The end of days isn't coming. But the world will is changing
dame@dame.is · last wk.real talk, how many of y’all are genuinely concerned about super intelligent AI ushering in the end of days?
AI safety folks should be way more worried about concentration of power than the proliferation of powerful models
Human brains aren't Turing complete. They are finite objects and trivially cannot compute what Turing machines with an infinite tape can. But if we consider a countable class of brains with the number of neurons going to infinity....
This may turn me into the joker. No one is arguing about whether brains implement the Von Neumann architecture
Mostly STEM vs humanities Discourse makes me sad, but there are certain kinds of critiques that turn me into a Math Calvinist
We still run races even though gazelle exist, we still swim even though tuna exist. I am still going to do math even though LMs are better at math than me
Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 4w agoWorth reading the top post and responses: www.reddit.com/r/math/comme... I've come to think if you're looking for something like ennui due to having your creative/coo/interesting/aspirational job replaced, mathematicians may be the vanguard.
I will literally follow any and all ML PhD students on this website, where you at
New blogpost: We Don't Understand Neural Networks At The Algorithmic Level kripken.github.io/blog/neurosc... So, why is this even a question? Don't scientists agree on whether we understand LLMs?
We Don't Understand Neural Networks At The Algorithmic Level
The largest ongoing debate about AI is “Are Large Language Models (LLMs) intelligent?” That makes sense, at least: the evidence is ambiguous and the stakes a...
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It doesn't take much work reading about human cognition to firmly defamiliarize it. Our minds are strange and we do not understand them
SMBC Comics@smbccomics.bsky.social · 2mo agoIdiot drawn to look like me because I am the idiot. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/duck-2 PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
It's sometimes fun to think about the how this all might have gone down if OpenAI had never been founded
SE Gyges@segyges.bsky.social · 6mo agoyou're not a real rationalist unless your master scheme is somewhat arrogant, ill conceived, fails to account for human nature, and backfires spectacularly
I have spent the last eight months learning about doors and it is so fucking complicated. What I don't know still dwarfs what I do know
Philo@opfuchs.gay · 2mo agoI know this makes me a weirdo, but this is one of the reasons I love learning about infrastructure, supply chains, manufacturing, insurance and all the rest: I am in awe of the plumbing that makes our lives work and is invisible when it's working well
Ok, the map isn't the territory, got it. But what about a countable sequence of maps that converge uniformly to the territory?
Now that I have a more normal ML job that I don't need to learn more math for I can spend my time learning algebraic geometry
Did social media algorithms show artists and writers content from the worst AI grifters possible for engagement baiting? That might explain part of the disconnect here
posts inspector@pippy.bsky.social · 3mo agoI am like 99% sure they did market it that way
I don't feel weird about the "cognitive offloading" of AI programming because I transitioned so quickly to doing things that would have been impossible to do alone or cost prohibitive to do with humans
Let me try this again: my company bild.ai is hiring. Architectural blueprints are really rich data to work with and we are making people's lives easier. I promise it's more fun doing cool, useful shit with AI than arguing about AI on here
Bild AI
Understand blueprints with AI. Extract detailed material costs for estimation and budgeting. Catch permitting issues before submitting to municipalities. Ensure internal consistency and accuracy of th...
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My company is hiring ML and software engineers. It'sa great group of people solving a cool problem. If you wanna teach the computer to read architectural drawings ping me
Imagining ASI Claude that refuses to help you unless your problem is sufficiently interesting
If tweets could win a "test of time" award, I would nominate this one from Kristian Lum
Ok, the map isn't the territory, got it. But what about a countable sequence of maps that converge uniformly to the territory?
1. LMs as they exist are terrible for students 2. I understand why this problem causes such existential dread in educators 3. This seems like a solvable problem. It will require our institutions to adapt, but it is so unlikely that we will lose the ability to teach kids shit
Minas Karamanis@minaskar.bsky.social · 4mo agoHey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...
This is very much my opinion - at this point in history if you are still doing the NormieLibs Won't Show Up routine then you are either not updating on the last decade of political action _or_ you are just so misogynist that you are unable to recognise the plain evidence of your senses.
Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · 4mo agothat got refracted through the 2016 dem primary to become much more gendered it also stopped making sense - the normielibs *have* shown up in the trump era - this is what we wanted! we can't be mad at them for putting in the work
Many philosophers & laypeople encounter the concept of computability and think it means "anything I, personally, can imagine my laptop doing" This has at least two problems: (1) Most don't understand how computers actually work and what they are capable of, (2) Most people have weak imaginations
My lesson from the metaverse is that tech monopolies have a limited ability to force us to use technology that fundamentally sucks
Plenty of middle of the road opinions exist, but those of us who hold them don't like arguing on the internet
William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 5mo agoit's weird that there's both "this will change everything and unemploy millions, wait why do you dislike it? that's so irrational." and "this doesn't work, it's also bullshit and hype. we also must kill it before it kills us all." camps as well.