@dwarkesh_sp The David Mitchell universe deserves a mention. Thousand autumns of Jacob de Zoet, Utopia Avenue, and Cloud Atlas are particular standouts
@AstleDsa Amazing browser extension opportunity to ID any latex formulas and convert them to understandable text and/or code in programming language of your choice
I imagine an MMLU>85-tier LLM could do this pretty consistently
@AndrewCurran_ pig butchering operations is the first thing that comes to mind. so maybe there'll be data centers full of h100s in the burmese jungle instead of neo-slavery camps...which i think is a form of relative progress if not utopia
A quarter-baked linear algebra theory of politics: All political phenomena exist in very high dimensional vector space and the left-right spectrum is a projection created by the powerful to classify people into binary groups.
By not including issues of greater importance in the projection, this allows the powerful to go on doing whatever they want on these issues (e.g. drug price gouging) while folks battle it out on the less important issues in the projection
Re rumors about open ai strawberry / Orion, having an AI system that can effectively reason over long horizons will make it even more important that AI systems have access to high quality technical knowledge so that they can perform task that arenโt in their training data
Web search and sites exposes this knowledge for human users to reason over. And LLMs can work w web content . But itโs not optimized for them to interact w programmatically