few hit AI apps exist because LLMs are what i’d call very “strangely-shaped” tools most tools are built with a specific purpose in mind like a screwdriver or a car but LLMs were something we stumbled upon by predicting text and playing with RL - we didn’t design the shape of

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I went ahead and tried a bunch of those new protein sodas and other drinks. Healthy soda is here, and I like it! My latest article is a bunch of reviews. Link below.

OpenAI Life update: I went to work at OpenAI for four years, became their first prompt engineer (now host their podcast) and still write 2 novels a year.

we've seen many positive instances of our AIs discontinuing conversations, such as encouraging a human to exercise or not procrastinate on important goals we don't expect others in the industry to be as responsible with this capability so none of our claims here generalize

I don’t understand Jesus as lord, because he does not seem to scale. He is too busy with sacrificing himself and loving everyone to get any work done. I understand why faith, love and hope were novel and necessary, but prudence is key to making good choices

Christian Szegedy When do you think we'll be at the point where we have a tool that can take a paper on, say, geometric Langlands, and formalize it without human intervention?

Meta, Google, and Microsoft all use encryption built by the same 50-person nonprofit. Zero revenue from 2 billion users. The founder uses a fake name. And when the FBI subpoenaed them, they only provided 2 pieces of data. Here's how a non-profit secures the internet🧵

Some exciting news - recently had the pleasure of being featured as a guest creator on Grant Sanderson! The video is about AlphaGeometry, the 2024 DeepMind model that solved IMO geometry problems at a silver medal level. HUGE thanks to Grant for the guest feature🥹Check it out

Forget METR "time horizons", this is what exponential progress looks like.

coming very soon to bitchat: location chat. chat with anyone in nearby regions (block/neighborhood/city/region/country). or teleport to anywhere in the world via a geohash. it works by using geohashes to map the world into chat channels, uses a new pseudonym per geohash for

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Other than Heidegger, who is the best philosopher on tools and instruments as extensions of the self? Particularly interested in someone who examines the role, philosophically, of having an instrument for inquiry. Eg the telescope or microscope enabling new sciences.

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I'll take the other side of this bet...

“The most profound change is not just that AI replaces the mind. It is that it introduces a new form of labor into the world with a completely different physical basis. This is the Metabolic Rift.”

He said he's genuinely uncertain if digital computation can give rise to consciousness. But if it's possible, that it'll happen within 5 years most likely (and he's optimistic about outcomes). Ken Liu, author / Re: Pantheon & digital consciousness Another gem at Augmentation

what a new mozilla firefox install looks like in 2025. even the weather is 'sponsored content'.

oh my god this shows so beautifully patterns where chaos is youtube.com/watch?v=dtjb2O…