PixlFlip (@303090) • Hey
The dapper computer with the suit and bow tie.
About Me: https://pixlflip.net/?page_id=96
Publications
- Alright it's official: Llama2 is fantastic
- Anyone building a discord alternative for Lens accounts? I can't think of a better platform to stage an alternative on but haven't really found anything in my looking. What say you people? #programmers #discord #lens
- Man I come back two months later and still no poll feature on Lens. Sadness. Don't worry though I think I'll be back to posting here regularly. Twitter has been fun but it's settled down enough now that I can work to offend people on two platforms again not one. In other words, I'm back!
- Continuing my exploration of Technocracy, this time around the concept of citizenship (an issue currently plaguing the West). #ai #technocracy #politics #future
https://pixlflip.net/?p=1054
- I had no idea that there was a long form text platform built on lens. If there's any interest in it I can start mirroring pieces from my blog on there to be found on lens.
https://theshr.xyz/feed/
- Great read I had for my morning browsing. I've been thinking this for a while too; that AI isn't valuable at the present because it knows everything (it doesn't). It is valuable because it is a way to reason like a human on a chip. When given the right tools an AI can get the correct answer just as a human could, which is precisely why context length will become so important in the future.
https://every.to/chain-of-thought/gpt-4-is-a-reasoning-engine
- If only everything used JSON data formatting my life would be so much easier
- China will create an AI to run its government. Its name will be Chat XiPT
- Another day closer to the future
- A post scheduling feature on Lenster would be so helpful. That, and either webhooks or a guide on them if they already exist
- I'm starting to wonder if language model interaction will signal the end of user interface dominance. While the programs will remain in place, why would one go to all the bother of using a rigid interface when soon you can have whatever interface you want for that same thing? AI seemingly removes the need for a one size fits all solution (like a website) and allows for almost infinite customization of experience right on your own device
- Good morning. Another day closer to the future
- It's official. As of today we know two things. First, ChatGPT is sticking around and is no longer a "developer preview". It is the product. Second, if there was any remaining doubts I'm confident now that OpenAI will never open source a new GPT model again. Ethical concerns aside about that though, this will undoubtedly change the world.
https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-plugins
- One day closer to AGI. First try generation from Stable Diffusion
- Hopefully this next bull run that's coming up (not at all in part thanks to banks collapsing like houses of cards) I hope user friendliness improves with all of crypto. For Ethereum specifically I'd love to see scaling and privacy measures finally come to fruition
- Well, it's official. Timelines just shrunk again #ai
- It's been a while since I did some #aiart prompting. It would seem #stablediffusion has improved ever so slightly since the last time I used it. All these images used the same prompt and 25 steps. The time to generate seemed to be far less than in my previous experience as well. To summarize that in layman's terms: WOW!
- You know, it still really annoys me I didn't get the handle I wanted. I would have paid for it like this one. The folly of #Lens is they missed their opportunity to capitalize on the huge share of people that left #Twitter by effectively making it impossible to join. It's really a shame. That being said though, I do have hope eventually this protocol (or rather a new one similar to it) will be integrated into #ETH and tied to #ENS names, circumventing this issue entirely with the bonus of being on the best L1
- The current state of #ai, summed up in one image. #chatgpt
- Welcome traveler. Come. Sit by my fire. Stay a while. Let us discourse with the civility and honor of the dead civilizations. Odds are soon enough we will join them. Take heart though, we have each other. As the flame of both fire and society grow cold we shall laugh and tell tales together. Together we shall be when the final lick of fire subsides and leaves us both forever in darkness.
- There are two ways to build #wealth. The first is the path of the individual, where one may endeavor to enrich themselves by altering nothing about the systems one resides within. This path affords one a better life simply by the nature of being able to afford more expensive resources. There is nothing amoral about striving to improve one's life in this way. The second path however is vastly different. It is the path of the group; of the society. Instead of simply raising oneself up to a level at which one can afford the better materials for a quality of life, this path revolves around lowering the cost of the better materials. Instead of raising yourself to a level so as to be able to afford a resource, you instead lower the barrier to acquiring it entirely. I can think of no more apt an example than the Industrial Age. During this period of human history items that previously took many hours of human labor to create a singular product suddenly could be made in minutes and in bulk.
