Dylan Hendricks

@fchollet The self-baiting aspect of this was more that the sentiment of the tweet itself could not be expressed in code or math, so though it was framed as axiomatic, by your own rubric it could be nothing more substantive than a poem. Impossible not to dunk on that conceptual dissonance

@krishnanrohit Systems thinking won’t have to hide in academic daydreams much longer

@krishnanrohit This is the way. The biggest binary I see today in a world full of perceptual scissors is whether people get that we’re not just sloppifying all previous forms of knowledge gathering, we’re finally entering the age of world models as the basis of our formal epistemology

Tyler is entirely right. And what this new "meta-paper" is is actually a simulation of a problem area. A world model, one might say.

@vinyard44765 @VicKrehut64 @TheHost_ It’s like a Wallace and Gromit style Rube Goldberg machine of logistics, involving data centers for the app and burning petroleum for the driver and hiring 2 different people from different companies (the cafe and the driver)… a process that opulent should fail. It’s crazy.

@vinyard44765 @VicKrehut64 @TheHost_ Making coffee is really easy, it’s why it’s such a popular drink. Going out to coffee shops can be a great experience, it’s why they’re popular. But to use an app to hire someone to have the experience of going out in order to bring you a thing you could make in 2 minutes…

I ordered Starbucks from Doordash and when it was delivered, the driver sat in my driveway for a little too long, so I sent a message in the app and asked if everything was Ok. She replied saying that she spilled all my coffees in her car. I immediately got a bunch of paper towels and cleaner, and I took them out to her. Helped her clean her car. Told her it was fine and asked that she just canceled the order. After her car was clean, she marked the order as delivered and took a picture of the

@regexreg @TestCorey @AriDavidPaul @fchollet Or the function that parses “precise” from “partial” according to some universal principles. I think this just goes to show it’s easy to make a lot of math and code that symbolizes nothing, just empty machines whirring to themselves.

@TestCorey @AriDavidPaul @fchollet I don't want to be the guy who has to write the function canExpress 😆

@jatingargiitk @fchollet Or conversely if the idea only works under certain conditions you understand it when you can predict multiple diverse win states. I would frame the bar as you understand an idea to the degree you can model it predictively in different contexts

directionally right but the threshold is lower than math or code. you understand an idea when you can name the conditions under which it fails. most people who can write the equation still can't do that. formal expression is necessary, not sufficient. the bar is falsifiability, not notation.

@paws4puzzles @krishnanrohit Can you imagine the code refactoring that would be required? No wonder he rage quit

@krishnanrohit he blocked you for spotting the recursion. can't compile that irony.

Interesting intuition but unsurprisingly you cannot say this either in mathematics or code

@paws4puzzles @krishnanrohit Yes it’s true, once you have the math or code you’re done and move on, the pre-math exploration is the whole game

@krishnanrohit Can't defend the claim so he blocks. Like puzzles, breakthroughs start as hunches; math just validates later.

@krishnanrohit Yeah you must’ve hit a nerve deep in the worldview, he realized he was being a wordcel and shame spiraled. Which is really the Achilles heel of shape rotation ideology. Wordcels aren’t good at shape rotating but they get the value proposition

Normally I wouldn't care because it's their prerogative to curate their feed, but a) my tweet wasn't that bad, and b) Chollet's point was. Anyway, this type of kneejerk action reduces my opinion of him a fair bit.

@Rivvy_Trick There's nothing more 21st century than endlessly fetishizing the aesthetic texture of the 20th century in increasingly self-referential immersive simulacrums

ENOUGH. WE HAVE TO ENTER THE 21ST CENTURY EEVENTUALLY.

@CWood_sdf That's true, but you have to know more than the exact specs of your use case in traditional coding, you also have to understand fundamentally how computers work and how the code translates into different computer systems. We will get better spec coders in this era than the last.

i love how people are saying "if we write a sufficiently detailed specification, the agent can write all our code" do you know what writing a sufficiently detailed specification that deterministically maps to what a computer's actions is? it's coding

@ShawnNOrlando And then neither character has any impact on the outcome of the A-plot story after that, it’s just a little thematic riff with no greater narrative purpose

Anyone who says "the casino scene was a waste of time", I assume they drink battery fluid. The point of the casino scene is to illustrate the 1% rich elites that profit and benefit from the war with no stakes in who is involved. Finn realizes that all of it is useless

@krishnanrohit I'd have an easier time believing you're a Picard-type anyway.

@krishnanrohit I don't think it necessarily makes him a sociopath though. I don't think Tim Cook is likely a sociopath. But he's definitely sociopath-ish in this way.

This entire exchange makes me think way way better of Sam, as should you

@krishnanrohit At this point we're drowning in so many scissors around all this stuff, I'd equally entertain scenarios that the board uncovered generally troubling behaviors on Sam's part and/or that they were among the first to get AI psychosis from the future shock of AI. Many such cases both

@krishnanrohit They make it clear at least he's very good at maintaining a calm demeanor under intense pressure, which is its own kind of scissor, because it's a relatively rare trait in humans and mostly found in sociopaths and some Picard-level leaders, not deterministic of either necessarily

@dela3499 I’d prefer ____Wow, fraud/surprise/surprisingly effective fraud

Puzzle: Spiritual Fraud