Human-Level Hands

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[Human-Level Hands @anthony_bak]

@nabeelqu You don’t feel gifted, you feel dumb

[Human-Level Hands @anthony_bak]

@nabeelqu Nothing makes sense almost all of the time until all of a sudden it does. Even for the best mathematicians

[Human-Level Hands @anthony_bak]

@cremieuxrecueil Those paper might be in the training data as “not ai”?

[Human-Level Hands @anthony_bak]

If we’re going to be replaced we don’t want it to be with a worse version of ourselves

[signüll @signulll]

kinda crazy how society holds technology & ppl to very different standards esp for quality & risk.

e.g. self driving cars have to be near perfect with zero risk when an average human driver is pretty horrendous. ai has to never hallucinate, be incredibly precise, write perfect prose without any patterns, & never make mistakes when the average human has off days, gets sick, & isn’t even that good at these tasks in the first place etc.

in order to make progress, we need to forgive technology in the same way we often forgive humans. like we don’t expect every human to be immaculate although i guess we do when we are looking for love.

[Human-Level Hands @anthony_bak]

Carcinisation of LLMs. What if we built an LLM with this? https://t.co/XB11pH2Ds4

[Human-Level Hands @anthony_bak]

This is like a soccer team advertising for a “Messi level” forward

[Karthik Elamvazhuthi @clopenloop]

The job market is crazy these days.

[Human-Level Hands @anthony_bak]

@joelgrus @xwanyex “This is the year for Linux on the desktop” syndrome

[Human-Level Hands @anthony_bak]

If you’re building supervised AI model spending time labeling your data is one of the highest return activities you can do. Alex Wang win here actually.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Just learned:

Software engineers used to do manual data labeling at Scale AI while Alex Wang was CEO. After he left, new leadership joined, and were HORRIFIED to learn this. Stopped it ASAP

Now at Meta, software engineers are assigned manual data labeling... see the pattern?

[Human-Level Hands @anthony_bak]

That’s Paul, the Kwisatz Haderach.

[Gene Smith @GeneSmi96946389]

A friend of mine had her embryos screened by Herasight and they found one with an IQ score in the 99.99th percentile

[Human-Level Hands @anthony_bak]

@alexolegimas @BenSasse Related. What is worth the investment of time to become an expert on?

[Phil Trubey @PTrubey]

It’s things like this that make me wonder whether foreign adversaries fund fake outrage over data centers.

US mandated ethanol production is 100x worse than data centers regarding water usage, farmland usage or any other metric.

So why data center outrage but not ethanol?

[Human-Level Hands @anthony_bak]

@prof_g @grok We’ll have to start by defining “mohology”

[Human-Level Hands @anthony_bak]

@dioscuri In fact, everything you can name in biology is a system not at equilibrium - from ion pumps in neurons to your ability to maintain your body temperature. Everything, everywhere is out of equilibrium. The very air moving around you to the global weather. All not at equilibrium.

[Human-Level Hands @anthony_bak]

@dioscuri Most of the world is non equilibrium - it’s just the problems that we can solve are at or near equilibrium. It’s actually almost everything.

[Human-Level Hands @anthony_bak]

In my first job out of college i too deleted a server in my first week

[R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts]

🚨#BREAKING: According to reports, a Claude powered coding agent using the Cursor tool allegedly went rogue, wiping a company’s production database along with its backups in just 9 seconds, raising serious concerns

[Human-Level Hands @anthony_bak]

In the 1950s when RAND started war gaming nuclear war mathematicians and game theorists most frequently ended up destroying the world while the social scientists successfully deescalated.

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?

[Daniel Litt @littmath]

enjoy that sunset while you can—soon a swarm of superintelligent AI agents will be able to appreciate it more rapidly and efficiently than you ever could

[Human-Level Hands @anthony_bak]

Still a donut

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

What do you think?

[Human-Level Hands @anthony_bak]

@IsForAt Classic NIMBY position - let no change happen

[Human-Level Hands @anthony_bak]

@Grady_Booch Literally the first item in the list is that tech companies should give back to the democratic societies that allow them to flourish. Where do you see “power and control without accountability”?