Truly jaw dropping findings from Jean Twenge (author of GENERATIONS, iGEN): ✔️ In-person activities so much better for young adults ✔️ Electronically mediated activities so much worse for y adults

How blockchain can make digital ID more secure raconteur.net/technology/how… via Raconteur

Going forward, Twitter will be broadly accepting of different values, rather than trying to impose its own specific values on the world

If Tesla released a van I think it would become an instant hit. I can just imagine all the vanlifers who make it their home.

Here’s a link to my cover article! Would love to hear what others think. tl;dr both short- and long-term risks of AI are real, but there’s a need for more concrete positive visions of AI. As Yogi Berra said, “If you don't know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.”

Lightcone Infrastructure is looking for funding. We run LessWrong.com and the AI Alignment Forum, wrote a lot of the code behind the EA Forum, and recently built a lot of in-person infrastructure for people working on reducing existential risk lesswrong.com/posts/9iDw6ugM… 🧵

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Everyone read Joscha Bach's refreshingly big-picture and non-BS perspective on AGI ethics. This is all stuff that should be obvious to all modern educated people but somehow seems not to be. joscha.substack.com/p/the-existent… Joscha Bach

Been waiting for something like this to emerge for a long time. 😀. DID is the primary use case for Crypto, on top of everything else that will be built. Good luck World !

Find answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about privacy & the Worldcoin project ⬇️ worldcoin.org/blog/worldcoin…

Just when you think you knew all about ChatGPT and the current set of LLMs... youtu.be/h8Jth_ijZyY

We’ve been waiting for this moment and now we can share it with you: Today, we received our paid driverless permit from the CPUC! In the coming weeks, we’ll begin charging fares for rider-only trips and welcoming new riders into Waymo One in San Francisco. waymo.com/blog/2023/08/w…

Max Tegmark Rishi Sunak Ursula von der Leyen Altman, Hassabis, and Amodei are the ones doing massive corporate lobbying at the moment. They are the ones who are attempting to perform a regulatory capture of the AI industry. You, Geoff, and Yoshua are giving ammunition to those who are lobbying for a ban on open AI R&D. If

Thoughts on the Apple Vision Pro: the hardware and core software (absolutely exceptional), the user experience and controls (great for some things, less great for others, due to the very limiting controls), and what Apple can improve for the future (a lot!): Hardware and Core

Morgan Freeman on ending racism:

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🎥 Save The Prince Charles Cinema! This iconic London cinema is at risk of closing due to unfair rent demands. Sign the petition to protect its future #SaveThePCC you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/save… via 38 Degrees

New 3h31m video on YouTube: "Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT" This is a general audience deep dive into the Large Language Model (LLM) AI technology that powers ChatGPT and related products. It is covers the full training stack of how the models are developed, along with mental

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