Estebantxo
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A lawyer, the introvert appellate kind, not the flashy trial attorney type.
Estebantxo
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- The Greatest Generation – born 1901-1924.
- The Silent Generation – born 1925-1945.
- The Baby Boomer Generation – born 1946-1964.
- Generation X – born 1965-1979.
- Millennials – born 1980-1994.
- Generation Z – born 1995-2012.
- Gen Alpha – born 2013 – 2025.
Research Guides: Demographics: Age Groups
Turns out I'm not a boomer, not even by a long shot. I’m Generation X.
I want to repeat this because it’s the most common misconception that comes up when I talk about AI’s ability to transform biology: I am not talking about AI as merely a tool to analyze data. In line with the definition of powerful AI at the beginning of this essay, I’m talking about using AI to perform, direct, and improve upon nearly everything... See more
Dario Amodei • Machines of Loving Grace1
Powerful AI or AGI will be able to perform every task a human can do
For if
once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think
little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and
Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once
begin upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop.
once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think
little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and
Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once
begin upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop.
On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts
Thomas de Quincey. On Murder As One Of The Fine Arts
En relación con esta controversia debemos destacar en primer lugar que el artículo 19.1 de la Ley de la Jurisdicción utiliza el criterio de "derecho o interés legítimo" para determinar la legitimación activa de la Administración del Estado, para impugnar actos y disposiciones de otras Administraciones no sujetas a su fiscalización ( artículo... See more
Consejo General del Poder Judicial: Buscador de contenidos
Legitimación de entidades locales para impugnar actos y disposiciones generales limitada a lo que afecte a su autonomía
All this made me think of Joan Didion’s most famous sentence: “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” It’s a sentence that has found its way onto Pinterest boards, T-shirts, and coffee mugs, as though it were a consoling affirmation of The Power of Storytelling. It is not.
The sentence is the first one of Didion’s essay “The White Album,”... See more
The sentence is the first one of Didion’s essay “The White Album,”... See more
Alan Jacobs • Stories to Live By
From a comment by @ayjay in Micro.blog
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By powerful AI, I have in mind an AI model—likely similar to today’s LLM’s in form, though it might be based on a different architecture, might involve several interacting models, and might be trained differently—with the following properties:
In terms of pure intelligence4, it is smarter than a Nobel Prize winner across most relevant fields –
At some point I realised I could solve these problems by turning folders into mini-websites. I could create an HTML file in the top-level folder, which could be an index – a list of all the files, displayed with all the custom metadata and tags I wanted.
This allowed me to radically simplify the folder structure, and stop chasing the perfect... See more
This allowed me to radically simplify the folder structure, and stop chasing the perfect... See more
Using static websites for tiny archives
I need to look into this to make a static page for my legal doc collection