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Domain experts consistently underestimate how quickly AI can master their field and surpass them.Their words
Domain experts consistently underestimate how quickly AI can master their field and surpass them, because they mistake human difficulties for universal difficulty.
Two missing pieces in the AI safety discussionnoahpinion.blog
12 September
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These people tend to carry a totalitarian ideology. Their ideas will only work if everyone is made to agree.
7 September
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I long for the halcyon days of early Web 2.0 when it was predicted that all APIs would work with everything and data and control would belong to the user. Oh well - that didn't happen.
1 September
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And yet, life expectancy about two years more than the national average is rather common in rich regions with selective migration, even in European countries with even access to health care, like France and Spain.
31 August
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We have universal access. What we are trying to do is bring universal learning. So there's a vast disparity in how much kids learn during that 12 years that while they may have access to it, learning is very different.
30 August
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Universal basic income alone will not address the economic gap created by AI-driven job displacement.Their words
I don't think that universal basic income on its own will address the gap that's widening.
27 August
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UCP (Universal Commerce Protocol)Their words
UCP, the universal commerce protocol is growing better and better
12 August
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The original brain microglia (Micro1) are replaced by transformed monocytes (Micro 2) that are highly inflammatory.
11 August
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In short, RLVR gives us no reason to expect the normative representations learned in pre-training will acquire motivational force over a given action, especially when post-training repeatedly selects trajectories for terminal task success.
10 August
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But the first photoreceptive cells created a evolutionary force that propelled animals to evolve because sensing the external world changes your self-perception changes the way your relationship with the external world.
31 July
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Technologies from our community - CRDTs, sync engines, universal version control, and good old-fashioned open protocols and file formats - can give a nation more independence and control over its own critical software infrastructure.
26 July
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the the breakthrough for us was realizing that AlexNet was not AlexNet. That AlexNet was an approach with deep deep learning that allows you to learn any function.
20 July
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But just because we have a fixed relatively fixed number of cells doesn't mean that we can't change the connections between those cells. And that's happening all the time. And that is, you know, the main principle of neuroplasticity.
12 July
29 June
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To shout “temporary” and pull the plug essentially overnight after immigrants have relied on the government’s representations that they should put their efforts and future into establishing a life in the United States wreaks unfair havoc on the lives of immigrants as well as the welfare of their communities.
SCOTUS Whitewashes Otherwise Racist Decisionblog.simplejustice.us
10 June
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What this process can now do in creating understanding of the timeless and universal cause:effect relationship and enhancing and systemizing whatever one is thinking is mind-blowing. I believe that you will either stay at the cutting edge of doing this or you will be uncompetitive.
Principled Thinking and AI Need to Go Togetherraydalio.substack.com
4 June
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Like right now we're endowed with labor that can turn into uh that can turn into income. When that is no longer the case and we are now at the mercy of the of the elected official for like basic needs, right? So that to me feels like a power sharing arrangement that's really dangerous.
29 January
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And so that's the last thing which was very surprising to me which is that like we already reversibly cry preserve tissue including human tissue including whole body human tissue at that very very small like you know in a couple hundred cells stage
6 January
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The internet is unusual among universal technologies in having made about as much worse as it made better.Their words
The internet is unique in the history of technology because there’s a list of things it improved (communication, access to information) but another list of things it likely made worse for almost everybody
17 October 2025
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And it just so turns out that um this was extremely early, way too early. so early that we shouldn't have been working on that, you know, uh because um if you're just stumbling your way around and keyboard mashing and mouse clicking and trying to get rewards in these environments, um your reward is too sparse and you just won't learn and you're going to burn a forest uh computing and you're never actually going to get something off the ground.
12 September 2025
From one piece Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I think that it's optimistically that it's actually the other way around that the robotics uh element of the equation will make all the other stuff better. And there are two uh reasons for this that that I could tell you about. One has to do with representations and focus.
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Whereas with text, it's already sort of been abstract into those bits that we as humans care about. So the representations are already there and they're not just good representations. They actually like focus in on what really matters.
18 August 2025
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23 July 2025
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Including things like universal basic provision or something like that where a lot of the increased productivity gets shared out and distributed to society and maybe in the form of services and other things where if you want more than that, you still go and get some incredibly rare skills and things like that and make yourself unique. But there's a basic provision that is provided.
17 July 2025
From one piece Assessing Adaptive World Models in Machines with Novel Games (with 13 co-authors) 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Human adaptability is fundamentally linked to the efficient construction and refinement of internal world modelsTheir words
We argue that this profound adaptability is fundamentally linked to the efficient construction and refinement of internal representations of the environment, commonly referred to as world models, and we refer to this adaptation mechanism as world model induction.
