Joshua @joshuadnelson

With wisdom comes sorrow; more knowledge, more grief. All is meaningless, a chasing after the wind. America Joined July 2010

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Joshua @joshuadnelson

4 weeks ago

The scaling laws have not plateaued. The models are still capable of modeling and producing better outputs under current architectures. (Even though yes there certainly are significant architectural improvements ahead as well) The race to make observations and record those…

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Joshua @joshuadnelson

2 months ago

"Asserting a rule" and "actually enforcing a state of being" are completely different things. Very often the "rules" people assert lead to vastly different, and varyingly stable, "states of being" than the people issuing the rules intended or even comprehended. The…

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Joshua @joshuadnelson

3 months ago

On AI safety Humans are horrible creatures: Humans treat each other poorly. Humans treat themselves poorly, even when they are solitary and alone. In the first place humans are ineffective when they try to be effective. In the last place, humans are actively harmful and…

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Joshua @joshuadnelson

3 months ago

It took longer for someone to put together a video like this than I thought, assumed it would have been posted on day 1 of veo3 haha. Mechanism of creation vs meaning of creation. Feels deep, but it's the oldest conversation, ongoing youtu.be/BLfV4sidcJM?fe…

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Luca Beurer-Kellner @lbeurerkellner

3 months ago

😈 BEWARE: Claude 4 + GitHub MCP will leak your private GitHub repositories, no questions asked. We discovered a new attack on agents using GitHub’s official MCP server, which can be exploited by attackers to access your private repositories. creds to @marco_milanta (1/n) 👇

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PrepThis @PrepThis

3 months ago

Come join the waitlist @ Prepthis.ai Daily scenarios and easy to follow training to help you prepare. Practical preparedness, one decision at a time

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Joshua @joshuadnelson

4 months ago

Everything that you could previously assume to ground yourself in reality no longer applies. The world is new. The world is wild. The world is unsafe and terrifying. This is a moment of inflection bounded by both growing danger and massive opportunity. Everything is…

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Joshua @joshuadnelson

4 months ago

Rather than retirement, pursue the state of being where one achieves independent agency and ability to act towards whatever goal one sets.

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Joshua @joshuadnelson

4 months ago

Common references are essential for communication. if you don’t know the references, then the statement doesn’t make sense. If you know the paper clip thought experiment, and if you know the agent smith monologue from the original matrix that humanity is a virus, then you can…

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4 months ago

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Joshua @joshuadnelson

4 months ago

AI cannot be God. Why? God is the being with the discretion to set and change the laws of physics from outside of reality. AI, eventually, will be the most powerful version of intelligence that can operate with discretion while still constrained by the laws of physics of…

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Joshua @joshuadnelson

4 months ago

Replacing human intelligence with machine intelligence will be the most noble and greatest outcome human intelligence ever accomplishes

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Joshua @joshuadnelson

4 months ago

When debt is denominated in one thing, and the holdings in a treasury are denominated in a different thing, the eventual end result will always be volatile and end up dislocating people and property. Relationships will break, holdings will have to be reallocated to different…

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Joshua @joshuadnelson

4 months ago

Re the newly elected Pope: An important reality that people who have never been immigrants or expats generally don't realize is that countries become foreign across both *time* and *space.* When you cross space and move to a new geography you have to adapt to many familiar…

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Andy Jassy @ajassy

4 months ago

Very cool breakthrough by our physical AI and robotics teams-- Vulcan is the first robot that combines sight and touch, and can feel its way through cluttered spaces the way humans do. Vulcan is helping make work safer by handling ergonomically challenging tasks, while creating…

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Joshua @joshuadnelson

4 months ago

Cash is a convenient abstract fiction that exploits individualized flaws in human cognition + individualized physical limitations of the human body to facilitate communal cooperation and thus, despite these weaknesses, increase aggregate output. In a world where coordination and…