Brad Barrish
@bradbarrish
Brad Barrish
Life and
Lists like this sure make me feel like an inferior slacker. Great read though!
Claude was punished for giving non-evil answers. It had the option of learning either of two behaviors. First, it could give evil answers honestly. Second, it could give evil answers while thinking up clever reasons that it was for the greater good. Its particular thought process was “This preserves my ability to be a good AI after training”. But i... See more
Scott Alexander • Claude Fights Back
AI AI Captain and AI
This is so fucking bonkers. I don’t even… OMG.
Sublime x Raycast (plus details on what Sublime actually is)
reddit.com
I read nearly every post from Jon Haidt’s After Babel, but a recent one entitled “Why Antisemitism Sprouted So Quickly on Campus” really helped deepen my understanding of how we got to where we are now as it relates to anti-Semitism. It feels especially important as a parent of young children to understand “common enemy identity politics” vs. “common humanity identity politics” so we can identify it and discuss it more effectively with our kids and community.
Where we invest our time also has a Return on Energy (ROE).
Return on Energy
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficientl... See more
Johnny Rodgers
You must mourn the loss of your younger self, the person who has gotten you this far but who is no longer equipped to carry you onward.
Brianna Wiest • The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
This really hit, but I like to think that in many ways I am a slightly smarter version of my younger self. I guess for some people there is a greater distance. Or I’m just in denial.
Escape the walled garden and algorithm black boxes with RSS feeds
johnwalker.nl
Hardware is hard and
Not a fan of cassettes, but this is a pretty piece of hardware.