Max Langenkamp
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from
@meaningness
"statistics and the replication crisis". I can attest to having been both the scientist begging for the right test and the witness of someone told to just "get the stats to work"
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I present to you all: "How Open Source Machine Software Shapes AI" (essay/my thesis/
@AIESConf
paper - links at end).
In it,
@dhadfieldmenell
,
@dyuephoria
, and I claim that Machine Learning OSS (MLOSS) is a crucial but neglected factor shaping AI development. 1/
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After blistering hours of bibtex debugging, I have submitted my Master's thesis! There is still much to do before it's ready for public consumption, but wanted to share + hint at what I've been fostering for the last 18 months. 1/3
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can confirm Helen is one of the most compassionate clear sighted people I've ever known. I don't have strong feelings about the conflict but it has been interesting to see the ire heaped upon her
no. none of you assholes understand helen toner in the slightest. she's one of the most thoughtful and principled and level-headed people i met in the bay. not sucked into the crazy psychodrama that i could tell, not motivated by money or status. she's a homie
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For me the key here is how different Tao's description is from the dry stereotype I was taught of 'how math works'. Terence's description here feels rich and of the world!
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There's a lot of excitement about AI and automation. Mostly, people seem to assume *if* a task can be automated and there's economic incentive, it will be. Here's a short essay on why I think that perspective is naive.
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One common quip I hear among technologists is that 'AGI/BCI/etc is inevitable'. This claim misunderstands the contingency of tech development and is attempting to be a monopoly in the marketplace of ideas. 1/
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“Collecting art is one of the most important things you can do” somehow this throwaway sentence from
@tylercowen
has stuck with me in the last two years and immensely improved my appreciation of art
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Did some crackpot physics last night — I think it's pretty plausible that pigeons detect the earth's magnetic field by detecting deflection of Ca ions by flapping their wings
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After recently graduating,
@lukeigel
and I were reflecting on the role of MIT on the world at large. We decided to record a dialogue that included our personal experience, and also what Luke learned while making the
@mitregressions
documentary.
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I spent hundreds of hours in the last two years exploring different therapeutic modalities to try and understand/address the psychological pain I was in...
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5 years and 2 pieces of paper later, I did it! At this rate I'll have 8 degrees by 40 when I can finally retire (1/commentary)
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Noticing that a large fraction of the great thinkers on impact of technology were Christian. MacLuhan (Catholic convert), Illich (Catholic priest) and Ellul (Christian anarchist) are obvious examples.
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Truly bizarre scene earlier this month at the Senate hearing on risks and opportunities from AI.
It began with a Senator (Sen. Johnson) explaining that the Republicans are boycotting the hearing because … Jordan Peterson wasn’t allowed to call in remotely to testify on AI.
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I rest at night a little easier knowing that people like
@j_asminewang
@saffronhuang
and
@divyasiddarth
are working on tech governance. Thrilled and hopeful for this project
Today, we are publishing the Collective Intelligence Project whitepaper, our R&D agenda for transformative tech governance.
It is our contribution to what we see as one of the world’s biggest problems. We couldn’t be more excited to share it with you. 1/
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Happy spring! Hope you get to go outside and feel the sunlight fill your eyes
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On this
#FourthofJuly
, I have come from the technological frontiers bearing a gift, a surprise, an item of commerce. As an ode to the founding fathers, the American spirit, and Lady Liberty, I present to you: 🇺🇸PATRIOT PROTEINS
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During my qualitative interview of a burner, PLUR came up. V interested in sub cultural meaning-making like this
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Wow it really feels like spring in Boston and I can’t stop smiling
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Loving
@meaningness
’s latest book on AI risk. I’ve been thinking about this since 2017 and the book clarified a lot of confusion I had, particularly around how we conceive of AI (though I have some objections too). Thread: 1/
🆕 🤖 📕 How to avert an AI apocalypse... and create a future we would like.
A book about mostly-overlooked AI risks and how you can help avert them. The full text is now on the web!
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how to estimate the speed of light using cheese and a microwave:
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all models are wrong but, oh Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name, please let my model be right
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Astounded that IFP managed to set up this partnership with NSF. Might be the most promising development in metascience in the last decade
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Here's the central diagram from my essay. It is approximately how I think of different therapeutic modalities
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Tu Youyou, who won a Nobel prize for her characterization of antimalarial compounds, had her breakthrough in trying to replicate ancient Chinese alchemical texts
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Can’t wait to lie next to the fireplace and start my holiday reading
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The peaks in the cheese are about 7cm apart! Since the microwave is sealed, we know that these 7cm are from standing waves which are half the wavelength.
