Well worth a read if you’re interested in why LLMs are so capable.

A fine testimony by Lee Jussim, an academic denounced by woke mobs, about how he survived and prospered afterwards. Reminds me that courage is the cardinal virtue. Without it, no other virtues are possible

Note: that phuquewad Elon Musk will down regulate this because of the

A pretty good reply to whiney soy boy complaints about women;

richardhanania.com/p/im-not-going…

Often get a speed up when you get rid of the UFOs: useless overhead. They waste people's time and are net negative contributors to progress

What's the relationship, if any, between 'enlightenment' (Buddhism, hippie-dippy 'spirituality' etc ) and 'sovereignty' #GameB flavor? welfvh.medium.com/sovereignty-is…

Pet peeve of the day' sites that use the 'send you some link via email' to login (an idiotic idea itself) but then have a significant delay sending it (anything longer than 5 seconds) or where it goes to spam.

More of the incompetence cascade.

Such a brilliant play by the status quo to divert conversations about their extractions from fractional reserve banking, money in politics, and the revolving door between regulatory agencies and industry and redirect it to arguing over trans bathrooms in North Carolina. One of

When 80% of your campus grad students votes for an anti-Semitic strike, maybe it’s time for me to hang up research and stop training students. The very best I can come up with is that they are profoundly misinformed about the history and uninterested in learning more. Other

This is of huge importance. How each cohort of parents enculturates the next generation is near the essence of civilization.

CC Ashley Fitzgerald

'Be honest, you will not get this song and listen to it in your car or anywhere. It's impressive because it's generated by a computer, but it's fake.'

- Sam Sammane discussing the limits of generative AI, obstacles to AGI, & why human-AI augmentation is the future

This should be pretty pathetic:

I talked with Sam Sammane about the ideas in his new book *The Singularity of Hope: Humanity’s Role in an AI-Dominated Future.*

jimruttshow.com/sam-sammane/

We discussed the hype around generative AI, obstacles to AGI, reinforcement learning, intuition & emotion, human-AI

Quite interesting! 70% or so believe a Butlerian Jihad against AI is a significant possibility

CC Ben Goertzel Joscha Bach

One of my favorite lines from the Marines Corps: Slow is smooth and smooth is fast.