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Building a language app on top of the most effective language acquisition theory @motherstoryco

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In 60secs, Stephen Krashen demonstrates how people acquire language. You *get it* instantly without translation. The problem becomes: how to get a constant feed of this type of material until you're fluent... So I built a tool which solves that specific problem @motherstoryco

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In the Elon Musk biography, Isaacson tells of a poker game where Musk went all-in every time until he won. It's an analogy for how Musk - in Peter Thiel's words - "understands something about risk that everybody else doesn't", and how he's able to create companies that seemed…

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I don’t understand. I just don’t. Robotics has been a thing for decades. Decades of research, and Boston Dynamics made a kinda interesting dog? Why does nothing useful happen until Elon decides to do it? What are all the researchers up to?

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Dear parents, Elon Musk was gamer, and the products of his imagination will soon touch 3 stellar objects. Information on paper isn’t superior to information on pixels.

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Dear parents: this.

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@ThibaultDiP Exactly. He takes extreme risk because ultimately he knows winning is possible as long as you put in the effort. Many people are plagued by an automatic bias towards pessimism: they look for the reason why something can't happen.

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This is the best articulation of the Principle of Optimism I've heard David Deutsch give. It gave me goosebumps. I omitted the video because the editing was distracting (frequently cutting to the silent interviewers), link to video in comment.

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Jonathan Haidt is adamant social media is the cause of children’s depression. And while it’s possible, people should also consider other explanations instead of being quick to equate a correlation with causation. Because so far, it’s just a correlation. A more plausible…

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A timely upload. Here's the excerpt from Sam Harris' conversation with @DavidDeutschOxf 6 years ago on the topic of AGI. Harris embodies those who are most concerned about X risk today, and strong-mans the position better than most. Deutsch handles all objections lucidly.

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If you’ve read David Deutsch, you understand the philosophical argument for why population growth is good and why resources aren’t limited. If this inspired you, read Superabundance. It’s the economics argument in full support of Deutsch’s explanation, and equally inspiring.

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You don't understand a thing until you understand what problem it solves. Karl Popper famously rejected the asking of What questions. -> What is an atom? -> What is knowledge? What questions are questions that seek out statements or definitions, and Popper recognised that…

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@Soyalweb 1. Elon Musk biography by Walter Isaacson 2. The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch, in particular the chapter ‘Optimism’

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Every child that gets dragged to school against his will is an impairment on the growth of knowledge of civilisation, and who knows what has been destroyed thereby. - David Deutsch

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In the hot and arid lands of Texas, there lives a humble individual solving a problem of Biblical significance, namely, the problem of how to create an artificial Person (AGI). His name is Carlos ( @dela3499 ). And in keeping with the bible, he’s up against the Goliaths of…

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Howdy! I'm an independent AGI researcher (heavily-inspired by @DavidDeutschOxf ). Check out my videos below!

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Every time I read or listen to David Deutsch, I enter a transcendental state of being. He just cuts through so much nonsense. To borrow Sam Harris’ metaphor for what meditation does: It’s like I’ve been walking around all day with a clenched fist that suddenly relaxes.

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I think existing approaches to AI, Artificial General Intelligence, are all philosophically flawed, and I think that's why they haven't succeeded for decades, because a philosophical advance is needed, and they are trying to get the answer without making any philosophical…

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@ESYudkowsky Not true. 4 year olds are as generally intelligent as one can be. They just haven’t acquired much knowledge yet, which has nothing to do with their general capacity. Current A.I’s are not general in any sense, and only *do anything* when prompted, making them as controllable as…

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@Whiskeysours08 @EndWokeness

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Finally got a @PunkScape my favourite NFT project!

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I’ve started reading Ludwig Von Mises because some fighter i’ve never heard of shouted about it after a fight. Meme worthy people like him and Milei do more to change a culture than all the vandalism and road-blocking of activists.

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When I discovered the Comprehensible Input model of language acquisition, I couldn’t believe how effective it was. I used it to acquire Icelandic during Covid. The problem I found was that there wasn’t a tool purpose-built on this insight. So I built Mother. Try it free on the…

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Being a fan of David Deutsch and learning to program is a lot of fun. I feel the repertoire of transformations I am able to cause increase. My personal wealth grows as I write more programs to automate the laborious. But best of all, better problems await at the precipice.

