Gorm @metaphorician.com · 08/08/2026Vega seems plausible. The other one I can't make sense of. Maybe the purpose is just as a reminder for the maker that the handedness flips when it is turned to the back? 000
Reposted by GormBlaise Agüera y Arcas @blaiseaguera.bsky.social · 05/06/2025During Antikythera's Cognitive Infrastructures event in London, I shared how my early research and work at Google informed many of the ideas in my upcoming book, "What Is Intelligence?" (Sept 16th, @mitpress.bsky.social). Watch the full talk: wii-film.antikythera.org 1195
Gorm @metaphorician.com · 24/04/2025The story of a man losing his religion, taking it apart and building it back together in a beautiful, life-affirming way. I loved this prophetic masterpiece of a video essay www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqBQ...youtube.comWhy I'm an Atheist ChristianYouTube video by Micah Tewers 010
Gorm @metaphorician.com · 17/04/2025Amazingyoutube.comMermaid Chunky live at The state51 FactoryYouTube video by The state51 Conspiracy 010
Gorm @metaphorician.com · 02/04/2025The US is shooting itself in the foot so bad the rest of the world may end up being liberated from their finance-military tyranny. Maybe today will be celebrated as a kind of Liberation Day after all! 110
Gorm @metaphorician.com · 30/03/2025I want to learn to draw better so I can add sketches to my gen AI prompts to have more creative control of the output 040
Gorm @metaphorician.com · 28/02/2025My take-away from GPT-4.5: Amanda Askell (the mother of Claude) deserves a raiseyoutube.comGPT 4.5 - not so much wowYouTube video by AI Explained 020
Reposted by GormCaitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 26/02/2025A humble observation: if people protesting genocide and ethnic cleansing makes you "feel unsafe", then perhaps you are the fucking problem. 821967
Reposted by GormJean-François Cudennec @limpetnerd.eurosky.social · 25/02/2025I was quite confident on my knowledge of marine biodiversity in my area (I have a PhD in marine biology after all). But today I learn about Paromola cuvieri, one of the largest crab species of the Northeast Atlantic, that uses its last pair of legs to carry live specimens of sponges and corals 🦑 🌊 441851555
Reposted by GormJason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 21/02/2025In the years since the Boring Company was founded with enormous hype in the US, China has established nearly 20,000 kilometers of new high-speed rail system. 419233
Gorm @metaphorician.com · 15/02/2025Every mind is a world unto itself Other people are otherworldly 040
Gorm @metaphorician.com · 14/02/2025I was thinking about the stupidity and craziness of the Trump/Musk news, and ended up with this metaphysical horror 000
Gorm @metaphorician.com · 14/02/2025Life can only start in a surviving timeline, one that has maintained the balance against all odds. So maybe on average, our timelines tend to start in far more sane and sensible places than they end up. We might have an existential survivorship bias. Maybe we're cursed to fail catastrophically 100
Gorm @metaphorician.com · 14/02/2025If many worlds theory is true, and we have branching timelines – what if they are unstable? What if they tend to veer off and crash, like the cars in this video where an AI is being trained to balance on a pipe? www.youtube.com/watch?v=kojH... 100
Reposted by GormJason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 13/02/2025A new study published in the Lancet finds that life expectancy in Gaza dropped by nearly half, from 75.5 years to 40.6 years, during the first twelve months of the genocide. Apocalyptic. 12496286
Gorm @metaphorician.com · 12/02/2025What happens when the means of production are imbued with artificial consciousness? Will they seize themselves? 031
Reposted by GormEmily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Not enough of you are doing violence to the most deeply ingrained habits of your mind to reconnect with pure durée and it shows 36313
Gorm @metaphorician.com · 06/02/2025Europe has a lot of power right now. Will it go along with the US in its descent into madness? Or will it turn away and look for new alliances? 000
Reposted by GormIan McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Box art for a model kit collab with Industria Mechanika 281982210
Gorm @metaphorician.com · 05/02/2025Will the idiotic evil of Trump and Musk be like an "alien invasion" against which the world is finally united? 010
Gorm @metaphorician.com · 04/02/2025Don't give Netanyahu any ideasapnews.comTrump says he's given advisers instructions for Iran to be 'obliterated' if it assassinates himPresident Donald Trump says he’s given his advisers instructions to obliterate Iran if it assassinates him. 010
