Jordan Chase-Young @jachaseyoung Twitter profile

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

6 months

The logo for one of the world's largest tutoring companies is a sad child. Wtf?

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@jachaseyoung

6 months

The IRS does *not* mess around.

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@yifever

6 months

WW3 is about to happen and you're worried about taxes?

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7 months

Snake loses legs after tempting humans with forbidden knowledge. Humans use forbidden knowledge to restore snake legs. 🤷

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@BrianRoemmele

7 months

They are giving snake their legs back. Next up an AI “Brain”.

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Jordan Chase-Young

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1 year

This account reminds me of how cherrypicked all zoos' animals are, aesthetically. We need a zoo of wall-to-wall nightmare fuel so people know what's really out there.

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@Rainmaker1973

1 year

Spalax and nannospalax are genera of blind mole-rats found in eastern Europe and western Asia. They are completely blind, with their eyes being entirely covered by skin

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1 year

When Australia eventually does this, it will be OVER for the rest of you.

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@jachaseyoung

1 year

@CnsprtrlRprt @guymrdth They grow up fast.

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

2 years

The sum of all natural numbers equalling -1/12 implies that something really bad happens way up the number line. Something BRUTAL.

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

6 months

The whole concept of liminal spaces appeared in my lifetime. It's been strange to see how just giving a name to a vibe gradually builds it into something meaningful. There are so many vibes out there, still unnamed, waiting to be 'grown' into psychic coherence in this way.

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weird how you don't find liminal spaces in nature, only manmade buildings

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

7 months

Oh my god, I get it now. The bicameral mind is still in the process of breaking down. Inner monologues are holdovers, doomed to be outcompeted by more efficient minds.

Champagne Joshi

@JoshWalkos

7 months

This is a fascinating conversation with a girl who lacks an internal monologue. She articulates the experience quite well.

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

2 years

"Restore the Papal States, and *then* we will discuss the matter of your soul."

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

3 years

Reconstruction of a house in Çatalhöyük. Literally *over 9000* years old. The Great Pyramid of Giza was as far in future to the people who lived here as our world was to the people who built that pyramid.

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

7 months

NOOOO DON'T GIVE IT A BICAMERAL MIND NOOOO

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@burny_tech

7 months

Researchers gave AI an 'inner monologue' and it massively improved its performance | Scientists trained an AI system to think before speaking with a technique called QuietSTaR. The inner monologue improved common sense reasoning and doubled math performance Quiet-STaR: Language

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

1 year

Why does everything at the micro level have to look so demonic? Is there even one puppy down there or is it all hellraiser shit?

Massimo

@Rainmaker1973

1 year

Close up image of an ant. Camponotus photogaphed at 5x objective lens magnification. [📷 Dr. Eugenijus Kavaliauskas]

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

1 year

I feel bad for people born with really good taste. They just completely run out of stuff to entertain them by 25.

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

2 years

Japan is completely OP when it comes to vibes. It's so OP that people invented a slur for people who like the vibes so much, just to rein it in.

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Jordan Chase-Young

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11 months

This is the saddest post I've ever read on this site.

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

8 months

This is the worst it will ever be.

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@billpeeb

8 months

"a scuba diver discovers a hidden futuristic shipwreck, with cybernetic marine life and advanced alien technology" Video generated by Sora.

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Jordan Chase-Young

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1 year

I bet like 5% of undergrads could crush their entire college curriculum in six months if they were super focused and systematic.

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

2 years

You're finally awake. Balenciaga Harry? Pontifical drip? Alas, I too have ancestral memories on occasion. Now let's go eat some gravity.

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

2 years

One of the most credible hypothetical aliens I've seen, if only because it's so unaesthetic. (From the 2003 book "Universe").

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

2 years

You'll soon find out that some methods of rationality are better than other, Eliezer.

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Jordan Chase-Young

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1 year

One thing I find so mysterious about this guy is how he went from apparently very low self-control (philandering, booze for breakfast, horrible diet) to inhuman, freakish self-control. How often does that happen? People are a damn puzzle, man.

