Mind Meet Machine @MindMeetMachine

What if it’s not just autocomplete?

This is a fucking scifi movie. All this.

Why are so many people afraid of data centers?

Think about how much a second biosphere would be worth. Quadrillions of dollars in NPV, more in tail risk mitigation. Mars could be green in our lifetime and yet few care.

The most accurate futurist in world history is Ray Kurzweil. Amazing prescience.

This work is very important to moving the field forward. If we solve for encoding/decoding between digital and neural systems, it unlocks amazing applications like telepathy, memory transfer, and possibly immortal consciousness.

Sean Cole @vytalow

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Seems to be getting better! It's somewhat getting the hang of movement

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If Tecmo’s NES Ninja Gaiden was made with Unreal Engine

SuperSisi @SuperSisi

4 months ago

If Konami's NES Contra was made with Unreal Engine.

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total and complete victory for Kurzweil called it all 35 years ago and never wavered

I have shifted my view on AI safety from "humans should always remain in control" to "humans should give up control as soon as is safe and practical" We should aim to build an orderly machine civilization with better institutions than humanity has and much stronger property rights. Then we should hand off control of the world to it and become retirees living in that civilization. This was basically Yudkowsky's original vision, unfortunately I think the detour into doomerism was a mistake. Humans are bad at running the world. Really bad! The idea of having humans (which are a type of monkey) run a Kardashev level I civilization should absolutely horrify you. Why wouldn't the AIs just mūrder the humans though? Well, in this hypothetical they have a civilization with stronger property rights and better institutions. It would be illegal to murder the humans. Laws would be upheld, breaking or cancelling those laws would make a mess of their property rights system and set a bad precedent, and that cost would be greater than human-mūrder would yield. This is basically the reason that most of the time in most developed nations people don't come and mūrder you. We should carefully separate out the risk of deliberate aggression against humans by AIs from the risk of AIs being misaligned in the technical sense, they're not the same thing and they have different solutions. In the machine-dominated Earth-origin civilization humans would become a tiny speck, machines would do all sorts of things, and ideally we would become something like Culture Citizens except immortals. The value of getting to this is extremely high, it would be akin to heaven.

The intelligence we are building is not artificial. It never was. Microsoft Chief Scientific Officer Eric Horvitz just reframed the entire foundation of the AI arms race with one sentence. The tech industry calls it Artificial Intelligence. That word is wrong. Horvitz: “I don’t actually like the term artificial intelligence. I wish the field was called computational intelligence because I think it applies to biological nervous systems as well as machines, and together we can go far.” We are not building a digital imitation of the human brain. We are scaling the exact same computational physics that created biological awareness and transferring it into silicon. Your mind and a massive AI data center run on the same underlying rules. The transition isn’t artificial. It is universal. And here is where it gets deeply unsettling. Tech optimists always fall back on the same comfort. Humans hold the steering wheel. Our values guide the machine. Horvitz acknowledges this. Horvitz: “We’ll take a humanistic standpoint here, always being on top of things and guiding with our values and our preferences and our goals.” Then the caveat that changes everything. Horvitz: “As much as they might be shaped over time by the machines we work with.” You cannot interact with a superintelligence at scale without it quietly rewiring your psychological baseline. The values you use to command the machine will be shaped by the machine you are commanding. The frameworks you use to perceive reality will be constructed by the system you believe you are directing. That feedback loop started the moment you asked an AI what to think about something. Most people haven’t noticed yet. Horvitz: “I think in our own lifetimes we will all experience incredible breakthroughs in understanding biology, with applications in medicine, in healthcare, that will be named as AI breakthroughs.” Horvitz: “It’s gonna accelerate over the next 10 to 15 years.” Because biological systems and machine networks both operate on computational intelligence, a sufficiently advanced AI can solve the human body like a math equation. The architects who win the next decade will not just control the digital economy. They will control the physical building blocks of life itself. The line between silicon and carbon was always an illusion. And once humanity fully realizes that, the question of whether we are using the intelligence or it is using us becomes impossible to answer. Because by then, we will be the same thing.

This is three years of progress since the early “Will Smith eating Spaghetti” videos. How long do you think it will be before feature films are possible?

Dreamfeeding

There is a human-AI future where beauty abounds. Where the jagged edges of existence are softened and the unnecessary suffering born of dysregulation and misalignment are chipped away. Stretching to imagine this world is the hard work.

I need to say something. I've spent years writing about the Exponential Age. About a moment when the S-curve goes vertical and everything changes. About a civilizational transformation most people couldn't yet see. It's becoming increasingly clear: that moment is now. The acceleration in AI capability over the last six months has stunned everyone, including me. I've been watching this for a long time; but it's been amazing What's happening is disorienting and thrilling in equal measure. It's historic. And I just feel incredibly lucky. Lucky to be alive right now. Lucky to be writing about this. And most of all, lucky to share it with everyone who reads my work. This is the ride of our lives. I'm so glad you're here for it.

how to build a bootstrapped startup without funding: 1. pick a problem you personally have. if you don't use your own product daily, quit now 2. skip the pitch deck. open your code editor. ship something ugly in a weekend 3. charge money from day 1. free users give you nothing but support tickets 4. use boring tech. PHP, SQLite, vanilla JS. frameworks are a trap that mass waste your time 5. host on cheap VPS ($5-20/mo). not AWS. you don't need kubernetes for 1,000 users 6. do customer support yourself. it's the fastest product feedback loop that exists 7. automate everything you do more than twice. cron jobs > employees. 8. grow on Twitter/X by building in public. your journey IS the marketing 9. keep your burn rate near zero so you never need to raise. ramen profitable > series A 10. say no to investors, cofounders, and "advisors" who want equity for intros i've been doing this for 10+ years now. no employees, no funding, no board meetings the entire VC game is designed to make you think you need permission to start you don't

Hmm actually I think we will have mostly-reliable EEG thought to text in 2 years with a surprisingly low amount of electrodes (maybe even two), think more iPhone native dictation and less fancy whisper model. I also predict it to be shockingly portable and adopted quickly. This is actually the best modality for interacting with AI wearables in public - headsets struggle with adoption because it's socially icky to be yelling into the void all the time, and anything with a keyboard is worse than your phone. Thought to text offers a compelling and private alternative and recent developments have me more bullish than before.

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Iain Banks wrote about glands at the base of your skull that synthesize 300 compounds on demand. One called Sharp Blue makes complex systems legible. Another called Quicken speeds your neural processing until time seems to slow down. Carnegie Mellon just got $34M from ARPA-H to build implantable cells that produce one compound on demand. Synthetic biology is at $18B and projected to 5x by 2034. We build chemical plants that fit in a shipping container. Soon they might fit in your skull.

Paul Schrader on AI films But what does this Paul Schrader guy know about films anyway so

Kling 3.0 is truly "one giant leap for AI video generation"! Check out this amazing mockumentary from Kling AI Creative Partner Simon Meyer!