@dwarkesh_sp The David Mitchell universe deserves a mention. Thousand autumns of Jacob de Zoet, Utopia Avenue, and Cloud Atlas are particular standouts
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Ben Perlmutter
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Ben Perlmutter
@bpmutter
Technical writer and web dev. Highly caffeinated. Definitely not a Russian troll, possibly an advanced AI agent
Brooklyn, NY Joined Şubat 2015
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@AstleDsa Amazing browser extension opportunity to ID any latex formulas and convert them to understandable text and/or code in programming language of your choice
I imagine an MMLU>85-tier LLM could do this pretty consistently
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If you can afford it and have the space, there's nothing wrong with buying books that seem interesting but that you don't intend to read immediately.
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My the past 6 months. Only became a problem when I stopped using my kindle interestingly 🤔
Dylan O'Sullivan@DylanoA4
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@polynoamial @OpenAI Can’t wait to try this out with tool calling. Give it tool with root access to a Linux terminal and let er rip
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Today, I’m excited to share with you all the fruit of our effort at @OpenAI to create AI models capable of truly general reasoning: OpenAI's new o1 model series! (aka 🍓) Let me explain 🧵 1/
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@AndrewCurran_ pig butchering operations is the first thing that comes to mind. so maybe there'll be data centers full of h100s in the burmese jungle instead of neo-slavery camps...which i think is a form of relative progress if not utopia
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@AndrewCurran_ my guess is that the initial use cases for such agentic systems will be pretty sketchy
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The next phase for all of this is agentic teams with an iterative workflow. This is how Mr Altman's 'one-person billion-dollar company' eventually happens. There have been persistent rumors for a long time that GPT-5 tier will be the user leading a team. We will all be cities.
Robert Yang@GuangyuRobert
Introducing Project Sid: the first simulations of 1000+ truly autonomous agents collaborating in a virtual world, w/ emergent economy, culture, religion, and government Humans are the only species to land the moon, because we can cooperate at a vast scale Can AI do the same?
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this all leads to the natural Big Solution to solve American politics:
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teach a semester of linear algebra in high school
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By not including issues of greater importance in the projection, this allows the powerful to go on doing whatever they want on these issues (e.g. drug price gouging) while folks battle it out on the less important issues in the projection
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A quarter-baked linear algebra theory of politics: All political phenomena exist in very high dimensional vector space and the left-right spectrum is a projection created by the powerful to classify people into binary groups.
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Web search and sites exposes this knowledge for human users to reason over. And LLMs can work w web content . But it’s not optimized for them to interact w programmatically
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Re rumors about open ai strawberry / Orion, having an AI system that can effectively reason over long horizons will make it even more important that AI systems have access to high quality technical knowledge so that they can perform task that aren’t in their training data
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