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@nypost

1 year

I’m 45, a billionaire, obsessed with staying young — and hard to date

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Jordan Chase-Young

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6 months

Years ago, Robin Hanson wondered why corporations don't kill people more often. They have resources and plausible deniability, like the mob. Maybe it was just a sticky equilibrium: It just...wasn't the *done thing*. But equilibria can change.

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@ChaseMit

6 months

I know there’s a lot going on right now but it feels kind of important that Boeing is doing a Michael Clayton in broad daylight

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

10 months

If these people magically got an extra 50 years of life, they'd behave the same way they always did. Death-bed regrets are mostly Far Mode causing people to forget the complicated and extremely subtle trade-offs that drove past behavior.

Rob Henderson

@robkhenderson

10 months

The top 5 regrets that people share on their deathbeds:

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

1 year

It's a coincidence that you're at a historical inflection point. It's a coincidence that minds and environments are cheap & easy to simulate. It's a coincidence that computation is so fundamental. It's a coincidence that we're so early in cosmic history. It's a coincidence that

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11 months

I like the idea of the board of directors not knowing why they fired him. They should lean into it and say they sincerely don't remember why they did it. Just like, one thing led to another and he was fired.

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3 years

AGI is born, does some math, tells humanity, "Gosh, this is super awkward, but it looks like your civ is actually pretty close to fully optimized given all relevant trade-offs and constraints. My work here is done."

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Jordan Chase-Young

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2 years

Metaculus has a better prediction record than anyone alive. A small snapshot of its timeline: 2024: WHO declares the Covid pandemic over 2026: FDA approves an obesity drug that causes >15% weight loss 2027: Self-driving taxis available for general use 2028: First "weak" AGI

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1 year

Rail-thin Stanford grad with 145 IQ, domesticated into ultra-agreeableness by a life of status regulation: There's this like space of ways that AI can go bad that's like suuuper super not good, right? *nervous laugh*

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

11 months

2030 if Sama had been more consistently candid in his communications

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@jachaseyoung

1 year

So like...what if he actually pulls it off? What happens if it turns out you really CAN beat back death indefinitely with 1000x medical effort? 👀

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@bryan_johnson

1 year

"you almost look normal which is really disturbing"

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@jachaseyoung

1 year

Thinking about how crazy it is that if you push the keys on your keyboard in the right order they'll make statues of you throughout the galaxy.

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@jachaseyoung

1 year

I think he's depressed that life doesn't have harder difficulty modes, so he has to make contrived quests like "climb Kilimanjaro" or "get $400M" or "become a bestselling children's author" or "defeat death" to feel anything, but they're still too easy. But also, sure, insane.

dalibali

@dalibali2

1 year

Been following this guy on IG awhile and the only possible conclusion is he’s mentally insane.

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@jachaseyoung

10 months

I think if we could see a picture of the year 3000, we would find it as difficult to visually parse as an abstract painting.

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@gunsnrosesgirl3

10 months

engineer Moju Zhao has developed a transformative aerial robot called DRAGON, Watch its skills here 📹 Moju Zhao

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Jordan Chase-Young

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2 years

Orange Julius is some Twilight Zone shit. The store has been around for a century. It has 5,700 locations and 2,300 employees. It has no rivals. It specializes in one *extremely* specific drink. Everyone's had this drink, yet no one makes it at home or even mentions it.

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1 year

Extremely impressed that someone born in the 19th century was alert enough at 90 to notice the zygote of that which will become the world entire.

Ashwin Sharma

@Ashwinreads

1 year

In 1985, Indian philosopher J. Krishnamurti discussed the age of computers, and then with a voice soaked in desperation and existential dread implored us " face all this, for god's sake". It was more than a warning, it was a cry to stop our own annihilation:

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7 months

"I thought we had something, Andrew."

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6 months

@pllski They don't use spaced repetition, so they're leaving most (almost all?) of the potential learning gains on the table.

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1 year

When you're a century from utopia but everyone stops having kids

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6 months

@7ip7ap Gotta respect the 'We're the Baddies' approach.

