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2023-07-21T16:02:55+00:00 | 🔗

RT @Noahpinion: The reason the New Dealers were able to build power for labor is that their industrial policy WORKED. It built STUFF. That'…

2023-07-17T04:19:51+00:00 | 🔗

@nim_chimpsky_ Great book, if you are truly interested. You may find Stephen Wolfram’s explanation of LLM’s interesting. For more color you may enjoy his essay “A Short Talk about Richard Feynman” they worked on Thinking Machines together :)

2023-07-16T05:02:30+00:00 | 🔗

FWIW, I'm not taking a position on either. It just strikes me as Utilitarian (in practice) means rationalizing your intuitions. Which BTW, is what I think about AI x-risk, and also what Singer thinks about EA people obsessing over weirdly-justified, long-term AI x-risk.

2023-07-16T05:02:29+00:00 | 🔗

Yet he firmly holds those views. Utilitarianism already gives up any kind of moral absolutism, and the Utilitarian scales in both situations seems impossible to balance, especially if you are to take opposing sides.

2023-07-16T05:02:29+00:00 | 🔗

Listening to Tyler Cowen interview Peter Singer. Singer rationalizes pro-Abortion and anti-Factory Farming stances with utilitarianism. What strikes me is that he has opposing intuition -- unborn babies are net positive, factory animals are net negative -- with no basis in fact.

2023-07-15T04:58:31+00:00 | 🔗

We were using $SDGR as a comp for a deck we had back in November. VCs were like $SDGR?? isn't that company not doing so good... They are now up 150% since that date. https://t.co/zGWih2Vtfe

2023-07-15T02:43:59+00:00 | 🔗

@TaliaRinger best summary

2023-07-14T14:27:03+00:00 | 🔗

@saranormous AWS Textract

2023-07-13T06:18:47+00:00 | 🔗

@shelbynewsad @nvidia @RecursionPharma After the big crypto crash I biked in rain to an electronics store to buy a 3090, got an A100 from a builder who have better inventory. brought the 3090 in carryon - one TSA agent saw it on the X-ray and was Sussed out. The other was a gamer :)

2023-07-13T01:06:09+00:00 | 🔗

@TheStalwart busted :(