I’ve been approaching the last 60 days or so with a real “can do” attitude that is frankly not appreciated by my current or future self.
Original tweet deleted...you can still see it here along with a post on how I'm changing things going forward.
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Everyone in the world who has been confused by the difficulty rankings from 4x3 for the last week or so... I created this very clever system where it updates the colors based on how difficult people actually find the puzzles, except I screwed up and assigned the colors wrong.
Blue has been the easiest category for *days*.
I knew something seemed off but was too busy to investigate. Today though it was like "WELL THAT JUST CANT BE RIGHT!??!"
Tomorrow it will be fixed!
Hank Green retweeted
“being annoying on twitter will never get you anywhere”
okay then explain this
ALT hand holding a copy of Hollywood, Ending by John Green
Might as well dig this one out from a deeper thread...curious if people have thoughts.
Re: the AI industry's focus existential threats.
I place different weights on things that might happen and things that definitely are happening. One thing that bugs me about existential-risk debates is that history is full of people at the forefront of genuinely important ideas who could not tell the difference between “this is a very big deal” and “this is the end of everything.”
AI may pose existential risks. But it has already enabled an enormous transfer of value and power away from the people whose work made these systems possible.
Too easy to let a possible future tragedy eclipse current harms. Too easy to think "WE ARE BECOME DEATH" because that feels horrifying but also kinda awesome.
It's important to focus on reality because otherwise the odds that you end up in a cult get really high!
101k likes. Helpful to know. Lotta work to do…😮💨
ALT Somebody saying that daylight looked different in 2001, which is super fucking dumb. Daylight differs from day to day, obviously, but people seem increasingly anchored to the feeling that something has gone cosmologically wrong…that the light, the seasons, time itself, reality itself, all used to feel different. This is not new. It often intensifies during media revolutions, when the way we record the world changes, but also when the systems through which we share information begin selecting hypersalience over credibility. The strangest, most emotionally legible explanation wins distribution, which feels, to our minds, like evidence.
ALT Just a note to check the other image’s description.
I don't know why X has made it so hard for people to see alt tags but...here was the alt tag:
Somebody saying that daylight looked different in 2001, which is super fucking dumb. Daylight differs from day to day, obviously, but people seem increasingly anchored to the feeling that something has gone cosmologically wrong…that the light, the seasons, time itself, reality itself, all used to feel different. This is not new. It often intensifies during media revolutions, when the way we record the world changes, but also when the systems through which we share information begin selecting hypersalience over credibility. The strangest, most emotionally legible explanation wins distribution, which feels, to our minds, like evidence.
Hank Green retweeted
Anyone who likes NYT’s Spelling Bee needs to check out Hank Green’s Smush.
hankgreen.com/smush/
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Well, I mean, the framers of the Constitution didn’t /say/ that compressing the sum of human culture into high-dimensional vector space wasn’t fair use, so…
ACTUALLY!!!
hankgreen.com/smush · Jul 25
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Every day people play SMUSH and get frustrated that a word or proper noun isn’t in our dictionary and so they can send them to John to edit!
He adds a few every day, but he’s pretty strict about slang.
hankgreen.com/smush
At Open Sauce I told someone that they needed to listen to this podcast but my brain is such mush that I can’t remember who it was so, on the off chance they follow me…
youtu.be/PoJ1vTdHpks?is=0ZK4…
Anyone who starts things and is weird should also watch it.