Briar Harvey

I don't wanna say "I told you so", but I told you so.

Quote: "Ilya Sutskever, co-founder of AI labs Safe Superintelligence (SSI) and OpenAI, told Reuters recently that results from scaling up pre-training - the phase of training an AI model that uses a vast amount of unlabeled data to understand language patterns and structures - have plateaued." .... See more

Democrats’ erosion in California, where they won by 29.1 points in 2020 but are headed to “only” a 20.8-point win based on votes counted so far, cost them 0.9 points off their national popular vote margin — even though it didn’t hurt their Electoral College chances at all. Meanwhile, New York cost them 0.6 points, and New Jersey and Illinois 0.3 po... See more

The mankind’s knowledge lasted better when it was printed on paper. 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible. https://t.co/38LFmpgnaS... See more

And like, I feel compelled to to write about these damn mice! I want to EB White the shit out of every single mouse moment. This writing would reveal nothing new! It would change nothing about mice-human relations!

But writing about those mice helps me observe - right there out of the corner of my eye! - the border of my own reality. It helps me re... See more