Elias Isaac Lattouf

🧠🤖 Comp Neuro @CCLRI | Prev @harvardmed | MD + CS

[Elias Isaac Lattouf @eliilat]

Science is a way to train our human brains to think about things they are not able, at the current level of evolution, to realize intuitively.

[Elias Isaac Lattouf @eliilat]

@patrick_oshag @hubermanlab Sounds logical but is not

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@Halios @MIT_CSAIL @samuelxzhang An opinion from someone like Geoffrey is enough

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@baym No interest in Chess neither?

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@khouryaraa Message delivered ✅

[Elias Isaac Lattouf @eliilat]

@dearmadisonblue The question of non-human consciousness is indeed interesting and quite curiosity-piquing, but it might not matter. Consciousness only matters within the subject. Everything around the subject, including conscious humans, is nothing but input and output.

[Elias Isaac Lattouf @eliilat]

@RapidResponse47 @jgebbia “You see I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts. But it is an enthusiasm of which I am not ashamed, as it's object is to improve the taste of my countrymen, to increase their reputation, to reconcile to them the respect of the world & procure them” – Thomas Jefferson

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@karthik_r_n This post having more likes than the original post means most people aren’t interested in doing a PhD

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Only getting cheaper and better. Next is LLM-native OS across all providers.

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

GPT-6.1 Sol: near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price.

It’s the most cost-efficient model for its performance available today.

[Elias Isaac Lattouf @eliilat]

@paulg Makes me feel a bit better about my life choices

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@phillip_isola It’s indeed all for the love of the game, but many parts of the game today are more humanly meaningful to play than to watch.

[Scott @scottstts]

My god this is such a good speech that every SWE needs to hear. You know what? Every person should hear it

Keep the happy memories, eyes on the reality, be excited about the future. That’s the best that anyone can do

[ShreeChaithanya @heyim_shree]

Yann LeCun: We’re not going to reach human-level intelligence or AGI simply by scaling LLMs.

“There’s absolutely no way in hell.”

“The idea that we’re going to have a data center full of geniuses is complete BS.”

“It might feel like you have a PhD sitting right beside you.”

“But that’s not what it is.”

“It’s a system with enormous memory and retrieval capabilities not a system that can genuinely come up with solutions to problems it has never seen before.”

[Elias Isaac Lattouf @eliilat]

Feels like ‘AI’ models are playing ping pong and we’re only vehicles. We enjoy passively observing, while doing got imposed through society’s collective mind and cumulative needs to solve small and big problems. If these are solved faster and better, we’ll be spectators, again.

[Elias Isaac Lattouf @eliilat]

30yo today and feedback so far is that life isn’t for the conscious

[Ravid Shwartz Ziv @ziv_ravid]

1/ ICLR 2027 got 60K+ submissions. If we want the conference format to survive (I do), we have to rethink the whole thing. Some suggestions:

[Elias Isaac Lattouf @eliilat]

@CompleteSkeptic ‘Now that you’re done with playing and solved AGI, time to have a family so that we finally can be proud of you’

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@drmichaellevin Is it the monad

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@zittrain But can people still open their voice recorder app on their phone and record the meeting, can’t they?

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@Jiacheng_Miao @Nature Great work, it’s been obvious for a while now that papers must become or at least have a very straightforward and structured output. It might take away some art of storytelling but the consequences are otherwise only beneficial.

[Flo Crivello @Altimor]

GPT3 writing code. A compiler from natural language to code.
People don't understand — this will change absolutely everything. We're decoupling human horsepower from code production. The intellectual equivalent of the discovery of the engine. https://t.co/QGJbQRBdQv