Andrew Critch @AndrewCritch
— quoting Raymond Arnold (@Raemon777)
Andrew Critch (... @AndrewCri... · 28m
Reality is much cooler than much sci fi.
From AI's perspective between bursts of coding, human cognition appears ~infinitely fast in token-time, because the AI is basically halted.
So currently: we're fast to it, and it's fast to us.
Reminds me of relativistic gamma.
[quoted tweet:]
Raymond Arnold @Raemon777 · 11h
I'm a bit retroactively surprised that, before LLMs, I... don't recall any sci-fi stories where the AIs operated in short bursts of thinking, each mediated by a human.
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Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Andrew Critch (AI safety researcher) draws a relativistic-gamma analogy for mutual perceived speed differences between humans and AI during agentic coding — each appears near-instantaneous to the other depending on whose "clock" is running. Directly resonant with Nathan's ancestor-tree / timescale-gradient framing of AI descendants operating "millions of times faster" than biological humans.
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