Dad, husband, actuary, guitarist. Which way, Weston man? School of Arts and Science.

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Think back to yourself as a raw child full of pain and emotion and give that little guy a big hug.
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Ugh.
I just saw this in the kindle store and now you all have to suffer along with me
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"Translated" lol I don't think this qualifies.
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Someone feed Pinker's article and Alexander's response into claude and ask it to evaluate both arguments, say who won, and then add its view.
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Ask the AI safety AI who is right about AI safety. Ok!
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Just saying, if they're accused of trying to murder us all they should get to respond.
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Just sticking to novels. The first 8 I read from 12 years old to 22, and then Lonesome Dove I read at 40. Hard for books read later in life to compete with ones you read as a youth.
For a long time one of my bumble prompts was “I’ll never emotionally recover from the ending of the His Dark Materials trilogy”
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Graphic Novel version.
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They've made like all but one or two of these into inferior shows and movies.
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What opinion about reading will have you like this????
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Reading will be optional in the near future. And it's ok. It's not for everyone.
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Luckily the one thing AI will never be good at is writing
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It’s kind of unexpected how it quickly ramped up to “objectively pretty good but has this very annoying and distinctive voice” but then got stuck there.
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It's probably a local maximum at stable equilibrium. Improve the style and it gets too flowery, make it simpler and it gets monotonous. I don't get annoyed reading it like I used to, and tolerable is good enough.
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I really need one for fiction and one for non-fiction
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That's what I did, no rules!
Just sticking to novels. The first 8 I read from 12 years old to 22, and then Lonesome Dove I read at 40. Hard for books read later in life to compete with ones you read as a youth.
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Entertaining results:
Replying to @eigenrobot
detailed AI review rules overwhelmingly for @slatestarcodex full output here: chatgpt.com/share/6ac65cd5-9…
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Reading everyone's "my nine books" and furiously adding them to lists, buying, saving for later.
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I know Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is considered a classic, but why? I still don’t get the appeal. He learns nothing.
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If he was in that class with Ben Stein he could have learned about the Laffer Curve. Would have been a much better film.
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Book friends, I don't know what's going on at today but a bunch of random books I had saved for later were over 50% off at Amazon (might be Prime only?).
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Stuff I watched easily 10 times or more at different ages.
did a movie one. tried to think what i have rewatched the most relative to other people
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"It's not going to stop, Weston."
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Ok man, but it's not the worst Wilco album.
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I actually have the opposite opinion because I feel like paying $160.00 a year to not have ads on a website that I mostly have playing while I do something else is an incredible waste of money It costs almost as much as a standard HBO max subscription for something where the actual content is free without me having to pay for it.
Replying to @SwannMarcus89
I have no theory of mind for people who can afford YouTube premium (afford defined having $15.99 a month above poverty line) and don’t buy it
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It comes with music, so think of it as spotify plus hbo without ads.
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Have any of the mathematicians writing about AI considered the possibility that AI could show that math looks a lot uglier than we thought? Seems like an interesting idea to me
Mathematician: wouldn't it be cool if integer multiplication had a really nice complexity bound like n log n God: Fuck you
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I think mathematicians get this. A lot of the "wow so beautiful" moments in math are when a tautology morphs into something we can write in simplified form. Why should that be considered a good thing? Because our brains are small, so it fits small closed form statements easier.
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i guess the best option is to go back in time and get a government job which would at least last another decade or so until insolvency and revolution
This is the first time in my life where I have been truly stumped when it comes to ascertaining the optimal move. I truly have no idea. All paths seem to terminate almost instantaneously. I have never been faced with a scenario even remotely analogous to this.
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Or jobs like mine (actuary) with a regulatory moat.
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I’m sorry to break it to you, but your teachers lied. There are stupid questions.
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Can you give me a list of them so I can avoid asking them on accident?
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The scale of this is staggering. But... Why? Why is OpenAI trying to solve hundreds of math problems to be released all at once? I think we got the point when they found a counterexample to Navier-Stokes -- internal model = great. I am not sure at this point what this (hostile?) takeover of the mathematical landscape is trying to achieve other than, again, a massive PR stunt.
We’re releasing a broad range of new mathematical results produced by an internal frontier model. We’ve been consulting with the independent Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence at the Institute for Advanced Study, and we have drawn on their advice and public recommendations to inform how we release these results. github.com/openai/math
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Do we want answers to hard problems? Or do we just want jobs programs?
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