Bloomberg reported 2 weeks ago that Twitter resumed paying Google Cloud: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-21/twitter-resumes-paying-google-cloud-patching-up-relationship
Simon Berens
I hired 5 people to sit behind me and make me productive for a month
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Bing Chat is a Precursor to Something Legitimately Dangerous
LED Brain Stimulation for Productivity
This is probably obvious, but maybe still worth mentioning:
It’s important to take into account the ROI per unit time. In the amount of time it would take for me to grok transformers (let’s say 100 hours), I could read ~1 million tokens, which is ~0.0002% of the training set of GPT3.
The curves aren’t clear to me, but i would bet grokking transformers would be more effective than a 0.0002% increase in training set knowledge.
This might change if you only want to predict GPT’s output in certain scenarios.
I think a wrench and 20 minutes of time is (1) a higher barrier than you think (not to say it justifies the lack of bidet) and (2) is an underestimate of how inconvenient installing it is. I installed a bidet a few years ago and it probably took 2+ hours and ended up leaking. When I moved, I opted not to install one again and instead follow #2 with a shower.
However, I agree bidets are great modulo the installation, and I will try to buy a toilet with one pre-installed.
Did you feel a subjective increase in your intelligence? E.g. feeling like you’re thinking faster, more clearly, having a better memory?
A relevant experience of mine: after being vegan for ~1 year, I got my blood tested to see if there was anything I should watch out for. It turned out that my iron reserves were low, so I was told to take iron supplements. One year later I got another blood test where my iron levels came back as too high. My doctor was confused until I told him I still sporadically took iron supplements; he told me to stop immediately, and that as a male I didn’t need to supplement iron much.
Now I feel like I’m in a damned-if-I-do-damned-if-I-don’t limbo; it would be great to have some sort of framework of when/if to take iron supplements.
Thanks! Here is the extension I made: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/webblock/jeahkphmdfbddenabgndnooheiciocka
Admittedly, I copped out on the UX in a few places (motivation section, link parsing, etc...) but better to publish than wait for perfection!
Edit:
Right after I published my extension, I found these similar tools:
https://taylor.fausak.me/2012/09/04/delay-safari-extension/
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/delay/fbhbfbladmbgakfkccbfjpbabagjcmid?hl=en
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/delaywebpage/
See also https://blog.xkcd.com/2011/02/18/distraction-affliction-correction-extensio/
[Question] TOMT: Post from 1-2 years ago talking about a paper on social networks
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I think the hackernews comment section, though still somewhat emotionally charged, is of substantially better quality.
Also, I responded to some comments/questions there.
[Question] Tips for reducing thinking branching factor
I think the main beneficiaries of being able to sideload apps will be incumbents, not startups. Big companies like Spotify, Netflix, and Tinder will offer users discounts if they sideload because it will spare them the 30% Apple tax.
How did you meet your roommates? I would like to surround myself with similar people (perhaps less extreme).
I agree that recursive self-improvement can be very very bad; in this post I meant to show that we can get less-bad-but-still-bad behavior from only (LLM, REPL) combinations.
I am confused how to square your claim of requesting extra time for incontrovertible proof, with Ben’s claim that he had a 3 hour call with you and sent the summary to Emerson, who then replied “good summary!”
Was Emerson’s full reply something like, “Good summary! We have incontrovertible proof disproving the claims made against us, please allow us one week to provide it?”