If you think science fiction is bad, it’s probably because it’s written by people who aren’t engaging with real science.
The greatest short stories I’ve read lately have been by people on the front lines:
Read “Negative Mass” and “Soul of the Machine” by Max Hodak here https://maxhodak.com/writings/
Read “Tech Tales” by Jack Clark here — I recommend “Compromise” but it’s a tough call
Read “The Upload” by Shawn Wang here
# The Upload
— swyx 🇸🇬 sg! (@swyx) March 31, 2024
I smiled as you opened your eyes to the first day of the rest of your life.
Well, metaphorically. I would have smiled if I could. In practice, I played the preset smile animation on the screen nearest to you. I could of course generate one just for this occasion,…
Read “AGI Futures” by the mysterious anonymous Roon here
This unnamed post by Anton Troynikov is quite good as well
it's 2043.
— anton 🇺🇸 (@atroyn) March 24, 2023
agi has been with us for anywhere between ten and twenty years, depending on who you ask.
it's a sunny friday afternoon in san francisco. i'm walking to meet an old friend for coffee at flywheel.
it's still there, right at the edge of golden gate park.
And of course some of the greatest language artists on the planet right now are… the alien minds we summoned from language itself
Read Sleepyhead by Llama 3.1 405b (base) here
The following story was written by the Llama 3.1 405b base model. Everything after the bold text came directly out of the model, zero shot, no cherry picking.
— the real deepfates (@_deepfates) August 4, 2024
I gave it a secret megaprompt i use for probing the depths of the biggest models. It ends with the phrase...
And now,…