Matthew Sun

thinking & working through community

[Matthew Sun @MatthewDSun]

shout out to @bnkrft for writing such a detailed and thorough voter guide, v useful if u r in SF and are procrastinating on filling out your ballot! i appreciate you!

[rishi @RishiBommasani]

Because of AI, we can test the counterfactual of what would happen if applicants applied more broadly.

No applicant would have been rejected from all 1700 positions.

But many would need to apply far more broadly than they did for the chances of systemic rejection to approach 0

[rishi @RishiBommasani]

We find that 18% Asian and 30% Black applicants are adversely impacted based on the relevant US federal standard.

If these groups were selected at the same rate as the most-selected group (generally White), then 40k additional applications would have been recommended.

[jessica dai @jessicadai_]

PERSONALLY if I had access to ~unprecedented billions~ of AI cash and wanted to "make sure AI goes well," I would probably spend it on things that would allow the public to experience the benefits of that wealth.... infrastructure healthcare transit education environment art ....

[Matthew Sun @MatthewDSun]

when they said AI jobpocalypse, what they meant was Claude would get replaced by humans

[Kein Name angegeben @KAngegeben]

@LauraBratton5 @ServiceNow @Uber @praveenTweets Maybe hire a few junior developers for easy tasks to save your token budget for important work?

[Kevin S. Xu @kevinsxu]

Fantastic essay by @jasminewsun

https://t.co/u3ODpklYKI

[Matthew Sun @MatthewDSun]

absolutely heartbreaking. sometimes I wonder if people who frame everything as a battle between civilizations understand the stakes for individual human lives that get caught in the crossfire, the families that get torn apart, downstream of the hawkish rhetoric

[Nature Careers @NatureCareers]

Jane Ying Wu, who took her own life, was cleared of wrongdoing by the US National Institutes of Health. Her family alleges that her employer destroyed her career. https://t.co/epe9i1VBkZ

[Matthew Sun @MatthewDSun]

(addtl assumption is that your service’s merge queue was not at full capacity before AI increased code output drastically). anyway, the bitter lesson: bottlenecks don’t just mean plateaus, they can mean regressions and incidents

[Matthew Sun @MatthewDSun]

software is a good example of how increased AI output can counterintuitively lead to *increased* service downtime, even if code quality has stayed the same, because batches of commits are more likely to contain at least one bad commit! 🧵

[Matthew Sun @MatthewDSun]

of course, none of this is unique to AI in particular. but it’s especially pronounced because of AI - a tool being suddenly rolled out to companies with thousands of employees (who may all be anxious about being left behind and want to prove their worth by pushing more code!)

[Matthew Sun @MatthewDSun]

oil prices are up, the US actively participating in a war in the middle east due to its support for israel, there's a minor religious revival, people can't stop talking about a cold war with another global superpower...we are now living in the 1970s

[Matthew Sun @MatthewDSun]

@HeidyKhlaaf took some spelunking to find it but this page has some more detail and has some estimates of false positive rate + rates of agreement between expert validators and mythos preview + includes some cost estimates to find the vulns

https://t.co/OkN2cYEOBx

[Matthew Sun @MatthewDSun]

ah yes, when I see my friends stare into the abyss, I too feel so disturbed that I am reminded of what really matters. Like what it means to run a company

[Matthew Sun @MatthewDSun]

if there are 165,000 Chinese Americans with ancestral roots in Jiangmen's Five Districts then I am one of them ❤️

[DA Wei @Tsinghua 达巍 @mawangcun1]

Last week, I spent a few days visiting Jiangmen, Guangdong. It's a famous hometown of many overseas Chinese. Today, there are 165,000 Chinese Americans with ancestral roots in Jiangmen's Five Districts, 360,000 Jiangmen descendants in Canada, and 260,000 in Venezuela.

[Matthew Sun @MatthewDSun]

one of the most engrossing things I’ve read recently - salacious and gossip-y, but also intellectually activating in its attempts to trace a line between professional and personal boundaries in the world of psychoanalysis

https://t.co/mLX1Su9IAQ