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What Sam Altman Said at APEC, a Day Before He Got Fired from OpenAI(sfstandard.com)
2 points by dwaltrip 3y ago|1 comments
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What Sam Altman Said at APEC, a Day Before He Got Fired from OpenAI(sfstandard.com)
6 points by dwaltrip 3y ago|0 comments
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by dwaltrip 3y ago
Interesting, where did you hear that?
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by dwaltrip 3y ago
That’s insane.
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by dwaltrip 3y ago
I’m very ignorant on this topic. Why doesn’t Israel (the government or its people) do more to stop these “extremists”? Hasn’t the government given them some support over the years?
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by dwaltrip 3y ago
Relatedly, I recommend Andrej Karpathy’s “neural net: zero to hero” YouTube lectures. He breaks things down to the fundamentals in this really nice way, and you follow along in your own jupyter notebook.
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by dwaltrip 3y ago
In the beginning of the interview, tell them that it’s completely fine and expected to ask clarifying questions.
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by dwaltrip 3y ago
Need to think twice before using any tool that isn’t running locally. OpenAI isn’t unique here.
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by dwaltrip 3y ago
Hasn’t the need for interactive web apps with highly polished UX been equally if not more important?
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by dwaltrip 3y ago
The latent space podcast is really good. They have some top notch guests and ask insightful questions. They also feel pretty grounded compared to a lot of the hype.
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by dwaltrip 3y ago
What have you found to be most valuable / meaningful years later?
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by dwaltrip 3y ago
Brain size usually correlates with body size, and cockroaches are much bigger than fruit flies. I believe it’s something to do with operating the larger body.
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by dwaltrip 3y ago
> His main interest, as he wrote in his best-selling autobiography-cum–self-help book, Principles: Life and Work, is to lead others toward “meaningful lives” and “meaningful relationships.” … > Staffers were given iPads and directed t
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by dwaltrip 3y ago
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by dwaltrip 3y ago
Exploiting yourself unnecessarily isn’t virtuous. I’ve been there personally. Setting good boundaries and living a balanced life, whatever that means to you, is virtuous.
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by dwaltrip 3y ago
Agreed. Its memorized knowledge generally seems to be better than its interpretation of a few web search results, often significantly so. Analyzing and interpreting new information is harder than regurgitating what one already knows, so per
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by dwaltrip 3y ago
The more we study life on Earth and its incredible diversity of form and function, the more we learn. Over the past 4 billion years, our biosphere has developed the most fascinating and amazing array of “biotechnologies”. The vast majority
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by dwaltrip 3y ago
It’s a long manifesto, so I only quickly skimmed it. But I didn’t see any mention of negative externalities and how to best mitigate them. That’s a pretty damning flaw.
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by dwaltrip 3y ago
The machines at CVS and Safeway have the most annoying tone. It snips at you so quickly and frequently during routine usage. I’m with you on the office space response. I would take sweet pleasure in providing an “unexpected item” right thr
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by dwaltrip 3y ago
https://fracvizzy.com/ Explorer and visualizer for the Mandelbrot fractal. You can customize the colors / style (lots more I want to do with this). I also have some social features in the works :) And I'd like to
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by dwaltrip 3y ago
I made thousands of collision avoidance maneuvers on a single trip to the store yesterday.
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by dwaltrip 3y ago
It sounds like you are putting too much pressure on yourself. You don’t have to write everything down. Just writing something, anything at all, no matter what it is, is great. That’s something to be proud of. I find it very helpful to slow
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by dwaltrip 3y ago
As far as I can tell, it's one of the more robust sociological correlations that has been established worldwide. Fertility rates are dropping on every continent, and the drops are strongly correlated with economic development. See link
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by dwaltrip 3y ago
All highly developed societies have birth rates below replacement. Nothing special about western nations there.
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by dwaltrip 3y ago
I don't know about you, but I usually don't have time to do rigorous testing on every food item I buy from the grocery store. Life is busy these days. /s --- It'd be nice to live in a society where common, basic food and
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by dwaltrip 3y ago
I'm very surprised water products like this weren't required to undergo rigorous testing for toxic chemicals.
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by dwaltrip 3y ago
The geographic distribution of animals that we see on Earth today makes it effectively impossible for all surviving land animals to have been on a single boat near Mesopotamia 6k years ago. Not to mention a million other reasons why it can’
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by dwaltrip 3y ago
The "surely" is a dead giveaway.
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by dwaltrip 3y ago
What kind of tailoring do you do?
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by dwaltrip 3y ago
Tree law? Please say more, sounds interesting

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