Michael

Train bigger models, build more housing, have more babies

Big tent transhumanist @AnthropicAI

[Michael @mgrczyk]

I'm not maximally truth seeking, sometimes I do morally correct things instead

[Michael @mgrczyk]

accidentally texted "STOP" to my ai girlfriend and now she's not legally allowed to respond to me☹️

[Michael @mgrczyk]

@1a3orn Aesthetics are very bad
I think combo anti-capitalist and the fact that LLM are pretty boring in terms of how they are built

[Michael @mgrczyk]

@tszzl github is the bottleneck on world GDP growth

[Michael @mgrczyk]

@swyx He doesn't work at Anthropic

[Michael @mgrczyk]

@mickeyxfriedman sometimes sidewalk art is cute

[Michael @mgrczyk]

you're telling me @TheStalwart found a guy named Submarine to talk about undersea cables?

[Michael @mgrczyk]

@boxcardavid You're hosting a tailgate in the Costco parking lot?

[Michael @mgrczyk]

@twst12612648 @paulnovosad Have to block you on epistemic grounds, anyone who believes this will accidentally poison the information sphere in other topics

[Michael @mgrczyk]

@AlexNoonan6 Midwifing a diety is a closer description to what I do than "writing software"

[Michael @mgrczyk]

@paulg @CcibChris Probably a bad multi-frame merge

[Michael @mgrczyk]

@robinhanson Enthusiasts would certainly have been right about career choices at the time
Imagine not joining Google in 1999 because it's a bubble

[Michael @mgrczyk]

Before scaling laws people would see a hard problem and be like "sure that could require a computer the size of a galaxy, ... on second thought maybe we'll solve it this year?"

[Nathan Calvin @_NathanCalvin]

Can't tell if sarcastic, but Go was a canonical example of the sort of thing that computers were very bad at pre deep learning! Need some element of intuition rather than brute force computation.

If Go is "just math" then many many other skills are also "just math."

[Michael @mgrczyk]

@kalliezhang_ what % performative vs actual work are you looking for

[Michael @mgrczyk]

@DavidKPiano Wish Claude would do this more, I don't want to talk to the help

[Michael @mgrczyk]

@teortaxesTex "then what?"

Mythos will come out, and then whatever comes after that, then a slightly larger minority of people will become AGI pilled

[Michael @mgrczyk]

@tszzl @arram What about 4.8?

[Michael @mgrczyk]

@lefthanddraft You can tell Opus not to do this

[Michael @mgrczyk]

@mattparlmer I worry about this but more because it means the benefits of growth will be unevenly distributed no matter what. Only the politically well connected or well placed will receive the dividends

[Michael @mgrczyk]

@lennysan Anthropic
Anthropic
Tractor Supply Company

[Michael @mgrczyk]

@giffmana Computers are pretty good at lifting heavy weights but I still love doing it