johanam

good job!

It feels pretty obvious at this point that overstimulating ourselves with a multitude of different apps, social media, short form video, and so on, is hollowing out our capacity to focus. Cal Newport had a great opinion article in the NYT recently that spoke to this, and how reading might help us "train" our minds when so many media are adversely affecting our attention.'

Great review. Thank you. Will def check out the book.

edit history in Google docs is a good way to defend yourself from AI tool use accusations

some argue that we've already achieved it, albeit in minimal form: https://www.noemamag.com/artificial-general-intelligence-is-...

but in reality, it's a vacuous goal post that can always be kicked down the line.

AI generated text like a plume of pollution spreading through the web. Little we can do to keep it at bay. Perhaps transparency is the answer?

do you have a blog?

the whole book is available for free here: https://whatisintelligence.antikythera.org/

what alternative mechanism would you propose?

seems like if we can't find some consensus on regulation, the best option is to create protective mechanisms, attitudes perhaps, some barriers (through norms?) that keep out the slop.

Couldn't agree more.

this is a major risk factor that the LLM providers aren't contending with adequately. from chatbot addiction to the risk of manipulation. there are a lot of "AI Safety" issues that hardly have to do with potential superintelligence.

I'm glad you're having fun with it. Was definitely just built for entertainment purposes and to explore the fringes of generative, networked (if hallucinated) knowledge production.

utimatly, that's a personal and institutional choice 2.3m federal workers must make tonight. i'm just here to help if push comes to shove. many federal workers never graduated high school and might struggle with this and get inadquate advising from their union or supervisors, if they have one.

our site doesn't log anything. it goes directly to anthropics servers, gets processed and deleted (I hope their privacy policy is honest, anyways....) :)

For those in need of support or who want to donate, there are some resources at https://fireaid.info/

Still very much under construction, but wanted to get out there to help people ASAP.

Love this! Excited to give it a try.

I think in some sense the opposite could occur, where it democratizes access to becoming a sort of pseudo-junior-software engineer. In the sense that a lot more people are going to be generating code and bespoke little software systems for their own ends and purposes. I could imagine this resulting in a Cambrian Explosion of small software systems. Like @m_ke says, there will be way more software.

Who maintains these systems? Who brings them to the last mile and deploys them? Who gets paid to troubleshoot and debug them when they reach a threshold of complexity that the script-kiddie LLM programmer cannot manage any longer? I think this type of person will definitely have a place in the new LLM-enabled economy. Perhaps this is a niche role, but figuring out how one can take experience as a software engineer and deploy it to help people getting started with LLM code (for pay, ofc) might be an interesting avenue to explore.

You can read more about my thinking around the tool here: https://thelastwave.substack.com/p/associative-data-structur...

I built this tool as a sort of explorer of Claude's inner concept space. Try entering a word or concept, and then use the buttons to explore outwards from there and see the range of associative links and connections you can uncover.

Does anyone think the abuse allegations leveled against Sam might be related to his firing? https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QDczBduZorG4dxZiW/sam-altman...

Could this be related to Altman's firing from OpenAI?

It seems impossible to imagine OpenAI employees even considering standing in support of the decision to remove Sam given the opacity of the announcement. Whatever information the board might have ought to come to light.

I love the curly braces :{)

logic magazine is wonderful too: https://logicmag.io/

https://overleaf.com/ is also 404 now

seems to be working again, for me. except gmail says "Gmail is temporarily unable to access your Contacts. You may experience issues while this persists."

this is fabulous.

Can you elaborate what you mean by this?