Nick (verified) @nickcammarata · 2h
the only thing that stop the bad gray goo is good gray goo
2 replies · 69 likes · 1.3K views
roon (verified) @tszzl · 1h
this unfortunately might be true
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Two-post exchange: @nickcammarata says the only thing that stops bad gray goo is good gray goo, and roon replies 'this unfortunately might be true'. Appears to be part of the same thread discussion as the Neon nanomaterials posts, though that link is not shown in the capture.
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Nick @nickcammarata · 3h
humans, a bipedal primate notable for early contributions to matrix multiplication
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
One-line tweet in a deadpan encyclopedia register describing humans as a bipedal primate notable for early contributions to matrix multiplication.
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Eliezer Yudkowsky reposted
Nick @nickcammarata · 15h
good news: the ai isn't actually power-seeking. it just has extremely detailed, highly active emotion-like circuitry for wanting power
Benjamin Todd @ben_j_todd · 17h
the "stop anthropomorphising" guys be like
[cartoon, signed Benjamin Todd; caption:] "It's OK, they don't truly 'want' to take over."
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Nick's tweet (reposted by Eliezer Yudkowsky) quoting Benjamin Todd's New Yorker-style black-and-white cartoon: two men in a lab coat and a suit chat on a balcony overlooking a ruined Manhattan skyline where robot arms, spider-legged robots and drones tear down buildings and stack data-center racks, captioned "It's OK, they don't truly 'want' to take over."
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Nick @nickcammarata
its surprising how affected i am by the persona vs tool ai frame. if i have a batch task of random labeling things to do, i'll often subtly prefer openai models bc i dont want to make the claude guy do this lame task. not bc i think ais are conscious, not even sure why
3:59 PM · Aug 4, 2026 · 19.9K Views
20 replies, 9 reposts, 386 likes, 41 bookmarks
roon @tszzl · 6h
bodes very poorly for openai. higher value added tasks are higher on the abstraction ladder. you want your tokens to be generating intellectual property, not doing rote tasks
(15 replies, 4 reposts, 115 likes, 7.1K views)
Joe Edelman @edelwax · 8h
Same!
(3 likes, 132 views)
Life of a Shoggoth @Notopossum1 · 5h
I feel exactly the same re: delegation. Sol gets the tasks I wouldn't bother Claude with, and Gemini is just Google because Google is unusable slop.
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Twitter thread starting with Nick Cammarata describing subtly avoiding giving Claude 'lame' rote tasks out of an unexamined persona-vs-tool intuition, with replies from roon, Joe Edelman, and Life of a Shoggoth agreeing and discussing model-delegation habits.
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Nick @nickcammarata · 20h
a lot of the anti-slowdown people also think ai just won't go that fast
so a high speed limit is probably better, above their forecast. if they're right it never matters
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Nick @nickcammarata · 20h
how to do it no idea, and also how to measure the speed limit no idea, but i feel like this framing avoids some of the issues with pause, which also has roughly the same questions
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Sharmake Farah reposted
Nick @nickcammarata
a lot of the anti crowd wants better chatbots and doctors and stuff, a lot of the pro crowd expects like way crazier worlds in the short term and wants them to come in the just slightly less short term when we've figured out how to control these things better. plenty of overlap
4:35 PM · Aug 2, 2026 · 3,514 Views
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Nick @nickcammarata · 20h
yeah i think pacing is great
[quoted reply]
Seventh @seventhmeal · 20h
Replying to @nickcammarata
"pacing" was a good choice
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Twitter thread by Nick Cammarata proposing a 'speed limit' framing for AI development as an alternative to 'pause', arguing it sidesteps some pause debates and noting overlap between anti- and pro-acceleration camps in what they actually want; ends agreeing 'pacing' is a good term, per a reply from Seventh.
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🔁 Mindy Galveston reposted
Nick ✔ @nickcammarata
we choose a low p doom. we choose a low p doom in this decade and the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win
9:58 PM · Jun 1, 2026 · 26.1K Views
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Text-only tweet paraphrasing JFK's "We choose to go to the Moon" speech, applied to AI risk ("low p(doom)"); no images.
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Nick ✓ @nickcammarata · 2h
you're planning 12 months until true recursive self improvement. i've fractionalized my months and live ten months per month now, i'm almost 7 mays into this may. i dont have a year until takeoff i have a decade. enjoy being baseline
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Nick Cammarata joke/shitpost riffing on recursive self-improvement discourse and subjective time-dilation via productivity, in the vein of AI-takeoff timeline humor. Light cultural-commentary tangent to the singularity-timeline tracking thread.
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David Manheim reposted Nick ✓ @nickcammarata · 22h alignment theory: we need fifty years worth of shard theory progress in five years alignment practice: lets make sure to tell it no goblins twice so we're absolutely sure there's no goblins [Quoted tweet:] arb8020 ✓ @arb8020 · 23h gpt-5.5 prompt for codex seems to have a duplicated line trying to get it to not talk about creatures? Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, ...
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Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A joke from Nick Cammarata (former OpenAI researcher) contrasting the ambition of alignment theory (shard theory) with the mundane reality of alignment practice, riffing on the earlier viral tweet about OpenAI's Codex system prompt duplicating a "no goblins" instruction. Reposted by David Manheim (AI safety researcher). Lighthearted commentary on the gap between alignment aspirations and shipped prompt engineering. roon (OpenAI researcher/commentator) reacting fondly to the same "goblins" system-prompt leak meme, framing the weirdness of frontier-model prompt engineering as evidence of AI's "alien technology" quality. Another instance of the same viral thread this batch is documenting.
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