It’s not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood.
Oh sure, postgrads grading and even substitute teaching occasionally is very normal here too (edit: Greece)
For those who didn’t read the article, the culprit is a Massachusetts company called Cognia that’s apparently doing essay grading to the tune of $36.5M yearly revenue, which, what?
The essays being scored by a contractor, is that just normal weird or also USA weird?
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She’s popped up once or twice, owing to how she got on a lot of normal people’s feeds as a science influencer before she couldn’t contain the crank any longer.
I for one don’t mind if my reddit crap poisons future LLMs.
To be fair to Mr. Gay, he went in with the noblest of intentions, to get a chance to ask Thiel how in the hell does he not see that if anyone around here is the antichrist, it’s him.
He kind of left his prime I think, the humor becoming alternatingly a bit too esoteric or a bit too obvious, and kind of stale in general. Nothing particularly objectionable about the author comes to mind otherwise.
For reference, that’s the guy who wants Thiel to give him 40M to put a baskeball-player-sized titanium cross on the moon.
Sabine Hossenfelder claims she finally got cancelled, kind of - Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy cut ties with Sabine Hossenfelder.
Supposedly the MCMP thought publicly shitting on a paper for clicks on your very popular youtube channel was antideontological. Link goes to reddit post in case you don’t want to give her views.
In collaboration with cryptocurrency outfits Coinbase, MetaMask, and the Ethereum foundation, Google also produced an extension that would integrate the cryptocurrency-oriented x402 protocol, allowing for AI-driven purchasing from crypto wallets.
what could possibly go wrong
In either case, the goal is to maintain an auditable trail that can be reexamined in cases of fraud.
Which is a thing that you only need to worry about if you use these types of agents.
Which in any case you can’t, because
The protocol is built for a future in which AI agents routinely shop for products on customers’ behalf and engage in complex real-time interactions with retailers’ AI agents.
Can’t see how this doesn’t defeat the purpose, if you have a mock data generator of sufficient fidelity you already have a well-defined mechanism to describe the data, shouldn’t you be using that instead of developing a new model to capture the characteristics of the model that creates those characteristics?
I feel that strip mall dojos where you were ostensibly taught some very mainstream belt-based martial art like karate or TKD (or straight up make-believe stuff like ninjutsu) but were essentially glorified daycare should figure somewhere in the history of the term.
190IQ is when you verb asymptote to avoid saying ‘almost’.
It’s possible someone specifically picked the highest IQ that wouldn’t need a second planet earth to make the statistics work.
Siskind did a review too, basically gives it the ‘their hearts in the right place but… [read AI2027 instead]’ treatment. Then they go at it a bit with Yud in the comments where Yud comes off as a bitter dick, but their actual disagreements are just filioque shit. Also they both seem to agree that a worldwide moratorium on AI research that will give us time to breed/genetically engineer superior brained humans to fix our shit is the way to go.
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-if-anyone-builds-it-everyone/comment/154920454
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-if-anyone-builds-it-everyone/comment/154927504
Also notable that apparently Siskind thinks nuclear non-proliferation sorta worked because people talked it out and decided to be mature about it rather than being scared shitless of MAD, so AI non-proliferation by presumably appointing a rationalist Grand Inquisitor in charge of all human scientific progress is an obvious solution.
Nice. Here’s the bluesky account as well.
Some quality wordsmithing found in the wild:
@MosesSternstein (quote-twitted): AI-Capex is the everything cycle, now.
Just under 50% of GDP growth is attributable to AI Capex
@bigblackjacobin: Almost certainly the greatest misallocation of capital you or I will ever see. There’s no justification for this however you cut it but the beatings will continue until a stillborn god is born.
the only people who like prediction markets […]
Apparently Donald Trump Jr. has found his way into the payroll of a couple of the bigger prediction markets, so they seem to be doing their darndest to change that.
And then you read the article and he is basically just saying big if true.