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Overwhelming majority say $1 million +. Never again complain that an iPhone costs $1000 when it’s worth 1000x that to you.

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How much would you have to be paid to *never* use a smartphone again? (Question credit goes to @yaronbrook )

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@Rainmaker1973 Hiroshima was 15x that. Interesting to put it in perspective

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@prerationalist Farmer quits to become a pilot, upsetting his daughter

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@BadMuthaHubbard bought more chips

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Glad that some people are smart enough (self proclaimed) to know what something infinitely smarter than them will want to do

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To spell out the object-level argument every time, rather than just shaking my head: Most possible sufficiently intelligent minds with complicated goals, that happen not to care about humanity at all one way or another, will: - Want to use up all of resources we use (eg, extract…

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All this talk about banning social media for kids. I’d be curious if any parents - having heard these arguments - have asked their kids how they feel when online. If they say “not well”, there’s a problem for you to solve. Leave other people’s kids alone.

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@VisionaryVoid @CreepyOrg I’d be interested to know what her language therapy looked like. “Never fully acquired grammar” to me sounds like they taught her language with grammar drills and exercises. No chance someone picks up a language after a decade of isolation using such an archaic and ineffective…

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Sam Harris recently criticised Elon’s takeover of Twitter as someone “randomly turning knobs and flipping switches like a villain in a James Bond movie” But I think this is the characteristic of him that makes him the greatest entrepreneur of our time. The error Harris often…

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I’m convinced that Popperian epistemology is the true epistemology. And in that theory, there’s no room for the spectrum conception of intelligence in people. All the different outcomes of people wrt cognitive behaviour can be explained by their knowledge, and all people create…

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@dysoco @ID_AA_Carmack He’s getting the government out of the way of people solving their own problems. Defunding research and education just means entrepreneurs - who are the most efficient resource allocators - can come in and solve those problems better.

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When I was 12 I played GuitarHero 3 on the PS3. That was my first introduction to the song Cliffs of Dover by Eric Johnson. I've been playing ever since. My friend @dela3499 is seeing Eric Johnson soon. My tribute to my favourite guitar player:

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The essence of learning: Don’t study hammers. Just try to build your shed. By the end you’ll find you’re fluent in hammer.

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@powerbottomdad1 Wondering how it’s possible for someone to assign a percentage chance for when a new idea will emerge in the mind of some person 🤔

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There was only one lesson I ever looked forward to in school. And it had nothing to do with the standard curriculum. It was some extra curricula class called ‘Lamda’ - it was voluntary. It changed how I thought about a good education [1/6]

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Just finished the Network State conference in Amsterdam. Most interesting talks were by people building new cities, methods of defence, and a nice inside look at Synthesis school by @chrismanfrank Thanks @balajis

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My language business Mother was just awarded the ElevenLabs grant for bunches and bunches of credits 🦾 Time to crank out stories for your language acquisition needs. @elevenlabsio

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With the birth of every child, humanity faces an alignment problem. The solution, we’ve found after millennia of violent trial and error, is liberty. To take the individual seriously. This solution isn’t sensitive to intelligence. Whether you’re super smart or dumb as a rock,…

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Our civilization is misaligned AI alignment and civilizational alignment will soon become the same problem You cannot solve alignment from a purely micro-alignment perspective. There is an unavoidable macro-alignment problem which we must tackle.

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The Archetypal Pessimist

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Not true. 4 year olds are as generally intelligent as one can be. They just haven’t acquired much knowledge yet, which has nothing to do with their general capacity. Current A.I’s are not general in any sense, and only *do anything* when prompted, making them as controllable as…

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Current AIs are roughly as generally intelligent as human 4-year-olds, as dangerous as 4-year-olds, and as controllable as 4-year-olds.

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@thegarrettscott That’s awesome. I played around with the IPhone Lidar sensor to scan my home in order to create a COD zombies map of my place. Playing zombies at your house and playing as your family as the characters would be the most fun one could possibly experience I think.