2.45E9 * 0.14 = 3.43E8 (c is actually 2.99E8 which makes this estimate within 15% - not bad!)
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Technical debt is a powerful metaphor for understanding our selves and our social systems: We are individually and collectively amassing technical debt all the time. 1/
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Lévi-Strauss (the foremost cultural anthropologist behind maybe Boas) was heavily influenced by linguistics and… Shannon’s information theory * Wiener’s cybernetics
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Me: “hey it’d be fun to hang out”
Fellow grad student: “yeah! why don’t you look at some of my papers and see what we can collaborate on”
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So pigeons probably do not sense north through flapping their wings (I was wrong) but instead through *seeing north* (h/t
@km_xiang
)
@mslkmp
found in various places the stokes radius of calcium with hydration shell (a) and viscosity of cytoplasm (mu), with your 50 microtesla field value, gives essentially negligible velocity. Ca2+ radius is about 1 angstrom
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So many people excited about AI governance and crypto-govtech but have never been to their local city council meeting...
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I was briefly part of a similar prestige manufacturing club at MIT — their only real function was to sell resumes as an appendage of the recruiting arm of financial trading companies.
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when I was in a highly uncertain/chaotic period in my life, Helen was one of the few people who made me feel heard and encouraged me to do the thing that felt good and alive. I remain very grateful to her
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if you're doing a bunch of inferential statistics maybe your ontology is wrong
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am partway into writing my essay series on meaning: what it means to live in a meaningful world and how a technological orientation can, if we aren't careful, banish magic 1/
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i have my first live gig this afternoon and i'm terribly excited.
set list is autumn leaves, fly me to the moon, blue monk, blue bossa
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Why doesn’t uploading your brain’s connectome to the cloud guarantee immortality? It turns out there is much more to your brain than neural connections.
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"technologies are artificial, but artificiality is natural to human beings"
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We came away with a pretty firm sense the enterprise was doomed. Here is the video of our conversation
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The full post is here:
my guess is that my collection resources in one place, rather than my opinionated commentary, that is the most helpful (i.e. realizing there are dozens of wonderful different psychological tools you can choose from)
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Just saw an old Taiwanese lady (I’d guess >70yo) doing pull-ups in a park. Have never seen anything comparable in the US
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Applying for an ARPA-E grant right now and realizing how utterly utterly spoiled I’ve been by the new grant making institutions (eg
@tylercowen
’s emergent ventures,
@open_phil
,
@gitcoin
grants…)
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Thinking about a few dualities that can explain a lot about us and how we are in the world. Some scribbles:
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Broke: current bureaucratic research labs
Woke: 70-80s era Bell Labs/Xerox Parc
Bespoke: 0xPARC
0xPARC is a new organization supporting decentralized application R&D. We aim to foster a budding community of researchers, developers, thinkers, and builders - a distributed "skunk works" for the Ethereum and decentralized tech ecosystems. (2/n)
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when reading neurobio papers I occasionally come across sentences like this. they look like english but I have to convince myself that they mean something to somebody
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The fundamental problem with most attempts to reform science is that they want to turn the Big Ship. Instead, we should be launching lots of Little Ships.
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Gratitude to
@tuomasoi
@SerenaLBooth
@xuanalogue
@phil_of_ai
@cailean_osborne
for sharp feedback,
@hlntnr
@timhwang
@enfascination
for early encouragement,
@AdamSalisbury15
@nayafia
for talking to me about their inspiring research, among others. Deep thank you all! 9/
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Two questions:
1. Why do we have hair 2. Why are we the only large animals that can’t sense the earth’s magnetic field
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Burnout is what happens when our bodyminds collapse under technical debt
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I have to confess.. I actually am a
@meaningness
thirstbot. mainly on here for his tweets. not even joking
👯♀️ Pretty sure Max isn’t a thirstbot. Otherwise, how about charging these girls a buck? I appreciate their enjoyment of my tweets but I think they should do their bit
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one of the habits that has given me most joy has been memorizing a new poem each month. my cousin and I started sending each other clips and it has made me love life more
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It’s remarkable how consistent the slower processing body-intelligence system is. I’ve been asking myself a question before sleep each night and the next day I have an often surprising answer before noon
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(Feeling a bit vulnerable in sharing but warmed by the thought that even a single other person helped by this would make it worth it)
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Meditation, at its best, has allowed me to fall in love with reality again and again
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We know c = fλ (frequency times wavelength). Frequency of our Sunbeam microwave is 1.45 GHz (can verify using a spectrum analyzer), now we just need wavelength. What we're looking for is wavelength. Time to microwave the cheese (rotation paused)
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Even today, LM Sacasas and Nathan Schneider (both Christian afaict) are the critics of technology I find most thoughtful. They seem to spring from a similar tradition.
