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mas.to/@sheldonrampton @sheldonrampton.bsky.social
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mas.to/@sheldonrampton @sheldonrampton.bsky.social
@sheldonrampton
Pay me $8, dammit. Follow me on Mastodon at https://t.co/psrIMsIp6d or on Bluesky at https://t.co/WsmMCPawAm
Portage, WI Katılım Mart 2008
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@jk_rowling @sheldonrampton @DuncanHenry78 @tlitb 💐 I have never met you. I am glad you are speaking out about thanks issues. I am old now and my heart breaks for the children and youth
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I think he thought I was going to devote several chapters of my autobiography to a couple of DMs I exchanged with a man I've never met.
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@jk_rowling @DuncanHenry78 @tlitb You've never met me either, which is why I expect to be remembered generously in your will.
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This is a man who desires nothing more than to be admired, whose entire shtick revolves around presenting himself as a hero worthy of envy and emulation (lest we forget, he 'identifies with Gandhi and Martin Luther King'). To people like Maugham, any perceived diminution of what they believe to be their exalted status feels like a mortal attack, which is why every loss must be spun as a win, and black must be made to be white if the facts threaten his self-image.
He's just the latest in a long line of people on social media who think they're dealing me a fatal blow by telling me I've lost popularity, that my legacy is tarnished or that former fans hate me. None of these people appear to grasped yet that I'm completely indifferent to being disliked by people I've never met, especially those I do not respect because of their online behaviour or what I believe to be their irrational and illiberal views.
Maugham is a textbook narcissist who can't believe that everyone else doesn't live life with an unceasing thirst for validation from complete strangers. In spite of the fact that we've never met, and that as the years have rolled by I've been very open about the fact that I find his public behaviour increasingly bizarre, he seems to genuinely believe that the loss of his approval will cause me anguish. In reality, it's a welcome source of ongoing entertainment, so long may he continue.
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Obviously the problem is that @andyroddick wasn't trying hard enough.
facebook.com/reel/145767501…
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@testingham Sometimes I wish I lived in an alternative reality where people who talk about AI's capabilities just every once in a while would notice that its obvious limitations usually apply with equal if not greater validity to the limitations of actual human beings.
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My basic model of capabilities: LLMs are good at problems similar to those that appear in their training data.
Training data largely reflects the world, and so LLMs are relatively good at problems that are common, relatively bad at problems that are rare.
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@DrNeilStone That's true, and Pete Hegseth hasn't liberated a single Iranian.
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RFK Jr hasn't made a single American healthier
Pino Americano@PinoAmericano
RFK Jr is the first HHS Secretary in my lifetime that is actually making America more healthy.
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@JoelKreager @levie Until someone designs a machine that can spit on the burger of a rude customer, human workers will be indispensable.
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@levie Says someone who has never stood in front of a cash register with pictures of hamburgers on it. The basic principle of employment: People are interchangeable parts. All skill should be removed in so far as possible to make people function interchangeably.
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What gets missed with AI productivity gains is that by and large, most roles will continue to be as sophisticated as the tools allow.
This is why also thinking through “today’s jobs will be replaced with AI” is a fallacy. Everyone thinks the market is static, but it’s not.
As a result of everyone having access to the same technology which augments our work, then users of the tools will increasingly raise their level of output to the point where the prior definition of the job is no longer relevant. Thus, those that understand their particular field and grow in their skills will continue to be differentiated vs. others.
If you can do far more, then you start to tackle bigger and harder problems. If you do that, then the expertise still is required to get the job done fully.
The engineer with AI is going to be far more productive and capable with AI than the non-engineer trying to build the same piece of software. Building a lightweight app is no longer the definition of getting by in software development. Reviewing a contract will no longer be the definition of a paralegal. Splicing a video won’t be the definition of a video editor. Providing basic financial research won’t be the job of the financial analyst in the future.
Simply put, AI will naturally cause most roles to actually grow in complexity rather than reduce in complexity, because we can do far more with the tools.
andrew chen@andrewchen
hot take :) The biggest and most productive people in the AI era are the folks who are already good at their jobs. AI as a multiplier, not an equalizer/democratizer
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@bnjmnlilly @mattyglesias Or (and this is just a thought), learn to love children like everyone used to do.
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@mattyglesias I feel the same way about people bringing their babies and toddlers to restaurants. Get a sitter like everyone used to do or stay home.
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@misraetel The advancement of science has made all these miracles possible. The advancement of the internet and social media has made it possible to make money spreading suspicion and paranoia about all these miracles.
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@rohanpaul_ai This is getting silly. If this were a valid test, it would imply that all humans *other* than Einstein who failed to discover relativity did not possess AGI. It would also be extraordinarily difficult to create a training dataset that consists of "all human knowledge up to 1911."
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Demis Hassabis’s “Einstein test” for defining AGI:
Train a model on all human knowledge but cut it off at 1911, then see if it can independently discover general relativity (as Einstein did by 1915);
if yes, it’s AGI.
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@jessesingal I chose the shot not taken, and that has made all the difference.
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You miss 200% of the shots you consider not taking
Leila Hormozi@LeilaHormozi
Becoming successful is not luck. It’s math. If your probability of success is 1/100 and you try 100 times, you have a 100% chance of success.
