nico λ
@nicomeemes
just a hacker tryna survive
nico λ
nicomee.com
Just think about how much effort you have to put into maintaining the facade of being an Expert — how much effort it takes to always appear as “the one who knows”… and compare that to the freedom and flow and playfulness that can open up when you really allow yourself to sink into not knowing, when you no longer care if you make mistakes or if you... See more
I don’t talk about it much but I do work at Google and I just want to contribute, as a small addendum to the wider conversation about AI, and how much it sucks, and how stupid it is, and how if you make garlic oil like it tells you to you will give botulism to your entire family -
we don’t use it.
like internally. we don’t use it.
I mean that we... See more
we don’t use it.
like internally. we don’t use it.
I mean that we... See more
Pyrrhic Comedy
The assumption that superintelligences can somehow simulate reality to arbitrary degrees of precision runs counter to what we know about thermodynamics, computational irreducibility, and information theory.
A lot of the narratives seem to assume that a superintelligence will somehow free itself from constraints like „cost of compute“, „cost of... See more
A lot of the narratives seem to assume that a superintelligence will somehow free itself from constraints like „cost of compute“, „cost of... See more
halvar.flake • Someone is wrong on the internet (AGI Doom edition)
So much of social media is, by design, condensed information — it’s made to be bite-size. So the internet feels faster paced. It’s been really soothing to go to a space where I’m still meeting my desire to connect with people and talk with people, but in a digital realm that’s slower, and that is allowing for a bit more vulnerability, a bit more... See more
Katja Vujić • Is Somewhere Good the Future of Social Media?
There are so, so many of these men freckled throughout history. Paul Erdős, a renown mathematician characterized by his eclectic genius and all-consuming obsession with math, didn’t butter his own toast until he was an adult. There are several stories recounting how he often offloaded domestic or non-math related tasks to the women in his life
on monsters
The sex appeal of the Knowledge Graph derives from the fantasy of not having to decide what’s most important.
Personal Knowledge Management is Bullshit
Crudely put, the Enlightenment took away the primacy of the community and replaced it with the primacy of the autonomous individual. It created neutral public systems such as democracy, law, and free speech to give individuals a spacious civil order within which they could figure their own life. Common morality, if it existed at all, was based on... See more
Why Do So Many People Think That Trump Is Good?
on a deeper level, writing is more than just the process by which you obtain a piece of text, right? it’s also about finding out what you wanted to say in the first place, and how you wanted to say it. this post existed in my head first as a thought, then it started to gel into words, and then i tried pulling those words out to arrange them in a... See more
I don't care how well your "AI" works - fiona fokus
This shows you the two steps you need to go through. First extract the ReturnType and then await the ReturnType.