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However, current understanding and evaluation of world models in artificial intelligence (AI) remains narrow, often focusing on static representations learned from training on massive corpora of data, instead of the efficiency and efficacy in learning these representations through interaction and exploration within a novel environment.
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An adaptive agent's world model cannot be a static representation learned once and fixedTheir words
For adaptation to complex and changing environments, an agent's world models cannot be static representations learned once and fixed.
3 July 2025
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the text embeddings across LLMs appear to largely converge on a "universal geometry" despite differing architectures, parameter counts, and training sets.
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19 January 2025
From one piece Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom | Lex Fridman Podcast #457 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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And Friedman advanced a policy that was really abstract and really it was devoid of judgment. It was pure and beautiful in that way but utterly impractical.
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So, I think she comes back in to relevancy in a different way than Friedman does, because I think in some ways she's tapped into a more universal human longing for independence and autonomy and self-creation and self-discovery.
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I think it's always going to be hard to pull off because I think Americans and their elected representatives don't want to provide a universal benefit. They want to provide a targeted benefit because they believe there's a moral component here.
1 October 2024
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It could be as simple as a large universal basic income for everyone, although I suspect that will only be a small part of a solution.
13 June 2024
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I think life obeys universal principles. I think there is some deep underlying explanatory framework that will tell us about the nature of life in the universe and will allow us to identify life that we can’t yet recognize because it’s too different.
25 October 2023
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Universal adversarial trigger attacks are easy to detect because the learned trigger tokens tend to be nonsensical.Their words
One drawback with UAT (Universal Adversarial Trigger) attacks is that it is easy to detect them because the learned triggers are often nonsensical.
25 September 2023
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Survival can be guaranteed without a universal basic income, by making housing, food and above all energy dirt cheap.Their words
You can make survival guaranteed without UBI. What you have to do, is make housing and food dirt cheap. Right? And that’s the good world. And actually, let’s go into what we should really be making dirt cheap, which is energy.
5 May 2023
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Consider the solar industry, for which the US laid the scientific groundwork, only for Chinese firms to make all the photovoltaic cells.
1 August 2022
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Grinding too fine will liberate a lot more astringent compounds by breaking more coffee cells, which will result in an astringent cup regardless of how even the water flows through the coffee bed.
28 July 2022
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The analysis in this chapter has shown that there is no such thing as a universal threshold over which debt becomes unsustainable, and that the relevant debt level depends on many factors, in particular the real interest rate on debt.
25 January 2022
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What what I find generally is if I don't understand something, I I try to read backwards and and and kind of the further back back I read, the more universal things I find. And the more things that I think are kind of remarkable and unique to our era actually turn out to be quite universal.
15 August 2020
11 October 2018
From one piece BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Pre-trained representations reduce the need for many heavily-engineered task-specific architectures.Their words
We show that pre-trained representations reduce the need for many heavily-engineered task-specific architectures.
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Current techniques restrict pre-trained representation power because standard language models are unidirectional.Their words
We argue that current techniques restrict the power of the pre-trained representations, especially for the fine-tuning approaches. The major limitation is that standard language models are unidirectional, and this limits the choice of architectures that can be used during pre-training.
From one piece BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Current techniques restrict pre-trained representation power because standard language models are unidirectional.Their words
We argue that current techniques restrict the power of the pre-trained representations, especially for the fine-tuning approaches. The major limitation is that standard language models are unidirectional, and this limits the choice of architectures that can be used during pre-training.
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korrents.com
Pre-trained representations reduce the need for many heavily-engineered task-specific architectures.Their words
We show that pre-trained representations reduce the need for many heavily-engineered task-specific architectures.
From one piece BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Pre-trained representations reduce the need for many heavily-engineered task-specific architectures.Their words
We show that pre-trained representations reduce the need for many heavily-engineered task-specific architectures.
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korrents.com
Current techniques restrict pre-trained representation power because standard language models are unidirectional.Their words
We argue that current techniques restrict the power of the pre-trained representations, especially for the fine-tuning approaches. The major limitation is that standard language models are unidirectional, and this limits the choice of architectures that can be used during pre-training.
From one piece BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Pre-trained representations reduce the need for many heavily-engineered task-specific architectures.Their words
We show that pre-trained representations reduce the need for many heavily-engineered task-specific architectures.
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korrents.com
Current techniques restrict pre-trained representation power because standard language models are unidirectional.Their words
We argue that current techniques restrict the power of the pre-trained representations, especially for the fine-tuning approaches. The major limitation is that standard language models are unidirectional, and this limits the choice of architectures that can be used during pre-training.
26 April 2018
22 February 2018
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korrents.com
Creative work is better served by a diverse toolkit of specialized tools than by one universal tool.Their words
I don't want a single tool that I can use for any game... I want a digital toolshed that looks like Depeche Mode's synth collection.
19 November 2017
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