Data scientist at Epoch
Robi Rahman
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Announcing Epoch’s newly expanded Parameters, Compute and Data Trends in Machine Learning database
2018 Year In Review
Is there somewhere I can find a comprehensive list of mental skills that men are typically worse at than women? I’m male and it just occurred to me that I probably ought to practice those.
Scott Alexander visits DC
You’re the author of putanumonit?? I’d like to take this opportunity to say that your blog is amazing and I love it. Please write more soon!
(LOCATION CHANGED) Manhattan, New York, USA – ACX Meetups Everywhere Spring 2023
SSC Meetup in Washington, DC
I think the “Successful Treaty” and “Terrorists” scenarios are impossible as written.
There’s too much economic incentive to create AGI. With algorithmic and hardware progress, eventually it will become possible to make an AGI with slightly more computing hardware than a gaming laptop, and then it’ll be impossible to stop everyone from doing it.
The meetups are ongoing! We’ve had meetups for the past 50+ consecutive months with no interruptions, although we had to be outdoors and sparsely distanced during quarantine.
Someone said elsewhere in this thread that if you stop in the middle of the survey, it does record the answers you put in before quitting.
I don’t think God’s cruelty in the Bible is evidence that there isn’t any god, but it is evidence against the benevolent, omniscient, personal, omnipotent kind of theism that Christians and Jews would argue for.