Theo
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Theo Jaffee Podcast host (https://t.co/Q6LifVUTlt), CS/econ undergrad, techno-optimist
Gainesville, FL 🇺🇸
Joined January 2022
Do people really want high-speed rail or do they want airports that they can get to 15 minutes before the flight leaves.
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Society's inability to deal with people who are not themselves violent but can only be stopped with violence - squatters, homeless people, road-blocking protesters - is a civilizational bug.
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Hacker News thread on the founding of OpenAI, December 11, 2015
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Still pretty crazy that you probably own the same phone as most billionaires and world leaders. There's no $100,000 or $10,000,000 phone with better features that only the rich can own. The $1,200 iPhone 15 Pro Max is basically the limit.
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@BigYeem @twinkophrenia Reddit mods are paid not with money, but with the fulfillment of their will to power.
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Sam giggling to himself on the couch, alone, as the last employee leaves to Anthropic and o3 begins recursive self-improvement
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@Trey_Explainer This is literally a quarter of my Microsoft Flight Simulator download from the other day.
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I just resigned from @OpenAI. I was the guy responsible for communicating to the public that the voice feature that they have in the ChatGPT app isn’t the one they just demoed.
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AGI timelines pushed back one day, saving 10^37 lives in expectation
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No person on earth is qualified to teach every subject at every grade level. Having a textbook isn't enough. Teachers are supposed to know more than what is in the book so they can answer questions about the book. Even then, you need to know when to teach what concepts. 2/.
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@Noahpinion Muslim population in Canada: 4.9%.Muslim population in the UK: 6%.Muslim population in Australia: 3.2%.Muslim population in the US: 1.1%.
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The year is 2021. A group of OpenAI employees are worried about the company's lack of focus on safe AGI, and leave to start their own lab. The year is 2023. An OpenAI co-founder is worried about the company's lack of focus on safe AGI, so he starts his own lab. The year is 2024.
I am starting a new company:.
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People say Elon ruined Twitter but the hostile takeover and wholesale destruction of most of Reddit’s intellectual discourse by a handful of malicious supermods and their bot armies is way, way worse.
r/WhitePeopleTwitter permanently bans a user for registering as a Republican.
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One of the strangest subreddits out there is r/SneerClub, a 19,000-strong community with a rather surprisingly self-aware name. What are they about, you ask? Smugly hating on LessWrong rationalists, EAs, AGI people, and TPOT from a normie lib redditor perspective
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THIS IS WHAT THEY* TOOK FROM YOU. *the California Coastal Commission
I am now a single issue voter.
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Why are Elon, Thiel, pmarca, and Bill Ackman the only openly based billionaires? Why do so many people with FU money have an inability to say FU?.
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Nat Friedman be like "Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success. Full time in-person SF, $2k/week.".
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Any OAI employees that follow me: is this still a thing? Seems really interesting!
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Anyone notice now in Interstellar they solved AI alignment but couldn't figure out blight resistant crops
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@shaabiranks Yeah man there was this German guy once who had some similar ideas about the “Jewish Question”, since there were so many Zionists in Germany at the time. You should look him up.
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@RashidaTlaib The EXACT SAME PEOPLE who talk about “microaggressions” and “dogwhistles” and “implicit bias”.
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@BaileyCarlin > What ingredient should I bring? Anything you want. > Is the stew vegan? Yes. 🤔.
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The UnitedHealth CEO shooting suspect's pinned tweet was about AGI and he recently retweeted Aschenbrenner
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This means for the US to return to 2.1 TFR, we need about 925,000 more births per year * $300k incentive per woman = $277.5B per year, similar to the budget of HUD, or about a tenth of the annual cost of Social Security + Medicare + Medicaid. Doable, if we had the will to do so.
"For transfers at birth to new mothers in America, for every $300k we spend, we should expect to get roughly one additional birth.".
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@pissboymcgee Yes, quite literally Palestine had to file paperwork to be freed, and they have refused to on many different occasions. Also, you are conveniently ignoring the fact that they are specifically targeting, kidnapping, raping, and murdering civilians.