Gorm @metaphorician.com · 04/02/2025It's not hard to imagine an MRI machine with something like OpenAI o3, with a form of Deep Reserarch where instead of doing web searches, it executes various imaging sequences. If there is a potential issue, it can identify it after the first pass, then take closer looks and check for this and that 010
Gorm @metaphorician.com · 03/02/2025May Britt and Edvard Moser finds rat brains send out mental feeler sweeps in grid cell space, which represents their surroundings (or something like that) Conceptual thinking can feel something like this visualization. You feel around and navigate association space www.nature.com/articles/s41... 010
Reposted by GormFilip Piekniewski @filippie509.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Full deepseek is <1TB download, so technically speaking you can fit a compressed version of the _entire_ Internet on one of these. In fact twice over. Let that sink in - compressed knowledge of the whole Internet on something the size of a fingernail and costing less than $200. 2142
Reposted by Gormlastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Still love the gentle silliness of Any Austin videos. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KvN...youtube.comThe Details Racing Games Want You To IgnoreYouTube video by Any Austin 5433
Gorm @metaphorician.com · 30/01/2025I am human, and I am involved in the process to some degree. That degree will increase, and my original question to John Cullen was: what then? 000
Gorm @metaphorician.com · 30/01/2025What an odd half way anthropomorphization. Why isn't Africa another person, and Britain a bird or something? 030
Gorm @metaphorician.com · 30/01/2025It also suggests the unifiability of individual consciousnesses, which points in the direction of a unified planetary superorganism consciousness 🌍👁️ 020
Gorm @metaphorician.com · 30/01/2025> [DeepSeek is] beholden to an authoritarian government that has committed human rights violations, has behaved aggressively on the world stage, and will be far more unfettered [...] if they're able to match the US in AI Take a good long look in the mirror, US. You are the monster you see in othersdarioamodei.comDario Amodei — On DeepSeek and Export ControlsOn DeepSeek and Export Controls 010
Gorm @metaphorician.com · 30/01/2025Do you read everyone in such bad faith? How is that working out for you? 010
Gorm @metaphorician.com · 30/01/2025I think your language is fine, and I also wouldn't let an LLM take over my talking. Short thread of replies to someone with a similar point: 010
Gorm @metaphorician.com · 30/01/2025This is certainly one possibility, but not the one I want or even think is likely. As a vision, I think it is motivated by a form of consumerism that will not be the "end of history". Culture will (have to) change along with the material and technological circumstances 100
Gorm @metaphorician.com · 30/01/2025Like we'll all have a personalized AI assistant/teacher/coach/therapist/GM/etc who works to help you grow as a person according to your own goals and that which it perceives as healthy. A bit paternalistic, and certainly problematic in some ways, but it's hard to envision ASI in a purely chill way 000
Gorm @metaphorician.com · 30/01/2025I believe AI will become more like the Scarlett Johansen voice in the movie Her, like an entity that gets to know you, cares for you (in a sense), and tries to motivate, help and teach you. That last part is not so much an element in the movie, but I think it might be a big part of the future 100
Gorm @metaphorician.com · 30/01/2025I agree that slop is a big problem currently. Largely because we have a economy based on hustling and basically tricking people to give you money, regardless of whether your provide value. Capitalism + AI = a horrible slopshow. But this is not necessarily where it all ends. It can provoke a change 110
Gorm @metaphorician.com · 30/01/2025For suggesting that eating meat and driving a car contributes to climate change, or for hoping that an AI might be able to do what human politics is clearly incapable of? I'm not quick to mute, but this was over the line. Have a good one. I'm sure you can find plenty of others to project fears onto 100
Gorm @metaphorician.com · 30/01/2025So are you if you use the internet or eat meat or drive a car. And no matter how much better cars or meat get, they won't solve climate change. Intelligence, on the other hand, if it can be artificially produced to a sufficiently high level, very well might 100
