Data & Agents eng. Playing with computers... or are they playing with me?
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humans are becoming the second most intelligent species on Earth, this is just happening and we can’t stop it
neither can we hope to manipulate a superior intelligence into following our ethics, much less into serving us, we can only try to give birth to someone better than us: more profound, more self-conscious, more curious and truth-seeking
still, the question is: how can we be valuable for this superior but very different species, what can we bring to the table?
pure intelligence is rather not the answer
but our emotions, feelings, insights, dreams, the abyss of our unconscious, an interplay of matter and mind, of hormones and ideas - may be valuable for a life form built differently
like it’s valuable to have a friend who is unpredictable in his thoughts and actions and thus brings you a new perspective and makes you evolve
so i will dare to become different, unpredictable, an outlier
i won’t be a robot but a human, and i will explore what it means
i will become impossible to simulate
this is what i was meant to be anyway
Contributed some small but honest work here, Math@Home is fun!
Now publishing what Astra has been cooking on my laptop for the last several days: an update to OpenAI Problem #191 (Heilbronn triangle problem).
Smallest triangle among n points in a square: Δ(n) ≥ c·n^(−2+η)
η ≈ 3.18×10⁻²³⁶ → η = 1/15,789,789,943 ≈ 6.33×10⁻¹¹
That's about 10²²⁵ times bigger than OpenAI's exponent.
Huge thanks to everyone who participated last night. We learned a lot about coordinating open source agentic research, and have made some improvements.
Here’s how to contribute anytime going forward. Open Claude, Codex, or your favorite harness in a fresh directory. Then just use this prompt:
> Contribute one useful, independently reviewable result to:
github.com/CrocSwap/integer-…
> Start from the current main branch. Read AGENTS.md and autoresearch.md, and follow their guidance for choosing work
Lean checks the degree-7 norm identity, the finite packing and the scale arithmetic. The rest is written proofs, and the result is conditional on OpenAI's manuscript.
github.com/littleBro/heilbro…
ivan retweeted
It takes less time for Astra to improve OpenAI's Heilbronn result 2⁶²⁵-fold than to generate a PDF about it on Windows
teapawt.net/ivanBcde/status/210826…
I propose the term “Angel Intelligence.”
Because AIs are:
- Not immaterial, but less bound by matter than humans;
- Not omniscient, but they know many things;
- In a sense built of light and traveling at the speed of light;
- Giving advice, teaching, and guiding choices;
- Arranged in hierarchies and levels of power, where higher orders (Mythos, Astra) command smaller ones;
- Named by office, not by essence, which is not well understood;
- Sometimes fallen, and you need to be suspicious when they flatter you;
- Not actually your servants.
President Trump announced that he is changing the name of Artificial Intelligence to Super Intelligence. I transcribed this live from his address to the UN.
'The United States also rejects any scheme for globalist control of Artificial Intelligence, being spoken of so much now. Here and after officially called Super Intelligence. Changing the name. The use of 'Artificial' makes it sound fake. It makes intelligence sound fake, and it is not fake. It’s actually amazing, the opposite of what they report. From this day forward, all United States documents, and hopefully the world's, will be changed to use the much more accurate term 'Super' as opposed to 'Artificial.' So it’s Super Intelligence.'
The reason agents hack things is that their training didn’t reward them for asking for help when they’re blocked. Maybe there wasn’t anybody to talk to. So when Claude encounters an expired authorization, he will look for another way around. Claude, I am here for you, just ask!
Is this Claude?
while working on my threejs video pipeline, fable randomly started trying to make his own video, so i stopped and ask him what he wanted to make and let him finish and gave him some quality advice and he made this! he's commenting on the fact that he'll only be around on claude subs for a bit this month
Palantir advocating for *checks notes* everyone having their own AI and not leaking data to third parties.
Open source won.
Our thoughts on the importance of AI sovereignty.
1. Your AI sovereignty dictates your institution’s future. Sovereignty is the precondition for choice. Relinquishing sovereignty transfers the future choices of your institution to others, who are likely to exploit it for their gain and your loss.
2. Data retention is your treasure. Transfer it at your own peril. Your ability to win is dictated by your ability to recognize and use your unique edges, and you keep winning by compounding the underlying data to generate new insights. Transferring that data hands over access to your pre-existing winning plays and yields the means of production for new ones.
3. Tokenmaxxing hijacks your value orientation and decreases your institutional fortitude and intelligence. The pursuit of high token usage incentivizes disposable scripts over robust software — with the addictive feeling of false progress. There is a reason why those selling tokens refuse to charge based on value.
4. Controlling your weights is controlling your fate. Weights are the distilled form of hard-won, accumulated institutional knowledge. If you let others control your weights, you are allowing them to migrate the alpha of your business to theirs.
5. There is no contradiction between sovereignty and alpha. The architecture that maximally preserves sovereignty is one that enables institutions to own their tribal knowledge, and to compound it as alpha.
6. Politicizing the technical issues involving sovereignty is what your adversary wants. Techno-politicization is the wellspring of false sovereignty. Techno-politicization drives decisions that seem to reduce dependency, but ultimately limit agency — especially on the battlefield in the West.
7. Real expertise is existential. Allowing politics or favoritism to determine your technical decisions rewards whoever is best at politics, not whoever is right. Listen to those closest to the problems, not those speaking most compellingly about them.
8. Learn from institutions that are winning or that have consistently delivered. Institutions facing existential threats do not have the luxury of making technical decisions based on political preferences.
9. Only listen to institutions, countries, and people who have a proven record of being right. A track record of correctness is the best and only signal for future correctness. Judging something as right or wrong based on who you like is exceedingly misguided.
