Favorite Rejects 2023-03-09

Shengwu Li @ShengwuLi

It took me 30 seconds to fact-check this claim in the Chomsky op-ed.

Neoliberal 🌐🇺🇦 @ne0liberal

Remarkable considering community notes is one of the few good features left on this website

Merlin Mann @hotdogsladies

"Olivia" contains one of my favorite pages in children's literature. Thanks for everything, Ian Falconer. newyorker.com/culture/cultur…

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Are they falling out of Russian windows?

BBC News (World) @BBCWorld

Why do Chinese billionaires keep vanishing? https://t.co/hNOWQWUWSd

Alec Stapp @AlecStapp

This is great news: Expanding trade with our allies is a much more robust strategy than imposing counterproductive “Buy American” rules

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The transition from very complicated feudal landownership rules to a simpler structure drove a lot of economic growth. In the past half-century we have reinvented over-complicated terms of ownership with opaque overlapping rights. Need to re-simplify. slowboring.com/p/zoning-refor…

Tom Lee (@tjl@mastodon.social) @tjl

I think this is basically right. Everyone pointing out that LLMs produce odd behavior that demonstrates they're not performing humanlike cognition is ignoring how idiosyncratic human cognition probably is

jabberwocking.comThe descendants of ChatGPT will eventually be smarter than us - Kevin DrumThe response of the punditocracy to ChatGPT has entranced me. I mean, here we have a tool that, judged by ordinary standards, is absolutely remarkable. It’s not playing chess or Go or Jeopardy! It’s a computer program that produces high-school level text on pretty much any subject you throw at it—an…

Florian Stimberg @FStimberg

How easy is it for adversaries to hide image content from classifiers through obfuscations? Our new benchmark allows you to evaluate this! Dataset and evaluation code: github.com/deepmind/image… Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2301.12993. Joint work between @DeepMind, @Google & @GoogleAI 🧵

Science Is Strategic @scienceisstrat1

California declinism may be premature, writes @TheEconomist “In the past five years, California’s state-level GDP has grown by 18%, a better performance than either Florida or Texas” (1/3) Cc: @erikbryn @ylecun @Noahpinion @amcafee @RoKhanna @alexandr_wang

Merlin Mann @hotdogsladies

So…"Tales from the Loop." I went from zero knowledge to obsessed after watching just this video. Woof.

youtube.comThe Haunting Beauty of ‘Tales from the Loop’An exploration of Simon Stålenhag’s masterful worldbuilding artbooks ‘Tales from the Loop’ and ‘Things from the Flood.’ ---Buy ‘Tales from the Loop’: https:...