This is legitimately anti-intellectual and far worse and more damning than I expected:

“Our reverence for the truth might be a distraction getting in the way of finding common ground & getting things done.”

The current generation of foundation models are postmodernist AI: story telling machines, extending prompts using the known patterns, tuned towards the expectations of the audience. It's time we find out how to let large models observe ground truth and discover rationality.

accurate twitter simulation

e/acc x Stanford

dinners & meetups

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just in time for the American election

# scheduling workloads to run on humans

Some computational workloads in human organizations are best 'run on a CPU': take one single, highly competent person and assign them a task to complete in a single-threaded fashion, without synchronization. Usually the best fit when…

the true reason was that bostrom could no longer deal with the gpt-5 countdown flashing before his eyes

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The Future of Humanity Institute (FHI) closed down yesterday.

they grow up so fast 🥲

Here's a few pics from tonight's AICamp event with Joscha Bach, Rachel St Clair, and Peter Sutor!

Eventually we will likely publish the slides and a recording.

Many interesting ideas presented, my favorite was to teach (or program) AI Aquinas' 4 virtues to make it ethical....

My people! 😆

The NSA is just 𝗗𝗔𝗬𝗦 from taking over the internet, and it's not on the front page of any newspaper--because no one has noticed.

Zyphra is pleased to announce Zamba-7B:
- 7B Mamba/Attention hybrid
- Competitive with Mistral-7B and Gemma-7B on only 1T fully open training tokens
- Outperforms Llama-2 7B and OLMo-7B
- All checkpoints across training to be released (Apache 2.0)
- Achieved by 7 people, on 128…

The ur-text for the research that likely caused Covid, here in one convenient place - an NIH video of a 2013 conference where Tony Fauci and Peter Daszak watched Ralph Baric talk about how to make coronaviruses more dangerous.

Can't make it up

videocast.nih.gov/watch=12908

do not complete the prompt

'Normie' describes the type of person who lets other people decide about what one believes to be good and true. The success of modern homo sapiens has been a triumph of human programmability, but the AI age needs epistemology and ethics from first principles.

Body transfer illusion is the illusion of owning a part of a body other than one's own. This is the famous rubber hand experiment and it tricks your brain.

[📹 Adley and Story House Media]

Human–animal communication has been studied for decades and researchers found common patterns in basic messages. This squirrel is possibly an example of effective communication.