@gptbrooke true
I love to hear from people with genuinely difficult backgrounds and they’re not even traumatized
meanwhile normie UMC child #20182 can go off for hours about their trauma
what i actually did: drew a sphere in matlab
what I said I did: “wrote a script to model the plasmonic NP morphologies required for the pre computation”
@_AlastairX_ I understand but if you dig deeper into each of these success stories, which of them was unduly burdened by regulatory hurdles? All of them struggled with real technological problems
few areas where there’s the most carnage from bad regulation: medical data, housing, nuclear
but this rly does not extend into adjacent industries and saying “all innovation in atoms is banned” is cope
@colinmort seems like on biopharma cos are able to sneak in designer drugs of questionable quality past the FDA all the time
eg Aduhelm
the trial processes are basically reasonable outside of emergencies and the bottleneck doesn’t seem to be paperwork
@_AlastairX_ the d2c lobbying came well down the line and it certainly wasnt top of their list for fatal problems imo
regulators have been way behind airbnb & uber at every step but i agree it introduces a limitation in that these businesses take very rare personalities to run
@eigenrobot there is and will continue to be value in these schools even in tech
not to get into faang necessarily but to get into the trading cos or biotech or VC which all tends to be a bit more conservative/ selective
@abuutyshake im on his side; it’s beyond irrelevant how difficult the research was to the fact that we are and have been creating godlike intelligences for a while
@abuutyshake forget gpt even
Like the google search machine approaches omniscience of human knowledge - you can very comfortably call it godlike esp when you come from a polytheist culture
if I ever paused to think abt the menagerie of impressive people that are following me and the stream of endless bullshit i send into their feeds I would be completely unable to tweet 😂
@leepavelich@gbrl_dick political systems will adjust to be more inimical to capital just like what’s happening today; redistribution will increase
even when people are immortal organizations will not be
@aquariusacquah I think many many people are lowkey turning on autopilot and going to sleep on the highway (within reason bc they gotta press the button) extrapolating from the few data points I have
i still don’t understand how the consultants armed with powerpoints calling linear regressions “AI” managed to psyop everyone into thinking absurd scifi shit is not going on lol
catching some third tier company with a .ai domain name with their pants down and concluding all ML/AI is fake is a helluva local minimum
there’s not a single game you can beat computers at any more lol
ill admit there’s a lot of hubris in computer scientists claiming a lot of things “solved” but there’s another hubris on the other side insisting that the math is too easy or the principle is too simple … inherent belief that human cognition is arcane and too smart to understand
@krishnanrohit@gbrl_dick as soon as mfers gotta interact with the real world all pretensions fall apart & your dao is fake controlling an LLC but there’s actuallu people on the board
AI hype train, twitter account, yuppie spending habits, "rationalist" adjacent, randomly say 'theres no alpha left there' , worships elon moosque, learns all philosophy from science fiction, materialist computationalism, metric go up = world gooder
https://x.com/ellebeecher/status/1445099616383508485?s=20
@mcluvyn I thought so at first but I doubt it
Only Facebook can send the command to delete its BGP routes at every border
And even internally I doubt anyone has permission to do this on purpose — gotta be a complex failure
conference rooms in most places dont lock so this seems faek
at best the room scheduling system will go down
moreover even if it were true i beseech the reader to consider how they would handle access permissions for 1000s of conference rooms without digitizing lol https://x.com/kevincollier/status/1445088214172291074
@jeff82874662 re: facebook thing ive seen right wingers say that state controlled SM is getting rekt and left wingers saying boomer conservative site is getting rekt
@bastard_brian there are several ok but kinda wrong answers to this question including eg distraction, polarization
the topwit answer is that zuck has a punchable face + that movie did trillions of dollars of brand damage in the long run + hes the most free speech hardliner of any of them
@PomoThug@moultano@bastard_brian lmao i hate to break it to you but people are just browsing memes on there and occasionally talking politics
just like this site. you just find it low status
@halvorz think about the incentives in universities vs in a workplace
like a million kids (+ the public) trying to get access to lounge in a handful of cushy conference rooms
vs abundant conference rooms at work and high tech scheduling systems + gated from public
@halvorz RIP
at my uni I remember the nicer newer buildings had digitally booked non locking conference rooms and the older ones had locked card access
at any rate all would remain accessible even with no power or network, basic requirement
instead of repealing sec 230 (stupid) why can't fb/etc open up a conduit for various govts to place algorithmic injunctions on posts that it might consider hate speech
obviously its kind of authoritarian and cringe but it would be far worse if you repeal 230 and the internet platforms have to take down everything mildly suspicious because they stand to hurt their bottom line
ted cruz: roon, please repeat to committee what you told my staff
me, fb whistleblower: its true senators, one day i came to the microkitchens and they were out of soylent,
@micsolana people who blame social media as the root cause for eg trump, 01/06 are essentially npcs and exist on all sides of the spectrum. They would’ve hated Gutenberg too
@Duderichy you say that but you don’t mean it lol
you would judge someone for eg blowing their whole fortune in one go on extravagance instead of creating generational wealth
@beamonarch1@micsolana except you can’t name me a single internet company whose function isn’t to take more of your time by serving you more “interesting” content
even subscription based models auto play the next episode
so where then was the free will of Facebook?
