A few facts about
#AGI
* we don’t agree on the definition
* we don’t know how to build it
* we don’t know if it can ever be achieved with no organic component
* you can’t scale your way from LLMs to AGI
So it’s stupid to obsess over AGI doom and AGI “alignment”
@Robber_Baron_
It feels like the educated class is more susceptible to the social pressure to conform to the politically correct / mainstream propaganda of the day (bc if you don’t conform, then you lose your spot/social status in this class)
@JeromeAdamsMD
@KelleyKga
Irrelevant comparison. My plumber loses business if he does a bad job, whereas those health “experts” are never held accountable, or rather they are given big pharma board seats to thank them for pushing unnecessary medication to the public
Good (long) tweet about China. The dissonance between what I had been taught/told for decades and what I saw with my own eyes visiting China was one big factor in realizing we’re being lied to about everything, all the time (not just about China)
Very important thread by Graham Allison - the legendary Harvard professor who coined the "Thucydides trap" - where he lambasts "the current demonization of China".
He says he is "convinced that the current demonization of China confuses more than it clarifies" because the result