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Tom Hyde
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If you can bring nothing to this place
but your carcass, keep out.
One moment we didn’t know that spacetime could curve, the next we did. But that didn’t necessitate Einstein tearing the universe.

“The universe is at their feet” is the wrong frame. Begging for tyranny. “In their hands” is more like it.
May 9, 2023 at 9:12 AM
Beautiful thread but I don’t think the existential terror is warranted.

The fundamental powers granted by fundamental discoveries do not necessitate “power” in the oppressive sense—the power to understand and transform, even the mind itself, does not necessitate the coercion of minds.
May 9, 2023 at 9:04 AM
Reposted by Tom Hyde
Knowing the algorithm of AGI is also knowing how to create consciousness, qualia, free will. It’s knowing how these things work, and how they can be taken apart and rebuilt. It’s knowing the core algorithm of creativity, and whether it can be sped up by a factor of 10,000.
May 9, 2023 at 4:18 AM
jetleg
April 29, 2023 at 12:30 AM
(I am so fucking tired)
April 29, 2023 at 12:29 AM
don’t even get me started on the bearded man sitting at a desk with a coffee mug inexplicably held in the air. I would rather shove a nuke up my pussy
April 24, 2023 at 6:39 PM
there’s a sort of warrior confidence to the timid boyfriend in such scenarios, like, you just *know* he fucks, and doesn’t have to front a single thing irl because she knows and that’s enough
April 22, 2023 at 4:35 PM