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I relate to this: “I don’t have any new lessons. But I often think that it’s not the new lessons as much as it is, really, learning the old ones again and again.”
“don’t complain about being in traffic. you are the traffic.”
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
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Devine Lu Linvega
Ignoring AI’s potential is, well, ignorant
Nate Silver • It's time to come to grips with AI
tweets like “consistently amazed by how useless chatgpt is” don’t help the cause.
these tweets are the “equivalent to, in the 1990s, dismissing the Internet as a “pornography and hacking machine. Yes, these are common use cases, but they’re the tip of a massive iceberg.”
“He continues to teach because it provides him with a livelihood; also because it teaches him humility, brings it home to him who he is in the world. The irony does not escape him: that the one who comes to teach learns the keenest of lessons, while those who come to learn learn nothing.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace
― J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace
Disgrace Quotes by J.M. Coetzee
The greatest minds are not products of thinking, but miracles in feeling