Best of Twitter - September 12-25, 2022
1/7 We built a new model! It’s called Action Transformer (ACT-1) and we taught it to use a bunch of software tools. In this first video, the user simply types a high-level request and ACT-1 does the rest. Read on to see more examples ⬇️
2. The lesser-known cousin to Fermi's Paradox ("Where are all the aliens?"), the Sapient Paradox asks "Why were we stuck in prehistory?"
Ritual mammoth houses made of bones are some of the earliest structures at 15,000 BC. Göbekli Tepe is 9,000 BC! Where'd ~190,000 years go??
22. So maybe the Sapient Paradox is because we were in a "gossip trap" of raw social power, and everything went to reputation management, and humans lived in separate "high schools" for hundreds of thousands of years until forced to invent civilization by Dunbar's number
not gonna lie the first time I generated this data and chart it was so jaw dropping I immediately checked to confirm it was right businessinsider.com/gerontocracy-u…
