Cam Jones
@lackey
Cam Jones
@lackey
When young people don't date or marry or start families, that's the bottleneck coming for the most basic human institutions of all.... See more
And when, because people don't pair off and reproduce, nations age and diminish and die away, when depopulation sweeps East Asia and Latin America and Europe, as it will — that's the last squeeze, the tightest part of
2024 hits 1.6 degrees above pre-industrial levels, and each of the last 10 years have all been warmer than the previous one.
The largely dominant meritocratic paradigm of highly competitive Western cultures is rooted on the belief that success is mainly due, if not exclusively, to personal qualities such as talent, intelligence, skills, smartness, efforts, willfulness, hard work or risk taking. Sometimes, we are willing to admit that a certain degree of luck could also... See more
Sometimes, gave the same task to multiple models, comparing and merging their outputs to maximize quality. It's like double bookkeeping: when you know something is prone to errors (or, in Al's case, hallucinations), it's best to give the same task to two or three different models. This significantly reduces the error rate.
The approach mirrors
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