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Solomonoff's Lightsaber: “This is much more powerful than the informal statement of Occam's razor.” https://t.co/EPzb4hHXL5
For some more thought on Pascal's Wager fallacy as it applies to AI, have a look at: https://t.co/zLSIyP2JrI
Before I decided to quit twitter, my goal was to get followed by Elon Musk because I thought it would be funny.https://t.co/f24ZYbFpF3
I found the tweet that sparked the idea.https://t.co/HOyKPcCmjH
But I can't do that anymore. Not here at least.It's a shame. I was getting pretty good at it too:https://t.co/z2AzBtZWZX
And I am suspect of how twitter is destroying this unpoken norm for everyone else in the process.https://t.co/IlcZ8p91k7
I don't know why, but I felt a familiarity with him. The way he seems to look at the world and forage for ideas is familiar. He reminds me of all my friends I respect. Reminds me of myself.https://t.co/uCqWlbb4mC
It is absolutely fascinating to me that he has (intentionally or not) played a signaling game to find someone else interested in tech and business in a meaningful way.I found my current girlfriend the same way.https://t.co/ICAwURp7td
I find it disheartening that Twitter's algorithmic timeline and drive toward engagement is destroying the very mechanisms that I used to get where I am today.https://t.co/OEZn1sY8QX
It is much harder for me to understand people on other platforms. Being able to orient around an identity and read their thoughts - something that an AI behind Roko's Basilisk might do - was helping me interact with others. To put myself in their shoes. https://t.co/X3Qh1kuRjl
In my head I create models of you to poke and prod.To guess at what you might do if I say something odd.Simulating your mind to see if what I say will be good.I had never stopped to think "what if I should?"https://t.co/VLENZuy6fj
To connect with others one must open up to vulnerability.On twitter that can mean having your shitpost scrutinized by people you've never met, who's motives may not be the same as your own.It felt safer when I could reason about what people were seeing.https://t.co/cbw633iKqq
I basically didn't use twiter for a month and I was ok.I missed my friends - the conversations,but I realized I didn't need it to make meaning anymore.And I realized how unuseful this space had become.https://t.co/M6oegZSvWR
I think I figured out how twitter's algo is working. It's mining content i'm looking at to generate a time-local interest graph. I looked at some tweets talking about musk then looked at grimes/musk's feed - boom its all grimes tweets in my feed from the past day. amplification.
So its basically the shit they do to figure out the "who to follow" content box, but geared toward engaging. Cargo-culting attention algorithms?https://t.co/aIrj6YjVSt
This seems to fit patterns I've seen in the past with how my feed shifts and confirms my sense of how this place is broken in a way that I can only describe as inducing enhanced majority illusion effects. Catering to brands and celebrity worship?https://t.co/pYVa1sZZpA