> Last night my 9-year-old son was taunting my wife, complexity theorist Dana… more
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> What we could do instead would be to have health insurance insure health, and… more
> As AI risk concerns have popped over the past couple of months, that’s led to… more
> Modern Westerners have a clear boundary between mind and world, even mind and… more
> It is important, for the preservation of American democracy and maybe the… more
> Although the data does not show that people are more lonely, it does show… more
> Where do we draw the line between where statistics applies and where it… more
> While this mathematical formalism was unreasonably effective, it came with a… more
> It’s amazing how a theory can take over a brain. Consider the idea that… more
> If we were just talking about Navier-Stokes, you might accuse me of jumping… more
> Back to TCP. Earlier for the sake of simplicity I told a little fib, and some… more
> Here I want to lay out, instead, a positive vision of the future of… more
> For a group trying as hard as possible to make sure AI does not kill everyone… more
> Let’s start with 18th-century aristocrats. Aristocrats are (typically) rich,… more
From an article published by Jakub Pachocki, Chief Scientist at OpenAI: more
> In the San Francisco AI scene, there is a widespread belief that robots will… more
> The case against landfill has two parts. The first part is that there are… more
> I was curious how well the predictions of the most widely cited AI skeptic… more
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> Health agencies proclaimed that covid was not airborne. That was false. more
> Because I notice these kinds of things, I've had multiple jobs where… more
> The argument here is actually quite easy to state as a series of… more
> If I had to attribute my exit from EA to a single event, it would be reading… more
> Obviously, none of this is a big deal. Despite what some on Bluesky might… more
From the blog post: more
> Data centres are a nightmare of political economy. Voters see them as ugly,… more
> Scott Aaronson, while working at OpenAI, largely solved AI text watermarking… more
> So what is the answer then? My best advice so far is that most things you do… more
> Here is the actual Kalshi goat herding contract I want to make a few points… more
From @ifixcoinops' very long thread about Internet communities: more
From a tweet: more
> We can all agree: the incentives are bad. Everywhere you look, people are… more
> China’s tech giants — Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu — were all founded between… more
> Suppose we’re torn between multiple moral theories, accounts of which… more
> This page details several common, half-thought ideas about “cosmicness.” A… more
> OK, so the linguistic content of reasoning traces may be dubious. But surely… more
> As a researcher I’ve also been spending a lot of time with models, talking… more
> Suppose that apples sell for more than oranges and Parliament in [its] wisdom… more
From millionaires to Muslims, small subgroups of the population seem much larger to many Americans
> When it comes to estimating the size of demographic groups, Americans rarely… more
> So let me get to the nut of this thing before I do my usual meandering.… more
> We use words as tools to get things done; and to get things done, we… more
> All of this went down far too fast for a human-driven response. The only way… more
> Kudos to OpenAI for sharing their recent experiences with a misaligned… more
> Hume called it the problem of induction; a catchier name is the No Free Lunch… more
Context: Ruriko, the author's wife, is Japanese, and has different expectations… more
> Moreover and more importantly, we won’t know before we’ve already… more
> In response to struggling renters and frustrated first-time buyers,… more
> For the past year and a half, the team building Roc's compiler has been… more
> [...] People feel more and more programming is completely modified by AI and… more
> I've been following the Ukrainian-Russian war since 2022. Most Western… more
> In this scenario, humanity delays the development of superintelligence until… more