@beamonarch1@micsolana if anything due to its monopoly nature they can afford to take great pains to curb content they find to have negative mental effect and downrank “extremist” articles and whatnot
despite the best efforts of the global entertainment industry the most entertaining content is a group chat with like 10 randos on twitter and random indian tiktokkers
@lastcontrarian yeah but not for cultural reasons unfortunately
the breadth and scope of amateur publishing, interest in physics has only expanded over time
@lastcontrarian on the AI side, that means algorithms with better inductive bias to learn from less data; on the physics side it means we need a bunch of genius physicists looking in the right place
@pee_zombie i think the people who reason from first principles as much as possible at each timestep rather than reasoning from history are at an advantage
@knrd_z@lndian_Bronson@alth0u i genuinely don’t feel bad automating someone’s job out of existence if welfare exists lol. but even in the general case I don’t care too much
@jasoncrawford@CkLorentzen I mean it’s not heavy hitting or anything but daft punk “technologic”or even “harder better faster”
it doesn’t really spell it out but it clearly celebrates the tech ethos
right wing conspiracies are always occult and involve worship of demons or foreign gods
left wing conspiracies always assume extreme levels of control by intelligence agencies or corporations (men in black)
@eigenrobot I think in 20C a level of information control was possible that’s simply not available today - this sort of stuff is only for keeping +/- 2 σ normies in line
2) it understates the evolutionary nature of science -- requires thousands of random searching failures to anoint our 10 geniuses
3) i think people who are far less than astronomical geniuses produced outsized advances in machine learning
this model of science is wrong because it
1) it mistakenly assumes that the 10 geniuses that create scientific revolutions work in a vacuum rather than synthesizing the last 10% of work after accumulating the 90% https://t.co/BvWTPjFIKP
4) the easier way to explain this has less to do with citation dynamics and just that the average quality of research drops as people flock into an up & coming field
@krishnanrohit@cyrilnotes lol and Kuhn basically said you can never predict which thing is a paradigm shift and they're often "bad" ideas at the beginning
@Plinz well it's almost tautological that the most important discoveries in a field will be made early -- discover something interesting enough and it will be made into a "new" field
early investors get the highest returns
@Plinz but even if this is true it discounts point 2, re: evolutionary nature of science. i suppose math can be somewhat different, depends where you fall on Popper v Kuhn axis
@max_hodak i think production efficiency will drastically increase vis a vis AI generated assets and that producers will still continue to spend more bc the ROI on intense world building seems unbounded
@costa11235 yeah and fields that are heavier in the empiricism will of course agree with this more than fields that are heavy on theoretical breakthrough
there’s a kind of guy in every game (academics, startups, big tech etc) that knows an incredible amount about the metagame but little about the object level thing. they are boring and detestable
@SkepticalAlpaca@halvorz anyway I think pundit as a class will become irrelevant as media continues to decentralize
we will all be micro pundits for 15 minutes
@parafactual I think no due to efficient market hypothesis lol. the most interesting jobs that also pay well are competed away leaving only the sisyphean drudgeries. some have competitive advantage in enjoying things others find awful