Training GPT-3 would take 1,000 A100's about 34 days at 400W each for a total energy expense of 1 TJ. Training a human for 20 years at 2,000 calories per day works out to only 50 GJ or just 5% of the energy to train GPT-3.

Before generative AI we could convince ourselves that the only thing separating us from artists was the thousands of hours of technical skills training. Now we are confronted bluntly with our lack of creativity.

The same arguments get repeated over and over online like repeat performances of a play. Sometimes someone has an unusually witty line to dress up a tired old argument. Twitter is full of sound and fury signifying nothing.

What if we figure out how to make machines that can think. but it doesn't turn out to be economical to endow them with qualia. so we fill the universe with cold automatons. while the flame of consciousness dies out. .

Imagine how smart Zuck would be looking right now if his big bet had been on AI instead of multiverse.

RT @HiFromMichaelV: The best article ever written on AI safety!.

Would be interesting to write a little browser plugin to count how many times per day i google something and how many times i ask chatgpt something.

I wish i could tune my twitter algo to filter out dunks.

Historically, the best way to get leverage on your effort was to multiply your capital via funding and then multiply your brains and brawn by managing employees. Going forward, you're going to get higher leverage by figuring out how to most effectively command our AI helpers.

Imagine how different the political valiance of AI disruption would have been if cab drivers had gotten disrupted before artists, as it looked like they would. Unclear whether paralegals or warehouse workers will come next so the political alignment is still up for grabs.

AI: Is it Tomorrow.Or just the end of Time?.

Public intellectuals are just entertainers like comedians but they make you say "hmm" instead "haha".

Imagine a social network populated entirely by bots with distinct bot personalities all designed to appeal to your individual tastes.

I've seen the greatest minds of my generation spend their lives iterating "America's Funniest Home Videos" to perfection.

Americans discount the probability of another civil war because our school curriculum focuses so much on the American Civil War and our sides aren’t separated geographically this time. Looks much more like all the other civil wars in history.

If you already have an opinion on #monkeypox then your preexisting views are blinding you.

USA has 4% of the world’s population, but won 40% of all Nobel Prizes.

Conceptual Gerrymandering - to intentionally combine dissimilar concepts together under one term in order to confuse our ability to reason about them separately. Also known as an Intentionally Leaky Abstraction.

People think of tweets as ephemeral messages, but the best tweets stick with you for years. In this 🧵 I’ll compile a list of some of the best ones I’ve found. 1/n.