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• Scientific American Throws Shade on Elon

  Well, not so much the magazine as their senior opinion editor, Daniel Vergano, who wrote an article entitled, Elon Musk Owes His Success to Coming in Second (an... Read more

  The 20 november 2024 by   Bbenzon
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• How Far Can Next-token Prediction Take Us? Sutskever Vs. Claude

  

  One of my main complaints about the current regime in machine learning is that researchers don’t seem to have given much thought to the nature of language and... Read more

  The 20 november 2024 by   Bbenzon
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• Neil deGrasse Tyson Talks About His Life, the Cosmos, and Stuff

  

  From the YouTube page: For a lot of people black holes and string theory were topics that were filed in the mental box labelled ‘things I will never be able to... Read more

  The 19 november 2024 by   Bbenzon
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• The Heterarchical Generation of Movement in the Brain

  "during the generation of behavior, the brain functions like a heterarchical system consisting of interconnected regions that flexibly influence each other... Read more

  The 18 november 2024 by   Bbenzon
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• Bond, James Bond [Media Notes 142]

  So far we’ve had 27 James Bond films, 25 by Eon Productions, and two others. I’ve seen many of them in theaters, perhaps even a majority, but certainly not all... Read more

  The 18 november 2024 by   Bbenzon
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• In Search of AI-shaped Holes (and Roles)

  “There are no AI-shaped holes lying around”-> this is how I reconcile the facts that (a) AI is already powerful and (b) it’s having relatively little impact... Read more

  The 17 november 2024 by   Bbenzon
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• In the Beginning: OpenAI Email Archives (from Musk v. Altman)

  Habryka over at LessWrong: As part of the court case between Elon Musk and Sam Altman, a substantial number of emails between Elon, Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever,... Read more

  The 17 november 2024 by   Bbenzon
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• Hossenfelder on Stagnation: “Science is in Trouble and It Worries Me”

  

  Show notes: Innovation is slowing, research productivity is declining, scientific work is becoming more [less] disruptive. In this video I summarize what we kno... Read more

  The 16 november 2024 by   Bbenzon
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• Rez Ball: Community, Alcoholism, and Basketball [Media Notes 141]

  

  A week or three ago I watched Rez Ball streaming on Netflix. It’s about basketball on the Navajo reservation (the rez), where basketball is close to a civic... Read more

  The 15 november 2024 by   Bbenzon
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• Yudkowsky + Wolfram on AI Risk [Machine Learning Street Talk]

  

  This is a long, rambling, conversation (4 hours), so I have a hard time recommending the whole thing. I’d say that Wolfram and Yudkowsky do manage to find one... Read more

  The 12 november 2024 by   Bbenzon
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