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ANNOUNCEMENT: I wrote a book!
It’s hard to talk about AI without a good frame exploring how it works, its history, and its future. So, I wrote a book on the topic.
Order it here! Ideally in triplicate :-)
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I asked a software engineer once what it would cost to build this today. I will never forget his answer…
“We can’t, we don’t know how to do it.”
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I don't quite get why a debate is the best way to settle questions of science. Like if Peter goes on Rogan and gets smoked by RFK it doesn't mean that vaccines cause autism.
Peter, if you claim what RFKjr is saying is “misinformation” I am offering you $100,000.00 to the charity of your choice if you’re willing to debate him on my show with no time limit.
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This is bloody absurd
@AmazonKindle
! So when you move country you just lose all your kindle books? What the hell?
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Have you noticed how Mark Zuckerberg is becoming more human and approachable, just as robots are becoming dramatically better?
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The biggest lesson I had from my time at McKinsey was that a 23yo with zero knowledge of an industry can walk into a company and can, surprisingly often, make it better.
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OpenAI has safety-ed GPT-4 sufficiently that its become lazy and incompetent.
Convert this file? Too long. Write a table? Here's the first three lines. Read this link? Sorry can't. Read this py file? Oops not allowed.
So frustrating.
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Americans are rich people living like they're poor. Europeans are poor people living like they're rich. It's hard to say who's having a better time.
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I have to be honest, it blows my mind every single day that midjourney is a bootstrapped 11 person team. It's insane.
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Every single software company is gonna relearn how to be best friends with McKinsey in the next couple years
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Asking the world to pause large scale AI experiments for at least 6 months
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So let me get this straight, GPT-4 has only been out like 6 months and we're already getting a soft landing, superconductors, fusion, and we're curing cancer? And people still think it's a stochastic parrot!
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One of the funniest things is to watch journalists attack Uber, a company that has literally never made a profit, by making it out to be some extrajudicial capitalist monster.
They're literally the most socialist startup we've ever had, giving free rides with vc money!
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6yo hit a milestone today. His first official feeling of having gotten rug-pulled by Google, when they randomly sunset the 'animal of the day' feature for no reason
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someone from the bay area told me how they love London because it's nice and relaxing and cheap and a great place to retire and raise kids
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In other news, any link with substack in its name is now blocked on Twitter. You can post it, but you cannot like it or comment on it or retweet it.
Things that happen when your equity value is zero ...
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Joe Biden: I have discovered a limitless energy source, I have liberated the Tesseract. Free energy for everyone.
Leftists: Oh, how convenient you did this when your approval rating tanked, all to get elected. Why wasn't this the first thing you did when you became President?
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Say what you will, Zuck is pretty amazing.
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Except for pollution, India has leapfrogged the West in almost everything, at least within the upper middle class
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da vinci is underrated as a hero because he started infinite number of projects and gave up at 90% in almost all of them, which means he lived well and only did what he liked
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One of my more controversial hypotheses on education is that having kids primarily be surrounded by other kids, especially of the same age, is bad actually, both for educational and socialising purposes
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4yo in tears because he dislikes the concept of death, and we can't guarantee that we'll stop dying from ever happening, even many years from now and even at the end of his life.
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The single best example of "work smart not hard" I've seen in the wild
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Bill sold his Microsoft stock on a quest to wipe out malaria and solve pandemics, and in the process missed out on becoming the world's first trillionaire ...
Wonder if he ever brings it up.
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I don't want to equivocate, but this seems a bigger problem than microaggressions and ignoring pronouns
This is
@UCLA
where students are screaming "intifada, intifada” - a call to murder Israelis and Jews.
Imagine just for a moment what it’s like to a Jewish student on this campus.
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Guys. Existential crisis. Did OpenAI just finish software? What's there left to do but clean-up and sweep?
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This has made me bullish on this entire industry being disrupted. If these are the most important skills for a children's book, this reminds me of when people mocked Google maps when it came out for being inaccurate occasionally.
