@DJSnM@realcfrost @RootJeffrey @NevetsEel1@JRommelSnz@elonmusk You accept transracial, the belief possible for ppl suffering from racial diff to change race?
Why Scientist believe in such cult gender ideology ppl can change SEX based on gender identity?
This reminds me of the fact Japanese terrorist "Aum Shinrikyo" had many science elites
A session of the Global Spaceport Alliance meeting discussed potential revenue streams for commercial spaceports. Some obvious items got the most votes, but also "incarceration facilities."
Elon Musk: AI is like a genius child. You want it to grow up with love of the truth and of humanity.
“I do worry about AI. Because we are creating an intelligence that ultimately will be far more intelligent than any human, and ultimately more intelligent than the sum of all humans.
In creating AI, we need to be very careful. It's like having a genius child. You want to have that child grow up with good values.
The most important thing in training AI is that it's rigorously truthful. This is very, very important. Essential.
My concern about a lot of the AIs that are being developed is that they're trained to lie. In some cases, with potentially disastrous consequences.
When Google Gemini came out, people asked, which is worse, misgendering Caitlyn Jenner or global thermonuclear war? And it said, misgendering Caitlyn Jenner. That's a problem, guys.
If this AI becomes super powerful, it could decide that the best way to avoid misgendering is to kill all humans, which makes the probability of misgendering zero.
It's very important to have AI be maximally truthful and curious, and love humanity. Very important.”
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, October 19, 2024
Today we’ve formalized an important hiring policy at Scale. We hire for MEI: merit, excellence, and intelligence.
This is the email I’ve shared with our @scale_AI team.
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MERITOCRACY AT SCALE
In the wake of our fundraise, I’ve been getting a lot of questions about talent. All of our external success—powering breakthroughs in L4 autonomy, partnering with OpenAI on RLHF going back to GPT-2, supporting the DoD and every major AI lab, and the recent $1bn financing transaction—all of it is downstream from us hiring the best people for the job. Talent is our #1 input metric.
Because of this, I spend a lot of my time on recruiting. I either personally interview every hire or sign off on every candidate packet. It’s the thing I spend the plurality of my time on, easily. But everyone can and should contribute to this effort. There are almost a thousand of us now, and it takes a lot to hire quickly while maintaining, and continuing to raise, our bar for quality.
That’s why this is the time to codify a hiring principle that I consider crucial to our success:
Scale is a meritocracy, and we must always remain one.
Hiring on merit will be a permanent policy at Scale.
It’s a big deal whenever we invite someone to join our mission, and those decisions have never been swayed by orthodoxy or virtue signaling or whatever the current thing is. I think of our guiding principle as MEI: merit, excellence, and intelligence.
That means we hire only the best person for the job, we seek out and demand excellence, and we unapologetically prefer people who are very smart.
We treat everyone as an individual. We do not unfairly stereotype, tokenize, or otherwise treat anyone as a member of a demographic group rather than as an individual.
We believe that people should be judged by the content of their character — and, as colleagues, be additionally judged by their talent, skills, and work ethic.
There is a mistaken belief that meritocracy somehow conflicts with diversity. I strongly disagree. No group has a monopoly on excellence. A hiring process based on merit will naturally yield a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and ideas. Achieving this requires casting a wide net for talent and then objectively selecting the best, without bias in any direction. We will not pick winners and losers based on someone being the “right” or “wrong” race, gender, and so on. It should be needless to say, and yet it needs saying: doing so would be racist and sexist, not to mention illegal.
Upholding meritocracy is good for business and is the right thing to do. This approach not only results in the strongest possible team, but also ensures we’re treating our colleagues with fairness and respect.
As a result, everyone who joins Scale can be confident that they were chosen for their outstanding talent, not any other reasons.
MEI has gotten us to where we are today. And it’s the same thing that’ll get us where we’re going, as we embark on our next chapter focusing on data abundance, frontier data, and reliable measurement to accelerate the development and adoption of AI models.
Alex
Scientists are studying planet K2-18b, which discovered a gas produced only by living organisms
Now, to confirm the finding, the James Webb Space Telescope will undertake hours of observations of the planet. The results of the study will be ready and published in a few months.
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As long as AI systems are trained to reproduce human-generated data (e.g. text) and have no search/planning/reasoning capability, performance will saturate below or around human level.
Furthermore, the amount of trials needed to reach that level will be far larger than the amount of trials needed to train humans.
LLMs are trained with 200,000 years worth of reading material and are still pretty dumb.
Their usefulness resides in their vast accumulated knowledge and language fluency. But they are still pretty dumb.
@MarcusHouse Such comments indicate that America is rapidly becoming more left-leaning. While some may argue that social issues like environmental concerns and poverty should be prioritized, there may also be those who simply hate America and wish to weaken its space industry.
@13ericralph31 It is impossible to kill all members of Hamas.
Therefore, the Israeli army's mission this time is to destroy the "military base" of the terrorist organization Hamas. Since its military bases are located in the north, civilians are asked to evacuate to the south.
@13ericralph31 It is impossible to kill all members of Hamas.
Therefore, the Israeli army's mission this time is to destroy the "military base" of the terrorist organization Hamas. Since its military bases are located in the north, civilians are asked to evacuate to the south.
So let’s talk about this nonsense:
1) The warnings for evacuation started 5 days ago.
2) The 24 hours is from the UN. Israel has said they understand it could take longer.
3) Hamas is actively trying to keep people from leaving to use them as human shields.
4) What other army in the world pauses their attacks and puts their soldiers at greater risk by warning the enemy as to try to give civilians a chance to leave?
5) Every hour that Israel delays means more rocket attacks on Israelis, gives Hamas more chance to lay traps for them in a ground operation, and reduces the chances of saving the hostages in Gaza. Hostages, including Americans, that you will notice people like AOC and others simply pretend don’t exist. There are infants that have now been held by terrorists for 6 days. Any idea what Hamas is doing to the young women they kidnapped?
6) What alternative are people like AOC offering Israel? They do nothing and allow a group that just massacred 1300 of their citizens to stay in power and prepare for the next attack? They wait 2 weeks- as if AOC and her ilk will support it then? They offer not solutions and no concern for those dealing with this reality on the Israeli side, just attacks.
@imPrachiPoddar Longform are a great feature, but usability needs to be improved. Videos have an inline playback feature that allows automatic playback without clicking. Long tweets displayed on the timeline should automatically expand after 1-2 seconds without having to click "show more".