Jack Gross-Whitaker @jackgwhitaker
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If we have any real school pride, we must out forecast Harvard, UCLA and Chicago. (from the @metaculus Bridgewater tournament)
Since at least 1955, average team sizes in science have risen 15–20% per decade. As team science becomes more common and impactful, we need new ways to evaluate ideas and recognize contributions beyond the traditional individual-centered structures.
Scott Alexander is one of the most talented writers of the twenty-first century. Check out his piece in works in progress if you missed it.
Scott Alexander is one of the most talented writers of the twenty-first century. Check out his piece in works in progress if you missed it.
We're hosting a weeklong seminar for undergraduates in Cambridge this summer worksinprogress.news/p/apply-to-com…
Meta is going to have 350,000 H100s by the end of the year. Given lead times, they probably had to start ordering them in 2022. How did Zuck know he'd need all these GPUs?
This chemical reaction could change the world. Olivine can react with CO2 in the ocean to form a harmless silt, trapping it. This natural process offers a cost-effective solution to climate change.
Are LLMs biased toward themselves? Frontier LLMs give higher scores to their own outputs in self-eval. We find evidence that this bias is caused by LLM's ability to recognize their own outputs This could interfere with safety techniques like reward modeling & constitutional AI
A feature in @reason on the progress movement: “It celebrates humanity's achievements so far. It judges progress not in technocratic terms but with an eye on outcomes for individual human beings” Quotes me/@rootsofprogress and @calebwatney/@IFP
I think that nanotech may be quite underrated right now, just like AI was a few years ago. The Drexler approach in particular feels quite possible with modern/future biotech. Do check out this thread and article.
I think that nanotech may be quite underrated right now, just like AI was a few years ago. The Drexler approach in particular feels quite possible with modern/future biotech. Do check out this thread and article.
My contentious Conversation with @JonHaidt, conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/jonat…, #socialmedia
One of my favourite articles of all time. Still as devastating today as it was when it was published!
One of my favourite articles of all time. Still as devastating today as it was when it was published!
The worst kind of media report is the complaint that some new technology like Bitcoin or AI uses a lot of energy. Yeah, that’s how civilization works. A lot of people would be a lot more useful for mankind if they focused on increasing supply instead of suppressing demand.
the most common mistake that people make when beginning to forecast is thinking that things often happen. in reality, very few things ever happen.
One year since GPT-4 release. Hope you all enjoyed some time to relax; it’ll be the slowest 12 months of AI progress for quite some time to come.
I think people should take on absurdly big questions more. I want more takes about what matters in the world, what truth is, and how we can make the future great.
A great piece from two incredible writers I've had the pleasure of meeting! Be sure to it out.
A great piece from two incredible writers I've had the pleasure of meeting! Be sure to it out.
We spend more on roads then ever before, despite little to no increases in material prices and labor costs. Yet, with all this spending we don't get roads that are smoother, quieter and more environmentally friendly. An interesting piece on how we can do better.
We spend more on roads then ever before, despite little to no increases in material prices and labor costs. Yet, with all this spending we don't get roads that are smoother, quieter and more environmentally friendly. An interesting piece on how we can do better. https://t.co/JXqfUJXCUW
this is a good litmus test for reasoning about incentive structures and policymaking
this is a good litmus test for reasoning about incentive structures and policymaking
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I think there's too much hype about the practical usefulness of large language models in the very short-term in some AI circles, and that some of the claims made just after ChatGPT was launched have ~been falsified, or are on the way to being falsified.
This is by far the most incorrect take on here about programming.
you’re never gonna believe this, but coding skill is mostly a function of how many hours you’ve spent coding
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How could the US play a more proactive role in recruiting international talent? @JeremyLNeufeld and @didaoh have a new piece laying out the issues with our system which overly prioritizes 𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 and some ideas to fix it: ifp.org/the-talent-sco…
@mer__edith @MarietjeSchaake Some AI safety people have been discussing military AI risks for some time, like in Section 3.1 of arxiv.org/abs/2306.12001 , and I agree the AI safety community should be doing more!
Today, Mises Caucus leaders of the Libertarian Party announced Donald Trump as the headliner for the Libertarian National Convention in May. The MAGA "infiltrate and destroy" op of the Libertarian Party is officially complete. Today, I get to say, "I told you so." A thread 🧵
Insanity.
NEW: Everything you wanted to know about how policies get implemented. For Statecraft, @pahlkadot explains: - Schedule F - Why the "Beltway bandits" suck - Why federal hiring is broken - Whether the left has too many lawyers statecraft.pub/p/how-to-actua…
$141 million on CAMERAS??? OH COME ON deployed to 2,000 buses that’s $70,000 _per bus_
"How do people formulate their political beliefs? ... an incredibly important question ... And yet, I rarely see these sort of epistemological questions discussed among people who cover politics for a living." Odd claim, it's been hugely discussed. natesilver.net/p/for-most-peo…
Arc is still a solution looking for a problem. Convince me otherwise
Arc on Windows is finally here. No more waitlists, no more betas. Download Arc today.
claude in your pocket
The Claude iOS app has arrived. The power of frontier intelligence is now in your back pocket. Download now on the App Store: apps.apple.com/us/app/claude/…
11.9m of us have a tiny little bad news machine in their pocket, buzzing you every time something horrible happens
Are BBC News app's push alerts the no 1 way that people in the UK get news? The BBC News at Six and Ten get 3-4m viewers each; the app has 11.9m UK users as of March 2022 and is the most-used news app by far. I assume not everyone has push alerts on, but probably most do.
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Announcing the 2024 @rootsofprogress Blog-Building Intensive, the second cohort of our 8-week program for aspiring progress writers to start or grow a blog. Learn about progress studies, get into a regular writing habit, improve your writing, and build your audience
Today we’re opening applications for the 2024 cohort of The @rootsofprogress Blog-Building Intensive, an 8-week program for aspiring progress writers to start or grow a blog. Get into a regular writing habit, improve your writing, and build your audience fellowship.rootsofprogress.org/programs/
Imho the questions are (a) do you believe in scaling laws (b) do you think OpenAI bc MSFT or Altman's Gulf connections or ML scientist human capital can scale faster/further (b) seems increasingly dubious to me
It seems like Google, Facebook and Anthropic have spun up LLMs as powerful as OpenAI’s, so maybe all the focus on what Sam Altman or the company is or isn’t doing is kinda overblown? Why am I wrong?
has humanity ever once solved a problem before it became a problem?
I'm going with the "GPT2" is not the same as "GPT-2" theories, #Strauss.
This email goes so hard
YouTube is a ticket to the extraordinary One (really good) video turned Harvard student Wesley Wang into the youngest director in history to set up a movie at a major studio
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