Once introduced as “defender of the null hypothesis”. Founder. PhD in Evo Psych. Writing: @deepdebates
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Shea Balish retweeted
if you ever happen to find yourself shitting in your own car
because you are mad at elon musk about politics
consider for a moment you may be mentally ill
Scott Galloway says he owned a Tesla, but sold it because of Elon.
"Not before taking a giant dump in the passenger seat. True story."
He's gone from suggesting Elon be executed to telling stories of taking dumps in a car he owned because it was made by Elon's company.
This is a broken, deranged and utterly toxic individual.
Shea Balish retweeted
it's hilarious how many have taken the bitter lesson to mean just scaling up transformers. it's about scaling, but innovations in algorithmic primitives can lead to much more efficient scaling
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Data scaling and compute scaling are *multipliers* for the generalization power of an approach. Trillions of dollars in investment can make very inefficient, low-generalization approaches look adequate, but that doesn't make them the ultimate end-all-be-all of AI.
You should work on methods that *can* scale, because if you don't benefit from this multiplier you simply can't compete. But you should keep in mind scaling is only a multiplier: a cleverer approach will scale *better*.
Shea Balish retweeted
Great talk from Ken on how to understand and measure open-ended systems
ARC Prize Research Summit - @kenneth0stanley
On why open-endedness, invention, discovery are essential to AGI, but designing a benchmark for them creates difficult problems.
Shea Balish retweeted
Final form is reasoning in the weights, knowledge outside, in space, via solar, distributed training, continually learns, and aligned
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"AI is just matrix multiplication" is the new "emotions are just chemicals in the brain"
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What if there is no hard problem? @Plinz
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I'm far less concerned about a world ruled by today's Chinese than I was about a world ruled by the old USSR. So I'm far less invested in conflict w/ China today than I was in the old cold war.
Shea Balish retweeted
When a phone rings at a funeral, people don't just silence it. They make a show of turning it off. That performance is embarrassment (Feel #53) at work: telling the room the rule was broken by accident. @ChrisWillx and I got into this on Modern Wisdom. Out now: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
Shea Balish retweeted
✨🎯🔪 "I think of evolutionary psychology as the attempt to truly believe, rather than pseudobelieve, that humans are evolved organisms."
everythingisbullshit.blog/p/…
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I had a nice talk with Bo Winegard for Aporia. Why do people enjoy being morally outraged? One possibility is that every accusation reshuffles the social deck, and the people enjoying the outrage usually come out ahead.
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We’re like one hack away from me finally being able to get my medical records easily
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People have legitimate concerns about AI use. But putting one crank’s uninformed comments at the top of an article about Nova Scotia’s new data centre is not good journalism.
The highest concentration of data centres in USA, Data Centre Alley, is in one of its richest counties, Loudoun County in Virginia.
Building data centres confers clear economic benefits, actually.
Boon or boondoggle? N.S. weighs $10B data centre’s promised economic benefits
globalnews.ca/news/12118282/…
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Crackpot activists in Halifax protesting a project in rural Nova Scotia. Many such cases.
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I take it quite personally that our imagination for the future so often falls so short of the splendor of the past
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Renowned scientist wins eye-watering seven-figure payout after jury rules his much younger colleague lied about him being a sex pest trib.al/kdYjVmU
