Neel Kant
@_neel_kant
Von Neumann probe speedrunning coach
Factorio 🤝 AGI The Community must grow. (with Kovarex the mastermind)

No matter the context, I've found it's better to journey well than to actually arrive.
It’s just a matter of time now before we get a robotics RLVR publication titled “Do you even lift?”
To what extent does e/acc support human life extension and/or immortality? On one hand, this would be a technological triumph over a universal source of suffering. On the flip side, it could leave us misaligned with the greater evolutionary process celebrated by e/acc. Are there…
I'm redoing my personal website code in Cursor. Tab autocomplete suggests a hyperlink URL allegedly for a YouTube video by an artist I like. Curious, I accept the edit, click the link to see if it's real, and... mfw I got literally rickrolled by an LLM.
Oh, to have lived as a renaissance artist under the patronage of a wealthy benefactor. An unlimited license to invest in one's creative process without regard for material constraint. My hope is that superintelligence will make this daydream a possibility for literally everyone.
We'll train AGI to play Factorio since it'll end up being Ender's Game for Von Neumann probes.
I like how the curved 4-pointed star (gemini logo) has become the default icon for generative AI features. Simple, recognizable, and evocative of brilliance.
Misalignment causes friction which causes entropy which causes dissolution. Creating alignment (between physical components, mental processes, macroeconomics, etc.) is therefore the most fundamental and pragmatic pursuit for conscious systems.
Many insects have evolved to operate as hive minds. Humans have evolved as individuals which coordinate socially. It remains to be seen what will be the most competitive paradigm for multithreaded AGI.