Charles Han

Human biological limits, like our tiny working memory and shallow calculation depth, are actually a feature. They force us to abstract, compress, intuit. If we had infinite resources, we would never have needed intelligence.

Thanks for asking. Solving the intelligence problem is not about money imo. I believe it's about finding the universal principles of intelligence. It's an intellectual problem. If the principles are known, it should be possible to implement a small but powerful demonstration on a desktop computer. Once that is done, scaling is mostly engineering. At that stage, money is just a low-hanging fruit.

Congratulations Tom Griffiths - THE LAWS OF THOUGHT is out now! 🧠 An exploration of the quest to use mathematics to describe the ways we think, from its origins three hundred years ago to the ways in which AI systems differ from human minds.

I will never cancel Noam Chomsky. He devoted decades of his life to tireless solidarity with oppressed people, especially by his own government, and exposing the propaganda used to subjugate them. His impact on that front is immeasurable. This doesn't mean he's above critique. He took positions I disagreed with, especially in recent years. I think he made an error in judgement befriending Jeffrey Epstein, who, when he met Noam, had been convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor. If you think Noam Chomsky deserves banishment despite having zero complicity in that or Epstein's other crimes, OK. I'm going to decline to join you, just as I declined to join those in the establishment who've been trying to cancel Noam for a lot longer.