How likely are we to hit a barrier?
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Nabeel (in London 🇬🇧) 2mos

And @dynomight7 has a good post analyzing the overhang here

Generative AI is moving fast, with scaling laws visibly playing out. What will the next few years of deep learning bring us, in terms of real world impact outside of tech/software? I’ve been hearing some bold predictions for disruption. I think about this a lot, since my job is to help the world do
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Nabeel (in London 🇬🇧) 2mos

Enjoyed this thoughtful essay from @AdamMarblestone on AI, automation and science:

Democracy in America has had the singular honor of being even to this day the work that political commentators of every stripe refer to when they seek to draw large conclusions about the society of the USA. Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat, came to the young nation to investigate the
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Nabeel (in London 🇬🇧) 3mos

Still so haunted by *Paris, Texas* (1984). Fun that one of the best movies about America was made by a German, and one of the best books about America — *Democracy in America* — was written by a Frenchman. Outsiders can often see a place clearest.

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
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Nabeel (in London 🇬🇧) 3mos

Still so haunted by *Paris, Texas* (1984). Fun that one of the best movies about America was made by a German, and one of the best books about America — *Democracy in America* — was written by a Frenchman. Outsiders can often see a place clearest.

The fragility thesis is flat wrong. There is absolutely no reason to think that Western civilization is more fragile than Asian civilization, Islamic civilization, or any other prominent rivals. At minimum, Western civilization can and does perpetuate itself the standard way: sheer conformity and st
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Nabeel (in London 🇬🇧) 4mos

Had this thought too, which I believe I originally heard expressed in this wonderful essay:

A New York Times bestseller—the outrageous exploits of one of this century's greatest scientific minds and a legendary American original. Richard Feynman, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, thrived on outrageous adventures. Here he recounts in his inimitable voice his experience trading ideas on
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Nabeel (in London 🇬🇧) 4mos

Truly great books on this are rare, but the best ones I've read are (1) Yudkowsky's Sequences (think there's a book version) and (2) Feynman's Surely You're Joking + bits of his Physics Lectures.

A sequence is a series of multiple posts on Less Wrong on the same topic, to coherently and fully explore a particular thesis. Reading the sequences is the most systematic way to approach the Less Wrong archives. (From Goodreads)
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Nabeel (in London 🇬🇧) 4mos

Truly great books on this are rare, but the best ones I've read are (1) Yudkowsky's Sequences (think there's a book version) and (2) Feynman's Surely You're Joking + bits of his Physics Lectures.

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