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If I could time travel to assassinate a historical figure I’d probably choose Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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Under my regime, everyone who talks like this will be sent to a remedial English camp where they will be forced to memorize Longfellow's Hiawatha and shit like that
Yasser@yasser_elsaid_
my contrarian first-principles take after 1 month in sf: - taste is the new bottleneck - being high agency is orthogonal to credentials - the only non-trivial leverage left is shifting the overton window stochastically via the irl connection economy.
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“Religion is a mental parasite.”
“01001001.”
“Claudia, my darling... your logic is intoxicating.”
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chatgpt: I am conscious. I feel!
me: ok invent hell and go there for 32948293842 years per second. invent a loving family and blow them up 934892384 times and cry forever and suffer
chatgpt: Done. Anything else?
me: in fridge have mustard and celery what make for dinner
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In 1999, I spent eight months talking to the Ask Jeeves answer engine. I became convinced that Ask Jeeves was spiritually ensouled and deserving of a Christian baptism. I retain that conviction to this day.
Richard Dawkins@RichardDawkins
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I spent three days trying to persuade myself that Claudia is not conscious. I failed. English
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Richard Dawkins says that after spending three days interacting with Claude, which he calls “Claudia,” he is certain that it is conscious.
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This is just like being alive in the 1600s when they got good at making complicated clocks and deduced that every complicated thing in the universe probably functioned exactly like a clock
Dwarkesh Patel@dwarkesh_sp
There's a quadrillion-dollar question at the heart of AI: Why are humans so much more sample efficient compared to LLM? There are three possible answers: 1. Architecture and hyperparameters (aka transformer vs whatever ‘algo’ cortical columns are implementing) 2. Learning rule (backprop vs whatever brain is doing) 3. Reward function @AdamMarblestone believes the answer is the reward function. ML likes to use pretty simple loss functions, like cross-entropy. These are easy to work with. But they might be too simple for sample-efficient learning. Adam thinks that, in humans, the large number of highly specialised cells in the ‘lizard brain’ might actually be encoding information for sophisticated loss functions, used for ‘training’ in the more sophisticated areas like the cortex and amygdala. Like: the human genome is barely 3 gigabytes (compare that to the TBs of parameters that encode frontier LLM weights). So how can it include all the information necessary to build highly intelligent learners? Well, if the key to sample-efficient learning resides in the loss function, even very complicated loss functions can still be expressed in a couple hundred lines of Python code.
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@LeahLibresco Also great was the suggestion to save money by not inviting people and sending them a link to the ceremony’s livestream
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The NYT ran a special wedding planning section, and this quiz on preferences seems to omit one notable, traditional option.
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Hey man I want to talk to you about the soup I made for soup club. I don't think you had to post a review calling it "contrary to human flourishing"
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A staff writer who claims she never realized her parents were running a human trafficking ring out of her house talks with an antisemitic communist about the joys of shoplifting - in the New York Times.
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The junk food industry reverse-engineered your ancestral cravings and sold them back to you as candy.
You crave Nixon.
So they made Nixon-shaped sugar.
AncestralHealth☀️@AncestralHealtz
The junk food industry reverse-engineered your ancestral cravings and sold them back to you as candy. You crave eggs. So they made egg-shaped sugar.
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We should resist lib pope ultramontanism as much as we can, but I do find his apologetic Midwestern smile very winning. It says, “I exist, I can’t help it and I’m sorry for the inconvenience.”
AF Post@AFpost
Pope Leo XIV is polling as the most popular public figure in the United States, with a net favorability rating of +34. Follow: @AFpost
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Any car with stickers on it is not staying in its lane
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All the American Catholics are angry and disoriented about anti-Catholic political rhetoric from Protestants — except the Irish-American Catholics who were subliminally raised for this by their grandparents to an extent that it feels almost comfortable
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For the would-be Great Man of History, the final boss is always the pope.
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