These are the rabbit holes I've found worth falling into. Pick one and see how deep it goes.
What if this version of "business as usual" reality comes true. Seems like a good frame to have in your mental toolbox when thinking about the future path of AI. in a post-AGI world, people will simply get used to the fact that computers can solve cognitive problems quickly, and beat us in any cognitive domain, just like we're used to computers multiplying large numbers quickly now, or kicking our asses in chess and go.
This is the most intellectually honest opinion to have about AI. Philippe Lemoine I think that if progress in generative AI continues, which I'm pretty sure it will (it doesn't even have to continue at the current pace as long as decreasing marginal returns don't hit too hard),…
Was watching this video and wanted to understand more so I asked Claude and Gemini https://youtu.be/nrJ6jDZRESQ?si=gkW3Lj0E_wCkF3X8 Denis Noble and Richard Dawkins represent fundamentally opposing perspectives on how evolution works, centering on what drives evolutionary change…
Ufff. What a poem. Each verse feels saturated with the bloody, neglected horrors of our own time — horrors I’m no doubt forcing into it, but can’t help seeing there Couldn't stop hearing the echoes of the present.
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I came across George Oppen in this article, and a random Google led me to this poem, and the only word that can succinctly capture my reaction is "dayum!" Truth also is the pursuit of it Like happiness, and it will not stand. Even the verse begins to eat away In the acid.