Thomas Schindler

on the atlas — 3

• The big idea: can you inherit memories from your ancestors? | Genetics | The Guardian1 savers
• Introduction - SITUATIONAL AWARENESS: The Decade Ahead51 savers
• Curius / Onboarding2621 savers

highlights — 3

• Recent research backs this up, showing that complex traits such as temperament, longevity, resilience to mental ill-health and even ideological leanings are all, to some extent, “hardwired”. Environment matters too for these qualities, of course. Our education and life experiences interact with genetic factors to create a fantastically complex matrix of influence.

  The big idea: can you inherit memories from your ancestors? | Genetics | The Guardian

• AGI by 2027 is strikingly plausible. GPT-2 to GPT-4 took us from ~preschooler to ~smart high-schooler abilities in 4 years. Tracing trendlines in compute (~0.5 orders of magnitude or OOMs/year), algorithmic efficiencies (~0.5 OOMs/year), and “unhobbling” gains (from chatbot to agent), we should expect another preschooler-to-high-schooler-sized qualitative jump by 2027.

  Introduction - SITUATIONAL AWARENESS: The Decade Ahead

• find about business. The subject that interests him, he’s read newspapers, biographies, trade press. He went over to his grandfather who was a grocer and he read the progressive grocer magazine, and he read articles on how to stock a meat department... What he’s really done i

  Curius / Onboarding