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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • This is such a rich-country-centric view that I can’t stand. LLMs have already given the world maybe it’s greatest gift ever – access to a teacher.

    Think of the 800 million poor children in the world and their access to a Kahn academy level teacher on any subject imaginable with a cellphone/computer as all they need. How could that not have value and is pearl clutching drawing skills becoming devalued really all you can think about it?


  • you’ll never be able to make a LLM that’s any good at playing chess,

    They said that about machines and then we all laughed at the mechanical turk hoax. Now machines can almost beat you in Go.

    I’ll say it again – It is hubris and you will obviously be wrong to try to predict the future or what will have value.

    like come on – superpositioning exists and we’ve no clue how consciousness works (Bostrom thinks its just maths) but you have this crystal ball full of certainty. It smells…