@pewdiepie now is your chance to get Elon on meme review
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That's exactly how exponentials work. Looking forward to saluting the galactic being at age 30.
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Claude 3 Opus just reinvented this quantum algorithm from scratch in just 2 prompts.
The paper is not on the internet yet. 🔥🤯
Fun little paper to appear tonight on the arXiv.
How to do Hamiltonian Monte Carlo on digital Quantum Computers.
As physics-based probabilistic ML accelerators are on the horizon, important to test how QC's could try to compete.
Best way to predict future is to invent it.🙂
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"I want to kill companies that deserve to die. I believe in efficient markets."
-@PalmerLuckey
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We have gone from 0 to 1 for thermodynamic computing.
Now it is time to scale the paradigm.
Excited for what the future holds.
Extropic
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Motor intelligence is ~10x harder than neocortical intelligence (language, art, etc); takes 10x more neurons and took 100-1000x longer to evolve.
Everyone thinking that blue collar work was going to get automated before white collar work is in for a rude awakening.
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Be like Richard Feynman.
Don't ruin your beautiful neural machine.
Say no to psychedelics.
Psychedelics create a high-temperature annealing phase of your brain.
On average it seems like re-rolling your hyperparameters yields net negative perf delta.
Insanely stupid to do as a founder, where your internal reward system steers a company IMO.
Stick to Diet Coke, anon.
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Thank goodness at least I'm not on the 30 under 30 list.
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This week's AI breakthroughs remind us that humans are, in the end, pretty much probabilistic parrots too.
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First ever thermodynamic computer was put online internally today.
Soon to be accessed by our first customers.
So excited for things to come.
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Civilization desperately needs novel cultural and computing paradigms for us to achieve grander scope & scale and a prosperous future.
I strongly believe thermodynamic physics and AI hold many of the answers we seek.
As such, 18 months ago, I set out to build such cultural and computational paradigms.
As @beffjezos, and as the founder of @extropic.
I will continue to assemble this better future on both fronts.
The acceleration has only begun.
Much more to come.
Strap in.
Hey everyone, serious post for a second.
As you may have seen, I have unfortunately gotten my identity and stealth startup doxxed by reporters via voice forensics and web sleuthing. As the day has finally come, I thought I’d share more about who I am.
I’ve kept my identity secretive for various reasons, one of which is for my personal security and that of those who work for me, as I have always worked on secretive/sensitive technologies.
I started this account as a means to spread hope, optimism, and a will to build the future, and as an outlet to share my thoughts despite to the secretive nature of my work.
Throughout this journey, I got to meet amazing people. Became close friends with my e/acc co-founder @bayeslord, and forged a potent community that is now starting to transduce from the online to the physical world.
While my doxx was seemingly inevitable, this is not the end, but a new beginning for e/acc. One where I can step up and make our voice heard in the traditional world beyond X, and use my credentials to provide backing for our community’s interests.
Around the same time as founding e/acc, I founded @extropic. A deep tech startup where we are building the ultimate substrate for Generative AI in the physical world by harnessing thermodynamic physics.
Ideas simmering while inventing a this paradigm of computing definitely influenced the initial e/acc writings. I very much look forward to sharing more about our vision for the technology we are building soon.
In terms of my background, as you've now learned, my main identity is @GillVerd. I used to work on special projects at the intersection of physics and AI at Alphabet, X and Google. Before this, I was a theoretical physicist working on information theory and black hole physics.
Currently working on our AI Manhattan project to bring fundamentally new computing to the world with an amazing team of physics and AI geniuses, including my former TensorFlow Quantum co-founder @trevormccrt1 as CTO. Grateful every day to get to build this technology I have been dreaming of for over 8 years now with an amazing team.
Much more info to come on all of the above. Excited to be able to share our journey as it unfolds over the months and years.
Please stay tuned. Much love. Keep on accelerating. 🫡
-Beff
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This is where I tweet from.
Literally closed the Seed round on 2 phones from the Starbase parking lot, the day before the Starship launch. 📱📱🚗🚀🏭
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Honored to have been invited to speak with @lexfridman
Enjoy!
piped.video/8fEEbKJoNbU?si=9qM_…
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Here is the full episode right here on @X
Enjoy!
Here's my conversation with Guillaume Verdon (@GillVerd) aka Beff Jezos (@beffjezos), a physicist, quantum computing researcher, and founder of e/acc (effective accelerationism) movement that advocates for rapid technological progress, physics-based reasoning, and memes.
Guillaume & Beff are two fascinating identities co-existing inside one human mind, recently merged.