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@stevemagness A motorcycle could cover that distance in less than 15 minutes.
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No record. The is a DQ.
The robot bonked and got assistance from the crowd. Sorry no exceptions to the rules for Mr. Robot.
Kyle Chan@kyleichan
This Chinese humanoid robot just shattered the world record for a half marathon, finishing in 50 min 26 sec. This video shows its crash just meters before the finish line where it had to be picked up by a team of humans. The robot is from Honor, the smartphone maker and Huawei spin-off. This robot was teleoperated while others were autonomous. It seems like all the robots had battery swaps along the way.
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@Spence31442950 @Dr_Biohacker The seed oils statement may be designed to weed out the people who are intelligent enough to question the marketing pitch, but it's not the only questionable advice on his list.
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@Dr_Biohacker A list of 33 mostly-obvious things all to plug a supplement (as 2 of the 33 “tips”), with a BS statement around seed oils thrown in just to ensure you target the gullible.
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After 11 years in the gym & helping over 900 people lose 15–30 kg, here are the best weight loss tips I wish I knew when I started:
1. Stop running.
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@ziv_ravid There's another option: Assess where we are in 1-5 years and see how well that aligns with Amodei's prediction. Then use that as a reference when evaluating his other predictions.
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There are two options: listen to people who actually study the effect of technological development, or to someone who wants to sell you the next Figama
TFTC@TFTC21
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: “50% of all tech jobs, entry-level lawyers, consultants, and finance professionals will be completely wiped out within 1–5 years.”
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@CathyYoung63 You can ask a chatbot to summarize the video for you so you don't have to sit through the whole thing. I find that Gemini does a particularly good job of it.
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Yes, exactly. When people tell me to watch a 1- or 2-hour video on some topic? You've got to be kidding. (Unless it's a topic that really does call for video or film. And the video or film is well-made.)
Felix ❤️🔥@pilgoth
I hate, hate, hate being forced to watch a video to learn something when I could read at 10x the speed. Videos are for cattle. "Hey guys, today we'll be talking about X -- X is a fascinating topic, and a lot of you have been requesting I talk about X, so..." - Shut up, Shut up!
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@ddmatta @ylecun @nopiedra @Ph_Aghion @erikbryn I think the steam engine, fossil fuels and fertilizer are all disruptors on a comparable scale to AI. A couple of decades ago, people were saying the internet would be a disruptor on that scale. We're just starting to find out what AI can do. Let's not hype it.
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@ylecun @nopiedra @Ph_Aghion @erikbryn Sound advice, Yann, but who knows? Only time will tell. There has been no disruptor of this scale since humans learned to make and control fire. AI may not just replace jobs. It may reconfigure work, knowledge, and power itself, as rival AI agents enter the field.
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Dario is wrong.
He knows absolutely nothing about the effects of technological revolutions on the labor market.
Don't listen to him, Sam, Yoshua, Geoff, or me on this topic.
Listen to economists who have spent their career studying this, like @Ph_Aghion , @erikbryn , @DAcemogluMIT , @amcafee , @davidautor
TFTC@TFTC21
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: “50% of all tech jobs, entry-level lawyers, consultants, and finance professionals will be completely wiped out within 1–5 years.”
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@VisimoD @mattyglesias We'll see. Obviously AI is continuing to improve, but so are a lot of other technologies. I think AI is transformative, but so are a lot of other technologies. I think LLMs sometimes feel more magical because their behavior feels so similar to actual human cognition.
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@sheldonrampton @mattyglesias That’s all true right now. But given the best available information we have, and an objective and dispassionate analysis of that information, I believe the most reasonable prediction (by far) is that these models will continue to become wildly better, very quickly.
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“Our product will generate mass unemployment and possible mass extinction” isn’t a bad messaging choice, it’s a wildly held sincere view among the people building AI.
slowboring.com/p/its-not-bad-…
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@PeterDiamandis While you're thinking on this, you might want to point out that all the troubles happening right now with Iran would be a moot point if we were further along in the transition away from fossil fuels.
electrotech-revolution.com/p/the-energy-s…
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Renewables just hit 49.4% of global electricity capacity. 5.15 terawatts. Solar drove 75% of the new additions. Some people thought it was impossible.
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@PeterDiamandis Those of us who *actually* understand exponential curves know that in the real world, exponential growth is almost always a temporary phase that eventually hits physical limits.
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One of the biggest advantages someone can have going into the future is not who has the most capital, but those that can understand exponential cruves before anyone else.
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@stevemagness After the match, they were both writhing in pain in the locker room: "I turn to see Baghdatis extending his hand. His face says, 'We did that.' I reach out, take his hand, we remain this way, holding hands, as the TV flickers with scenes of our savage battle," Agassi writes.
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@stevemagness In Andre Agassi's autobiography, he describes the final match in his career, an epic battle against Marcos Baghdatis. Agassi had severe back pain and needed cortisone shots, and Baghdatis was cramping and barely able to play, but they both persevered.
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Strive for greatness, but appreciate competition and your competitors.
Be secure enough in your sense of self that you can share your greatest moment with a rival, let celebrating with them be part of the magic of competing.
thegrowtheq.com/competing-with…
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