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DonRumata retweeted
“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.” — Søren Kierkegaard
DonRumata retweeted
1- There's nothing wrong with teaching them, I'm only asking what the rush is? When do they need to learn it? My son is 6 and doesn't want to learn math. What's wrong with waiting till he's 10? What's wrong with teaching him fractions and probability and multiplication as it comes up in his actual life, which it does all the time, and then maybe formalizing it for him if he wants to when he's 12?
2- The algorithm doesn't control kids' minds. Kids are bored by lots of stuff the algorithm throws at them, hence why they scroll so much! Their interests drive, and the algorithm tries to feed it. That's amazing!
DonRumata retweeted
"The zero to one, that first time is incredibly hard. It takes lifetimes, it takes careers, it takes everything you've got to do something the first time that humans have never seen before. Every time after that, the second time to the nth time, that's craft. That is not invention, that's not art, that's craft." — @pablos
DonRumata retweeted
“If we all live to a hundred, we’re all going to need cataract surgery—some people younger, some people older. But if you do cataract surgery and restore vision in an older person who … is suffering with cognitive decline and/or depression, you can reverse a significant amount of that decline in either of those domains. It speaks to the interplay of vision with our mental health, our cognitive health, and this is long-term, important stuff.”
— Dr. Jeffrey Goldberg
Designing dexterous hands for robots is a very hard problem.
Then figuring out how to manufacture them at scale is 100 times harder.
DonRumata retweeted
It’s unnatural to have an opinion about everything. And it’s healthy to exclude things entirely from your life and thought.
DonRumata retweeted
This is fun! I wasn’t sure what was going to come out of the chatgpt memory feature, but if you left it accumulating memories for many months it seems to be able to get a pretty good sense of you from all your queries and over time. I saw other versions of it too, e.g. “tell me something I may not know about myself” etc. Mix of fun/interesting, maybe slightly unnerving.
(At each query the model has the opportunity to write down notes about you in text, and these memories you can view delete or just disable)
Ask ChatGPT
“based on what you know about me. draw a picture of what you think my current life looks like”
past your responses below.
thanks again @mreflow & @danshipper
DonRumata retweeted
What distinguishes tech billionaires who create science fiction realities from other people isn't intelligence.
It's agency.
You could go to any elite university, any top-tier engineering department, throw a rock, and have decent odds of hitting someone with the same IQ as Elon Musk.
Good luck finding one as driven. As willing to take risks. As able to persist in the face of failure, and of despair.
Of course there's a requisite intelligence. High-agency morons become mobsters and politicians.
But agency is of a different quality from intelligence. There's not much sense worrying about how to get intelligence, because intelligence is immutable. You can't increase it by reading books. The only way it changes is brain damage.
Agency is a skill.
It can be learned.
And the most important thing about it is that it's hard to learn as an adult, but easy to teach to children if you set up the right environment.
One of the greatest crimes against humanity is teaching an intelligent, high-potential child to be afraid or ashamed to take risks and try new things.
The cost in missed opportunities is catastrophic and immeasurable.
Imagine meeting an alien from another world that never needs to eat food, and telling them that humans have to eat every day. And that food isn’t just lying around in most places. The alien is incredulous: “sorry, it’s just too much to expect everyone to figure out how to eat multiple times a day. The logistics of that are insane. Every single person? Multiple times a day? I just don’t believe you.”
How would you argue with that alien? It is kind of insane actually. The mechanism of society which brings about the miracle of “everyone eating food” day in and day out without interruption for generations should stretch any reasonable person’s credulity. And yet, here we are.
It turns out that when things are necessary we don’t think of them as “hard,” we just do them.
Now what if I told you that everything in life is equally possible—and in fact much less difficult—than making sure you eat every day? The only difference that you have a biological function reminding you to act every single second. It doesn’t even tell you how to act, it simply tells you to get up and do something. Your body drives your mind to action, and a whole complex machine grows up in response to accomplish it.
You could have anything else you wanted as well if you could somehow act with the same voracious consistency.
DonRumata retweeted
For friends of open source: imo the highest leverage thing you can do is help construct a high diversity of RL environments that help elicit LLM cognitive strategies. To build a gym of sorts. This is a highly parallelizable task, which favors a large community of collaborators.
DonRumata retweeted
I would fund a serious effort to do this at scale. 🎯🤖🫣
Clearly someone needs to try this at scale – pick 1000 published scientific papers at random, ask o1 or o1-pro to look for errors, and see what turns up. I'm going to give it a shot. Anyone interested in helping out?
(Incidentally, h/t @gibbnicholas for also noticing that o1-pro can spot the math error in the black plastics paper: x.com/gibbnicholas/status/18…)