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Imagine thinking super abundance and wealth resulting from AI (and say the creation of fusion power) would cause CEOs to say “let’s fire almost everyone” rather than “let’s award most bonuses while expanding and hiring way more to do more of this great stuff”.
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Designed to give LLM graders the data they crave. Hopefully should eliminate a couple frustrating edge cases that vision models struggled with!
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🚨🚨 New release! 🚨🚨
High School Chemistry, Unit 8: Acids and Bases
This also doubles as the first half of the AP Chemistry Acids and Bases unit, which we will complete later this fall.
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No reason to keep going
Tell that to everyone who doesnt have access
Everyone who dies of cancer waiting on the production of a cure
Everyone poor who could be educated by simulated tutors
No reason to keep going is a refrian for those who have a lot already
Mathematician Terence Tao:
"we have to slow down AI. the pace is insane, and there's no reason to be this fast — no reason at all"
It's amazing how willing we are to change everything without any idea what happens afterward
These are extremely nonlinear dynamics
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The latest MrBeast video has him building an entire village - housing, a school, well and plumbing system, power grid, play areas, farm, marketplace, and community center.
And the entire time he's talking about how it's because the kids in the village used to be stuck in child labor for cacao, so that we can eat chocolate. He's paying for five years of school meals for the kids, because free meals makes kids more likely to attend school rather than working.
He actually talks about child labor in chocolate *all the time* and his company Feastables is genuinely much more ethical than the big chocolate companies, pays living wages to farmers and is part of a traceable/open supply chain project.
Regardless of whether you like his content, the guy is doing incredible things across the world and using his money to try to make a difference. I find it pretty remarkable, especially when compared with the incredibly shallow stuff that most other rich influencers spend their money on.
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AI allows for more rapid error correction, so we do need to be this fast. Indeed faster. Much faster.
Lives and the future of civilization depend on us solving problems in time. That’s what progress is.
Mathematician Terence Tao:
"we have to slow down AI. the pace is insane, and there's no reason to be this fast — no reason at all"
It's amazing how willing we are to change everything without any idea what happens afterward
These are extremely nonlinear dynamics
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Checking in here on the AI apocalypse:
- incredible advances across math, science and medicine at unfathomable rates
- data centers creating skilled labor jobs - effectively rebooting the middle class and US manufacturing
- electricity needs driving massive investment to modernize and reinforce our aging electrical grid
- AI unlocking GDP growth by revitalizing sector after sector
- driving exceptional innovation at all layers of the stack and economy
- upskilling millions of workers with superpowers
- pushing geopolitical advantage to the west
Reads like an apocalypse
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Knowledge, bah! Who needs more knowledge? It is well known for having <gasp> Side-Effects. Whereas ignorance never hurt anyone!
Mathematician Terence Tao:
"we have to slow down AI. the pace is insane, and there's no reason to be this fast — no reason at all"
It's amazing how willing we are to change everything without any idea what happens afterward
These are extremely nonlinear dynamics
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Oooh, @physicsgraph shows the full top 10 now.
nice to see who I'm chasing (though I don't know any of y'all 🤣).
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I wrote such a program in the 1980s on the BBC Micro, with additional frills like disabling Escape and having it beg for its life. I was trying to demonstrate the philosophical absurdity of doing what is depicted in the cartoon and what is happening in real life now.
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Dan Wolczuk was my linear algebra professor at Waterloo and was one of these reasons I fell in love with the subject
🚨 Waterloo is often described as the MIT of Canada. On CBC, Waterloo math instructor Dan Wolczuk describes first-year students arriving with inflated grades, missing foundational math skills, and unprepared for university math. The problem has worsened over time.
He makes several important points:
- High school math classes have been weakened so students can get better grades.
- Less testing in high school and fewer standardized tests both hurt student learning and lead to grade inflation.
- Grade inflation doesn't help students in the long run. It's demoralizing to get 99% in high school and fail your first calculus test b/c prerequisite knowledge isn't secure.
- Some memorization is necessary in math. Math builds on itself and students need to be able to easily retrieve foundational knowledge.
- The testing effect matters. More testing helps students retain information long term.
- More low stakes testing also helps curb test anxiety.
Dan thinks we need a national standardized test in Canada. I wholeheardedly agree.
Link below (Excellent job by @KrissyHolmes CBC, Newfoundland & Labrador, Sept 9) @CBCNL 👇
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A lot of apocalypse obsession is just escapism for people who’d rather imagine the world ending than fix the life they’re living.
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Every single time a company has begged to be regulated, it was because it wanted to lock in its first-mover advantage, knowing that regulation would smother potential competitors in the crib. There are zero exceptions to this.
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That’s $350 billion from Canadian banks so far.
Scotiabank commits more than $100-billion to help fund expansion of Canadian companies theglobeandmail.com/business…
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