harvin
@harvpark
human experience researcher (2002 - present). designed systems for human feedback @ cmu, google deepmind, lmarena, amazon logistics.
pixar accidentally solved the AI alignment problem in 2015. their movie - Inside Out demonstrates that human memory is an active, emotionally weighted system, not passive storage. memories change valence over time, get contaminated by current emotional states, and are filtered…
ai memory that just logs your inputs will always feel uncanny unless it observes passively. most of the important memories aren’t declared, they’re revealed through your actions & behavior. & they are also often subconscious. this is the most interesting & important problem in…
i think it's a bit charming how the techiest circles of SF are the most tribal and interpersonally reliant
looking backwards and the dots are connecting into a straight line, turn up the music
I know moral outrage holds no water but there is just so much to be outraged at, I get it
why is it that every platform that is aligned through only human input (reddit, wikipedia, community notes) feels so much healthier and more interesting than any mixed algorithm based approach? (twitter, tiktok, spotify?)
“I’d rather make something blue jeans cool instead of black jeans cool…” This is way more intuitive for me than it should be
Treat your conversational partners with dignity!
Ilia Sutskever, co-founder of OpenAI, is calling for a new standard in how we build AI. He describes future superintelligent data centers as a new form of “non-human life,” and stresses that they should be “pro-social, pro-human social.” He says, “We want those data centers…
caught my staunchly anti-anthropomorphic ai friend saying "our code" to cursor
Why We Want Robots at Work but Humans in Art docs.google.com/document/d/1-3…
Good art moves culture forward, and when the consumer finds liquid glass beautiful, all the other interfaces will feel antiquated
The next few years will be an onslaught of accessibility and interface nightmares while developers shove homemade liquid glass design into everything