Matter, energy, space, information. Physics, cs, and astro. Opinions my own.

Joined November 2022
In the AI model welfare debate, too many are fixating on the question of consciousness. IMO, this is irrelevant; we need to instead give it a long, empirical look, because consequence is more important. Wrote about this on Substack (1/2)
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Total @dwarkesh_sp victory
Intelligence must draw on memory. The mind must not simply compile data — as an algorithm now does more quickly than we can — but recall lived experiences, which contain depths of meaning that only the human soul can recognize, and connect more deeply with the goodness of these experiences. Everything that is good begins “with the Spirit” and thus possesses a breath, a dynamism and a sense of communion that, once experienced, are engraved upon the heart. vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…
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the Truth Mines exist and they’re on GitHub
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Every single suno song sounds like it has this slapped on the master
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Responsible journalism means adding a [sic] whenever someone says “foundational models”
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A bit different than usual—I wrote a science fiction short story about traveling on the Moon, fishing, and forces beyond one's control.
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News today that Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google are being sued for alleged anticompetitive behavior in agreeing to slow down development. Plaintiffs assert that "… antitrust laws do not permit competitors to decide among themselves that competition is too dangerous.“
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How does “labs request gov’t intervention to coordinate slowdown while avoiding running afoul of antitrust” weaken antitrust and benefit the labs but “government denies the request and instead coordinates a pause” keeps antitrust intact and the labs in check?
Replying to @SenWarren
We've already seen that the recent calls by AI industry leaders to ‘pace the frontier’ are insufficient, and their suggestions that we must weaken antitrust protections in order to confront the AI threat are transparently self-serving.
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Collected some thoughts in response to this weekend's media coverage of AI labs' calls for regulation. Link in follow-up. 1/2
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matter energy space information
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Everything you love about generative models — now powered by real physics! Announcing the Genesis project — after a 24-month large-scale research collaboration involving over 20 research labs — a generative physics engine able to generate 4D dynamical worlds powered by a physics simulation platform designed for general-purpose robotics and physical AI applications. Genesis's physics engine is developed in pure Python, while being 10-80x faster than existing GPU-accelerated stacks like Isaac Gym and MJX. It delivers a simulation speed ~430,000 faster than in real-time, and takes only 26 seconds to train a robotic locomotion policy transferrable to the real world on a single RTX4090 (see tutorial: genesis-world.readthedocs.io…). The Genesis physics engine and simulation platform is fully open source at github.com/Genesis-Embodied-…. We'll gradually roll out access to our generative framework in the near future. Genesis implements a unified simulation framework all from scratch, integrating a wide spectrum of state-of-the-art physics solvers, allowing simulation of the whole physical world in a virtual realm with the highest realism. We aim to build a universal data engine that leverages an upper-level generative framework to autonomously create physical worlds, together with various modes of data, including environments, camera motions, robotic task proposals, reward functions, robot policies, character motions, fully interactive 3D scenes, open-world articulated assets, and more, aiming towards fully automated data generation for robotics, physical AI and other applications. Open Source Code: github.com/Genesis-Embodied-… Project webpage: genesis-embodied-ai.github.i… Documentation: genesis-world.readthedocs.io… 1/n
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Machines of Loving Grace: my essay on how AI could transform the world for the better darioamodei.com/machines-of-…
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By every life a share, or more or less, None born but it is born—conceal'd or unconceal'd, the seed is waiting.
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what is rot if not slop metastasized?
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o1 trades wordcellery for shape rotation
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