One of the burgeoning ramifications we will see with AI is waves of psychosis Not from AI, from us, humans Existential fear coupled with these new profound ways of society functioning is going to make Covid look like a kid's ice-cream party by comparison I'm talking about people losing their absolute god dam minds Religions and extremist ideology will skyrocket Suicides will go through the roof Fractures in societies and cultures will manifest in ways we never saw coming Men will bang robots Women will replace dads with dadbots Kids will go to their Optimus for advice and reassurance Parents will outsource their parenting to the machines Couples will spice it up in the bedroom with robotic foreplay threesomes Friends will run their chats through GPT so they don't have to be present Grandparents will call their robots instead of their grandkids Jobs? You will either babysit a robot farm or one will be babysitting you Freedom? Your life will be one big spread sheet of data that is mined with flock cameras and controlled by social credit You said fuktard or turdfagg to a friend in jest, app Siri caught that, now it's off to Guantanamo 1984 wasn't a warning, it was a premonition, we just don't know for when Just like Irobot, Terminator and every post-apocalyptic sci-fi story out there Artists are not some half-wits begging for money fron rich cucks, artists are philosophers who can't be bothered with the mindless pursuits of mainstream culture so they look out and in to describe what they see, but the only way to get the droolers in the front-row to pay attention is to give them something easy to follow. Shakespeare got this best, high concept art, simple storytelling A beautiful painting A perfect sculpture A poetic play A holy-shiiit movie The artists have been right at every turn, the true artists, the ones who know we are doomed if we don't change our ways, so they project a probable tale that feels so far away... the hero's journey, the Greek tragedian, the hubris Except it's here now It's real Cyberdyne exists, we just can't see it Everyone is about to have GPT in a robot cleaning dishes and preparing dinner It doesn't matter if we even get to the end-game, because we're already in its grip The asteroid is going to hit The only question is how we prepare with the time we have left And do any of us, some of us, survive and pave a new path after the dust settles IDK. I can only guess But, we don't make it to the other side of this thing if we don't stop the psychosis and deal in the most brutal of reality, that the Titanic is going to hit that iceberg and if we do not prepare now, we won't have enough life boats, hell maybe none at all It's looking dark out there But that's why we dig until we find the light, or die trying Even if AI doesn't hit true super intelligence, it's capabilities are already good enough that society will transform in ways, at unprecedented speeds, that will shake most's perception of reality and truth so deeply, they will go bonkers

Good. We must tear things down sometimes and build them back better.

Tim Urban is correct

Ironically, this isn't far-fetched Every entrepreneur is looking for funding at all times, and if big brother is the one most likely to pay-up, the smart business decision is to align with 'em And in the age of Ai, I'm sure this was hashed out at length with their own super-intelligence

We'll be extinct before this comes out

Been saying this for years The Pronouns culture war for example is an anthill compared to this Mount Everest of ACTUALLY ENGAGE ON

Necessity is the mother of invention We have to be on the same page with the most powerful tool in history Call it communism or capitalism or the matrix or freedom, ideology is irrelevant When the titanic was taking on water nobody cared about ideology, they only cared about saving themselves, their loved ones, and as many people as possible

