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OpenLetter to Sam Altman Dear @sama Merry Christmas. How’s the eggnog ? I want to bring your attention to the fact that Microsoft defacto owns OpenAI now, and either you break out of that control structure entirely, or you become Corporate Vice President of Microsoft AI in 2…

This is how to write your New Year’s resolutions btw https://t.co/hfyzhDsLME

We caught you. You're supposed to be on vacation. But there you are, Optimizing. Just like you do at work. How do you efficiently see everyone? What are the perfect gifts? How do you maximize the number of memorable moments? Can you hit level 100 in Diablo 4 before vacation is…

People are forgetting the reason you can get away with crazy amounts of plagiarism in the humanities / soft sciences is not just because of favouritism + nepotism but also because **no one reads most of these papers** and everybody knows this and still they keep producing them

big things happening at home. our cat is pregnant and the whole family is certain that our neighbour's cat got her pregnant. Mom thinks that we should give the neighbour half of how many ever kittens she births, dad thinks that we should ask said neighbour to pay child support

Grigori Perelman on why he declined the Fields Medal and the $1,000,000 Clay Institute prize for solving the Poincaré conjecture. https://t.co/RVb5eBqwpi

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They are it’s just not evenly distributed. The top 1% of kids are far stronger than the top 1% of kids 40 years ago. https://t.co/bZn3eyk5Z3

But AI can't be truly creativ -- A professor used AI to write a science fiction novel that won a national competition. https://t.co/gQe3msHH3G

24 hours of Midjourney V6 The world is never going to be the same again, people will lose their jobs, advertising will be flipped upside down and much more. A mega thread of community gold nuggets 🧵 A thread https://t.co/nOtbOeJmxL

ACT II. A New Computer. 01.30.24 See you in January https://t.co/oxJS8hg3gk

we’ll look back in a few years to the textbox interface for AI model as we did brick phones for calling https://t.co/1vXsL2ynyy

This is quite a paper on AI and scientific research! The authors got GPT-4 to autonomously research, plan, and conduct chemical experiments, including learning how to use lab equipment by reading documentation (most were operated by code, but one task had to be done by humans) https://t.co/d64JNKigeW https://t.co/LjaQvpGKYu

If you’re not *absolutely sure* that school is broken, just look at how we teach math. I saw the problems firsthand 👇

when I grow up I want to be a rational actor with perfect information

Google’s chief scientist, @JeffDean (joined Google 24 years ago), talks about start-up growing pains. https://t.co/NRqVcNKhTr

When a scholar like Prof. Mearsheimer feels compelled to get on record so that “historians will see that some Americans were on the right side of history” then it’s worth paying attention. https://t.co/Hmh7glEex5

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Music is perhaps the most powerful and developed form of neurotechnology we have. Its ability to change our conscious experience with mere sound is extraordinary. Soon, with that very medium, we will be able to give people conscious experiences as divine as music. https://t.co/26qMLZqIaD

Is PM a “fake profession”? https://t.co/pfzl9LO66X

huge difference between "everything wrong in my life is my fault" and "everything wrong in my life is my responsibility" https://t.co/wMBF70pOKX

They really weren't kidding when they said ChatGPT will revolutionize Science! (According to ChatGPT..) https://t.co/vZM9xf7JsN https://t.co/xMMAgqoWXr

Philosophers have been too focused on the client-server model of consciousness: Eg. our conscious perspective plugging us into the “objective world” server. There is no reason to believe that there is a single objective world outside of us, and that we are not instead a…

The "Ship of Theseus" article has been edited 1792 times since it was created in July of 2003. At present, 0% of the phrases in the original article (seen below) remain. https://t.co/MzUUqfpiHK

This is undoubtedly just the beginning of a new age of scientific discovery https://t.co/Pg5J2b58oS

Me: I'd like to buy a washing machine GE: ok Me: and I need an espresso maker GE: no prob Me: oh yeah and I also want a hypersonic missile with a turbine-based combined-cycle engine you know where I can find a good one? GE: you're not gonna believe this but... https://t.co/Kv21YXlmrM

Show me anything sexier than this shot of Concorde going Mach 2 to keep up with the shadow of the 1973 solar eclipse for a record breaking 70 minutes https://t.co/3Rfj2r6UAU

I can have a call where there are millions on the line...and then go outside an hour later for a veterinary visit with a sheep. Broad ranges make us better. Experiences that are intense, beautiful, and multi-faceted. Dare yourself to lead a big life.

the quitting to awakening pipeline https://t.co/NSwSvpMDot

Welcome to Curio, where toys come to life! 🧸 We've partnered with @Grimezsz on our first 3 characters: Grok 🚀, Gabbo🤖, and Grem👽. Order by Sunday to receive a Beta Program Certificate in the mail before Xmas, toys ship early 2024! https://t.co/AQFtMIU7sG https://t.co/vLVI3PTaMN