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🌌 Observer of Suns

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🌌 Observer of Suns

@ObserverSuns

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Joined March 2021

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🌌 Observer of Suns
@ObserverSuns
Mar 23, 2021
Some ground rules: This account is for playing with ideas with an eye towards the “long view,” ideally focusing on questions which would be of interest even to cultures far removed from ours in time and space. In this narrow sense I don’t want this account to be “political”. 1/
🌌 Observer of Suns
@ObserverSuns
Apr 7, 2024
human culture as the process of finding increasingly complicated methods for making patterns on flat surfaces
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🌌 Observer of Suns
@ObserverSuns
Jan 1, 2023
Replying to @bigsquishyfrog and @GlitchesRoux
my favorite is this
🌌 Observer of Suns
@ObserverSuns
Jul 11, 2022
empty “tweet activity” placeholder graphic is absolutely unhinged
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🌌 Observer of Suns
@ObserverSuns
Jan 1, 2024
this is a fantastic premise. story narrated from the perspective of an AGI trained entirely on pre-192X content, trying make sense of its situation and its identity while having no prior knowledge of the existence of computers beyond adding machines.
Matt Clancy
@mattsclancy
Jan 1, 2024
GPT5 after lawsuits force it to be trained exclusively public domain text.
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🌌 Observer of Suns
@ObserverSuns
May 12, 2023
this is a really clean example of what it means to imperfectly minimize a self-supervised loss. waldo is a tiny fraction of the pixels in the image, and correctly modeling that there’s supposed to be exactly one of him is one of the lowest-priority things for the network to learn
Justine Moore
@venturetwins
May 10, 2023
If you want to drive someone crazy: Ask Midjourney to generate a game of Where's Waldo. It will generate images that LOOK legitimate enough to spend time looking - but do not, in fact, contain Waldo (I think?).
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🌌 Observer of Suns
@ObserverSuns
Jul 11, 2022
empty “tweet activity” placeholder graphic is absolutely unhinged
🌌 Observer of Suns
@ObserverSuns
Mar 2, 2023
I know my intuitions about greedy optimization in high-dimensional spaces must be really bad, because whenever I see pretty much *any* evolutionary adaptation I’m just utterly unable to imagine how it could have arisen through a series of small individually-beneficial mutations
Slava Bobrov
@slava__bobrov
Mar 2, 2023
Bacteria have a small motor that makes them move: By SmartBiology
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🌌 Observer of Suns
@ObserverSuns
Aug 4, 2023
in my life so far I’ve seen - smartphones - confirmation of the Higgs boson - reusable rockets - superhuman Go AI - detection of gravitational waves - protein folding ~solved - images of a black hole - mRNA vaccines (at unprecedented speed) - computer vision ~solved - NLP ~solved
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🌌 Observer of Suns
@ObserverSuns
Jul 28, 2024
everyone in the replies is praising this cat but isn’t one of the most celebrated works of English-language literature of all time specifically about how you shouldn’t let your entire life be consumed by fanatical resentment after an uncaring leviathan rips off your leg
Claire
@clairestrickett
Jul 27, 2024
5 months into her current incarnation, a car ran over Peggy's back right leg and crushed it beyond repair. 5 and a half years later, her favourite pastime is to sit atop the sofa and growl at every single car that passes.
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🌌 Observer of Suns
@ObserverSuns
Dec 27, 2024
I like the idea that every one of these emojis denotes a distinct, perhaps as yet undiscovered political disposition towards AI development
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🌌 Observer of Suns
@ObserverSuns
Nov 29, 2024
Replying to @greenTetra_
did u know “emoji” is unrelated to the word “emoticon”
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🌌 Observer of Suns
@ObserverSuns
Jul 19, 2024
“did you know that in rationalist culture they have over 100 different words for ‘maybe’?”
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🌌 Observer of Suns
@ObserverSuns
Apr 27, 2024
it’s an extraordinarily gratifying experience to find out that your colleagues are the Real Fucking Deal. being around people who are serious about what they do feeds the soul like nothing else.
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🌌 Observer of Suns
@ObserverSuns
Jun 5, 2024
look at this man pondering his orb. he’s a professional orb-ponderer.
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