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> new AI demo.> HOLY SHIT THIS IS INCREDIBLE THE WORLD WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN.> humans hedonically adapt.> new AI demo. .
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@cnviolations The point of the post isn't to say that Hamas and ISIS are literally the same organization, but to say that they employ the same tactics and are the same level of evil.
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@blakeflayton This is a perfectly reasonable question for a student to ask, and a Holocaust teacher should welcome it and explain why, not dismiss it as bigoted.
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GPT-4 came out on March 14, 2023.It took 356 days for something to dethrone it.How many days until Claude 3 is dethroned?.
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@stoicmother - Coca-Cola (according to Andy Warhol, famously).- A lot of software: web browsers, email, IDEs, etc.
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Is it just me or is the tone among researchers in AGI labs more "something big is coming, accept it with equanimity" and less "the future is going to be amazing, wagmi".
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Maybe I'll be crucified for this but I actually wasn't blown away by this demo like I was for the releases of ChatGPT and GPT-4. This seems more like a product update than a foundational new capability breakthrough.
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@Econ_Marshall @SuperPACman_ How are you a “professor of economics” but don’t understand that wealth is *created* and not “funneled”.
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@davidminpdx “At yet another bar, he met Rosillo and invited her to the beach to do drugs. He then beat her, dragged her partially clothed into the dunes, strangled her and kicked sand over her face, according to court records. The next day he went to a Pensacola bar, where he met Smith. The.
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Map of the election if Republicans completely surrendered the abortion issue
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Ayn Rand was right.
NEWS: The legal team that voided Elon’s Tesla payout asks for a $5.95 BILLION dollar fee for winning the lawsuit.
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No shot
Journos in 4 hours: "What is 'TPOT', the niche online community frequented by the UnitedHealth CEO shooter?".
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@drewocarr I love Presidio, Marina, Richmond, Sunset, Noe, Pac Heights, and all the nicer parts of SF but I'm afraid this is cope. No part of SF or any city should be covered with dozens of fentanyl zombies on filthy streets in front of boarded-up businesses.
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@visegrad24 This is misleading. Gemini doesn't have the ability to access live information, so it doesn't know about events after early 2023.
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Though I regret that this is not in formal manifesto format, here are some Thoughts on the matter, critiques welcome:. - I have many trans friends (mostly MtF) and they are among the smartest and most interesting people I know. If you were to select a single demographic for high.
Y’all are going to force me to write the Enlightened Centrist Manifesto on Trans Issues.
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@reddit_lies These are like the Japanese soldiers who were still fighting in the 60s because they didn't know the war was over.
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@equalityAlec Really? Why are body cam videos used against suspects more than police officers? Why might that be?.
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> notice friend is using GPT-3.5.> tell him to try GPT-4.> he says "blah blah inaccuracy hallucination, it can't even solve this comp org problem".> show him GPT-4 flawlessly solving the problem without even using code interpreter.> he subscribes immediately.Many such cases.
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When did you have your "holy shit, AI is actually real and it's going to change the world in the near future" moment?.
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- Elon.- Anthropic founding team (Dario and Daniela Amodei, Chris Olah, Jack Clark, etc).- Ilya.- Karpathy.- Logan.- Leopold. Why have so many people, voluntarily or involuntarily, left OpenAI?.
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@JeremiahDJohns “Let’s start fires in Central Park until Dubai has gay marriage”. This is basically what they believe. The same people, less than four years ago, supported every city in America being looted and burned because a cop killed a guy.
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Journos in 4 hours: "What is 'TPOT', the niche online community frequented by the UnitedHealth CEO shooter?".
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Imagine getting cooked so hard that the trading platform roasts you lmao.
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GRAY TRIBE IN CONTROL
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If OpenAI really had extremely powerful/dangerous internal AGI, it probably would have been whistleblown by now. There are enough safetypilled people within OAI to make that true.
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@whstancil Bro publicly called people Nazis with no evidence after they posted scientific data, did not engage with their arguments, and is now playing victim when people are calling him out for it.
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@tenobrus My bad guys.
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