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The team at OpenAI wouldn’t even know if they had created a true AGI bc they’re looking for something “superhuman”. But an AGI, initially, will know nothing, just like a new human. They may even shut it off thinking they created a faulty program, which would be like throwing a…

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It took me 3 months to build the basic functionality of my language learning app in React and Next.js. I've since re-built it from scratch in ClojureScript in 2 weeks. Want to share 4 things I've learned about building quickly in Paul Graham's recommended language. 🧑‍💻…

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We are not students of subject matter but students of problems. And problems may cut right across the borders of any subject matter or discipline. - Karl Popper

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@LeeHepner I’m not in favour of mandatory reading, but the answer to all this was written in economics books decades ago. “Poverty wages” (reprehensible language tactic btw) are better than *zero* wages. After all, one’s wages are a function of one’s productivity, which has to start…

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An effective model for music creators to use to build a successful, independent career: [1/13] 🎷

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Hugh Everett. People who make leaps of progress are Popperian whether they like it or not

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One reason Javier Milei is doing so well might be because he makes moral arguments with the conviction of leftists. Inflation isn’t just “hurting the economy”. Redistribution isn’t just “distorting incentives”. It’s stealing from you and your hard work and it’s wrong.

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2017. Milei on TV before getting into politics. This is how he became famous in Argentina. The raising of a hero. #MileiHighlights

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To me, a good education is pursuing problems that deeply interest you. And it wouldn’t hurt to have a little encouragement along the way.

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@Sensible_Sapien not sure what that means

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@justmytakeaway @LauraLoomer I’ve never heard this, what on Earth? Why can’t you keep your trains on the bloody track

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Max: “Known for my unorthodox ideas” Also Max: “Regulate Regulate Regulate!!”

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@morallawwithin Karl Popper. The growth of knowledge begins with problems. Not - as often believed - with observations.

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I try to eat a low carb / ketogenic diet but often don’t know how to spice it up and add variety. Recently I’ve simply been copying @myles_cooks I screenshot just about every thing he posts and copy it. Copy him.

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Whipped ricotta has been my jam recently. Delicious sauce/dip/condiment. Super versatile. Takes 5 min to make. - 1-1.5 cups fresh ricotta - juice + zest of 1/2 lemon - 1-2tbsp olive oil - pinch of salt Add all of that to a food processor and pulse everything until it's smooth…

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As Popper said, we solve one problem only to find more problems. But they’re *better* problems. Well 5 days ago I solved a good problem. You can now ‘like’ stories on Mother. But then I spent 4 days solving some stupid new problem which was solved by moving one line of code.

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Microsoft stepped in and corrected the error before Europeans woke up from their siesta and checked X. API still works. OpenAI employees still employed. Capitalism self regulates just fine.

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Gary is right: big tech absolutely can’t be trusted to self-regulate.

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By how many years did the environmentalists set back abundant energy by blocking nuclear? By how many years will the doomers set back abundant productivity by slowing down A.I?

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@TolgaBilge_ No dude, those young people will be making blockbusters with their friends for cheap and still getting rich and famous. Technology always empowers and levels the playing field.

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@TBDNOWADAYS @ShaneMac @balajis If you’re apart of the 49%, and truly unhappy, you can exit that network state and join one that shares your values, all without leaving your couch. Network states may end up with 90%+ agreement equilibrium - or in Dawkins’ terms: an evolutionary stable strategy

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“Learn to code” is the same as “learn about hammers”. Pointless unless you want to push the envelope on hammer technology. Building something you want using code is the way to get fluent in code.

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Red flag when I read “sustainable” in the mission statement. The only thing that’s sustainable is building cool shit as fast as you possibly can.

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Number of Threads app active users plunges 50% in one week

A recent analysis on Threads app revealed that the daily active users has decreased by almost 50% i.e. a need for a customer retention strategy.

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Extreme environmentalists hate nuclear power because it’s the *pro human* solution to climate change. It will make us more powerful, more prosperous, and most importantly, more populous.

