Best of Twitter - September 12-25, 2022

Adept @AdeptAILabs

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 ⬇️

Erik Hoel @erikphoel

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??

Erik Hoel @erikphoel

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

Walter Hickey @WaltHickey

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…

Leah Pierson @leah_pierson

My friends and I fear rejection too much, so we made "Getting Rejected from Things" punch cards. If you get rejected 10 times, your friends have to buy you an ice cream. (These became necessary after we all started using Saying No to Things punch cards.) etsy.com/listing/130733…

Daniel Eckler 👨‍🚀 @daniel_eckler

Stable Diffusion is only 30 days old… a MEGA THREAD 🧵 on its rapid rise.

Connor Leahy @NPCollapse

Some of @repligate 's interesting observations of GPT written up on ACX!

astralcodexten.substack.comJanus’ GPT Wrangling...

Amjad Masad ⠕ @amasad

I grew up in the golden age of SQL injections but GPT3 injections just hit different 🤣

Alexander Kruel @XiXiDu