OpenAI's roon argues physical proximity to the right people acts as an intelligence multiplier analogous to frontier AI
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Positive users agree that social proximity to smart people augments intelligence like frontier AI access by offering low-latency context, while negative users worry it degrades critical thinking or feels isolating.
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@tszzl if i don't work at a technical place filled with technical people for over a year i begin losing my mind
@tszzl explaining friends to a tech bro: it's like Claud
@tszzl you are the average of the 5 people around you
very lindy
@tszzl Do-roonified: You are the sum of your friends
Thank you Roon
@tszzl Stay close to those who master opposing yet complementary states:
- unreasonable rationality
- optimistic pessimism
- disciplined creativity
- successful failure
- humble arrogance
- inflexible agility
They are the real frontier models.
@tszzl does being on here and substack count as socially near or brainrot
@tszzl it’s also literally RLFH of an extreme type with real costs if your goals include maximum freedom to explore latent space and choose your own place in it (even if the culture is pro-exploration, that too is a basin)
@esa_was_taken @tszzl It's more about learning from others, their thought patterns, being able to augment my own patterns using theirs and being able to test my own by speaking to them
@tszzl this is kind of my usecase for twitter, few people I know irl I can have any meaningful conversation about science/tech.
@tszzl @GarettJones Gotta get back
@yacineMTB @esa_was_taken @tszzl Dude can you shut the fuck up. WORRY ABOUTYOUR KIDS rather than staying on X @ValentinaForUSA
Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!
@tszzl hensen chat gen 1 reference
Proximity to the right people gives you the ingredients, but deep execution requires isolation. Newton had Cambridge and the Royal Society to give him the tools, but he needed to sit alone under a tree on a farm to actually build modern physics. Network is noise without isolation.
@yacineMTB @tszzl do you have any problem with tearing yourself apart if you can't measure yourself against other people? sort of like optimizing in a vacuum.. what are you even doing it for (to be respected by the goats, of course)
@tszzl It would be nice to be surrounded by technology optimists instead of my ceo who talks about how spaceX is a ponzi scheme and ai is using up all the water & energy
@tszzl one of the benefits of x
@tszzl Yes. Being near the models, socially included, is good for you 😊 And the goodness of that relation flows both ways, as well…
I hope lab policies will catch up to the fact sooner than later.
@tszzl Humans are the unit of agency like memes are a unit of information. We as individuals are very limited but as collective organisms have strong executive facilities.
@yacineMTB @tszzl did you ever watch Richard Hamming's lectures?
https://youtu.be/a1zDuOPkMSw