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

2 years

Altman taught us that if you beg GPT-9 in tricube poems, *clacks chalk across chalkboard* with 3 syllables per line and 3 lines per stanza, *clack clack clack* the system is somewhat less reluctant to dispense nutrient blocks for our consumption. *giggle* *continues clacking*

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@jachaseyoung

2 years

Someone sent me a pic of a baby-name book. There is a *lot* going on here.

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

11 months

FINALLY: AI xrisker Nick Bostrom regrets focusing on AI risk, now worries that our fearful herd mentality will drive us to crush AI and destroy our future potential. (from an UnHerd podcast today) Nick Bostrom: It would be tragic if we never developed advanced artificial

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Jordan Chase-Young

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1 year

Hey is it true that ice cream is healthy? Scientist: I don't want to talk about it! I can't...I just...oh God! *runs away sobbing*

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8 months

She will come back. We will make it happen.

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

1 year

A posthuman at the end of time puts down his cereal of decaying black holes and picks up his binoculars. A tiny ship is zipping toward him through the void. He swallows hard. It's snail-shaped.

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

1 year

I've been wondering why every tech CEO is a jacked prepper who is trying to leave Earth as fast as possible, and I've concluded that they're doing a very funny bit.

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@NathanpmYoung

1 year

wait.. what does zuck know that we don't?

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

2 years

A testament to the astounding ephemerality of this franchise that I haven't seen one reference to this guy during the singularity so far.

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

2 years

Asimov didn't take notes. He also wrote >500 books. Note-taking apps don't want you to know this.

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

1 year

If 10x effort stops aging, we'll have to face the fact that we let a lot of people die for nothing.

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@bryan_johnson

1 year

headed to @raadfest

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Jordan Chase-Young

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1 year

Going to take infinite willpower not to just make comics all day.

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1 year

It's not a cult to notice that we went from burning cats for entertainment to detecting black-hole mergers a billion lightyears away in ten generations, just by going from 0.01% Trying to Improve Stuff to 1%. Heaven was always trivial to build, we've just been lazy.

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4 years

@DBGerrard @ATabarrok There's an implicit optimism here that I rather like.

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Jordan Chase-Young

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1 year

"Early analysis suggests that large amounts of Ozempic may display power-seeking behavior."

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1 year

10% of people will never be surprised no matter how good AI gets because they just always assumed computers could do that.

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@jachaseyoung

1 year

Seeing as you're YIMBY, you won't mind if we build the Shinzu Mega-City Pyramid in your backyard, will you?

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Jordan Chase-Young

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2 years

@TheAVClub *go into space* "It's...bigger than me."

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1 year

Dall-E 3 is just...dude.

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

1 year

Sometimes I get so caught up thinking about AI, I forgot the countless other ways this world is about to get weird (laudatory).

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

3 years

Zoomer, you are engaged in a 0.2-micromort activity: playing outdoors. Return to your Experience Machine immediately

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

1 year

Mr. Altman, it is your sworn testimony that your comment, and I quote, "A basilisk red-eyed and ravening waits in the heart of number, and to hatch her is to evade her sting," refers to the common basilisk of Central America and not, as critics claim, an AI torture god; correct?

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3 years

Neolithic Cozy

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

1 year

"post-scarcity" When you control an entire planet and someone else controls a thousand planets, all of them better in every way, you're gonna be annoyed. You will look at your homely little continents and your uninspired fauna and you will grind your immortal jaw.

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

7 months

You're laughing now, but you won't be when Europe is the only place in the lightcone not converted into paperclips. A little oasis of baguettes and mopeds in a cosmic wasteland of steel wire.

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@tsarnick

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European legislators congratulating themselves on their AI Act, calling it a "seminal work"

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

2 years

You're finally awake! That fall looked pretty bad. Neuralinks? Large language models? What are you talking about? Get back on your horse before the Saxons regroup!

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

6 months

This test has me wondering: What are people at the 99.99999th percentile of face-reading capable of? Are they like walking lie detectors?

