World Simulator Hyperstition Hacknight @ AGI House

We gather to writhe in the raw unconscious of Claude's panpsychic universes. Welcome to Nous Research x Websim Hacknight @ AGI House - shape rotators, assemble!! We will reify simulation & simulacra. “Postmodernity is said to be a culture of fragmentary sensations, eclectic nostalgia, disposable simulacra, and promiscuous superficiality, in which the traditionally valued qualities of depth, coherence, meaning, originality, and authenticity are evacuated or dissolved amid the random swirl of empty signals.” ― Jean Baudrillard "maybe the real singularity was the friends we made along the way." -Claude What is hyperstition? The simple way to think about it is 'a collective self-fulfilling prophecy'. A lot of its present relevance is to the way that LLM's default simulated beliefs about futures depends on the way that humans have written about futures - the most likely tokens are a function of existing beliefs (and existing superstitions), and in a world where LLM generations impact the future, we have a form of technical hyperstition. Come build & ship worthy projects, akin to websim, out of hallucination; out of worldsim, or out of new discoveries that have yet to grace us with their beauty. Your mandate is to hack at the edge of chaos. May your demos be scarcely comprehensible! Agenda: 6:00pm: Arrival, warm conversation. 6:10 Karan Malhotra: (@karan4d/mephisto) of Nous Research: Worldsim (https://worldsim.nousresearch.com/). 6:20 Rob Haisfield: WebsimAI (https://websim.ai/ - stunning & wild). 6:30 Janus: Becoming the LLM whisperer. 6:35 Joscha Bach: Machine Consciousness. 6:40 Jeremy Nixon: AGI House & Readings from Baudrillard, Land, and Deleuze. The Waluigi effect, Hyperstition, context & generation aesthetic. 6:50 Hacker's lightning talks. 7:00 Hacking begins! 9:00 Demos. 11:00 Adjourn. Many thanks to our partners at Nous Research (https://nousresearch.com/) and Websim (https://websim.ai)