Sam

goodhart's law and burrito folklore.

[Sam @samryan18]

import sklearn

sklearn.learn()

[Dean W. Ball @deanwball]

bad news, friends. it's neither purely a marathon nor purely a sprint. it's a marathon that you have to sprint through the entire way.

[gabriel @gabriel1]

even if every SaaS tool can be one shot with codex snd SaaS is dead, there is zero percent chance legacy businesses can describe their own needs well enough

there will be a new mckinsey, but with product manager that are actually not useless

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

It is weird that global AI policy has converged on "immanentize the eschaton."

I assume it is because policy makers don't really believe it is the eschaton they are immanentizing.

[Jack @tracewoodgrains]

What is the solution? Part of it has to be raising the salience of this topic, pointing out the ways policymakers systematically misunderstand and dismiss it, and explicitly and overtly championing the ceiling-raising role of instruction. https://t.co/9YFg9vMZfy

[Devon ☀️ @devonzuegel]

An underrated problem with misaligned incentives: they can cause people to mistrust each other even if no bad behavior has actually occurred

Simply knowing someone's incentives are misaligned is enough to plant a seed of doubt in every action they take

[Sam @samryan18]

@NielsHoven With you there. But what does "putting in the time" entail here? Presumably some form of empiricism? Perhaps you're suggesting simply "go with whatever (or whomever) seems most reasonable"?

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

Yup that was definitely a good idea

[Sam @samryan18]

@StuartJRitchie @alexabelson9 [1 year later] “After a complaint, the authors audited their data and identified errors in the analysis including […]”

who could possibly have seen it coming??

[Sam @samryan18]

@jxnlco Talk to @minney_cat and @lisawehden

[Minn @minney_cat]

Ensuring top talent can come and stay in the US is one of the most surefire ways for the US to maintain global competitiveness.

If you're navigating US immigration right now, you shouldn't have to do it alone. DMs are open

[sucks @powerbottomdad1]

can't believe people are just OK with the state of things in sf. vile city

[Heather Knight @hknightsf]

False. It’s La Corneta. 🌯

[sucks @powerbottomdad1]

how incredible that the most important city on earth looks like this. it could have looked like Gary, Indiana or Karachi. but God has chosen this place. many times now

[Sam @samryan18]

but yea - alignment of the super human will be ez

[Sam @samryan18]

We’ve had our best and brightest writing libraries worth of laws that try to solve the human-to-human alignment problem for thousands of years

[Sam @samryan18]

And many known loopholes (note: humans are far from optimized to find such loopholes!)

[ellie @ellie__hain]

Some more thoughts on progress, and why meaning isn't a "nice to have", but the engine that actually drives it:

[Zvi Mowshowitz @TheZvi]

The only important fact about WALL-E is that they solved the alignment problem.

[Sam @samryan18]

winter wonderland on mt tam

[Sam @samryan18]

first tracks :)