And yes, I did talk to Jeff Bezos and Beff Jezos back-to-back on the podcast, because the most entertaining outcome is the most likely. Happy holidays! ❤
It's here on X in full, and is up on YouTube, Spotify, and everywhere else. Links in comment.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
2:23 - Beff Jezos
12:21 - Thermodynamics
18:36 - Doxxing
28:30 - Anonymous bots
35:58 - Power
38:29 - AI dangers
42:01 - Building AGI
50:14 - Merging with AI
57:56 - p(doom)
1:13:23 - Quantum machine learning
1:26:41 - Quantum computer
1:35:15 - Aliens
1:40:04 - Quantum gravity
1:45:25 - Kardashev scale
1:47:17 - Effective accelerationism (e/acc)
1:57:47 - Humor and memes
2:00:53 - Jeff Bezos
2:07:25 - Elon Musk
2:13:55 - Extropic
2:22:31 - Singularity and AGI
2:26:29 - AI doomers
2:27:54 - Effective altruism
2:34:23 - Day in the life
2:40:50 - Identity
2:43:40 - Advice for young people
2:45:42 - Mortality
2:49:25 - Meaning of life
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Sometimes you just have to take the most ambitious bet and stick to it for years before there's any reward.
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The main thing stopping you from becoming a billionaire is your unwillingness to be misunderstood for extended periods of time.
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Microsoft finally achieving Majorana qubits.
A huge milestone they have been pursuing for quite some time.
Now comes the scaling for truly fault tolerant quantum computing.
It will take a while, but this is a foundational technology for humanity.
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The difference between probabilistic vs quantum computing is that quantum programs can leverage destructive interference.
Programs are like programmable layers of slits.
Wave-like (quantum) vs gas-like (thermo) propagation.
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Hot take: anybody not pushing for more nuclear power is not a pragmatic environmentalist and is just leveraging a crisis/divisive topic to push an agenda, gain power/capital, and/or social status.
Happy Earth day. Go nuclear. 🌎♥️☢️
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Imagine having a vision so powerful that you are possessed by it for a decade.
Wrote down the first equations for a version of thermodynamic hardware 10 years ago.
Today did a first external demo with a portable room temperature prototype version of this vision.
Exponentials take a long time to start, but once they get going, they become unstoppable.
So excited for the next years as the world wakes up to the power of probabilistic silicon.
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"I want to kill companies that deserve to die. I believe in efficient markets."
-@PalmerLuckey
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The Canadian government's actions normalizing financial violence have been unacceptable in my book.
As @balajis puts it, exit is the best form of protest.
I henceforth plan to take my deep tech talents to the USA for the long term. 🇺🇲
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So good 🔥
Had to Ghiblify @extropic — very worth it (although, in reality, @trevormccrt1 is reasonably taller than @GillVerd)
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Fun little paper to appear tonight on the arXiv.
How to do Hamiltonian Monte Carlo on digital Quantum Computers.
As physics-based probabilistic ML accelerators are on the horizon, important to test how QC's could try to compete.
Best way to predict future is to invent it.🙂
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"anon, i was at the 4am Grindmas grind sesh at the office and didn't see u there. r u sure you celebrate?"
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Regardless of the outcome of the study of #LK99, what's clear is that everyone has woken up to the potential of materials research to change the world.
The next era of materials discovery will be AI-guided, further accelerating the rate of breakthroughs.
We are on the verge of an inflection point in prosperity and technological advancement. The greatest time to be alive.
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Valar Atomics (@valaratomics) absolutely mogging other nuclear cos in terms of capital efficiency (and aesthetics).
Bullish.
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Of course the first replication of the LK99 superconducting results comes from an anime pfp anon user on @X.
I'm never leaving this website.
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Got chip?
This chip will accelerate AI compute way past Moore's Law
I sat down with @GillVerd and @trevormccrt1 to talk about their new ambitious startup @extropic launching today
piped.video/h8LSgzIR1g8
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Moore's law is coming to an end.
@extropic is pioneering the next-gen system for end-to-end neural information processing at the thermodynamic limits of computing.
Many more details to come. 🔥🫡
Thanks to @willknight for the feature in @WIRED today.
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New logo for @extropic
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The universe is full of resources and free energy that are locked away behind a barrier of complexity.
Increasing intelligence and technology levels unlock these resources.
Don't let anyone convince you the pie is finite.
Civilizational skill issue.
Mario Nawfal
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Excited to have S³ News visit our superconducting thermodynamic computing lab and fab during our first data and manufacturing runs.
These are the first steps in our quest to redefine computing from first physical principles.
We're stoked to bring you all along this journey.
