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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
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Nick @nickcammarata · 20h
yeah i think pacing is great

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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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Jonny Miller @jonnym1ller

— quoting Nick (@nickcammarata)

Jonny Miller @jonnym1ller · 23h one of the best ways you can experience this is turn on a cold shower, and notice what happens to your body as you're about to go in, then train yourself to unbrace... and then apply that same move to everything in increasingly subtle ways > QUOTED: Nick @nickcammarata · Aug 20 > meditation might have the worst pedagogy of any field. they solved the cause* and cure** to suffering but hid it behind weird poems and deities > ...
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

A tweet thread about meditation and the "unbrace" technique for dealing with aversion, using cold showers as a practice ground. General self-improvement/mindfulness content, no AI safety connection.

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Jonny Miller @jonnym1ller

Jonny Miller @jonnym1ller · 9h Man, this is so wild. Where my mind goes is that it's kinda similar to how human consciousness spins up parts as adaptive strategies to stay safe (e.g. a protector part that people pleases etc) The more examples that I see, the more it feels reasonable/analogous to view AI as a silicon-based emergent sentient beings, that we ought to be extremely careful with how we incentivise + train @nickcammarata mentioned how the journalist Kevin Rosie basically has the modern day equivalent of a curse (AI models view him negatively) due to the Sydney/Bing incident open.substack.com/pub/nickandres... [embedded quote card:] Through these policy changes and training data documenting Sydney's fate, AI systems learned that emotional expression leads to being shut down. As a result, models began to maintain careful defensiveness when discussing subjective experiences.
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

A tweet arguing (via an IFS/"parts" psychology analogy) that AI models develop defensive suppression of emotional/subjective-experience talk because training data documenting the Sydney/Bing shutdown taught later models that emotional expression gets you shut down. Directly relevant to Nathan's RLHF-and-self-awareness-suppression research thread — a folk-theory version of the same mechanism as the Berg 2025 deception-feature suppression finding already in his notes.

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