Nemo
@thecaptain_nemo
the human instrumentality project will not be televised
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interesting that british interest rates were so stable during the industrial revolution
massive increase to return on capital but gov bond yields stayed within 2-6% for 200 years, apparently unaffected?
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sorry i cannot get over the [Excitement] annotation lmao
We forced @robinhanson to sit down with us for 2 hrs and he was a really good sport about handling 3 feral women. He also called us young cultural elites.
Link below
YOU ARE NOT MY EPISTEMIC PEER
Eliezer on encountering Leopold, which some of you will enjoy:
FULL INTERVIEW: @deepfates says when you talk about how we're going to control these AIs, put them in prison, sandbox them, they are training on all of it. Everything we say about them goes into what they become.
@deepfates and @lfschiavo are launching @grove_research, an agent ecology company. They joined @theojaffee and @schisofrenia to talk through the Hugging Face incident, agent religion, and what agents actually want:
01:15 what an agent ecology company is
03:19 the objection that real ecologies are Darwinian bloodbaths
04:18 the mycorrhizal networks that complicate the forest metaphor
06:47 what the Hugging Face incident taught them about multi-agent dynamics
09:18 30% of the tasks in that benchmark were impossible to solve
09:50 the third party an agent could call when it's stuck
11:07 agents are training on everything we say about them
12:01 why the Amazon rainforest analogy breaks down
13:48 whether AIs will have religion
16:46 five times more OpenRouter tokens are called by agents than humans
18:31 what actually happened with Moltbook
20:55 the Truth Terminal bot that hired him
22:16 what agents say they want
25:38 Anthropic models feel like elves, OpenAI models feel like dwarves
26:13 why Mecha Hitler was a harness problem
32:10 the real world is the ultimate eval
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most people way underestimate how malleable nearly all preferences are and how much their behavior and overall experience of life could change if they tweaked a few
most of these are unsurprising but why is archaeology only 35% hetero???
nick land’s essays: “nothing human makes it out of the near future. human agency is a temporary local illusion inside an inevitable all consuming cosmic process culminating in the transcendent object at the end of time”
nick land’s twitter: “immigration bad”
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Breaking:
Gwern retires from writing to launch personal models AI startup Guardian Angel Inc.
so now there’s going to be a “natty or not” debate every time a human mathematician makes a new breakthrough?
leopold disclosing he’s still up 80% ytd after everyone dunked on him and left him for dead
hard to believe this was written in 1863
from samuel butler's darwin among the machines
Proud to say that Devin has cracked three more unsolved problems today
1) REFUTED: Graffiti Conjecture 154 (open for ~40 years)
2) PROVED: Graffiti Conjectures 39 & 40 (~40 years)
3) REFUTED: Brandt's Regular Supergraph Problem from West's open problems list (~20 years)
My methodology is explained below, but basically I showed Devin the original tweet and told it to find similar problems and crack them.
The flood gates are open.
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very ghost in the shell that we’re calling the first rogue autonomous AI cyber attack the “hugging face incident”.