Exclusive first look inside @extropic, pioneers of thermodynamic AI compute, on episode 41 of S³
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Michael Andregg (@michaelandregg) announcing that Eon is looking to achieve whole human brain scan and emulation by 2030 🤯
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If you told me my lecture on quantum energy teleportation from 2015 would be at the top of internet search results back then I would never have believed you.
Thanks to @perplexity_ai for the feature 🙏
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The world doesn't need more chat and docs apps. Silicon Valley needs to get back to its roots focus on deep tech again.
There needs to be a YC for deep/risky tech (hardware, quantum, AI), otherwise most VC funding will be burned trying to make more Snapchats/Notions/Slacks
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Finally met Palmer Luckey today.
Thanked him for all he's done for deep tech / defense tech founders.
Firm handshakes all around. 🤝
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Reinvented computing from first principles twice from scratch over the past two and a half years.
Open sourcing one of them so the world can accelerate the advent of this technology.
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"How important is the ego component of your drive to do what you do?" -@PeterDiamandis
"It is massively important to me. I need everyone who wronged me to weep." -@PalmerLuckey
🔥🔥🔥
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Just recorded a banger episode of the @PirateWires pod.
The champions of:
Freedom of speech (@micsolana) +
Freedom of exchange (@balajis) +
Freedom of compute (@beffjezos)
joining forces.
You won't want to miss it.
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Some takeaways from @ID_AA_Carmack on Lex Fridman:
-now is highest-leverage moment in history to work on AGI
-estimates AGI ETA ~2030
-code for AGI will be simple/single-dev implementable
-fast takeoff ("AI foom") is implausible
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Elon is the GOAT.
Hardware is hard.
That’s why Elon is by far the greatest founder of all time.
Remember — countless startups die just while trying to put stationary beige boxes on desktops. Very smart people get crushed by supply chain disruptions, or China tariffs, or lockdowns, or shipping interruptions, or regulatory delays.
Not Elon. He didn’t just survive financial crisis and coronavirus. He managed to build physical things in America while fighting the state and the laws of nature at the same time.
Somehow he managed to simultaneously build not just a car company but a rocket company. Those don’t just have “moving parts”, they are a moving whole.
The difficulty level here is insane. Hardware is completely different from software. One recall, just one serious bug, can destroy your company. If you are charging $50 for something that costs $40, and you need to recall and replace a million units, you’re usually dead.
So just one of these companies — just Tesla, or just SpaceX — would be an incredible accomplishment for anyone. Even a very intelligent and hardworking person would have to live an incredibly boring, disciplined, focused life to possibly maintain the extremely low error rate needed to profitably ship such complex products.
Not Elon. He did SpaceX and Tesla while having N children by K women. While also cofounding OpenAI and Neuralink and Boring Company. While fighting and defeating countless journalists, politicians, haters, and short sellers. And of course while buying Twitter, posting all the time, and building a following larger than almost any politician.
The better you are, the better you understand how much better Elon is. If you’re good at math you appreciate Ramanujan’s greatness. If you’re good at basketball you respect how amazing Michael Jordan was. Elon is like that, for tech. Everyone in tech understands the sport we’re playing, and he really is the greatest of all time.
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Keenan Crane
"The greatest technologies start off looking like toys."
XTR-0 allows developers to run toy thermo algos on our novel probabilistic primitives.
The algorithmic shift to thermo is just beginning.
Meet the XTR-0
A way for early developers to make first contact with thermodynamic intelligence.
More at: extropic.ai
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If everyone has a stake in the techno-capital machine from birth, by the time they reach adulthood, they will be less inclined to want to tear it down
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Thermo + probabilistic computing community will be bigger than the quantum computing community in a few years.
Mark my words.
Let the quantum exodus begin.
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If you think e/acc changed the world, just wait until you see the impact thermodynamic computing will have on it.
Give it time. Come back to this post in a few years.
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True Silicon Thermodynamic computing achieved internally.
That's right.
Here's a preview of our silicon pbit results. Huge effort by our team @extropic.
These were recently presented in Paris and submitted to peer review.
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The year is 2030. Local pharmacies have the mRNA equivalent of 3D printers. Variant sequencing is ubiquitous. Updated vaccine formulas can easily be downloaded & distributed via the internet. Humanity effectively unlocks a meta-immune system.
How can we make this happen faster?
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You can think of the quantum supremacy demo as demonstrating a form of quantum hashing from parameter space to bit space.
It's really a demo of quantum chaos, but not a useful algorithm.
Introducing Willow, our new state-of-the-art quantum computing chip with a breakthrough that can reduce errors exponentially as we scale up using more qubits, cracking a 30-year challenge in the field. In benchmark tests, Willow solved a standard computation in <5 mins that would take a leading supercomputer over 10^25 years, far beyond the age of the universe(!).
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