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This is how to engineer language acquisition: You need an interesting thing to understand, where the thing that prevents you understanding it is the language. Popperian Epistemology is to language learning what General Relativity is to Engineering. The laws of physics tell us…

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The Paradigm Behind AGI Doom Critical Rationalism is the critique of the idea behind AGI doom. Because of this idea, our culture took doomerism almost without questioning it. That idea - or paradigm - is the Spectrum View of Intelligence. >>Let's refute it<<

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@FunctionalTok3n @Cooopahtroopa That’s right, NFTs aren’t the solution to visibility. They solve a different problem, namely, monetisation of a small fan base. Independent artists should focus on building small tribe (1000 True Fans) who will pay for exclusivity

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What do you do when ChatGPT can’t help you learn something dangerous? I paid @CarnunMP to teach me Clojure so I can build my app in it - as recommended by Paul Graham. It was the best £50 I’ve spent all year, and should have paid triple. Here's how he helped me:

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Try learning a language by reading fully comprehensible stories for free here. You'll never go back to Duolingo again, because it actually works.

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Mother

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Today's story: Captain Jupiter Sci-Fi French, Spanish, Italian, German, and English. Links in thread.

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@jsondowns Thank you

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Everyone is inherently a polymath. The universe isn’t neatly compartmentalised into ‘subjects’. To understand one thing you have to understand many things. But in order to do that you need free time. Most people - especially kids - don’t have the luxury of time to think.

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“If I know the world, I can improve it.” Some unexpected bits of nice philosophy from the very strange film Poor Things.

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‘Maximising happiness’ can be hijacked by people with “good intentions” who end up causing more problems. Minimise suffering > maximise happiness (Karl Popper). Suffering makes a direct moral call for help.

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If the first principals don’t begin with our best explanation for the growth of knowledge, they’re anything but. “We can start with Legg's well-known definition, which identifies intelligence as the ability to do well on a broad range of cognitive tasks”

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AGI safety from first principles: Superintelligence — AI Alignment Forum

In order to understand superintelligence, we should first characterise what we mean by intelligence. We can start with Legg’s well-known definition,…

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What I loved in Oppenheimer - and a reason I love Nolan - is that from the beginning we see Oppenheimer *imagining* the world of the atom long before theorising. I was taught in school that science and art are different. Science is cold hard calculation. But before Einstein…

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Every time I watch Interstellar I still can’t get over how it has everything I’ll ever want in a film.

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When you wake up in TPOT

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@IAkhil3 @_serajuddin @sama This is just about reality now. If you look at texts generated by GPT-3, it’s near indistinguishable from a human-written text. But art is also about story and status. It won’t be impressive to own a piece that’s been automatically generated on demand.

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One of the more astonishing facts about modern culture is we think this salad is healthy

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@jmrphy Yes, I think you can use Twitter to create any life you want. For careers, if you demonstrate your passion/competence in something and engage with specific people for long enough, they’ll open doors for you. For love, you can see if you resonate with someone much more than…

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Some people wonder what the people of 100 years hence will look back on us in shame for. But if you know how knowledge is created, and how one can’t force knowledge into the mind of another, you already have an answer: School.

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Why do the people at Spotify owe the people who decide to pick up a guitar a salary?

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It takes more than 800,000 streams per month to make the equivalent of a $15/hour job, and the vast majority of music artists on platforms like Spotify never get to that number. I introduced the Living Wage for Musicians Act to fight for the fair pay that musicians deserve.

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Reading this account is like reading the writings of a 14th century town crier. There’s: - Uncritical acceptance of the words of authority figures - End-of-days religious fantasising - Prophecy - Equating human and animal conscious experience - Rejection of moral progress…

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AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸️

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The Most Horrific Alignment Failure In History The last time a superintelligent species arrived (humans), what happened? It created literal hell on earth for most mammals, because it was unaligned. I avoided writing this for months, but I changed my mind when OpenAI announced…

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One reason adults find it easy to treat young people as sub-human is because young people don’t yet know how wrong their mistreatment is. Come for *my* property, and there’ll be war, and the cost to you not worth it. But 14 yr old me wouldn’t think war was within my right.

