Rare, authentic voice of Eileen Chang (Zhang Ailing张爱玲)!
Chang is one of the most influential modern Chinese writer, known for her novels depicting life in Shanghai and Hong Kong in 1930s and 1940s.
This is a clip from her English speech delivered in 1969 at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
The full original recording runs about 1 hour 12 minutes and is archived at Harvard’s Schlesinger Library.
Audio restored by Rednote Tutu Made; visual editing by me.
使用 AI 做任何项目的最大秘诀是你要不断在两个方向驾驭它。
一个方向是显然的:你要 push 它完成目标
一个方向不那么显然但同样重要(甚至更重要):你要不断压缩它引入的混乱(或者说熵),换句话说,你要锲而不舍地给它擦屁股。
AI 的天性是攻其一点不及其余。所以你放任它自发完成任务,它会为了给你炒一盘鸡蛋西红柿而把整个厨房炸掉,然后问你「你就说鸡蛋西红柿好不好吃吧。」大部分人上手用 AI 做项目,一开始都失败在这里:它创造出了一个可用的东西,但混乱的成长速度压过了功能的成长速度,然后在某一个崩溃成一团无法修复的乱麻,治丝益棼。
第二个方向更需要人:人的经验、品味、调度能力、节奏感。人比AI对混乱的本质更敏感,也对混乱中什么是真正该留下来的东西更有洞察力。
Ironically,一旦你指出了混乱所在,AI 本身可以成为清理混乱的好帮手。它比你更善于收拾厨房。它只是懒。
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
Congratulations to Hong Wang of on winning the 2026 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize for work in harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, and geometric measure theory, including the local smoothing conjecture, Furstenberg set conjecture, and the Kakeya conjecture. https://t.co/awmRtAWxGl @Institut_IHES@NYU_Courant
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“I was really amazed by what Mikey did because it’s very physical and never sentimental, which I love, because too much sentimentality kills performances. You have to keep a way of staying kind of aloof, and that’s exactly what she did. But physically, it’s so engaging. The way she uses her body, with such liberty, with such freedom, I rarely see that onscreen.”