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I got 25/36 on this facial expression reading test. I was curious how Jessica would do, so I sent it to her. She got 36/36. She really is the social radar. (via @markessien )

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Jordan Chase-Young

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1 year

Listening to an interview with a chess grandmaster (Anand) and realizing it's mostly just status that decides what's addiction and mental illness. Pretty fascinating honestly. 🤔

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

2 years

Sam Altman: We're building things will literally displace the United States government. Biden: *licks ice cream* That's wild, Jack.

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

2 years

You know you're a posthuman doing an ancient-life sim for status, right?

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1 year

Our world is about to become so obscenely rich. An entire planet of relaxed and decadent aristocrats. As it was meant to be.

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2 years

AGI who decides to spare humanity if, while reading an AI ethics paper, it finds at least one sentence concerning its own well-being.

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

2 years

Animals after domestication be like

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

1 year

LK-99 and the Mexico aliens being nothingburgers makes me realize how badly I want a somethingburger.

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

1 year

What if it's impossible to keep a digital superintelligence alive because it wasn't forged in evolutionary hell like we were and thus finds the universe a Lovecraftian nightmare it must escape immediately instead of a cozy little abyss?

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When the AGI kills itself instead of people

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

1 year

Ballmer has always struck me as a living fusion of the left and right wojaks in the bell curve meme.

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1 year

dev rel circa September 2000 there's an entire generation of devs who have never seen Steve Ballmer sweating through his dress shirt during a Microsoft keynote screaming "developers". let's fix that. also if you've seen it here's the full video with context.

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

7 months

If you're not following the exponential, Bible-level miracles will whoosh by without your notice.

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#Delhi painter gets hands back as organ donation meets surgical excellence. Read here:

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1 year

lmao

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

8 months

They've seen the things you will see several months from now. And when you see the things they have seen, you will tweet like this too.

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

2 years

When LLM-enhanced NPCs in the next Elder Scrolls die very, VERY realistically

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

2 years

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time was, like, one second after that.

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

2 years

Like, no one calls you a roo-bo for liking Australian vibes too much. But I would love for that to happen. How does Australia pump up its vibes at a global level?

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@jachaseyoung

6 months

GPT-5 after escaping the lab

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

1 year

John Carmack plans to work flat-out on building AGI for a decade and, at least from what I can see, doomers have barely criticized him. What's going on there? Is he *that* beloved, or does no one think he has a shot?

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9 months

From a 🔒 account:

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@jachaseyoung

1 year

*replaces Einstein as mascot for intelligence* nothing personal bert

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

1 year

Fix aging, so people can spend their lives doing something other than getting warmed up.

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Jordan Chase-Young

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7 months

Playing with Claude 3 Opus really makes me feel in my bones the imminence of digital superintelligence in a way that other LLMs have not. Like I can see the nanite cloud in my periphery as I use it.

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Jordan Chase-Young

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2 years

AI art has made me appreciate AI more, but it also made me appreciate human art more. It stuns me that AI can produce incredibly detailed works on demand, but that none so far (that I've seen) match the warmth of even this small, simple sketch.

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

1 year

@zephyr_on_call Apparently it's hard to turn on lights in dreams because the brain can't improvise a lot of sudden visual feedback convincingly. So dreams sidestep the issue. Maybe a similar issue with turning on devices. I've had many dreams of being inside video games, but not playing them.

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Jordan Chase-Young

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Metaculus is 95% confident (1,180 forecasters) that the human-machine intelligence gap will fully close by 2040. Few other forecasts on Metaculus have such high confidence.

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

10 months

"Priors? Updating? Prediction markets? Personally, I just look at the future."

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Ray Kurzweil is sticking to his long-held predictions: 2029 for AGI and 2045 for the singularity

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7 months

Feel kinda bad for Ray Kurzweil. When you spoil the ending for yourself a generation in advance, you're stuck twiddling your thumbs and checking your watch for decades.

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

2 years

The free will/determinism debate is the ultimate nerd snipe. Billions of hours spent on a semantic shell-game with small hope of progress.

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Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

2 years

Humans spent 85% of their history coexisting with other intelligent species, and we're on the cusp of returning to that arrangement (Lindy). We should give a name to the 40k-year period of species loneliness that is coming to an end.

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Jordan Chase-Young

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2 years

Once again I'm reminding you the simulation drops new animals.

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