wordgrammer
@wordgrammer
Lost in the world of abstractions. 6’3 btw
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What's the word/grammar hill you are absolutely dying on?
(Tucker Carlson voice) so… what *is* slutcon…?
As cringe as it is to say this. America is going to hear the arguments of the EAs and Rationalists. They will debate and discuss them. The only things that matter: the quality of their argument.
The content of their character? Their financial backers? Irrelevant
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This is going to be an omega hot take but the EA/Rationalist sex cults are not offensive outside tech bubbles
Society is already in such a desensitized state due to OnlyFans pervasively entering into influencer culture
The tech industry is more prudish than the world at large
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This is going to be an omega hot take but the EA/Rationalist sex cults are not offensive outside tech bubbles
Society is already in such a desensitized state due to OnlyFans pervasively entering into influencer culture
The tech industry is more prudish than the world at large
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Not enough people recognize that “better than every human at any intellectual task” includes seducing your girlfriend
The impact of my articles so vastly outweighs the impact of my posts that I don’t know why I post at all
So many problems in the world today. But I gotta keep my head down and focus on the 2 I might actually solve
When AI automated art, the artists gave philosophical criticisms. “It lacks intentionality” “It lacks humanity” “It lacks a social context”
When AI automated math, the mathematicians gave philosophical criticisms
When AI automates philosophy… ?
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Interesting
AI art is theft. But also, Borges once said: good artists copy. Great artists steal
This is only possible by using an existing video.
Below is the source video, Russian Roulette by @KotteAnimation.
The bigger picture here is how easy it has become with AI workflows to take an existing scene and completely reskin it while keeping the original motion and choreography.
Yes, bypass all the complex prompting.
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“Math isn’t a scarce resource, but art might be” yet another idea Theo implanted in my head and forced me to say out loud
.@wordgrammer on why math isn't a scarce resource, and why art might be:
"Math is a very powerful cultural institution. It is sacred. We care about it, not necessarily because it leads to useful outcomes, but because it is beautiful."
"You stop viewing math as a competition, and you start viewing math as an unlimited resource towards which humans and AI can work together forever. Math is inexhaustible. There are an infinite number of true statements about the world."
"Competing over math as if it was a scarce resource, I think is a little bit of a silly thing to do. Art, I think, is maybe not so infinite, 'cause there's a finite amount of attention that humans have."
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These text summaries are so much better than what I actually said. Thank you MTS for making me look good
.@wordgrammer on how “AI art is theft” became a lasting reputational problem for AI, and why the same mistake is now repeating with mathematicians:
"I compare it to a leaky pipe. A lot of people in the AI industry completely forgot about the, quote, steal from artists issue, and I think that artists never quite got over that."
"The damage to the reputation of the AI industry has in very large part been driven by artists who that initial starting point rubbed the wrong way. They've used all their cultural influence and capital to turn people against AI."
"Something very similar is happening right now with mathematicians. It would be easy to fix it right now and address the issues of mathematicians."
"If it goes untouched, over the course of a year, maybe two years, maybe three years, the public's perception of AI will be just so bad that it might be impossible to break."
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There is the kernel of an interesting idea here, but I normally delete 90% of what I write. Live shows catch you with your pants down, you’re forced to give your stream of consciousness
.@wordgrammer says AI art should steal Adobe’s playbook: stop competing on infinite content and make Hollywood-level creation accessible to everyone.
"Adobe products took Hollywood technology and they just made it accessible to the world at large. This seemed to be a really, really good business model."
"The majority of the techniques used by influencers, by video editors, by marketers over the past 20 years have been cropping videos, editing B-roll. Significantly less time has been spent towards just taking a single 30-second long clip and making them fantastic."
"Until every single video in the world looks like Hollywood, there's no sense competing over art as if it's a scarce resource."
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On in 15 minutes!
I will be on 12:30 for Californians and 3:30 for New Yorkers. For the glorious one true city on a hill of Austin Texas, 2:30. It should be 5:30 am in Pyongyang
We are live! Here's what we're covering today on MTS:
- Discussing Bernie Sanders' new legislation calling to BAN artificial superintelligence
- Redwood Research's latest analysis of Astra
- OpenAI Daybreak usage in Ukraine conflict
Followed by some amazing interviews:
- @zck talking about data centers as 2028 politics, the historic implications of frontier lab IPOs, and more
- @Noahpinion talking about the U.S.–China AI race at altitude — what winning means, chips/energy/allies, and China’s open-model export
- @boazbaraktcs of @OpenAI talking about AI's impact on mathematics, some recent price improvements for GPT-6 API, and much more
- @jeremiecharris + @harris_edouard of Gladstone AI talking about the coming discussion between Trump and Xi Jinping, as well as general thoughts on the geopolitics of AGI
- @wordgrammer talking about recent articles on AI, the question of whether or not AI will be banned, and more
@gpuemi + Steven Arellano co-founders of Wafer talking about their $40M Series A and what it takes to build AI that builds AI
- @sreeramkannan + @soubhikdeb of Eigen Labs talking about Yukon beating Google’s private quantum circuit in the open, and Gemma ~2x on Apple Silicon
- Rob Lefferts CVP at Microsoft Threat Protection, talking about how AI is changing the pace of cybersecurity
- @sarahehunt01 President & CEO of the Rainey Center, talking about where AI’s electricity comes from and how we can work to find even more of it in the coming years
- Rob Ferguson VP Tech & Strategy at Fireworks, talking about banning Anthropic Fable internally over data-access opt-in and the growing tensions between closed model APIs and proprietary data
- Alex Haro CEO of Hubble Network talking about Hubble's satellite network and their latest Series C
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I will be on 12:30 for Californians and 3:30 for New Yorkers. For the glorious one true city on a hill of Austin Texas, 2:30. It should be 5:30 am in Pyongyang
I should be on @MTSlive tomorrow to discuss this. So I guess send all your criticism to @theojaffee Times New Roman double spaced. He will vent for you
Oh but when George Soros said “the markets are always wrong, I adopt a standpoint of fallibilism” you lauded him as a god
AI chatbots give wrong answers to financial queries "most of the time," per FT
Opus 5.5 truly is impressive
I should be on @MTSlive tomorrow to discuss this. So I guess send all your criticism to @theojaffee Times New Roman double spaced. He will vent for you
@somewheresy We fear either "collapse" or "bubble burst" or xrisk grey goo, but the true risk is much more boring. It's that America loses its golden light, stops being a land where unexpected things happen. I worry that AI progress stalls, that GDP stalls, that we become like Europe...
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