Favorite Rejects 2023-02-23
"Even with all the hallucinations, LLM are making progress on certain well-specified tasks." [bit.ly/3XUw89a] Examples:
Nah, if China's going to arm Russia, conquer Taiwan, take over the South China Sea, steal all our tech, and build up its military with the explicitly stated purpose of fighting us, then they are in a Cold War mentality and there's nothing we can do to stop that.
Daniel Larson θδΈΉη¨ @daniel_s_larson
Massive cultural shift: superstar Democratic congresswomen @AOC describes how she safely visited a triple-meltdown site in Japan.
She further describes French nuclear waste recycling as a good thing.
She has 9 million followers, many of whom are young women.
This is wild:
!["Howare you keeping safe in the exlusion zone? What dose of radiation are you receiving during your visit? Be safe and thank you for your service!"
"Thank you! I had an individual geiger counter strapped to me the entire time, which monitors the cumulative radiation a person is exposed to...
There are Geiger counters on everything, everywhere. Nuclear operators were timing how long we were in different respective zones... We got pretty close [to] the reactor - close enough to see the explosion site and rubble - but there was also a defined zone where we did not cross.
At the end we went through all sorts of protocols and technologies to measure... exposure. At the end of the tour, my final Geiger counter measure was 0.2 mSv - the equivalent of roughly two chest X-Rays. I decided for myself beforehand that that level of exposure was worth the information and policy expertise from the experience. For me, understanding + studying the science and scale of radiation puts me more at ease"](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_600,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.substack.com%2Fmedia%2FFpq21gOXsAAukZP.jpg)
!["France uses nuclear power. How do they manage it differently? They don't have earthquakes..."
"I can get into more detail later, but one key difference in France's nuclear technology is that France recycles their nuclear waste.
When we discuss the risk and controversial parts of nuclear, a lot of it centers on nuclear waste and what to do with it. Nuclear waste is radioactive, and needs to be securely taken care of.
France recycles their waste, increasing the efficiency of their system and reducing the amount of radioactive waste to deal with. The US does not recylce our waste, whch means ift builds up and gets stored on-site. Japan sends its waste to France and the UK for recycling but does not presently have recycling facilities of its own [sic]"](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_600,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.substack.com%2Fmedia%2FFpq21qRXwAA_PMA.jpg)
As required by law, I, a human author, will now give my long-form opinion on whether an AI is coming to take my job. SPOILER: Technically yes, realistically no. I will probably be around for a while yet, as will other human authors. Read more at the link.
These AI bots remain a reflection of us refracted through the Internet. π€ 500ish.com/from-samantha-β¦
You canβt effectively reckon with the past if you donβt believe in the future.
If you rightly think that Abu Ghraib was horrible, you should have something to say about the countless Abu Ghraibs that Russia has created, not turn away and shrug.
𧡠Noah has a good piece here: China directly arming Russia changes not just the complexion of this war but the broader geopolitical landscape in ways we probably canβt fully grasp yet.
In the short-term it almost certainly moves the EU into the βanti-Chinaβ camp https://t.co/5hAmuEzCye
Noah Smith ππΊπ¦ @Noahpinion
this is just God-tier political framing for a red state audience. incredible https://t.co/PfhYK0uIK8
Frontier Institute @FrontierMontana
