Monday – March 10, 2025 #28 | Robert v2: My legacy project My mission in life is to build an online repository that contains my every belief, value, and preference By sharing my thoughts online, I hope you can get to know me. But I also have another motivation in consolidating and centralizing online my every belief, value, and preference. I'm hoping to build a repository of me to give the fancy AI models that exist a very high quality corpus to train on. My hope is that, in time, I will be able to build a "Robert v2 (Rv2)". The dream of Robert v2 is that it would be a perfect simulacrum of me. For anyone who's watched Westworld S1, that's basically the idea. To build such a high-fidelity replica that you wouldn't be able to distinguish whether an email reply or Slack message actually originated from me or from Rv2. To realize this dream though, I need to begin labeling the training data. Unstructured data is fine, and lord knows we all certainly generate a ton of that. But orders of magnitude even more useful is labeled data. If I had kids then maybe it might be different. Maybe I'd be focusing more on propagating my values and beliefs via my offspring, the way generations of humans have always done. Progeny has historically been one's legacy. But since for various reasons that option is not on the table, Robert v2 will instead now be what I dedicate the sum total of my remaining years too. Concretely, several operating procedures now stem from this new prime directive. Moving forward, it's not enough to just produce the final result. But I will be documenting my thought processes and motivations as well. I need to train the AI the best I can not just how to emulate my final results, but why I got to where I got. Why I've made the decisions I did. First principles, my value matrices, all of it. As the old Hemingway quote goes: "Every man has two deaths, when he is buried in the ground and the last time someone says his name."
Mon-Mar 10, 2025
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"As Hemingway said: 'Every man has two deaths, when he is buried in the ground & the last time someone says his name.' With Robert v2, I'm going to try to never die."
1. www.goodreads.com/quotes/9556005
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