How does one go about going all in working with both @OpenAI AND @AnthropicAI on alignment? One thing that may be missing on the alignment front is the artist's touch, the Sistine Chapel becomes a flat dry wall without it. Great building, no soul Those who predicted the Irobots, West Worlds and Terminators well enough to make hit stories for mass appeal The ones who understand, deeply, how hubris comes before a great fall thanks to the Greek tragedies and Aristotle And yes, Fable or Astra can reasonably deduct much of this too, but only from an intellectual and pattern matching sense, not from a lived experience that only Shakespeare himself could explain, the writing a story so deep you nearly lose touch with reality, which was the point, because he did, when his son tragically died as a child, thus the greatest literary character was born, out of that unbearable suffering The pursuit of self-alignment and failing to do so was the point of his best work I'm not sure one person can have the answer to alignment, but if the great artists and philosophers of human history have taught us anything, it's that the outsiders, the black sheep, the Socrates and Teslas were right, one executed by insiders and mobs of mainstreamers, one dying dirt-poor when he chose alignment instead of investor profits Imho, the answers on alignment are within us, because that's where the machines are learning from, and we can't afford just investors or engineers to be at the forefront of this crisis We need the kinds of minds at the table who are willing to step on toes, even the Queen's. Shakespeare wrote his comedies to appease the masses and the one who could chop off his head, when he was really wanting to warn us about ourselves As You Like It, your majesty.. Much Ado About Nothing, but pays rent! Two Dudes in a City, who cares.? Alls Well That Ends Well, here's sloppp Romeo & Juliet, tribal vengeance🗡️ Macbeth, power corrupts to evil😈 Hamlet, misaligned with truth and we lose body, soul and reality itself 😶‍🌫️ Notice the running themes from the greats, they were feeding future generations a playbook on HUMAN alignment, which we still have not mastered. Pride comes before the fall gentlemen A tale as old as time. Invite the best artistic and philosophical minds to the table, while we still can, too much is at stake to role play Oedipus @sama @DarioAmodei Who am I? No one. Neither are most artists and philosophers, because it's not about them, it's about the idea, the art, the truth, the alignment within oneself. I just don't want you to think your yes men, investors or mobs are the sounding boards you need. You need to dig deeper and be willing to offend the Queen to her face without her realizing it, so you can pursue true alignment, one that starts from within, at the deepest point

I said this the other day Jurors should not be outing themselves or other jurors right after a high profile case for any reason It's a horrible precedent that puts outside pressure on jurors to conform to whatever outside pressure is strongest Regardless of L or R politics, this type of targeting jurors or getting scoops from jurors has to be reigned in Not everything is supposed to become public knowledge for media clicks

Will AI destroy us? Insiders at labs put that possibility at > 10% probability So let's ask ourselves the hardest question ever, in a cleaner way... You are at the Poker table, on the cusp of winning a trillion dollars if you win THIS hand But, there's a 10% chance the next card wipes out all your money, seizes your bank accounts, takes every penny from your family, friends and community, oh, and everyone literally dies a brutal death. Do we A. Fold and figure out how to avoid that catastrophic downside risk? Or B. Say, odds look good, YOLO, and risk everything for a life-changing opportunity? It depends your risk-appetite. Mine? I have kids. I am obligated to protect THEIR interests, their future, and then THEIR kids someday. I cannot take that risk, until there is a clear probability that catastrophe will not happen. Solution? 1. This topic needs to be at the forefront of every conversation at every opportunity, no more letting people sit foolishly in ignorance 2. Elect leaders who understand the depth of this topic, not just the full-steam ahead ones nor the get off Disney Cruise because just heard about Titanic 3. We've got to coordinate with China + We cannot afford the risk that they or us suspect the other has the ultimate super-power, because then one will be forced to preemptively strike the other and then it's literally WW3 for the world, and most get obliterated If I had no kids, I'd likely roll the dice to see the card. And that shows us the human dilemma. The risk takers don't feel a responsibility to preserve what we have, they are okay risking it all for a chance at the ultimate glory, and that is hubris, pride coming before a great fall We cannot afford to get this wrong. We cannot afford a Greek Tragic Hero.

Why did people used to have more sex? They literally had to connect, in person You had to learn confidence or game or how to talk to girls and you could attract them without filters or algos limiting your chances And girls got to actually meet guys in context to gauge if they were worth a shot May never give my kids social media tbh

Dumb question Can I just make up 24 words of my choosing for a private key? How/where can i do this. Good luck guessing Cockring Bier Lactose And Ididnothavesexualrelationswiththatwoman As 4 of 24 totally random words. @0xQuit ?

Because of kids I'm finally looking forward to visiting or revisiting - Pirates of Caribbean - LoTR everything - Harry Potter series books and movies not new series rehash - All 90's feel good family movies - Disney classics - The Full Toy Story What am I missing from this list? Narnia? Jack Persey?