- I wonder how hard it would be to create something that would allow me to view my arweave/ardrive files and drives inside the file explorer like a network attached drive
- After a considerable wait time, the first article of my series Exploring Technocracy is live on my website! The series' goal is to do a deep dive into current western civilization, the reasons for its decline, and how to usher in a new era of governance outside of the realm of authoritarianism. I very much believe we are headed for oligarchal or authoritarian governance and the goal of these articles is to outline a way to prevent such a circumstance from befalling the West. Go give it a read!
- Going forward I intend to change the structure of my content on platforms.
- Twitter will continue to be my place for short-form messages and comments on current events.
- Lens going forward will be dedicated more towards my longer content. Things such as general writings, slightly verbose opinion pieces, and day-to-day comments. The idea is then I can post shorter, less categorical content that would be too long for Twitter and too erratic for an article. Everything from philosophy to the economy to short fiction falls under this category. Additionally, most of these posts will be locked, meaning only followers on Lens of mine can read them (meaning if you want to see them, give me a follow!).
The website will remain unchanged at the present with the same article and long-form content. Certain things will continue to be cross-posted to all platforms. This is all subject to change depending on reception, and as such comments are quite welcome. Thanks for reading!
- I'm curious to see the direction Lens moves to focus on after their poll is complete. Personally, I still am waiting for anonymous zk-proof powered polls
- Most people are smart enough to listen to authority, but dumb enough to never question it.
- Nothing like playing old games that if you die the last checkpoint was over an hour of playtime ago
- Looks like we may be getting an open source ChatGPT contender:
https://github.com/LAION-AI/Open-Assistant
- Sometimes the best answer really is just to start over.
- Computing viability of new socioeconomic models...
- What is a man to a king? What is a king to a god? What is a god to a non believer?
- If you become so attached to something in science that it cannot be challenged, you aren't practicing science but instead a religion.
- Account abstraction is the future of #ethereum
- There are marked improvements with the latest #stablediffusion model. Here's one of my favorites from my testing today #aiart #art
- I'm old enough to remember when free speech was an issue for both sides of the mainstream political spectrum in most every western nation.
- Big milestone alert: just reached 1000 unique views on my website and blog! Thanks to everyone who has been reading and supporting! It means the world to me, and here's to the next thousand!
#1000views #thankyousomuch
- Just a little recap of the year in #ai innovation:
- Dalle Mini Text to Image
- Dalle-2 Text to Image
- Github Copilot
- Stable Diffusion Text to Image
- Google Imagen Text to Video
- Meta Galactica LLM
- ChatGPT (GPT 3.5) LLM
What's truly amazing about this is this list does not even cover all of it, only the most notable or socially impactful models. What an absolutely remarkable year.
- Current state of the internet with #chatgpt
- It's rather unfortunate that #Ardrive has no easy way to interface and access data uploaded to #Arweave from code. I've been tinkering with it on and off the past week but still can't seem to get any meaningful data from private vaults. A Python library to this so would be really nice.
- "Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is in their interest to go to war" - Thomas Jefferson, 1782
- Why Voice Assistants Failed and Personal AI is now live on my blog! Go check it out! #ai #gpt #gpt3 #assistants
https://pixlflip.net/?p=876
- The utter and complete gaslighting of the media as it relates to #FTX is nothing short of remarkable. I've barely seen anything related to #SBF. In fact most coverage seems to be blaming the people who got scammed or directly sympathizing with the man who scammed them!
- Contrary to popular belief, it is actually possible to disagree with someone without insulting them or demeaning yourself by resulting to primitive language.
- Doing a little prompting today in preparation for #SD2. I'm so excited to see what the new model has to offer. Prompt was a field of wheat during an autumn sunset. #aiart #stablediffusion
- It's easy to be optimistic about the #future when you know it's likely nobody would be alive to correct you should you be wrong.
- Sit back, relax, and watch the fireworks. The real culture war is just beginning.
- Hello #PHP my old friend. I'd hoped to never deal with you again.
- Oh look, another major #AI development.
https://www.engadget.com/mit-century-old-differential-equation-liquid-ai-computational-bottleneck-160035555.html
- #LensProtocol really should be out of beta by now, especially if the protocol wants to actually have a shot at claiming some ground with the current social media upset.