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From Scott Aaronson's Teaching Statement

'Raise the Ceiling

In my experience, students who are motivated enough can usually pick up the background knowledge they need the way real researchers do: in the context of trying to solve actual research problems.'…

From Scott Aaronson's Teaching Statement 'Raise the Ceiling In my experience, students who are motivated enough can usually pick up the background knowledge they need the way real researchers do: in the context of trying to solve actual research problems.'…
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I’ve often wondered whether it might be possible to have a cofounder/partner on the podcast/blog.

Apart from the direct benefits, seems like it would also be more fun.

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I wrote an essay about what it takes to avoid what C.S. Lewis calls “tyranny” towards the future — and in particular, re: attempting to influence the values of future humans (and also, future AIs). joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/18/on-…

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Michael is a super-smart, super-competent, and high-integrity person.

Great news for SF that he's running.

Very much someone worth supporting.

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Will scaling work? — Data bottlenecks, generalization benchmarks, primate evolution, intelligence as compression, world modelers, and other considerations:

dwarkeshpatel.com/p/will-scaling…

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this is from the excellent Dwarkesh Patel interview with Sarah Paine of the Naval College. as soon as I heard that podcast I immediately thought: the Houthis are messing with the one thing no US president can let pass, they're getting bombed
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pouring myself a glass of pinot noir, putting on some cozy pajamas, kicking my feet up next to the fireplace, and listening to the carl shulman intelligence explosion episode on 3x speed

pouring myself a glass of pinot noir, putting on some cozy pajamas, kicking my feet up next to the fireplace, and listening to the carl shulman intelligence explosion episode on 3x speed
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After listening to Dr. Jung Chang on the Dwarkesh Patel podcast, I decided to read her 'Wild Swans' autobiography. It is one of the most moving books I've read, chronicling her family’s resilience while living through 20th century China, most notably Mao’s Cultural Revolution.

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Are there any neuroscientists who have opinions/evidence on this question:

Is intelligence just a hodgepodge of 1000s of domain-specific heuristics and sub-skills, or is there a single higher level general reasoning circuit behind it all?

We would have to explain g. But maybe g…

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