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"I grew up implicitly thinking that intelligence was this, like really special human thing and kind of somewhat magical. And I now think that it's sort of a fundamental property of matter..." @sama
As one fun example, I read an article about a recent social media panic - an academic paper suggested that black plastic utensils could poison you because they were partially made with recycled e-waste. A compound called BDE-209 could leach from these utensils at such a high rate, the paper suggested, that it would approach the safe levels of dosag
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clever people sought to measure, in data bits, the amount of information produced in
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
The Unraveling of Space-Time | Quanta Magazine
quantamagazine.org
Anthropic can now track the bizarre inner workings of a large language model
Will Douglas Heaventechnologyreview.com
Fields ranging from physics and neurobiology to cognitive psychology and quantitative finance have recently experienced a reproducibility crisis, wherein their findings have been impossible to replicate.
Byrne Hobart • Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation
This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress (Edge Question)
amazon.com