Leo Toff retweeted
“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”
Single-family homes in the Bay Area, CA: I’m seeing buyers making $2M all-cash offers with no contingencies, even though the P/R (price-to-rent) ratio here is 35+.
What does this mean? How did we get here? 1/n
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This means that buyers don't mind making a speculative $2M purchase with no prospects of rental revenue.
They either simply don't care about the finances of such purchase, or they hope there is a bigger fool who would buy it from them later.
How did we get here? 2/n
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I heard "All the Things She Said" twice this week in California! Such nostalgia! I have never heard this song in public spaces in the United States before.
Whatever you guys are doing, it's working @LenaKatina @lNTERSC0PE
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What comes first, matter or consciousness? Science-minded people would say matter, which then induces consciousness in the brain. However, some Eastern traditions postulate that consciousness comes first, manifesting the illusion of matter and of the physical world. /1
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Are LLMs conscious? Do they have subjective experience, aka "qualia"?
They clearly have an internal state in its latent space, so they have subjective experience, but it's discrete, not continuous. Human consciousness is continuous. /6
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Please include a chapter on machine consciousness or build a brand new course @TheGreatCourses
Consider including the following:
1. The imitation game
2. LLMs and the ChatGPT moment
3. Latent space and qualia
4. Teaching AI physicalism
5. Post-physicalism in artificial mind
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Our @yc @startupschool meetup in the South Bay (S.F.) last night. Thanks everyone for coming 🙌 and @hackerdojo for the space! 🙏
Our next and final meetup next Wed: bit.ly/3Jv7IgR RSVP and join us one last time this summer
We're hosting another weekly hangout for @ycombinator @startupschool founders at @hackerdojo in Mountain View, CA on Wed. Feel free to drop by bit.ly/3brFLtJ
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Leo Toff retweeted
A problem that is endemic to the whole developer community is the urge to "rewrite everything". It is the one of the most harmful practices in software engineering.
Why? (thread)
