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If you’ve never been on a walk with Samuel in person, then you should try and do so someday. But if you don’t get a chance, then this is the next best thing!
I can’t stand this dishonest and hypocritical way of talking about technology.
According to a British minister, who is trying to make it easier for AI companies to steal people’s creative work en masse, this is all just inevitable “change.” He said about musicians and filmmakers who are protesting:
“Just as in every other time there is ch…
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I just got back from teaching my class and every word of it this is true, this is no exaggeration. He is writing from an American university but it is exactly the same in Canada.
From my Q&A with Alex Hutchinson — physicist, former elite runner, and author of The Explorer’s Gene (out today)
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The success of Substack Notes suggests that long-form blogging is symbiotic with short-form tweets. Tweets are mutation, follows are selection, posts are memory. Mutation + selection + memory = memetic evolution. Without memory you get noise (X).
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Back when portable CD players weren’t just round blobs.
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First night in Xi’An, got in near closing time. Went to place down street and everyone was drunk inside. One guy was being carried out as I went in. No idea what to order, since no cell service, so I pointed.
Got pile of bean sprouts and peppers & some massive dish of diced chicken and somehow more peppers. I don’t think I’ve had a dish …
I very much enjoyed this piece by about why Airbus succeeded, and what this tells us about where industrial policy can and cannot work. In other words: why can we make a European airliner but not a European Google?
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“In attempting to construct such machines we should not be irreverently usurping His power of creating souls, any more than we are in the procreation of children,” Turing had advised. “Rather we are, in either case, instruments of His will providing mansions for the souls that He creates.”
Anthropic seems to have found evidence of their models thinking via quite nuanced planning as opposed to pure next token prediction, but the reaction to the paper was muted. What am I missing? anthropic.com/research/…
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I have complicated feelings about luxury watches. On the one hand: Exciting. On the other hand: Does the world really need more of them? I mostly like vintage anyway. With the big watch show just a few days away, never a better time to reflect.
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I haven’t eaten an animal for three decades. You don’t have to make the shift right away. You can just simply eat less meat, eggs and milk.
It’s like smoking…reducing is where you start. How long it takes is how long it takes.
The only supplement you need is B12 and, frankly, meat eaters probably need it too.
