The funniest thing is how he replied to the career threat with the nonchalant "I'm an academic", it works because academics have ruined their careers years ago by choosing to be academics
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.
The brighter STEM people understand that studying science does not automatically turn out intellectuals. Intellectualism requires a broader understanding of the world. However, there's a large midwit layer of STEM narcissists who lack the humility that could drive them to investigate what they don't understand. Placed in positions of influence, these people are quite dangerous.
I genuinely think one of the hardest things about being a reader is having nobody to talk to about the book you just finished.
Like, I need to discuss this immediately.
at first you’re like there’s no way london, new york, tokyo and paris are the best cities in the world, that’s so cliche but then they prove it to be true just like how elle woods proved that popular people are popular because they’re likable
Sometimes “locking in” looks like sitting in the sun and remembering that your life is also meant to be lived, not just optimized, monetized, and turned into proof that you’re worthy.
Cleopatra spoke nine languages, studied astronomy, medicine, and philosophy at the Library of Alexandria, and ruled Egypt for two decades through war, famine, and Roman invasion. Rome reduced all of it to one word: seductress.