flâneur

Catherine Wu

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highlights — 10

  • It's like they're trying to compose a beautiful sonnet in French, but only know 200 words of French. They're frustrated, and think the trouble is the difficulty of finding a good theme, striking sentiments and images, and so on. But really the issue is that they have only 200 words with which to compose.
    Augmenting Long-term Memory
  • I find Anki works much better when used in service to some personal creative project.
    Augmenting Long-term Memory
  • The climate may turn to AI winter, and if it does I will reconsider. Right now, it is very sunny. I’d like it if we didn’t get burned.
    I'm Switching Into AI Safety
  • Capitalism is great at solving the blockers to profitability, but it’s also very willing to identify economic niches where you can be profitable while ignoring the hard problems. People are too hungry for the best models to do due diligence. The level of paranoia I want people to have about LLMs is not the level of paranoia the market has.
    I'm Switching Into AI Safety
  • the instrumental convergence theory: that systems can evolve tendencies to stay alive even if that is not directly what their loss function promotes
    I'm Switching Into AI Safety
  • Then there’s a gush of unceasing wonder when I realize I’ve now loaded a full new programming language into my brain and can fluidly manipulate concepts and compute things in a new realm of intellectual space. But that comes after, and is seemingly inexhaustible river of questions and just emotion that to me characterizes falling in love with a question but almost being driven mad because of it.
    The Rage of Research -
  • I don’t think that’s right. In fact, I think there’s something shady about someone who’s only being honest because they are afraid for their reputations or afraid of the consequences.
    Is Anything Worth Maximizing?. How metrics shape markets, how we’re… | by Joe Edelman | The School for Social Design | Medium
  • A reason-based maximizer says “Oh! i’d rather be someone who cares about intensity.” It gets rid of elegance as a value and that changes its other decisions too. ¹¹ So there’s a mechanism there: it can reflect on and evolve its decision process. A simple maximizer couldn’t do that.
    Is Anything Worth Maximizing?. How metrics shape markets, how we’re… | by Joe Edelman | The School for Social Design | Medium
  • 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
    Curius / Onboarding
  • What he’s really done is he’s created this immense vertical filing cabinet in his brain of layers and layers and layers of files of information that he can draw back on now for more than 70 years worth of data.
    Curius / Onboarding