Carson Chow

Applied mathematics, biology, computational neuroscience

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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. https://t.co/BKfhGUtBUU

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@TrentonBricken I admire the principled actions but the usual contract states that the product is to only be used for legal activities. But if random killing and mass surveillance is considered legal then I think we may have bigger problems.

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@ATabarrok I mostly don't bother trying to get reimbursed. The Swiss method is the best. They just hand you a wad of Francs

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At Pitt in the late 90's, we used this great database tool from Peoplesoft. Oracle knew it was better and did a hostile takeover, which no one thought would succeed and we were stuck with their inferior product. I knew Paramount would win Warner because Larry never quits.

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@SuryaGanguli 2) So it it may not be a fair comparison to use 20 W for the human use per token. On the flip side, the 20 W doesn't account for the energy to keep the brain alive such as pumping blood, making glucose, etc. Anyway it's not a trivial comparison.

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@SuryaGanguli 1) The 20 watts, which is the average a human brain uses, is the baseline rate which would use 20 watts independent of what you are doing. Metabolic measurements seem to indicate that "thinking hard" has essentially non-measureable effect on energy.

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Demand side economics https://t.co/q1Uc0QhUSG

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@nblqbl Beautiful example of the ambiguity of English. Grammati ally, it is not clear if "swirling grain pattern" applies to the apple or to the pate.

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@SebastianSeung A premise of AGI zoomers is that instances of the AI can learn independently and link to each other. Human intelligence has several billion minds learning and processing information independently (or at least quasi-independently). Not sure the hive mind beats a decorrelated MCMC

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@dwarkesh_sp Peter Dayan
https://t.co/aCls8TNBCI

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Has anyone told Elon that there is such a thing as reversible computing (which means there is no minimum amount of energy needed), so you can have super AGI and not need all the power in the galaxy to run it?

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If Karpathy is correct, and he usually is, then current AI is just the perfect homework doing machine. I would hate to be a student today.

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We need AGK, artifical general kindness

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The world right now does not lack IQ, it lacks compassion and wisdom

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It's not like people are saying AGI will suddenly make SHA-512 encryption obsolete. All these Bitcoin farms won't go away with AGI so why does everyone think biology is easier?

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That is biology. It is not IQ limited. AGI won't suddenly find the guests. You have to try the keys in the locks. There is nothing specific about GLP-1 that makes it magical. The body could have chosen any number of hormones. We are the end result of a bunch random events.

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Imagine a giant hotel with a trillion rooms and each room has a thousand locks. You need to find 100 guests in 100 different rooms. Now you are given 20000 keys and you have to figure out what combination of keys opens the locks. That is all you know. How do you find the guests?

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Where can I get some cheap used A100s?

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Anyone have a spare A100 I can use during the shutdown?