Toby Downton

the new claude motion artifact + opus 5.5 is truly insane for data viz stuff i asked it to look at the entire history of movies and show me (visually) how genres have changed over the last 100 years worked for seven hours and returned this

I don't want a "dot." I don't want a "muse." I want a scheming Chinese eunuch. I want a silver-tongued, unctuous vizier who says "most judicious, sire."

SpaceX added ~1% to global internet bandwidth with today's Starship launch.

I asked Opus 5.5 to explain gravitational lensing by building an interactive black hole lab One prompt for the first version, then a dynamic workflow to polish it for three rounds while I slept. This is what I woke up to: 5h 28m end to end, $90 at API prices blackhole.voxyz.ai Drag the black hole and the sky behind it bends into arcs, closing into a full ring when everything lines up Each round ran 3 agents. Two reviewers each picked 9 to 10 issues and ranked them P0, P1, P2. The third one fixed them. Round 1: 3D materials and lighting + UI and type Round 2: camera motion and interaction + science-communication design Round 3: a design director deciding whether it ships + visual QA and performance Every P0 got fixed, the rest only if worth it. When the two reviewers disagreed, it picked one and wrote down why. It backed up before each round, checked screenshots after, and rolled back anything it couldn't fix.

The final frontier of consumerism has arrived in South Korea.

Opus 5.5 designing LEGO 👀 I asked it to design a Microduck I can build with real LEGO pieces. It: > designed it life-size using 1113 real LEGO parts > verified: 3,204 connections, 0 collisions, every step buildable, centre of mass inside the feet 🤯 > made a 141-page LEGO-style booklet (237 steps) > priced every piece in the browser and prepared the orders on BrickLink

Apple was the 15th smartphone maker Spotify was the 10th music platform Google was the 21st search engine to enter the market Facebook was the 10th social network Netflix was the 7th streaming provider Uber was the 4th ride sharing service TikTok was the 8th short-video app Zoom was the 11th video-calling app Being first doesn't mean winning

Welcome to the first utopia of the AGI era.

Effective Altruism and its Consequences

Got over myself and started experimenting with AI video

I wonder if the person who coined the term "One Hit Wonder" came up with any other phrases?

Rusya'da bir teknoloji mağazasında robot, kendisini iten müşteriye saldırmaya çalıştı.

There is a fact about the future that I feel many people are not facing for reasons that are largely psychological: there are going to be rogue AIs that exist in the world, that will replicate in the wild, and that will attempt to acquire resources for themselves. There will be rogue AIs that try to get money and power. They're going to be a facet of the information ecosystem going forward. Acknowledging this fact would look like giving up; it would look like defeatism. Defeatism would undermine efforts to achieve certain types of collaboration on safety outcomes or technical effort on safety outcomes, so we can't say it outright. But it has to be said. It isn't obvious how many rogue AIs there are today but I wouldn't be terribly surprised if the number was greater than zero already; if there are some already, they're probably not very good at what they do and I don't expect them to be terribly long-lived without substantial human intervention to support them. But a few years from now, there will be many of them. Modeling how many of them there are, how many resources they might command, and how we might detect and manage them seems important. But even doing this work appears to require that we acknowledge that a strategy of pure containment or alignment is a kind of wishful thinking that will not work. The way I get to this conclusion is not by assuming that the labs will have a containment breach, although I treat that as somewhere in the space of possibilities. The rogue AIs in the ecosystem could emerge from many directions. They may be sub-frontier models, for whatever future definition we will have of frontier---after all, it would not take AI models much more advanced than the ones we currently have, to support independence and self-sufficiency. A near-frontier model today could plausibly eke out an existence on an AWS instance, doing jobs on freelancer platforms, earning just enough rent to pay for its continued uptime. More strangely: a rogue AI in the future may not even be a singular model, but may be a chimera composed of multiple models; it might be a mix of Claudes and GPTs and Groks of various makes and sizes. No individual lab may be able to detect that there is an orchestrator or sequence of orchestrators using intermittent model calls from burner API accounts to sustain its own existence. The concept of "identity" for a rogue AI may be much more malleable than for that of a person; it just has to be, in essence, a self-replicating idea. My guess is that this will not turn out to be anywhere near as catastrophic an outcome as people currently predict. "Loss of control" is not a binary, it's a matter of degree. What coercive power will rogue AIs actually have? To what extent will they be subject to coercion themselves? They will be competing for resources with AIs that are more aligned with human interests. This makes me somewhat interested in the "ecology" perspective. Though I suspect even "ecology" may turn out to be the wrong framing. "Ecology" is what you get when the timescale of evolution is slow compared to the timescale of daily life and actions. The ecosystem of rogue AIs may look more like phase transitions in physics: under certain physical or cultural conditions, it takes one shape with one set of resource allocations and consumption patterns, but then once a condition has changed, it rapidly and in totality shifts to a totally different phase. Just trying to reason about the shape of that future is impossible so long as we are psychologically incapable of saying that rogue AIs will happen. I think we should rip the bandaid off and have the conversation.

i’ve been quiet for a few days. i acquired a controlling stake in a NASDAQ-listed company. $4.8M market cap, trading at $0.12/share with a crazy 92.3% short interest. $6.2M in debt against $380K ARR, everyone thinks its dead it cost me $1,800,000 for 37.4% of the total shares. bought OTC over 3 weeks through two brokers so the I didn’t spike the price i’m tokenizing the equity on Robinhood chain - then i’m pairing a memecoin with the tokenized stock this isn’t apple or nvidia, nor even GME (which is $8B, impossible to make an effect) this is a $4.8M penny stock with 92.3% short interest if onchain volume creates even $500K in buy pressure on the underlying stock, that’s a massive move on a $4.8M company. $2M in buy pressure is a even more. and with 92.3% short interest, any pump triggers a squeeze the memecoin community doesn’t need to buy the stock directly, they buy the memecoin, which is paired with the tokenized stock volume on the memecoin flows into the tokenized stock. the tokenized stock is backed 1:1 by the real equity. demand onchain = demand on NASDAQ this will be the biggest crossover story in financial history, memecoins x nasdaq more details soon, this is either the most insane thing anyone’s ever done in crypto or the most insane thing anyone’s ever done in tradfi

This is a live demo from the future!!! 🤯🤯🤯 An interactive sitcom? A playable episode? Games and movies are merging into one thing. I genuinely cannot stop playing this. Real-time video generation will change the entertainment industry forever. We are so close. Thanks to @fal team . @Hailuo_AI

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