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Machine learning, AI, philosophy. Backpropagandist. Father. Contrarian by instinct, academic by training. More interested if legal needs to sign off on it.

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Michael Jordan is obviously an all-timer, but Hinton, LeCun, Bengio, Pearl, Vapnik, and Breiman aren’t exactly slouches. To say nothing of Schmidhuber, naturally.

[Robert Griffin III @RGIII]

Lionel Messi is the Michael Jordan of Football. No one compares to him.

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@MercuriusFilius When I was a kid, they would ask this question with pennies. Didn't realize inflation had gotten this bad.

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@ShitTokDillard @tunguz He probably told it not to mention Gary to bait us into the obvious comment to drive engagement.

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@RokoMijic Yep. Usually she says it's not supported or she thinks it's a joke. The bizarre thing is it occasionally works.

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@ArielKwiat I'm sure it's possible. But it seems unlikely it will be the practical solution we eventually converge to (i.e., modern systems will not merely scale, but new components will be added or parts reinvented to solve the current challenges).

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@DimitrisPapail @ChrSzegedy How they feel about it? I guess it depends on the Q-value we choose.

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@ChrSzegedy @andrewgwils I would not have guessed Millennium Prize problem solving would outpace the ability to make a decent PowerPoint about those solutions, but here we are.

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@thsottiaux @grok Is he talking about a banked reset or the regular kind?

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@giffmana Won't this just stand out among desk rejections for being over 41 pages too long?

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@Austen greatness is locally conserved: positive deviations require equal and opposite corrections (i.e., the conservation of greatness, as established in the Mulligan experiment)

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@Plinz Or every job gets automated, but it turns out Jevons paradox only applies to the fake ones

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A "random caps" key would probably be more useful than caps lock at this point.

[Peter Barnett @peterbarnett_]

“but HOw wOuLd tHE AI gET aCcesS tO a wET LAb??”

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@ArtemisConsort The lightcone is not even infinite, what are we doing.

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@tszzl If Gandalf doesn't smite his ruin upon the mountain side, it's probably existential.

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Apparently flattening a complex tragedy into an inverted melodrama is what passes for "well-educated."

[Adrian Vermeule @Vermeullarmine]

The normal person calls the monster Frankenstein. The half-educated insist, smugly, that Frankenstein is the name of the doctor, not the monster. The well-educated see that Dr. Frankenstein is himself the monster, in a spiritual and literary sense. (And the VP, communicating publicly, is quite right to use the first/third sense).

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@pegobry_en "Mad scientist creates horrifying monster" is the far better summary.

It's also better than the "he just needed to be loved" message some people took away from the book.

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@CoachDanGo Makes sense. So what's the best way to grow a foot?

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I started a book on procrastination a few years ago. The first chapter covered all of the benefits. I've been meaning to finish it.

[Iona Italia, PhD 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @IonaItalia]

I'm already nervous about having to file taxes (which I can't do until April 2027 at the earliest and don't have to do until Jan 2028). I just hope that by that point AI will have advanced to the point at which it does our taxes for us.

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@johnschulman2 No. It can only improve on the haphazard unpublished thoughts that mathematicians put in.