David Piepgrass @dpiepgrass@schelling.pt
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EA, ACX fan, aspiring rationalist, antimisinformist. I focus on problems in the foundations of the world. My interests include molten salt reactors, making military takeovers fail, improving human intellectual efficiency, gathering and organizing the world’s information better than Google, programming language & library design, nudism, singing, AI, and SCIENCE.
Joined Dec 2022
From Twitter
RT @Simeon_Cps
40 seconds to understand why the human species might go extinct and why if we race towards AGI, everyone will lose, by @geoffreyhinton
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I stand by earlier predictions that this sort of thing isn't going to get us all killed, but....
This sort of thing *could* inspire someone on how to build a real AGI that will.
But maybe first someone accidentally causes a minor disaster that helps cause AI regulation?
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RT @JayScambler
The pace of development surrounding Baby AGI and AutoGPT is mind blowing. Seems like a new *groundbreaking* update comes out every hour
Here are …
https://twitter.com/JayScambler/status/1645603816111308800
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Story of my life
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RT @panickssery
"When people ask me about my life’s ambitions, I often joke that my goal is to become independently wealthy so that I can afford to get some work done. Mainly that’s about being able to do things without having to explain them first, so that the finished product can be the… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1652440059486806017
https://twitter.com/panickssery/status/1652440059486806017
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RT @JosephPolitano
Serious response: saying "how dare journalists disagree with Harvard's George Borjas!" is just cherrypicking 1 professor and then appealing to authority.
Actually look at systematic surveys of economists and you see they overwhelmingly agree immigration is good for Americans
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RT @MaxCRoser
This is how the cost of DNA sequencing changed over the last 20 years.
Back in 2001 the cost was $5.3million per billion pairs.
20 years later the cost was down to $5 — a million-times cheaper.
From Twitter
RT @liron
Meet the guy who invented @OpenAI's RLHF technique (https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03741).
His name is Dr. @paulfchristiano, PhD Comp Sci from UC Berkeley.
Paul says there's a 50% chance of doom once AI systems are human-level intelligent.
So do we keep training smarter AI systems or no?🤔 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1650980681953198080
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It's crazy how the modern (America-centric) world treats nudity and sex as basically the same thing
"Imgur To Ban Nudity Or Sexually Explicit Content Next Month" https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/04/19/2219234/imgur-to-ban-nudity-or-sexually-explicit-content-next-month
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RT @Willyintheworld
"Rapid progress in primate intelligence over the past few millennia...has led to growing concern about the risks humans pose to mouse
wellbeing. In particular, it is not clear how to ensure that human
superintelligence, if it is ever achieved, stays aligned w/ mouse
values."
From Twitter
Wagner mercenaries shot over 10 teenagers because ... something about their tattoos?
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RT @StateOfUkraine
The shooting of unarmed teenagers by Wagner mercenaries is a despicable war crime that must be stopped.
Ukraine urgently requires more decisive weapons to expel Russia from its territory.
The longer Western decision-makers delay, the more atrocious war crimes Russia will commit.
https://twitter.com/StateOfUkraine/status/1648025217573289984
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One more thing, this analysis doesn't look very trustworthy: it doesn't match its own screenshots. e.g. there's no indication that a misspelling makes the tweet be detected as non-English.
(But now I have to wonder how to tell Twitter I can speak Spanish)
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RT @aakashg0
9. Making up words or misspelling hurts
Words that are identified as “unknown language” are given 0.01, which is a huge penalty.
Anything under 1 is bad.
This is re…
https://twitter.com/aakashg0/status/1641976943141699584
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So let me get this straight. I am detected as likely spam if I cite my sources.🤦♂️ Fuuuuck.
Note: if Twitter believes it's "news" then it's okay.
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RT @aakashg0
3. Links hurt, unless you have enough engagement
Generally external links get you marked as spam.
Unless you have enough engagement.
https://twitter.com/aakashg0/status/1641976906982498310
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Twitter has hardcoded downranking of Ukraine coverage?!?
uh, but upranking if you include an image...
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RT @aakashg0
Twitter revealed its algorithm to the world.
But what does it mean for you?
I spent the evening analyzing it.
Here’s what you need to know:
https://twitter.com/aakashg0/status/1641976869460275201
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RT @DecoupleMedia
The day after the last 3 reactors shut down, we took a snapshot to see how the 🇩🇪 grid is doing at noon. No solar to speak of and more coal than wind producing. Almost 500g carbon intensity.
*thisisfine.jpg* https://twitter.com/DecoupleMedia/status/1646556092875546624
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RT @StefanFSchubert
Many things used to be really unsafe relatively recently
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-46730478
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USA_annual_VMT_vs_deaths_per_VMT.png
https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/how-much-safer-has-construction-gotten
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RT @AMAZlNGNATURE
Everything's terrible, so here's a cockatiel hiding in a newspaper playing peekaboo
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The main argument against AGI catastrophic risk is a lot like the main argument against humans causing global warming: it's all too complex! it can't be predicted! therefore there's nothing to worry about!
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RT @GregAttilaKiss
@VesselOfSpirit
https://twitter.com/GregAttilaKiss/status/1646756795497553921
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RT @Tatarigami_UA
🧵Thread:
For those seeking a greater understanding of the russian soldier's perspective on the war, motivation, and attitudes, I recommend reading this thread, as I decided to compile and generalize some materials.
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If American soldiers did this, I think we'd be hearing about it for years (remember the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse?)
But since Russia did it, Americans will probably forget within a month (as with Tymofiy Shadura). Bucha will be remembered better—but was a much larger atrocity...
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RT @visegrad24
The Russians have just published a video of them cutting the head off a captured Ukrainian soldier as he tries to struggle for his life.
Uk…
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1645912822289768449
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I could summarize it as "axiomatic reasoning in which the axioms are numerous and chosen according to taste."
Like Carlos here, a Christian who thinks reason is overrated—not enough metanoia (repentance) & thymos (heart). https://squarecircle.substack.com/p/no-fire-in-the-equations
- Home page
- http://david.loyc.net
EA, ACX fan, aspiring rationalist, antimisinformist. I focus on problems in the foundations of the world. My interests include molten salt reactors, making military takeovers fail, improving human intellectual efficiency, gathering and organizing the world’s information better than Google, programming language & library design, nudism, singing, AI, and SCIENCE.
Joined Dec 2022
