imagine being some frat bro who went to villanova in the 80’s and looking up how your buddy Rob’s been doing and he’s the Pope
James Campbell
3,270 posts
- Ok WHAT. I had no idea “The Population Bomb” led to the sterilization of 8 million Indians and Paul Ehrlich just lives out his life as a beloved professor. From a recent ACX post—
- would steve jobs have approved of .DS_Store? i don't think so
- excited to announce i'm leaving my PhD to join @OpenAI! i'll be working on memory + personality for AGI and ChatGPT memory will fundamentally change our relationship to machine intelligence, and i plan to work extraordinarily hard to make sure we get this right for humanity
- everyone seems to be saying AI progress is gonna be hyperbolic.. but if so wtf does this part mean??
- this is one of the best essays I’ve read all year and really cleanly articulates all of the thoughts I’ve been yelling to ppl about for a while
- the physicality of information still blows my mind -the string that is your third grade teacher's name -a 2D image of lebron james' face -a lossy 3D video of your ex's parents that one night 7 years ago all sitting there encoded as volts in volumetric space in your synapses
- Mira, Ilya, Elon, Sam, and Dario are now all competing with each other for AGI despite all having worked together at OpenAI just a few years ago
- someone needs to explain how claude is able to consistently perform on-par with o1 models without thinking for 3 minutes first
- one of the surprising things of going to an ivy league is the sheer number of ppl who had 1550 SAT but uncritically follow the path laid by their parents technical ability is totally orthogonal to agency
- the winner of the nobel prize in physics spending the entire press conference talking worriedly about superintelligence and human extinction while being basically indifferent to the prize or the work that won it feels like something you'd see in the movies right before shit goes
- One thing I haven't seen much talk about is how GPT-4v largely solves the longstanding OCR problem of math->LaTeX. I gave GPT-4v a page from one of my old physics psets and it basically nails it. From now on, no one should ever have to type out a big equation in LaTeX again (!)
- ppl in ML don’t realize how good they have it with arxiv, blogposts, and discord so many other fields still operate in a world of gatekept paywalled slop sites and year-long journal wait times legit feels like a third world country
