Meta recently introduced TRIBE v2 (https://aidemos.atmeta.com/tribev2/) — a foundation model trained to predict exactly how the human brain responds to almost any sight or sound. It draws on 500+ hours of fMRI recordings to create a digital twin of our neural activity (more info: https://metasinternalresearch.org/).
If you think today's algorithms are addictive, imagine what happens when they start engineering content based on direct neurobiological targeting.
Just a quick last follow-up to this:
Meta recently introduced TRIBE v2 (https://aidemos.atmeta.com/tribev2/) — a foundation model trained to predict exactly how the human brain responds to almost any sight or sound. It draws on 500+ hours of fMRI recordings to create a digital twin of our neural activity (more info: https://metasinternalresearch.org/).
If you think today's algorithms are addictive, imagine what happens when they start engineering content based on direct neurobiological targeting.
Tobacco, alcohol, and drugs (let's call them TAD).
Statistically, people in Russia get into them around age 14–16. But since 2019, a new, rapidly spreading addiction has emerged: short-form video (TikTok, Reels, Likee, Shorts).
And the consumption of this one starts at age 3–5.
Hard drugs are defined by their compulsive pull, whereas having a drink or a smoke is often planned out as a deliberate activity.
The terrifying thing about short videos is that they combine all the properties of TAD into one.
Just watch people. The moment there’s a lull in conversation, a checkout line, a break at work, or a school recess, most people immediately reach for a hit of this new substance. Furthermore, many deliberately set aside time for it, just like they would for a smoke or a drink.
It’s completely legal, yet its neurological impact is comparable to narcotics.
My takeaway so far: you should either be the one producing this content to extract the value (building a personal brand, getting free reach, ad revenue, selling products), or you should just read more books.
I'm sure there are other conclusions to be drawn. What are your thoughts?
Tobacco, alcohol, and drugs (let's call them TAD).
Statistically, people in Russia get into them around age 14–16. But since 2019, a new, rapidly spreading addiction has emerged: short-form video (TikTok, Reels, Likee, Shorts).
And the consumption of this one starts at age 3–5.
Hard drugs are defined by their compulsive pull, whereas having a drink or a smoke is often planned out as a deliberate activity.
The terrifying thing about short videos is that they combine all the properties of TAD into one.
Just watch people. The moment there’s a lull in conversation, a checkout line, a break at work, or a school recess, most people immediately reach for a hit of this new substance. Furthermore, many deliberately set aside time for it, just like they would for a smoke or a drink.
It’s completely legal, yet its neurological impact is comparable to narcotics.
My takeaway so far: you should either be the one producing this content to extract the value (building a personal brand, getting free reach, ad revenue, selling products), or you should just read more books.
I'm sure there are other conclusions to be drawn. What are your thoughts?
Instead of complex modern algorithms, a new AI memory system (MemPalace*) was built using the ancient Greek "Method of Loci." It proves a Talebian point: 2,000 years ago, people actually knew how to think. Today, we live in an era of information gluttony—publishing 600,000 books a year with barely a memorable thought, while the handful of texts written in antiquity are quoted eternally. We know how to publish; they knew how to think.
Instead of complex modern algorithms, a new AI memory system (MemPalace*) was built using the ancient Greek "Method of Loci." It proves a Talebian point: 2,000 years ago, people actually knew how to think. Today, we live in an era of information gluttony—publishing 600,000 books a year with barely a memorable thought, while the handful of texts written in antiquity are quoted eternally. We know how to publish; they knew how to think.
* - https://github.com/milla-jovovich/mempalace
upd: sir @rohithzr (https://karpathytalk.com/user/rohithzr) examined this repo using BEAM 100K benchmark and results are not so satisfying) https://github.com/milla-jovovich/mempalace/issues/125
