Occasionally think about topics discussed here. Will post if I have any thoughts worth sharing.
it's good though! but yeah a bit cringe, as all the best things are.
I was not wrong? I argued with Connor about this back in the day on EAI. If you take the PISA scores at face value and account for their higher population, China has like 30x more people above 145 IQ. Steve Hsu has a nice post about this[1]:
This appears to be very antimemetic but seems to be true and the world sure is behaving like this is true.
If human capital matters, they have more and better human capital than America. But human capital will be obsolete soon.
And I do think much of the idea that China cannot catch up is based on some idiotic, racist notions that asians lack creativity. And this increasingly is becoming obviously massive cope as China catches up and surpasses in industry after industry. And no, semiconductors are not special. They will catch up just fine.
I think timelines are short, so I would still be betting on an “American god” but if they are longer than I think, China is a contender, and increasing more so in worlds where timelines are long and human capital still matters.
https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2008/06/asian-white-iq-variance-from-pisa.html?m=1
Update: Claude 3.6 is clearly capable of writing jokes. Even if I tell it to write jokes a maximally-alien creature would write if they lived in a maximally alien environment it now seems able to reliably produce strings I qualify as jokes.
interesting reading this 3 years later. I occasionally paste a bug report directly into cursor and provided I am right about which file the bug is in, it often one-shots them. i remain confused about why rsi isn't critical by now.
one data-point: i have been generating songs with lyrics I like and it’s most of my music consumption now.
the song you generated has a slop vibe i am not a fan of - but we are all wireheaded in different ways. however, if I generate hundreds of songs I usually get what I want. focusing on simple lyrics helps a lot and “no autotune” in the prompt helps too.
I was really sleep deprived and slightly intoxicated yesterday and wrote this. It was amusing to me, at least, in the state I was in.
I would like to take this opportunity to express my undying loyalty to my nation and its human instruments.
This is all downstream of the board being insufficiently Machiavellian, and Ilya’s weaknesses in particular. Peter Thiel style champerty against Altman as new EA cause?
I was joking.