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6 experts · 30 posts · 1d ago
Mar Hicks e.w. niedermeyer VE, cybersocial occult investigator Anthony Moser tweety fish Amy Hoy
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“this paper doesn't support your claim that software companies are cutting back on spending” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Questions & unknowns · 2 Concern & critique · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
e.w. niedermeyer: AI slop is a supply side game-changer, so it's easy to focus there, but ultimately everything comes down to demand: will the public, in aggregate, be satisfied with slop or demand more? skeptics ha…
e.w. niedermeyer: covering cars you have to separate your personal taste from what the market demands, and that's hard when it comes down to something like slop restaurant menus... I find them viscerally off-putting…
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6 experts · 21 posts · 14h ago
Tim Kellogg rev. howard arson Arseny Khakhalin Fran Litterio Singularity's Bounty e/cc david-p-reichert.bsky.social
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“Google n-gram shows consciousness became popular about the same time evolution was emerging as a theory So there's a view that consciousness is a consolation prize and cope for finding ourselves in…” evidence ↗
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rev. howard arson: the reason i like Metzinger is that he has, i think, the only testable hypothesis
rev. howard arson: his work was originally written in German, so it's all kind of a tough go, but I think The Ego Tunnel is the short one and Being No One is the long one
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7 experts · 11 posts · 1d ago
Eugene Vinitsky Alexander Hoyle Alejandra Caraballo Colin tweety fish Mary Branscombe Matt Darling
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“You're conflating the position of extremists with the much more standard, measured take that AI will be transformative (which it already has been)” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Markets & investment · 2 Research & technical analysis · 2 Building & implementation · 1
Eugene Vinitsky: You're conflating the position of extremists with the much more standard, measured take that AI will be transformative (which it already has been)
tweety fish: “Predicted fifteen of the last one stock crashes” somewhat famously does not count as being good at prediction.
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3 experts · 3 posts · 1d ago
Marc Lanctot Christian Wolf Dare Obasanjo
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“Revolut only finding AI productivity gains after they stopped paying high prices for Anthropic & OpenAI and switched to self hosted GLM will be devastating for frontier labs if it catches on.” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Dare Obasanjo: Revolut only finding AI productivity gains after they stopped paying high prices for Anthropic & OpenAI and switched to self hosted GLM will be devastating for frontier labs if it catches on.
Christian Wolf: Is it sustainable in the long run though? I am absolutely not arguing against open-weight models, but for the moment they are subsidised by the companies who train them. What happens once that stop…
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2 experts · 5 posts · 1d ago
Mark J. Nelson Dan Greene
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“"AI" is particularly weird, because if you hear a business school has AI research, it *could* be serious foundational work (Herbert Simon, Jay Forrester... even today Dimitris Bertsimas, Stefan Wag…” evidence ↗
Dan Greene : There are fairly rigorous portions of business schools that do serious instruction and serious science--ops, accounting--and then there's the portions most people want to major in
Dan Greene : Finance really depends on the school, my understanding is it's less serious the more high status the school because that institution can afford a good, diverse econ dept.
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2 experts · 5 posts · 22h ago
Amy Hoy Dr Keith Wilson 🏳️‍🌈
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“I actually had someone on here arguing with me that LLMs were conscious despite being discontinuous because there are discontinuities in human brain processing. (I wrote a paper on this, as it happ…” evidence ↗
Amy Hoy: just realized my thermostat must be conscious, bc it has sensory apparatus for the local temperature and especially bc consciousness gives it the illusion of continuity, even tho it only samples th…
Dr Keith Wilson 🏳️‍🌈: I actually had someone on here arguing with me that LLMs were conscious despite being discontinuous because there are discontinuities in human brain processing. (I wrote a paper on this, as it happ…
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2 experts · 4 posts · 18h ago
Eugene Vinitsky Emily Hunt
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“Also: quite a lot of ex-astronomers work at frontier AI labs like Anthropic, and I bet a lot would probably happily use their infinite AI credits to dip back into astro research again. rip phd stud…” evidence ↗
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Eugene Vinitsky: What will be the next field to experience Claude Christmas?
Emily Hunt: Also: quite a lot of ex-astronomers work at frontier AI labs like Anthropic, and I bet a lot would probably happily use their infinite AI credits to dip back into astro research again. rip phd stud…
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