Anna Sun

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Partly, the excitement of visiting somewhere new is almost never matched by a visit to somewhere I've already been. The discovery component is gone. It becomes routine.
Are You a Renaissance Soul? | WIRED
This blurring of identical days leads us to create fewer new memories, which is crucial to our sense of time perception. Memories are one of the ways that we judge how much time has passed. When you go on holiday for a week to a new place, the time goes fast while you’re away because everything is new, but when you get home, you look back and have made so many new memories that it often feels as though you’ve been away for far longer than a week.
Why time seems to be going faster while we are in lockdown - BBC Future
Time moves differently atop a mountain than it does on a beach. But you don’t need to travel any distance at all to experience strange distortions in your perception of time. In moments of life-or-death fear, for example, your brain would release large amounts of adrenaline, which would speed up your internal clock, causing you to perceive the outside world as moving slowly.
Time is "elastic": Why time passes faster atop a mountain than at sea level - Big Think
This is why some AI doomers think of OpenAI as an Exxon-Mobil style villain, even though they’ve promised to change course before the danger period. Imagine an environmentalist group working on research and regulatory changes that would have solar power ready to go in 2045. Then ExxonMobil invents a new kind of super-oil that ensures that, nope, all major cities will be underwater by 2031 now. No matter how nice a statement they put out, you’d probably be pretty mad!
OpenAI's "Planning For AGI And Beyond" - by Scott Alexander
The worst A.I. risks are the ones we can’t anticipate. And the more time I spend with A.I. systems like GPT-4, the less I’m convinced that we know half of what’s coming.
GPT-4 Is Exciting and Scary - The New York Times
An A.I. language model could even learn to replicate itself, creating new copies in case the original was ever destroyed or disabled.
GPT-4 Is Exciting and Scary - The New York Times
When I asked GPT-4 if it would be ethical to steal a loaf of bread to feed a starving family, it responded, “It’s a tough situation, and while stealing isn’t generally considered ethical, desperate times can lead to difficult choices.”
GPT-4 Is Exciting and Scary - The New York Times
Every month, I complete (at least one) ~creative~ project. It could be anything from making a documentary about my dad to releasing rap with my friends
Projects
Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, and I really wish somebody had told this to me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But it’s like there is this gap. For the first couple years that you’re making stuff, what you’re making isn’t so good. It’s not that great. It’s trying to be good, it has ambition to be good, but it’s not that good. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is good enough that you can tell that what you’re making is kind of a disappointment to you. A lot of people never get past tha…
Ira Glass and What Every Successful Person Knows, But Never Says
As you become an adult, you realize that things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalize how much tenacity *everything* requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects.
John Collison on Twitter: "As you become an adult, you realize that things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalize how much tenacity *everything* requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects." / Twitter
We had gone too broad and instead would need to rethink our single-player utility in the area of storing content (saving, prioritizing, and scheduling a reading list).
Wander: The Story of a Failed Student Start-up | by Wander | Medium
Data visualizations are subjective like art. Fine art is about stirring up emotions inside the viewer, when you leave an art gallery you usually remember pieces that emotionally engaged you.
Infographics Structure: The Martini Glass - Benchmark Email
An honorable human relationship — that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word “love” — is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other. It is important to do this because it breaks down human self-delusion and isolation. It is important to do this because in doing so we do justice to our own complexity. It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
these are the days - beauty and terror
But the deepest friendship, he says, is the friendships based upon character, in which you love the person for who he or she is. It’s, in a way, what you said before, in terms of admiration. And you wish that person well for their own sake and enjoy being in their company because it’s uplifting and ennobling and the activities that you engage in with them go deeper into your own soul. The best of those friendships — and this, I think, over a lifetime, I’ve come to endorse — the deepest and richest and most permanent friendship, he says, is the friendship not of doing deeds in common, but the f…
i don't believe in marriage - by Lilian Caylee