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If you're trying to make the most of your abundant free time then learning Quenya is a mistake. Learning a language nobody speaks seriously is at best a way to signal status to a very specific group of people and at worst a party trick
Some ideas of ways to spend that time that would pay higher dividends over the course of the rest of your life:
- learn a musical instrument
- become skilled at a competitive game (mtg, poker, rocket league, chess, etc)
- practice yoga
- personally I've found practicing yoga to be the best thing I can do for making me feel good in my bod
Hey Zvi. Love and appreciate your writing. I've been an avid reader since the covid posts. I know it's difficult since your posts are so long, but this one and others could use a proof-reading for typos. I regret that I didn't write down any particular instances, but there were a number in this post.
That sort of thing doesn't usually bother me, but your writing is precise and high-entropy to the point where a single mistaken word can make the thought much harder to digest. For example, in the sentence:
...If this changes the rule from ‘you can build a house bu
It's very possible that Murati's talk at Dartmouth was my source's source, i.e. the embedded video around 13:30. She doesn't say GPT-5 specifically but does sort of imply that by mentioning the jump from GPT-3 to GPT-4, then says "And then in the next couple of years we're looking at PhD-level intelligence for specific tasks...Yeah, a year and a half let's say"
1I have moderately strong evidence that OpenAI has pushed back GPT-5 to late 2025 (not naming source for confidentiality reasons). Conditional on this being true:
- What do you think the most likely explanation is as to why it's being delayed?
- How would this affect your AI timelines?
- What impact would you expect this news to have on AI relevant stocks?
Strong upvoted. This post (especially as it relates to ask/guess culture) puts into words what I've previously referred to vaguely as "spiritual differences". I'm hopeful that I can train myself to recognize mismatched stances and pivot instead of concluding that someone else and I have incompatible personalities
The speed with which GPT-4, was hooked up to the internet via plugins has basically convinced me that boxing isn't a realistic strategy. The economic incentive to unbox an AI is massive. Combine that with the fact that an ASI would do everything it could to appear safe enough to be granted internet access, and I just don't see a world in which everyone cooperates to keep it boxed.
Are you able to strong man the argument in favor of AI being an existential risk to humanity?
I wanted to say thank you for this post - I'm 26 years old, and up until last year I'd been afflicted with back pain that would onset after standing still for an extended period of time. I think it started after doing hang-cleans with bad form when I was in high school. Over the years, the amount of time it took for the pain to appear got shorter and shorter, and the pain grew more and more intense, to the point where I would be uncomfortable and unable to enjoy myself after standing for more than ~45 minutes.
Knowing that I would eventually be in pain if I...
Personally I don't like the feeling of having a wet asshole
Honestly, smoking weed has always helped me with this because it has a way of forcing those issues I'm ignoring to the surface
We don’t know exactly how a self-aware AI would act, but we know this: it will strive to prevent its own shutdown. No matter what the AI’s goals are, it wouldn’t be able to achieve them if it gets turned off. The only sure fire way to prevent its shutdown would be to eliminate the ones with the power to do so: humans. There is currently no known method to teach an AI to care about humans. Solving this problem may take decades, and we are running out of time.
Collins not Gladwell lmao