sparks
Human advantage will be caring about other humans: “humans care about other humans and also not at all about machines”
His most striking prediction: “Who in this room would say with conviction, I’m sure I’ll be smarter than GPT5? Not a single person.
His most striking prediction: “Who in this room would say with conviction, I’m sure I’ll be smarter than GPT5? Not a single person.
Sam Altman bfast with JB
”Once you do one thing, if you have a modicum of success, and you think you can do a second, third and fourth thing, you’re wrong. You can’t.”
-Micheal Saylor, via Laser Eyes
Do you understand his temperament as an act of denial or an act of acceptance?
What an interesting question. I’ve never been asked that before. I suppose I understand his temperament mostly as a great gift.
I’m not trying to deny my father the credit he deserves. I know my father made a great many decisions about the kind of life he wanted to live a... See more
What an interesting question. I’ve never been asked that before. I suppose I understand his temperament mostly as a great gift.
I’m not trying to deny my father the credit he deserves. I know my father made a great many decisions about the kind of life he wanted to live a... See more
Opinion | Our Lives Are an Endless Series of ‘And’
I met some of my heroes and some of them sucked; I attended events that were hollow and demented but looked fun online; I eventually realized the best parts of my life weren’t exclusive whatsoever but run-of-the-mill: a result not of being elevated above my peers (on a stage, say) but thrust among them (in the crowd). In time I came to see these po... See more
Haley Nahman • #221: “The tension of staying too long”
This isn’t really anything novel. But in our hyper-digital age, how information is framed often matters more than the substance of that information itself.
Studio Ghibli AI, Classified Leaks, and the Context Shift
Bob Dylan asks Cohen: "How long did it take you to write Hallelujah?”
“A couple of years” - Cohen replied.
It was a lie — it took him 7 years but he wanted to play it down
Cohen then asked Bob Dylan: “How long did it take you to write Just Like a Woman?”
Dylan replied: “Fifteen minutes”
“A couple of years” - Cohen replied.
It was a lie — it took him 7 years but he wanted to play it down
Cohen then asked Bob Dylan: “How long did it take you to write Just Like a Woman?”
Dylan replied: “Fifteen minutes”
High Agency
there’s no "one way” to do things
The biggest bottleneck in building superintelligence is that AI agents are not as of yet very good at evaluating how they’re doing at a given goal. If they could better self-assess, they could self-improve. And digital self-improvement loops could lead to superintelligence. Making progress on importing particular human taste/judgement into LLMs cou
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