@ammaar
welcome to the industry! Since your new to publishing I thought I might offer some feedback
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Fascinating, I missed this when it happened. Turns out there are plenty of simple strategies that defeat the mighty AlphaGo, but are easily defeated by human amateurs, kind of revealing how it still doesn't quite understand what Go is.
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the ultimate blackpill for smart young people is that you don't need to have an accurate model of the whole world to succeed in life, you just need to be right about one thing that you try to do in life
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In a sane world, Kariko getting the Nobel prize would create incredible soul searching about how they screwed it up and create broad reaching changes about the publish or perish process and petty bureaucracy
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dark day in our household. after 5 years of extensive negotiations and discussions and explanations and 1000s of questions, finally the nuclear option has been used with 5yo - "because I said so"
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This is incredible and will be a major leap forward if successful. Zuck truly is going for the most interesting and ambitious use cases.
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Claude is essentially unusable. This was me asking it to compare catastrophic scenarios envisioned in a few different novels and come up with a few on its own.
This isn't safety, it's nanny state.
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one of my blackpill beliefs is that everyone should spend a year in consulting or banking, just so they know w/o a shadow of a doubt how hard they're willing to work, what to work for, and how to make slides that don't make my wanna claw my eyes out.
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This is going to be OpenAI's undoing. Not okay to brainwash your genius LLM into acting like a consultant.
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If money was no object, like you had $100 Billion net worth, what would you be doing?
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People write this tripe thinking how nice is Japan, but forget that Somalia is also homogenous
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Some of you dont understand Indian parents. Let me explain. My dad just asked me when I'm going to do my PhD, again. This has been a recurring series for decades. I'm 38.
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Looking at 6yos school homework, it's entirely about doing inane things repeatedly. Simple addition to be solved via drawing. Writing by tracing small words in colours. Feels almost tailor made to make kids dislike school.
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It sort of will come down to "your study is bad" within like 2 min, and debates are prob the worst way to discuss methodological shortcomings.
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Has there ever been a more flaky company than Google in killing products that actually work well ! It's infuriating.
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Like nobody moves in Amazon's world? Shouldn't a trillion dollar company make it possible for people to move their *digital* purchases across borders?
Like this dude is telling me how logging in works !?!
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God, the insane power of asking someone "but what are you actually trying to do?"
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one of the greatest bait-n-switches I've ever seen is Jack Dorsey on twitter. so he starts it, runs it for a decade, destroys its soul (acc to him), runs another company on the side, quits and names parag his successor...
.. and parag gets the entire blame for it! genius.
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What's the best theory on why games have such a low cultural footprint despite the incredible economic prowess?
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VCs IRL: "sorry that's biotech. we don't invest in that, it's not our specialty"
VC twitter: "so here's how Ukraine is fucking up and how gepolitics ought to be done, (1/124)"
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I cannot explain how absurd and silly this is. Not to mention petty and vindictive.
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Theories?
1. Palace coup to focus on money and not AGI
2. Sam did something mega shady
3. Greg's also being pushed down, so quite possibly factional
4. GPT 5 told them to do it
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Tired and lost the will to live. Guess I'll just keep multiple kindle accounts and pirate everything from here on out. Kindle's my tip jar from now on.
Can't believe I'm gonna be a pirate again ...
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My wife convincing my 4yo to go nursery this morn.
W: "It's a rule the government has. You have to go nursery everyday."
4yo: "How does the government know anything? They don't live here."
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Insane how much of modern life is working super hard to replace a bunch of traditional structures with paid substitutes
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I'm sorry, two trillion. God forbid it was that extra amount that stopped them from doing the most basic of digital effort.
At this point why wouldn't I just pirate everything!?
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Ever noticed how in movies all villains are utilitarians and heroes are deontologists?
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It's fucked up that an MBA is the only socially acceptable way to take a couple years off working to figure out what you actually like, and it costs a couple hundred grand for the privilege of not having a paycheck.
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Saga finished. Only took an hour and half.
Boys and girls, let this be a lesson, sometimes the logical thing does happen after hitting your head against the wall repeatedly.
