great list. seems to be missing someone but its fine. im fine

Thanks for the recognition, sir... 🫡 Honestly glad I'm not in the top 10 though! That would be too much attention for comfort...

if I remember correctly you were the first person to show me a looping gpt-…3.5? 4? running bash in a persistent session am i remembering that correctly?

Missing @BrianRoemmele @Presidentlin @ChrisGPT @JasonBotterill @ryanvogel @mattpocockuk and not having @theo just doesn’t make any sense let’s be honest

Genuinely what is Beff’s contribution to any of this, he’s the most boring clown imaginable

love him or hate him, Beff has influenced the current trajectory significantly you had to be there i guess? in 2021 the EAish approach to AI was a unipolar force and Beff lead a counter movement so effective that you don’t even recognize it because it has become the current prevailing paradigm I say this as someone who spent hours arguing with him in Twitter spaces in those days. we don’t see eye to eye, but to say he hasn’t contributed anything is historical ignorance

No @Plinz?

@clairevo should have made the sensemakers

this is another miss, good rec

Uh, are you still "independent" if you're running a company? Gwern already plans to launch a new company, so maybe that will be a constraint on his independence. Deepfates is starting a company, too, though I think both he and Gwern are likely to retain their freee spirits.

the criteria was independence from the big labs

what ab @DaveShapi? I don’t see him on here