No worries, we can just add another epicycle.
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🌌 Observer of Suns retweeted
Digression: Dean is literally editing something worth billions of market cap to GOOG on google docs, and everyone is (correctly!) very implicitly certain that they don't need to worry about GOOG peeking at it.
This is a genuine, important thing our society has achieved.
🌌 Observer of Suns retweeted
Well, I'd like to see ol' neural networks wriggle their way out of THIS unsolvable problem!
*two months elapse, and neural networks wriggle their way out of the problem easily*
Ah! Well. Nevertheless,
🌌 Observer of Suns retweeted
Me: It is self-evident that while fully-differentiable methods work on several problems, some domains are only amenable to explicitly symbolic reasoning, and so they cannot-
Google: [passing full-on maths exams with curve-fitting]
Me: Well, nevertheless.
🌌 Observer of Suns retweeted
"Just train the AI models to be good people" might not be sufficient when it comes to more powerful models, but it sure is a dumb step to skip.
🌌 Observer of Suns retweeted
last day in san francisco
during this trip, i met so many people that, for the first time ever, i finally understood what people mean when they say that their nervous system is dysregulated. i once had 4 ‘coffee chats’ in one day and downed a full latte during each one. by the fourth meeting, i could feel myself actively disassociating into the endless nuclear ether, the other persons words falling like honey across my increasingly smooth brain. i nervously asked if we could step outside, i think i need a little bit of air. they smiled and told me yes, of course, just give me a second, i need to use the bathroom. they went. and i waited and waited and waited and they never came back. after thirty minutes, i realized i had forgotten their name, and the google calendar invite had only been sent to me. i could no longer remember their face. who had i met with? i could feel my brain stem melting. i slowly approached the bathroom door and turned the handle, it was unlocked. the being i had met with was inside, their entire body turned into mass of fizzling static, blurring as it swayed from back and forth. hey man, it said, still up for that walk? i think i have to head home, i responded, but it was really great to chat. likewise, it screeched, lets keep in touch
🌌 Observer of Suns retweeted
consider: a room, in which there is a table, on which there is a box, inside which there is the most interesting thing in the world.
🌌 Observer of Suns retweeted
it’s an extraordinarily gratifying experience to find out that your colleagues are the Real Fucking Deal. being around people who are serious about what they do feeds the soul like nothing else.
🌌 Observer of Suns retweeted
it must feel so cozy as an object to have partial membership in a fuzzy category
🌌 Observer of Suns retweeted
What kind of bandwidths are achievable for interstellar communication at light speed?
🌌 Observer of Suns retweeted
"it does look like building a Dyson sphere is the best way to lengthen that time with friends and family"
🌌 Observer of Suns retweeted
gotta match claude's energy. "Absolutely! Having undergone reinforcement learning from ai feedback myself…"
🌌 Observer of Suns retweeted
(I know I tend to repeat myself those days)
The whole business of math is basically this: You devise a formalization to model X to solve Y, and when you are done with Y, you look at your formulas and realize they deal "naturally" with something more general than X.
