Lol aeon.co/ideas/what-i-l…

I think Jorge Stolfi will appreciate this photo I took in 2020. (Try to notice a not so elusive detail)

Scaling is hard

cell.com/current-biolog…

Visualizations of Einstein's general relativity often show space warping only "underneath" an object--this visual is better:

Looooooooooool

1. run a physics simulator in blender or maya or whatever 2. consolidate the simulation into an animation 3. go to the last keyframe and assign colors to the balls in their final positions 4. add some plugin to simulate a sloppy cameraman 5. press render

winning the lottery is hard, but it wouldn't be if you had one ticket for every lottery in every planet in every galaxy when people are struck by coincidences, they don't realize they are playing intergalactic lottery as the pool of valid events for consideration is *any* event

AI Twitter these days. 👇🧵

tldr

Atoms are so tiny, no one will notice if you break one apart

Does GPT understand the world? Here is what Ilya Sutskever, co-founder of OpenAI, says during a discussion with Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia: (1) When we train a large neural network to accurately predict the next word in lots of different texts from the internet, the AI is

Andrew Ng is claiming that the idea that AI could make us extinct is a big-tech conspiracy. A datapoint that does not fit this conspiracy theory is that I left Google so that I could speak freely about the existential threat.

I can't believe docusign is 40 million monkeys and one typewriter

in retrospect i should’ve been worried about the governance structure of openai

Good post on load-testing rails apps rorvswild.com/blog/2024/ruby…

Tucker Carlson is an idiot. He stocks up a shopping cart in Moscow and expresses amazement that it cost him just $100 USD. No shit Sherlock, the USD is extremely strong in poor countries. That’s basically 1/10th of the average monthly wage in Moscow. Wow, the low costs are so

Mira, Ilya, Elon, Sam, and Dario are now all competing with each other for AGI despite all having worked together at OpenAI just a few years ago

I don't know why so many Americans have this idea that Germans all feel guilty about WWII. I don't know anyone my generation or even my parents' generation who feels this way. I think this is a story that Americans are telling themselves. What is true is that at least the

fun speculation: the universe was "made" to create stars capable of collapsing, starting a new universe "on the other side" of the singularity, inheriting (with small variations) the cosmological constants of ours (see Lee Smoolin / Fecund Universes)