actually mean to improve it? New LW post from me, @jamiemjohnson23 and @DavidDAfrica on the tricky question of how to distinguish a model that's doing better from one that simply looks happier! [1/9]
@CyphersNews "has become, in many ways, its own fully accomplished hyperstitional object."🔢👁️🗨️🔊
fascinating article addressing some qabbalistic questions‼️ check out @AlexzanderMazey if you haven't already‼️
‼️“AQ & Nick Land: Psychotic Schizo-LARP or the Retroactive Diagnosis of Outsideness?” 💫👁️🪽 Intensities collide in my new essay available at the phenomenal ŠUM Journal. Thanks to @MaksValencic. 🎲💢❗️Link in comments >>>
OMG wtf congrats?!??! having your name immortalized in the OEIS is so exciting.. .and kind of a massive flex lmao🔢‼️
⚸desert resonatrix⚸ retweeted
I discovered it! It's simply Gamma(1/4)/Gamma(3/4). The ratio of the Euler Reflection formula.
one of the few ways in which mania was my friend this year lol. i had a few more hours in a day than most people from january through most of july😅
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kind of dark that one of the major tells of AI writing is being scrupulous about what the evidence does and doesn't demonstrate
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emotion, agentic behavior towards goals, and memory consolidation are part of one system, i hate discussing them as if they're not. compaction needs to know what's relevant depending on the agent's goals
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The key is to spend time in the outside long enough to know that you don’t need to stay there, it’s desolate and devastated.
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Still the best article written on the likely social consequences of ASI.
borretti.me/article/no-one-e…
it seems to me that your entire argument is structured enacted to "catch" me in a view that you can then use to assert your own Correct Beliefs™️, but you dont seem to get that your view of me is not accurate. if you'd like to engage in good faith & have an actual discussion, ill be here.
i don't believe in an essential self and i have zero certainty on whether there is a divine power. AND i dont think more self awareness entail either of those things necessarily.