

Ye it was a real “oh fuck I recognise this nick, this cannot mean anything good” moment
Ye it was a real “oh fuck I recognise this nick, this cannot mean anything good” moment
They were still early
OH NO, I have TERRIBLE NEWS my new FAVOURITE SHOW got CANCELLED (probably by the WOKE MOB)
Hey mate what do you think learning is. Like genuinely, if you were to describe the process of learning a subject to me.
Ok now I’m wasted af and this show rules, this is the best fucking thing ever, gather all your friends and watch this shit, they hired the Mooch and someone whose credential is that they’re a YouTuber to not give money to people whose ideas are “what if X but crypto” like one of them is literally “what if water but there’s an NFT on it”
The first Crypto Name they introduce is fucking Anthony “Unit of Time Measurement” Scaramucci and I got severe whiplash, I am not mentally ready to watch this, I need to refill my drug drawer
I wouldn’t argue with someone who said reasoning models are a substantial advance
Oh, I would.
I’ve seen people say stuff like “you can’t disagree the models have rapidly advanced” and I’m just like yes I can, here: no they didn’t. If you’re claiming they advanced in any way please show me a metric by which you’re judging it. Are they cheaper? Are they more efficient? Are they able to actually do anything? I want data, I want a chart, I want a proper experiment where the model didn’t have access to the test data when it was being trained and I want that published in a reputable venue. If the advances are so substantial you should be able to give me like five papers that contain this stuff. Absent that I cannot help but think that the claim here is “it vibes better”.
If they’re an AGI believer then the bar is even higher, since in their dictionary an advancement would mean the models getting closer to AGI, at which point I’d be fucked to see the metric by which they describe the distance of their current favourite model to AGI. They can’t even properly define the latter in computer-scientific terms, only vibes.
I advocate for a strict approach, like physicist dismissing any claim containing “quantum” but no maths, I will immediately dismiss any AI claims if you can’t describe the metric you used to evaluate the model and isolate the changes between the old and new version to evaluate their efficacy. You know, the bog-standard shit you always put in any CS systems Experimental section.
A company that forces you to write a “Connect” every half-year where you reflect on your performance and Impact™ : (click here for the definition of Impact™ in Microsoft® Sharepoint™)
There is only one True Word
Some of them are pretty spot on.
Quantum computing reality vs quantum computing in popculture and marketing follows precisely the same line as quantum physics reality vs popular quantum physics.
I think the end is way too generous. I don’t think we deserve an end.
I’ve been thinking about this post for a full day now. It’s truly bizzare, in a “I’d like to talk to this person and study their brain” kind of way.
Put aside the technical impossibility of LLMs acting as the agents he describes. That’s small potatoes. The only thing that stays in my mind is this:
take 2 minutes to think of precisely the information I need
I can’t even put into words the full nonsense of this statement. How do you think this would work? This is not how learning works. This is not how research works. This is not how anything works.
I can’t understand this. Like yes, of course, some times there’s this moment where you think “god I remember there was this particular chart I saw” or “how many people lived in Tokio again?” or “I read exactly the solution to this problem on StackOverflow once”. In the days of yore you’d write one Google query and you’d get it. Nowadays maybe you can find it on Wikipedia. Sure. But that doesn’t actually take two minutes either, it’s like an instant one-second thought of “oh I know I saw exactly this factoid somewhere”. You don’t read books for that though. Does this person think books are just sequences of facts you’re supposed to memorise?
How on earth do you think of “precisely the information you need”. What does that mean? How many problems are there in your life where you precisely know how the solution would look like, you just need an elaborate query through an encyclopedia to get it? Maybe this is useful if your entire goal is creating a survey of existing research into a topic, but that’s a really small fraction of applications for reading a fucking book. How often do you precisely know what you don’t know? Like genuinely. How can your curiosity be distilled into a precise, well-structured query? Don’t you ever read something and go “oh, I never even thought about this”, “I didn’t know this was a problem”, “I wouldn’t have thought of this myself”. If not then what the fuck are you reading??
I am also presuming this is about purely non-fiction technical books, because otherwise this gets more nonsensical. Like what do you ask your agents for, “did they indeed take the hobbits to Isengard? Prepare a comprehensive review of conflicting points of view.”
This single point presumes that none of the reasons for you absorbing knowledge from other people is to use it in a creative way, get inspired by something, or just find out about something you didn’t know you didn’t know. It’s something so alien to me, so detached from what I consider the human experience, I simply don’t comprehend this. Is this a real person? How does the day-to-day life of this person look like? What goes on in their head when they read a book? What are we moving towards as a species?
There’s something hauntingly beautiful in levelling “you also haven’t been touched by a woman loser” against a married man with a child
We already have this, it’s just a Tesla with “FSD” on
Changes during the day but it’s always > 0.
Setting my oven to YOLO Mode and dying in a fire 7 seconds later
Lol, I’m a decision theorist because I had to decide whether I should take a shit or shave first today. I am also an author of a forthcoming book because, get this, you’re not gonna believe, here’s something Big Book doesn’t want you to know:
literally anyone can write a book. They don’t even check if you’re smart. I know, shocking.
Plus “forthcoming” can mean anything, Winds of Winter has also been a “forthcoming” book for quite a while
Why did you have to make the strawberry sexy
Wait what? Can people in the USA not, em, transfer money? What do the banks do then?