@FedEx genuinely curious why a package from woodland CA to Mountain View CA (90 miles apart) has to make a round trip through the east coast (Richmond Hill, GA)
“The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You’ll never be lovelier than you’re now. We’ll never be here again.” - T
Assume good intention.
Not necessarily as an accurate depiction of reality, but as a compass to guide your own speech and behavior, so you don't end up contributing to the worsening of the situation.
Not just governments but pretty much everything that exerts influence on human beings. Including, but not limited to, corporations, military, religion, social movements and so on.
"The line between good and evil runs not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains... an un-uprooted small corner of evil." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Gulag Archipelago
When I approach conversations with people, I think about the above passage a lot. It humbles me and it gives me hope.
the next 2-3 years of AI are definitively going to define the coming 2-3 decades of the world
for those in technology: you live a lifetime for a moment like this—don’t waste it; don’t be lazy
there are decades where nothing happens, and weeks where decades happen.
With this much excitement and energy in the LLM space, I am fairly confident in this prediction:
Before the end of this year, there will be an open source model that is equivalent in quality to #GPT4
Then, AI researchers and the AI community will go to town and improve it.