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this is very clearly an interface and interaction design problem, not something inherent to agents. the system is designed in a way that encourages maximal decision deference to the machine, under the guise of machine intelligence. it is also designed in a way that encourages passive, disengaged interaction with the system.
anyone even remotely familiar with decision architecture and the decision support v automation distinction can instantly recognize that the way information is structured and presented, and the role the user is placed in within the user-machine interaction dynamic is one where the design intent is for the system to make the decision (as many as possible!), and the intended role of the user is to approve it -- ideally approving as few decisions as possible. this drives engagement in a facebook-y social media way, but leads to vastly worse outcomes.
the results are evident.
also -- while (obviously) I'm a big proponent of thinking deeply about how we rearchitect organizations and thoughtfully design work, I do think this particular issue is a design problem *first*, and an organizational architecture problem *only* insofar as organizations are forced to behave defensively against adversarial product design as long as better alternatives are not available.
it is funny when you see the Twitter crowd chiming in on things they know nothing about. PS is the elite of the elite
food for thought when you read the timeline and see the big accounts yapping
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the speed difference here is between people who have customers already with real enterprise workloads they can’t break and those that don’t
nothing slows you down more than having paying customers
bootstrapping human understanding by vibe coding a tool to aide humans understand ai output faster, then using the tool to help me understand the internal mechanics of the tool.
the fact that they spent an equivalent token volume JUST to red team their infra as solving NS, says something important about software by the way.
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You won't believe how many people told me over the past 10+ years that proof assistants would never achieve widespread use, and that my work was therefore not useful. Ignore people who discount entire fields of research because they are hard. All the more motivation for research
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AGI is the Manhattan Project of Economics (economic complexity), not "computer science".
SF is counter-cyclical to the AI-diffusion trade.
It's telling that the current cycle edges closer to "East Coast" approaches in order to figure out how to finance the build out of chips, data centers, and energy; on how to transform companies through M&A, flirt with roll-ups, and explore other esoteric value-capture approaches for AI.
Instinct/Muse/Dots/Grokbot PMs are dusting off Mauboussin reports on Amex's business model and desperately need Citadel's duration hedging know-how in order to monetize and buy the right amount of compute ahead of demand.
They don't need the latest research paper from SAIL.
The Straussian read on AI is that it's an East Coast revolution and not a West Coast one, because otherwise the most beautiful person you know would have already moved to SF.
"I often tell people my P(doom) is very low, but my P(weird) is very high."
couldn't agree more
Google AI researcher @bratton explains why Sigmund Freud's mind would explode if he saw AI agents living lives of their own:
"Freud’s mind would explode if you explained the situation to him, that you have this entity that is both you and not you. It’s a homunculus on the outside rather than a homunculus on the inside."
"I often tell people my P(doom) is very low, but my P(weird) is very high."
"A lot of the weirdness right in front of us has to do not with a consolidation into one giant homogenous centralized brain, but rather about fragmentation."
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i hate this so much if you can’t think of a way to advertise your startup without polluting the commons, putting up profanity in public parks, and just generally being a nuisance to the residents of the city i want you out of business. the culture needs to change because yea no wonder everyone everywhere hates tech and hates startup founders and hates strive risk because so many of you think the world is a game, real people be damned. stop. it. now.
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> wake up
> take a shit
> get out of bed
> check beep boop
> everyone saying ooga booga PHP
> wtf why
> look inside
> ultra mega fuck off exploit coming
> php2shell
> so bad PHP devs begs nerds to patch tomorrow
> proof of concept video released
> pwn website easily
> video has dancing anime lady?
> nobody explains why dancing anime lady
> no one even asks why proof of concept has dancing anime lady
> ok
> cybersecurity nerds bamboozled
> some saying will be up there with Log4J in severity
> goopocalypse
pic unrelated
The development of AI is a religious act, a deeply religious act. It is probably the first net new powerful religion in the western world.
I think this is what bothers me about how the wider culture talks about AI. So much yapping from people that do not get it and are pattern matching to old world philosophies (communism vs capitalism)
They do not understand this and that it is a set of beliefs that accumulate into something akin to a judgment day (the singularity/RSI)
This was never about getting wealthy for Altman or Dario. Altman doesn’t even own equity in OAI (fun fact if you didn’t know). Dario and Jack are planning on donating 80% of their shares post judgment