Are you libertarian about this specifically? Do you think it's better if people also have the choice of dating apps? Or would you ban them if given the choice?

As noted last time, Rob Henderson finds that women in their twenties swipe right (‘like’) twice as often for a man with a master’s degree over a bachelor’s degree.

Causal or association?

Manifold Love: pro-tip: if a woman measures her hand against yours, this is almost always flirtation.

Totally did not know this. Is this true?

2. Authenticity and openness with your partner tends to be reciprocal and strongly predicts relationship satisfaction. That makes sense, this is underrated.

Is this causal? I mean, maybe being yourself and open works for people who happen to already be relationship-compatible. People who are not would be worse off by trying to be themselves. I think I have been burned in the past a lot by that kind of advice, although my experience is too much of an anecdote to infer an average.

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What are your goals when you teach?

What gives you pleasure when teaching?

After the events of April 2024, I cannot say that for Columbia or Yale. No just no.

What are these events?

Your argument would imply that competition begets worse products?

One big prize, or many small prizes like here?

First thoughts:

• Context length is insanely long
• Very good at predicting the next token
• Knows many more abstract facts

These three things are all instances of being OOM better at something specific. If you consider the LLM somewhat human-level at the thing it does, this suggests that it's doing it in a way which is very different from what a human does.

That said, I'm not confident about this; I can sense there could be an argument that this counts as human but ramped up on some stats, and not an alien shoggoth.

If I had to give only one line of advice to a randomly sampled prospective grad student: you don't actually have to do what the professor says.

Ok. Then I'll say that randomly assigned utility over full trajectories are beyond wild!

The basin of attraction just needs to be large enough. AIs will intentionally be created with more structure than that.