Jason “Mars” Yuan
@jasonyuandesign
cofounder @newcomputer. ex @apple design team. creator of http://mercuryOS.com and former actor
If you’ve talked to me at all in the last year, you’ll know that designing a socially intelligent AI has become an obsession that tugs at the juicy intersections of philosophy, psychology, sociology, identity, love, loneliness, and what it means to be human. We’ve been building…
We’ve been working on something new. From a single Dot to a living network... Dots — the first Social Intelligence
complexity first, simplicity second people say “keep it simple,” but most approach it backwards. they start from simple, then add on complexity without seeing the whole. that’s how you end up with frankenstein products: clean-looking components awkwardly stitched together, held…
“what are you trying to avoid feeling by doing what you do” is such an amazing prompt
1. You are not stuck. Just scared of the potential consequences + what you'll have to feel.
An important kind of social network will be one where no bots whatsoever are allowed.
We are on the verge of a civilizational change. Yet outside of books, there is an intense philosophical void. Little thread.
looking at the replies to this and thinking about how artists tend to feel strongly about ai because it implies a seismic self-narrative / identity level disruption to sense of self … this will happen to other fields too (see: people feeling grief and conflicted over AI winning…
this AI gen tweet is going viral, lots of "we need games that look like this!" but they cant articulate why. its not the artstyle or anything, its scale. modern games do a bad job of evoking a feeling of sublimity literally just take the castle in your skybox and scale it up
Gall's Law is one of those statements that just keeps hitting harder and more deeply the more time I spend with it. At first it seemed false, then a truism, then an interesting insight, and now a foundational belief about the world.
"best UI is no UI" thinking at its limit approximates the infant's relation to the mother / the breast. inability to distinguish needs arising within the self from its fulfillment. in the future, the last interface is feeling discomfort and then screaming "wahhhhhhh!!!"
one of the issues here is that ChatGPT tries to be an “everything relationship”—objective facts w search and deep research are delivered through the same vehicle as subjective advice (sometimes even in the same chat.) In doing so it could create the expectation that everything…
chatgpt advice turns people into narcissists
Hey @grok, scan through all my mutuals and find me a boyfriend, thanks
just like art every consumer product is a reflection of its creator’s psyche.. style, insecurity, taste, & memory. you can’t reverse engineer that. & you certainly can’t detangle it. you’re sorta interfacing with someone’s inner life disguised as software.
Thinking Machines Lab exists to empower humanity through advancing collaborative general intelligence. We're building multimodal AI that works with how you naturally interact with the world - through conversation, through sight, through the messy way we collaborate. We're…
thinking about people who have good taste in people … beyond knowing who is talented or surface level “nice,” some people can instinctively sniff out dark tetrad traits (and shield their friends and network from those), and the gut to know when someone is genuine and kind and…
All of our most consequential technologies have been about reducing the friction between human minds. From speech to writing to print to broadcasting to networks and beyond… each step an unlock in the exponential power of collective intelligence, an acknowledgment that the…
the Yin and Yang of truth-seeking: i believe there are two distinct seeker archetypes: inventors and artists and they parallel two different sides of truth-seeking hard truths, meaning the technological breakthroughs. objective innovations. transformers, scaling laws, gpus.…