Louis Arge
@louisvarge
i used to think about meditation & neuro, lately thinking about markets & computers. interested in making the cosmos a happy place. https://chickencredits.org
my talking points: - do an elimination diet - sauna is the best - superintelligence is coming - happiness tech is all that matters - LA is the best city - you should try "the end of suffering"
the weirdest thing about EA is that people are starting to realize that animal welfare is better than global health, yet somehow everyone's busy trying to pin down the exact amount each shrimp suffers instead of just doing straightforward good work by saving chickens
is caffeine absorbed sublingually, bc it really feels like as soon as the coffee hits my mouth God comes into the world once more
This is how it feels to go from normal (attention focusing and fleeting in the first 3 images) to open awareness
"gangsters are surprisingly good at chess" i love SBF so much
Sam Bankman-Fried is doing 25 years behind bars, and is now sharing a cell block with Diddy. He joins us from prison for an update on his new life. (0:00) What Has Prison Been Like? (2:28) Was SBF Ever on Adderall? (4:42) SBF Meeting Diddy in Prison (7:01) How Prison Has Changed…
i've been thinking about the fact that the RL-on-verifiable-domains models (r1, o3, etc.) get better at fuzzy things too - could be evidence that they learn general principles of intelligence because very little new knowledge comes in during RL, and it's all in fairly narrow…
it's completely insane how much @eliadeweismann cooked with these smells as "varieties of piti" they all have these positively-valenced yet irritating smells. very symbolic of piti + they bring up super potent images and memories for me world class art in a rare medium
how has chatgpt been out for 2 years and i've still not bothered to learn everything about agriculture 😨
what's the best writeup on reproducing DeepSeek R1 Zero on a small model? i want to play with GRPO a bit
i still find it really hard to imagine the economic endgame of AGI
why did the world switch from tailors to fast fashion, when how well it fits is 80% of the variance?
"$100M is not 10x as good as $10M" is the kind of take that makes me miss EA lol
Assuming people are rationalish + realize that the benefits of money are diminishing (a $100M offer is not 10x as good as $10M), winning the AI talent war entirely with big offers is not scalable. There needs to be something else - culture, colleagues, compute per capita, etc.
i need to go full transhumanist. i need to replace my friends with ai, replace my body with anime, exercise harder, take estrogen, wirehead to the max, fix my tFUS rig, replace my mac with linux
this is the reason i am such a full-stack supremacist great things happen when people's role is "make product good" instead of "CAD designer" or "front-end engineer" or whatever
assembly line workers know things engineers don't: which screws always fall, where fingers can't reach, and why that 'simple' design takes 20 minutes to build.
not me crushing billyhumblebrag in uno
The 23 year olds you meet on the internet are free, you can just take them home