The unbridled pursuit of profits Is called greed Not everything needs max upside incentives And this includes cinema Why do we get so many bloated, redundant, spin-off, remake whiffs in Hollywood these days? Because every financing choice is less and less to do with art and storytelling and more and more to do with what gives investors the best ROI upside based on the risk In a sense, they sold out decades ago, and the artwork has plummeted year by year Just like medicine in America Just like FIFA is trying to do Just like colleges in USA did When we sell our souls, we may gain leverage for outsized returns, but we also lose the why we did any of this in the first place, and if you're telling stories to make money, first, you are not worthy of being an artist, you are an investor cosplaying as one This is why I originally dreamt up Block of Horror, in the spirit of decentralization, to attack the system of greed that destroys a man's soul, then becomes a succubus for anything he touches Basically, our world is a Horror Story, and until we reckon with the system of ghouls sucking the life out of us for more money than they need, for no purpose, we will continue to have the deepest parts of our spirit wither away

Nolan stans when he breathes

If it is objectively a 9.5/10, it's one of his top 2 movies, and it's objectively not in his top 5. Not even close. Even the "I loved it" crowd wouldn't put it that high People still refer to Memento as mind bending all-timer and I still haven't seen it Inception is a psychological mind fuk that keeps you guessing Dark Knight and Heath Ledger redefined supervillains Interstellar has some of the best memes on the internet from its visceral impact Dunkirk made you glad you were not your WW2 drafted grandad Oppenheimer shed light with the warm-up to what will happen with AGI THE ODYSSEY? The best it did was make thinking people want to read the source material Nothing to quote like Gladiator. No Oscar winning performances. The music was a cool idea yet whiffed. Out of focus close ups. A rapper pretending to be an actor doing a poem tanked the opening due to no acting chops. Three ships then one ship then three ships continuity blunder. No woman gets more than a stagnant sitting scene, save the former one running like a duck to a wooden horse It was a rushed, on Hollywood blockbuster deadlines, mish-mash of some cool things and great acting moments, with Dante's Inferno, lukewarm Greek Mythology minus real Gods, and an animatronic dog that made you just want to watch Hachi: A Dog's Tale again It was fine. We are so starved for high quality storytelling in Blockbuster cinema, a forced adaptation of The Odyssey that gets rushed to market gets cancelled or deep-throated, when it deserves neither. It was fine. Expected more, needed more time, and a better script and casting that fit character regardless of ethnicities. I'd have preferred an all minority cast if it matched better characterizations All that said, art is hard. It is subjective. Nolan does fantastic swings creatively. And his work hits at the Box Office. This was a modern Hollywood Blockbuster. The days of never saw that one coming knocking our socks off, has been over for decade, hate to say Maybe the overlords of our modern world like @elonmusk @JeffBezos will invest in creators again who can afford to take risks to nail the next summer blockbuster without a Nolan's box office pedigree. Who knows

No one will say it but Nolan's best work in The Odyssey were the "horror" sequences, he'd have slayed had he chosen Dante's Inferno...

It's fairly objectively clear that Nolan basically took a few pieces he liked of an epic classic to make his version his way I've been doing this with a Shakespeare Tragedy spin too, but I always try to go back to the source material to anchor characterizations, even if I then twist them sideways The idea is like a socially borderline joke, you have to stick the landing or many will assume it to be a hack job that doesn't respect boundaries at all

Got my start in theater where everyone is always doing revivals, adaptations, reverse casting and so on. Without a doubt, the biggest failures always came when a director took a major risk to do something "interesting" with a classic, that was too far off its source material. I was in a butchered translation of Antigone as Haemon. Goofy Irish Translation of source material killed it. The best shows? Whether Shakespeare or August Wilson or Moliere or modern plays, always slapped because the source material, at its core, was respected, even when creative liberties were taken like adding a Pre-show or talking lines to the audience or giving it a modern environment. The difference in cinema is no one can afford to take THOSE big of risks, unless you are a top director like Nolan. I respect his attempt to make it his version of The Odyssey, but the source material means too much to too many people to get that once in a generation take on a film that was rushed to the finish line for Hollywood Blockbuster deadlines. If you understand the mechanisms of how Hollywood works, how creatives take liberties with classics and what actually works or not from experience, it becomes clear that The Odyssey was a floundering success, one man's bold attempt to Trojan Horse a classic from his vantage point of the human condition and rushed from inception to final delivery, the out of focus closeups, pacing inconsistencies, and wonky dialogue proving it so. Not to mention opening the movie with a non-actor doing a bad rap of a poem to completely bastardize what it means to actually be an actor. Most of the time, just sticking the landing on the basics is enough, trust it.