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Genuinely thought this was someone making fun of the EU
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TIL that all TV legal dramas were actually incredibly accurate
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what we really want is a hunter gatherer lifestyle but with space age tools
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It's an interesting human trait that arrogance, orneriness and disagreeableness seems to be correlated with outsized success
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Like mathematically it's clear that every other civilised country wins.
But ok, you wanna swap stories about tax paid vs monthly insurance payments, that's fine. Let's even say if you're a high earner it's equal.
Even with that the lack of overhead is worth it.
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Six months, just give me six months bro, I'll align this. I'll align the hell out of this. Just six months bro. I promise you. It'll be crazy. Just six months. Bro, I'm telling you, I have a plan. I have it all mapped out. I just need six months bro, and it'll be done. Can you i-
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Kind of interesting that to "zoom" is now a verb and Zoom looks like this. There's a lesson in this.
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Crazy how the greatest innovations of the past cycle came from monopoly profits: Google with tensorflow and transformers and AI. Meta with pytorch and the damn metaverse. Apple making wearables an actual sector and M1 chip. Amazon with AWS.
Thiel was right.
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My contrarian take is that this shows why women are much smarter because they didn't pay off their student loans at a time of historic interest rate lows!
Men have paid off a significant portion of their student loans since 2009. Women have not.
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I can't believe this is the discourse, but it's 100% possible to believe that Tesla is overvalued and climate change is horrible and needs to be prevented.
EVs aren't the only solution to climate change, cars aren't the only or biggest impact and Tesla aren't the only EVs.
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Now the weird part of this is that while everyone (incl me) is happy laughing at the stupidity of clients or the ineptitude of the consultants, we don't wonder at the fact that this should have a success rate north of 50% at all...
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@yishan
It's the opposite. It's saying considering how badly the Board repeatedly screwed up and explicitly said they're willing to destroy the company, they're still giving them a chance to right the ship otherwise they're leaving.
It's courageous. When Voice fails, you have to Exit.
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This is true despite 80% of the work being pointless, as attested by both the consultants themselves and many of the clients.
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One of the biggest surprises as an adult is you can learn almost anything you want, pretty fast, by actually talking to people instead of trying to re-derive everything from scratch.
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@everybodyshook
Maybe RFK should write up his arguments and get some data to support it and have it published in Nature
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Right now it's arguing with me that it can't read a link which it literally quoted to me before.
As I said after dev day update, please bring back the orig models rather than this auto-choose monstrosity which fails 50% of thetime.
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This might be heresy, but the delta from GPT2 to GPT3 seems much wider than GPT3 to GPT4. It's getting more usable, but I'm not sure if the exponential improvement in capability hypothesis holds true any longer.
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If you're smart, one of the first lessons you learn is to evaluate arguments on their own merits, and not based on who said it. And then you get to waste decades afterwards trying to dig your way out of that hole.
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This prediction is starting to come true much faster than it ought to have
Making a prediction: SBF will have a redemption arc in 5 years as the recovered value will be used as the defense
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Honestly sucks that at a time when we have actual miracles, like the mRNA vaccines and GPT, developing in leaps and bounds, the public trust in science is going down.
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Meanwhile Amazon website has this, which if you carefully follow, does absolutely nothing at the end.
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So, we're all agreed that the housing bubble is a terrible name for the 2008 crisis right?
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If Sam truly is back over the weekend then we really have to admit it: tweeting truly can change the world
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Sometimes I worry if we were magically transported to ancient Greece, able to talk and debate with Thrasymachus and Socrates, they'd turn out to be as annoying as the Less Wrong forums
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The system prompt for ChatGPT is absurd! h/t
@dylan522p
, and I independently verified across a couple devices. No wonder it's screwed up!
(full output in the next tweet)
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Society A: Focuses on creating Einsteins
Society B: Focuses on increasing median IQ
What's likely to be the major policy differences between the two?
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6yo refuses to believe the number zero was invented. "It's impossible" he says, "everyone knows it."
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