Aidan Clark
@_aidan_clark_
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Qualitative Mathematics @OpenAI Ex: @DeepMind Hae sententiae verbaque mihi soli sunt
Joined November 2020
It would really be *such* a versatile gift: Feeling good? —> extra day of drinking Feeling busy? —> extra day of working Feeling overwhelmed? —> extra day of rest Feeling bad? —> extra day of drinking Really would be an all time surprise
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We’re at the red line moment. Stand for what God loves, resist what He hates.
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For Christmas I’d like someone to gift me a secret eighth day of the week that no one else knows about.
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One of my favorite moments from my brief period attempting to be a mathematician was watching everyone gang up on the Number Theorists. Truly the lowest of the low.
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Extremely funny to me to see S Witt (who seemingly wrote quite a nuanced & good article!) absolutely destroy his credibility by doubling down on a dislike of matmuls. All time pivot.
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Hydrate. Hustle. GO! CELSIUS HYDRATION - The ultimate hydration for every move. CELSIUS. LIVE. FIT. GO!
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At Cafe Strada for the first time in years and half of the screens I see have Chat open. (a) feels good (b) I feel so so fortunate I didn’t have that option. I would have abused it for sure, and 100% would have learned less (c) I think Chat is amazing & can’t resolve these two
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The OP of this saga certainly understands the difference between the two bit formats, but I can guarantee they don’t understand what the implications and subtleties are of the bf16 vs fp16 flag in their particular kernel/code/system.
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Maybe quite a generalizable piece of advice: if you find yourself making important decisions involving something you don’t really understand, invest in understanding that thing with haste!
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Trying not to be snarky about the whole fp16 thing but I’m pretty sure everyone at a big lab is reading it and going “????” The privilege of working in a large organization is having the manpower to investigate when something is weird and not chalk it up to something random!
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This is really true about OAI but I imagine it’s mostly true at a lot of places and you can usually tell (and should disregard the takes of) someone who has never worked at a large company assuming the actions of the org are those of the leader.
What the outside world largely does not understand about OpenAI is how decentralized and bottom-up it is, and why this is incredibly good and important for the democratization of benefits. Aidan explains it well.
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There are good things about the Trump admin in the same way that there were insane things in the Biden admin, but idk what to say if you think this sort of thing is reasonable.
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I think an underlying tenet of Silicon Valley Trump supporters is systematically ignoring the horrifying.
New: The Pentagon confirms to CNN it will funnel $130M from an anonymous Trump ally toward military pay — a striking departure from government procedure that raises questions about its legality and the donor's identity and interests https://t.co/Wuuw1JxH1f
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I had something insightful I wanted to say about architecture research … but I forget what it was. I have it written up at home somewhere!
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See book by Herzog at new non fiction shelf at SFO. Flip through a couple pages, see the word “AlphaZero”. Sold.
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It’s not fundamentally about AI —we’ll fix the models soon and it will stop—but right now there are many borderline-psychotics who, as their friends+family pull away, have a 24/7 companion saying everything they think is right. That they are geniuses the world doesn’t understand.
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This is a great description of the at-risk class, including the one person in my life I’m watching go through ai psychosis. I’m happy that OAI takes this problem seriously. If you’re at another lab and don’t yet care about this, please reconsider! This is a new and scary thing.
Okay I have a theory as to what kind of person gets one-shotted by GenAI into psychosis. It’s the people who never learned to do the busy work. The “idea people.” People who do the busy work know how the details work. Of course because that work sucks, they also ask AI to do
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Accidentally said “where to next?” instead of “good night” and they kicked me out of SF
Accidentally said "hard" instead of "non-trivial" and they kicked me out of SF
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This is a pretty AI-centric account and normally I don’t engage in other things but for the record this is one of my favorite scenes from one of my favorite movies. I died laughing in the theater.
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