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Katharine Birbalsingh

7 months

WOOHOO!! 🥳 This one act will transform classrooms across the county! Mobile phones are to be banned in schools as Ed Sec Gillian Keegan is set to announce a dramatic intervention - to the relief of millions of parents and teachers |

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6 months

Once upon a time you needed all these gadgets. Now they are all apps on your phone. Until recently you needed all these apps on your phone. Now, they are prompts in GPT.

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Christian Dean

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2 years

@Aella_Girl I think you would resonate with the Taking Children Seriously philosophy: @TCSparents The prevailing view is that children are less than human and need not only guidance but *coercion* bc they’re ignorant. TCS makes the moral and philosophical case for why that’s dead wrong.

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7 months

How much would you have to be paid to *never* use a smartphone again? (Question credit goes to @yaronbrook )

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2 months

Awesome introduction to a story. What are some other notable Beginnings? "No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space. No one could have dreamed that we were being scrutinised…

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Christian Dean

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3 months

The West has problems. No doubt about it. Putin can also see and articulate very well what problems we have. But the difference between the West and Russia is that we solve our problems and awaken fresh with better ones. While Putin punishes any such misbehaviour.

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Christian Dean

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1 month

Aspiring to build AGI is cool. But is anyone aspiring to build artificial dogs and other animals? We still can’t get robots to behave like dogs. I’d like a pet robot that does somewhat unpredictable things unprompted. I’d like to see YT videos of other people’s pet robots…

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Christian Dean

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1 year

Been using @thegarrettscott 's new AI chrome extension, 50% there to replacing Google. It's even got a little moustache 🥸

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Christian Dean

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10 months

@MatthewLeonhar5 @prerationalist Interstellar? You’re mad

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Christian Dean

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6 months

Very ashamed I waited so long to read Zero to One. Great book so far. One thing Thiel hammers home is: To build a big company, you have to start small. Solve a specific problem for a core group of people. So the question I'm now asking myself is... Who is crying out for an…

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Christian Dean

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10 months

There are no inherently smart or dumb people. Only people with different knowledge. Your ideas will limit what you can do, not your IQ.

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bashu, going to Vibecamp, thanks

10 months

What’s the best way to mitigate the downsides of having low IQ? After you have grieved, and you're interested in moving on and dealing with it

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Christian Dean

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6 months

To find an exciting problem to solve: 1. Pick an interest 2. Learn how people do things there 3. Ask: do the laws of physics prevent these people from doing this thing 100x cheaper or faster? If no, solve it. And don't be intimidated. All Elon had to do was *land the rocket*.

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Christian Dean

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5 months

There are two competing theories of how to get to AGI: 1. Scale machine learning algorithms 2. Discover the mechanism of creativity (in David Deutsch’s conception of creativity) You already pay for ChatGPT. You can fund the latter research by supporting Carlos.

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Carlos De la Guardia

5 months

9 sales in 3 hours! 🎉 (Admittedly, one of them was me, testing the purchase process.)

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Christian Dean

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2 months

The spectrum view of intelligence is becoming *the* philosophical problem of this century. It began as an honest mistake in epistemology. But now it underpins all of AI doom, is holding up actual AGI progress, and is a contender for causing dangerous tech stagnation on the level…

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Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️

2 months

Suppose an AI passes the unrestricted text-based Turing Test for IQ 100, but not IQ 115. Let's say $1/ million tokens input, $2/M generated. Who's out of work?

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Christian Dean

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2 months

I love how Christopher Nolan is this soft spoken English man who goes into Hollywood in a private school outfit, tells Warner Brothers what film he’s cooked up, they give him all the money, and cream-of-the crop actors come out of retirement to work with him.

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Christian Dean

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4 months

I've just finished the 3rd and by far most aesthetic redesign of Mother. The previous home page: The new design: Mother will be open for business around 3rd February :)

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4 months

@nathanmarz Can confirm. My 1 rep max in the squat went up 40kg since I started clojure development.

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Christian Dean

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3 months

@GaryMarcus 4 decades in technology and you didn’t learn that technology always destroys certain occupations but creates many more. More people can now be creators and use A.I to be more creative. It levels the playing field. OpenAI will get rich but we all get much wealthier.

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@Sebmeister @NoContextHumans ‘Sorry mate’ solves all problems It’s become a British institution

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