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‘Dominated by clippy’ party at the media lab last Friday. The demon voice of clippy occurred to me in a dream and I produced the recording you can hear a snippet of in the second video
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To say that I am “in a bad mood” is in a way wrong. We think of moods as “inside us” and the world as “outside” but this ignores the fundamentally porous boundary between me and world. It’d be more accurate to say “the bad mood has me”.
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Am a big fan so far of
@yak_collective
's primer on how to do online governance.
Exhibit 1: the
@vgr
signature 2x2 1/n
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To prevent next pandemic:
Far-UVC light research, safeguards against DNA synthesis, more funding.
Recently the World Bank announced a new pandemic prevention fund. While this is very welcome news, the $1.4 billion committed to the fund so far is a long way from its goal of $10b. This is just one example of underfunding of pandemic prevention. 1/12
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I think we can trace a pretty much unbroken lineage from the transcendentalists (eg Emerson) to the hippie counter-culture to the 90s rave subculture to today
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The MIT Media Lab's PhD requirements, especially its General Exam, are awesome.
You choose three areas: Primary, Contextual, and Technical. 2/3 (Primary and Technical) usually involve science or engineering, while the Contextual area is explicitly non-technical 1/
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Partly for this reason, I think science in general will not be sped up very much by the most recent ML research. Link for my essay is here
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US, China, UK, EU representatives just signed the Bletchley declaration acknowledging the potential for 'catastrophic' harm from AI models. There seems to be a slight 'AI safety race' dynamic happening between the USG and UKG
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Full thank you list is going to come later but, briefly, my advisor
@dhadfieldmenell
and my collaborator Daniel Yue have been the scaffolding to my hectic ever branching thought-trees 2/3
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How much of a cost do the Chinese pay for having a pictographic language?
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Was fortunate enough to be in the initial screening of this. Luke's project is an incredible meditation on not just MIT but technological progress in the US since the start of WW2. Highly recommended
🎥 After 2 years of work, MIT: REGRESSIONS is now available to watch online.
It's a feature-length documentary that spans 80 years of MIT's/America's history via AI-enhanced archival footage.
Check it out for yourself, head to
@mitregressions
, read more for some fun details
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@erikphoel
You might get some mileage out of David Chapman’s latest online book ‘Better Without AI’. He clarifies for me the debates around sentience/agency and has my favorite measured take. My highlights:
Loving
@meaningness
’s latest book on AI risk. I’ve been thinking about this since 2017 and the book clarified a lot of confusion I had, particularly around how we conceive of AI (though I have some objections too). Thread: 1/
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5. Risk assessment: our trends point to concentration of capabilities within a few firms. This may be good if we want to reduce dangerous models release + believe in govt regulation, but bad if we are concerned with corporate accountability. 5/
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Idea: for the most important classes you took in uni, pick an interesting question from the final and make a video explaining it to a younger version of yourself
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Americans give much more of their personal money away than do other countries’ citizens . (total $580 bn in 2021). Many (eg Tooze) attribute this to high religiosity
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Sen. Johnson talks about how he was doing research on AI when he came across a Jordan Peterson interview on AI. [~14:30 mark] He then goes on to read excerpts from Peterson’s testimony for five minutes before arguing with the Chairman for another five minutes then leaving.
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anyone have advice for what to do if you used your FTX grant funds to invest in crypto to pay off student loans? asking for a friend
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When the most piercing critique of the CCP is from a Malay pop duo:
🧵~5.3 million views in 4 days.
"Fragile"《玻璃心》mocks the oversensitivity of cyber-nationalists, internet trolls that guard
#China
against criticism.
– by Malaysian
#Chinese
artist activist
@nameweemusic
黃明志 (ft. Kimberley Chen 陳芳語)
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I guess I’m the of the new generation who has been exposed first to the reformed/more efficient grant systems and later to traditional grants
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.For instance, some of the biggest misinformation problems in Brazil (election misinfo) and India (sectarian violence / COVID misinfo) happened on WhatsApp, which has no recommender algorithm. eg 9/
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