Zhengdong
@zhengdongwang
natural history @GoogleDeepMind / consumer.
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NEW ESSAY: "Dispatches from India" A year ago I was living in New Delhi, India 🇮🇳. I traveled across 10 states and 30 cities+villages writing for The Economist, including a cover story on the economy Since then I’ve been chewing on how to capture what I learned It still…
Today is APOD's 30th birthday! In celebration, today's picture uses past APODs as tiles arranged to create a single pixelated image that might remind you of one of the most well-known and evocative depictions of planet Earth's night sky. In fact, this Starry Night consists of…
Watching the end of Andor, then Rogue One, then A New Hope rocks, because the plot and the aesthetic are basically seamless, but everyone in the galaxy gets way stupider over the course of maybe a week
Andor dares to ask, “What if Star Wars was good?”
this empirical study from @saffronhuang is so cool--- we desperately need more research like it!
Really proud and excited to release this work on empirically measuring AI values “in the wild” — understanding, analyzing and taxonomizing what values guide model outputs in real interactions with real users. There is a lot of work on training models to follow particular…
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to Europa to enlist as an ice harvester.
Introducing MafiaBench: an LLM eval testing models' abilities to persuade, deceive and engage in strategic play using the social deduction game of Mafia I ran a 450 game Swiss tournament tldr: 4o blows the other models away. Claudes struggle Link and more details below 👇
two of the most interesting writers today giving you pure consumer surplus!
new podcast up on BUILDERS VS. PRIGS ft. @arjun_ramani3, economist and my favorite fellow niche-tech-ideology-watcher I always learn a ton from Arjun. here's what we covered: 00:49 Zuck's new look 02:05 PG's new essay on wokeness 07:08 origins of the "tech right" 16:02 why tech…
I launched my new indie writing/research project today! a 21st century "anthropology of disruption" I plan to explore the places where the past and future collide—what happens when frontier tech meets established communities and institutions? some questions on my mind: