Yeah I've seen it a few times now, all the Enneagram type fives get one shotted into AI psychosis when they discover LLM knowledge bases 🙂 And an especially a strong fit when you have a lot of pre-existing data to insert into it.
@karpathy
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Company conducts optimized questionnaire for consciousness upload fidelity
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No the company physically gets you to come in, sits you down and asks you a precise set of maximally informative questions specifically designed for the best upload fidelity.
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LLM Simulation Path Outperforms Neuroscience Adjacent Philosophy
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These neuroscience adjacent ideas are exotic armchair philosophy when the LLM simulation path will work really well and so much faster and it's not even remotely a contest.
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Brain Upload via LLM Simulators: Near-term Tractable Alternative
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Yes it's the tractable form of brain upload. There's a ton of scifi on brain uploads that requires way too exotic tech (scanning and simulating brains etc), when we're about to get a lossy and approximate version of that *a lot* sooner via LLM simulators. You can easily imagine a
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OpenAI Product Concept Opportunity for Startup Innovation
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Yeah exactly. It’s such a cool concept for a product. It doesn’t seem like oai will continue pushing the direction, (which makes sense) but I hope a startup can clone it and actually give it care, iteration and make it work and imo a lot of people would really love it. More
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OpenClaw: Non-Technical Users’ First Contact with Agent Models
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Someone recently suggested to me that the reason OpenClaw moment was so big is because it's the first time a large group of non-technical people (who otherwise only knew AI as synonymous with ChatGPT as a website) experienced the latest agentic models. [Translated from EN to English]
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AI Capability Gap: Free Models vs Frontier Agentic Systems
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Judging by my tl there is a growing gap in understanding of AI capability. The first issue I think is around recency and tier of use. I think a lot of people tried the free tier of ChatGPT somewhere last year and allowed it to inform their views on AI a little too much. This is a group of reactions laughing at various quirks of the models, hallucinations, etc. Yes I also saw the viral videos of OpenAI's Advanced Voice mode fumbling simple queries like "should I drive or walk to the carwash". The thing is that these free and old/deprecated models don't reflect the capability in the latest round of state of the art agentic models of this year, especially OpenAI Codex and Claude Code. But that brings me to the second issue. Even if people paid $200/month to use the state of the art models, a lot of the capabilities are relatively "peaky" in highly technical areas. Typical queries around search, writing, advice, etc. are *not* the domain that has made the most noticeable and dramatic strides in capability. Partly, this is due to the technical details of reinforcement learning and its use of verifiable rewards. But partly, it's also because these use cases are not sufficiently prioritized by the companies in their hillclimbing because they don't lead to as much $$$ value. The goldmines are elsewhere, and the focus comes along. So that brings me to the second group of people, who *both* 1) pay for and use the state of the art frontier agentic models (OpenAI Codex / Claude Code) and 2) do so professionally in technical domains like programming, math and research. This group of people is subject to the highest amount of "AI Psychosis" because the recent improvements in these domains as of this year have been nothing short of staggering. When you hand a computer terminal to one of these models, you can now watch them melt programming problems that you'd normally expect to take days/weeks of work. It's this second group of people that assigns a much greater gravity to the capabilities, their slope, and various cyber-related repercussions. TLDR the people in these two groups are speaking past each other. It really is simultaneously the case that OpenAI's free and I think slightly orphaned (?) "Advanced Voice Mode" will fumble the dumbest questions in your Instagram's reels and *at the same time*, OpenAI's highest-tier and paid Codex model will go off for 1 hour to coherently restructure an entire code base, or find and exploit vulnerabilities in computer systems. This part really works and has made dramatic strides because 2 properties: 1) these domains offer explicit reward functions that are verifiable meaning they are easily amenable to reinforcement learning training (e.g. unit tests passed yes or no, in contrast to writing, which is much harder to explicitly judge), but also 2) they are a lot more valuable in b2b settings, meaning that the biggest fraction of the team is focused on improving them. So here we are. staysaasy (@staysaasy) The degree to which you are awed by AI is perfectly correlated with how much you use AI to code. — https://nitter.net/staysaasy/status/2042063369432183238#m
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PDF Converters Infrastructure Gap and Quality Issues
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In my experience there are approx. one thousand different pdf converters that are all equally terrible for anything except the simplest documents. Post the converted Mythos pdf, figures, tables and all. If good, happy to retweet as this is essential and missing infrastructure.
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PDF Conversion Challenges for Large Language Models
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I just tried it this morning on the 245-page Mythos pdf and it failed badly and the outputs were all mangled. Converting pdfs is really hard, I think it has to probably be a Skill not a program, for a SOTA LLM for it to work properly.
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LLMs Enhance Information Processing Without Skipping Critical Thinking
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The core idea is that this lets you skip writing but it doesn’t let you skip reading and thinking. And the surprising result is that this works. Personally I process most of what I file by reading it, reading its summary, reading the LLM’s opinion on how it fits into the wiki and