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this is such a common take, and it's probably accurate in many contexts but you could similarly ask about the "old timey inefficiency" of general purpose computers. why not have dedicated asics for every new server? the answer is that designing bespoke chips for a million jobs…
I love the old timey inefficiency of shaping the robots for every task like men. Why shouldn't the popcorn machine just be able to dispense popcorn and butter using its own big arms
My view is that the answer to "why are people often unhappy in modernity" is actually pretty clear and isn't anything especially ideologically satisfying. It isn't economic precarity, we're very rich. It isn't lack of social community, we actually choose that. It isnt a lack of…
I think phones are a specific high potency example of the real thing that's going on which is that as society gets bigger and more complex we receive more information about events and what other people think, which stresses us out. The whole set of changes is basically just…
you can venmo the United States to help pay off the national debt
back in 2018 i saw an art exhibit that consisted of a bunch of roombas traversing a somewhat complex construction, and there were two people there whose sole responsibility was to help the roombas when they got stuck and that’s kind of what i imagine the future will look like
openai codex is like the roomba of coding
they should make a religion that's not anti-queer, I think that would be pretty cool
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. 🧵
legal pads are my favourite thinking instrument by far they create a mental workspace right there on your desk unlike screens, they bring your mind out into physical space and give your thoughts a place to live
oh this is coooool
Gemini has unlocked a new capability: conversational image segmentation 🖼️ This enables new use cases that were previously not possible, furthering Gemini’s SOTA image understanding capabilities! 🧵
need everyone to get more polish immediately - asking friends to go on long walks - handle of vodka in the freezer - romantic pessimist outlook
'water is transparent only within a very narrow band of the electromagnetic spectrum, so living organisms evolved sensitivity to that band, and that's what we now call "visible light". ' (found via HN)