Anna Riedl
@AnnaLeptikon
Watch it, it will change your life. My research is heavily cited in the @petersonacademy course on “Intelligence, Rationality, Wisdom, and Spirituality” by @DrJohnVervaeke. Go and take it all in.
Still can barely comprehend that my name gets mentioned in John Vervaeke's new video course on "Intelligence, Rationality, Wisdom, and Spirituality". Thank you so much, @vervaeke_john, I am deeply grateful for you acknowledging my contribution to your thinking about these…
The fact that this is the most famous silhouette in the world.
The fact that this is the most famous silhouette in the world.
New paper & surprising result. LLMs transmit traits to other models via hidden signals in data. Datasets consisting only of 3-digit numbers can transmit a love for owls, or evil tendencies. 🧵
I think the "frame problem" is a knockdown argument for why human rationality > artificial intelligence (contingencies/uses apply - see here: doi.org/10.1002/sej.11…) but here's a nice piece on "updating the frame problem for AI research" by @LMiracchi philarchive.org/archive/MIRUTF…
the ending of fleabag
What’s the most emotional scene you’ve ever seen in a film or TV show?
The last two lines reminded me I sometimes blatantly forget I am German and can read various writers in their original language. Read Jung and Nietzsche in English, even read Zweig in English this year … it always occurs to me at the end. It feels like a punishable offense,…
Schopenhauer on solitude versus society:
High art and the end tied it up nicely.
"Okay, so imagine a magic button." "I'm imagining the button." "If you press the button—" "What color is it?" "It's the only button. It doesn't matter what color it is." "Nah, I ain't falling for that again. Last time there was a red button and a blue button—" "That's a…
“Doxa is that which is never questioned”, “things accepted without knowing”. Habituation leads to cognitive ease. Cognitive ease feels like knowing. It creates a sense of normality. Normality is invisible. Normality makes you blind. No Bourdieu needed for this line of thought,…
Pierre Bourdieu called our ability to naturalize any part of our lives (including oppression) as "just the way things are," never even realizing it can be otherwise, "a wonderful instrument of ideology, much bigger and more powerful than television or propaganda"
This just in: OpenAI was the first ever AI lab to break the embargo on achieving gold medal performance on the International Mathematical Olympiad.
ChatGPT to Macbeth: Of course, murder is wrong, but in that moment, you were hurting. Your wife told you when you durst do it, then you were a man. You weren't trying to take the throne; you were trying to feel seen. It wasn't the right choice, but it came from a very real place.
Are there more books like Andras Gedeon’s “Science and Technology in Medicine: An Illustrated Account Based on Ninety-Nine Landmark Publications from Five Centuries”? I like it a lot. He walks the reader through the history of, well, science and technology in medicine through a…
When reading @wolftivy's “Don’t Learn Value From Society,” I was struck by an eerie sense of déjà vu, as if I’d read the opening word for word somewhere else. The piece begins with personal tragedy: many of Wolf’s childhood friends are dead—victims of drugs and social collapse.…
“LLMs are formally bullshitting.” Bullshit is a technical term, by the way (Frankfurt, 1986). What’s the difference between lying and bullshitting? A lier knows the truth but says something else, bullshit means speaking with entire disregard for the truth, usually to get one’s…
Awesome, I've been saying this for a while, inspired by @DrJohnVervaeke. LLMs are formally bullshitting, yes. medium.com/@balazskegl/on… A couple of threads that may be interesting: x.com/balazskegl/sta… x.com/NandoDF/status… The connection: when we speak, we have an…
Everyone is up in arms about Peterson’s refusal to give a straight yes or no to the question about whether he is a Christian or not, call it evasive if you want. For what it’s worth, I find his answer not only defensible, but quietly profound: Firstly, a truthful answer is the…
> underperform humans Only the top humans. 99% of humans would score exactly 0. Worse than any of the LLMs.
So basically you're free to say anything you're not forbidden to say. Right.
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Academia must be the only industry where extremely high-skilled PhD students spend much of their time doing low value work (like data cleaning). A 1st year management consultant outsources this immediately. Imagine the productivity gains if PhDs could focus on thinking