Insane, no? Clearly Israel is doing something horribly wrong or the minister would not be concerned it is losing itself. And yet she has no concern whatsoever for the victims of that horrible wrong

We don't need to fully replicate human cognition to have a chatbot that operates with language and world models like a human does.

But we just don't know how to implement it at this moment, nor will it emerge from LLMs anytime soon.

“BuT WhAt iS thE f0rMal DifFeReNcE fRom What HuManS Do???“

The difference is that our inferred models are less stupid, more complete, partially innate, and obtained with an infinitesimal fraction of the data and energy spent.

Could it be—gasp—could it be that these models are only parameterised likelihood models of the data they’ve been trained on and not reasoning agents?

Jüdische Aktivist:innen der Organisation 'Not in Our Name' in #Österreich protestierten mit Kunstblut vor dem Gebäude des International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis aufgrund der engen Zusammenarbeit mit der rechtsextremen Israelischen Regierung.

#StopGazaGenocide

Did the population centers cluster around the transportation route, or did the transportation route just connect the population centers?

Or both, in a feedback loop?

The us administration's straight-faced denial that Israel uses US weapons in violation of Int'l Law is bewildering. Unless they think that razing cities to the ground & indiscriminately killing civilians is in line with Int'l Law.

Culpable for the gruesome murders of thousands of children + plays the guitar = a polymath with humanity!

The world is a bleak place.

Keep on Killin’ in the Third World

Such an elementary moral principle; it's embarrassing to pretend not to understand it.

We're responsible for the crimes of our government; there's where our influence lies.

Protesting about remote governments makes as much sense as protesting the medieval Spanish inquisition.

I will put out a post like this periodically so long as I am on the market: if you are aware of hiring initiatives in “responsible AI” or the “epistemology of machine learning,” broadly construed, especially in places friendly to interdisciplinary, theoretical work, let me know.

One of the most annoying aspects of theoretical ML by far.

Theoretical physics got it right ages ago: get rid of pseudo-rigor!

Understanding comes first, formalization later.

Inverting this leads to posturing and obscurantism.

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Sheer contempt for our most basic cognitive functions

the stupidest, smuggest posture on here is when people act like they dont understand the basic point of protests. By def, people protest that which is done in their name/with their money. The demand in this scenario would be for colleges to divest from Iran which is… impossible

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The student left is the most reliably correct constituency in America. Over the past 60 years, it has passed every great moral test American foreign policy has forced upon the public, including the Vietnam war, apartheid South Africa, & the Iraq war.

The reality is that your passion must align with what is (or will be) popular.

Satisfying your personal idiosyncratic passion will not get you anywhere if cannot get other people on board.

Survivorship bias is strong with these kind of recommendations.

A pet peeve of mine: I dislike the use of the word 'incremental' to describe research in negative terms.

All research is incremental. Even Ramanujan studied Carr's 'A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics'.

Alonso Gurmendi This is the reason I so convincingly insist on the need to ensure accountability for atrocity crimes. When we let war criminals get away with their crimes, with time they will even take pride and brag about them.

Der 1998 eröffnete Arafat Flughafen in Gaza stand immer sinnbildlich für den Traum von Unabhängigkeit der Palästinenser. 2001 zerstörte Israel ihn bereits.

Nun hat Israels Armee auch das letzte leerstehende Gebäude zerbombt. Einfach so. Die symbolische Tötung eines Wunsches.