jabba the hutt was moments away from developing a nuclear bomb. the galactic empire has a right to defend itself. it's the only democracy in the inner rim
i love how people are saying "if we write a sufficiently detailed specification, the agent can write all our code"
do you know what writing a sufficiently detailed specification that deterministically maps to what a computer's actions is? it's coding
surprising # of high-performing people I know lose hours a day on their phone. so they try to restrict their phone usage. so inevitably they pick up another cope instead. whack-a-mole
I want silver and gold to stop going up mainly so I don't feel silly and improvident for not buying it, and so that I can instead call all the people who did buy it foolish and lacking in foresight. I want to achieve the high ground by doing absolutely nothing.
The Adolescence of Technology: an essay on the risks posed by powerful AI to national security, economies and democracy—and how we can defend against them: https://t.co/0phIiJjrmz
are things blue, or are things red? the blue things hypothesis has trouble accounting for blood, clown noses, and the chinese flag. but the red things hypothesis can't explain jeans, sapphires, or even the sky. overall i think it's very much an open question
@Jon_Mackenzie wow haha I bookmarked one of your old tweets a long time ago and didn't remember anything about it except "that Jon Mackenzie banger", couldn't find it and thought I was going crazy