Bella Chu@bellachu10
We were walking with a friend’s 3yo in “pedestrian friendly” downtown Carmel. There were so many driveways* we couldn’t let her get ahead of us. On the sidewalk.
* Parking minimums: Mandated pedestrian conflict points so no motorist will ever have to walk more than a few steps.
Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher @mbonsma
Car-dependent places have a way of making you feel like a terrible parent when your child does normal age-appropriate things like moving unpredictably or falling over.
3:35 PM · Mar 29, 2023
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BioBootloader@bio_bootloader
Language Model: *finds cure for cancer*
AI Commentator: "actually, if you look at the cure, it's just a statistical remix of ideas that were in the training data. You see, the model isn't actually intelligent, it just predicts the next token one at a time."
9:11 PM · Mar 29, 2023
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Robotbeat🗽 ➐@Robotbeat
Beta Alia just did something pretty astounding. The longest battery-electric aircraft flight ever. 386 miles. (Also, a great little bio on one of their engineers.) This company is the leader in electric flight and it seems like no one knows about them.
youtube.com
Audacious Goals - 386 mile all-electric flight
12:05 AM · Mar 30, 2023
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Wally Nowinski@Nowooski
I once asked a native Hawaiian journalist if there was any independence movement in Hawaii. He gave me a withering look and calmly explained that the statehood referendum passed with 93% in favor.
onimasai 🤍 @lmnhzd
Do not contribute to the exploitation of Hawaiian land and Hawaiian people by vacationing to/in Hawai’i.
Hawai’i is illegally occupied by the US and suffering under their imperialist boot. There is no way to “ethically” travel to occupied lands. https://t.co/rKOjAEuBGK
7:02 AM · Mar 30, 2023
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
San Jose police union chief was running a fentanyl trafficking ring
kron4.com
Executive Director of the San Jose Police Officers’ Association charged with importing fentanyl
10:02 AM · Mar 30, 2023
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🦣@paytonc@towns.gay@paytonchung
Periodic reminder that NIMBY cranks blaming "transplants / recent arrivals" for all the bad changes recently is specious. The Good Old Days used to have MANY, MANY more people moving
brookings.edu/research/ameri…
3:45 PM · Mar 30, 2023
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Oliver Cameron@olivercameron
I find it so fascinating how fine the line is between the world being changed or not.
Were it not for one person at @OpenAI waking up super paranoid that they absolutely had to build ChatGPT, it's likely we wouldn't be going through LLM mania today, and that hundreds of… https://t.co/isCY3GBTCH
7:18 PM · Mar 30, 2023
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jonstokes.(eth|com)@jonst0kes
I'm pretty convinced, based on my reading of the GPT-4 technical report and Altman's subsequent interviews, that OpenAI's GPT models have a lot more performance on tap than they actually poured with GPT-4. They are slow walking this to manage take-off risks, I think.
Pirate Wires @PirateWires
There's evidence that OpenAI may be deliberately not pushing the performance envelope, but is instead carefully managing the take-off scenario so it unfolds on a slower timetable. @jonst0kes guests for PW — https://t.co/XCJkVjGGGH
7:25 PM · Mar 30, 2023
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Brian Albrecht@BrianCAlbrecht
Come for AI destroying the world.
Stay for the supply and demand graphs. pricetheory.substack.com/p/an-equilibri…
8:02 PM · Mar 30, 2023
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DaSkrubKing@DaSkrubKing
if every mass shooter in America was limited to using whatever Fallout-ass gun they could make in their garage that would save thousands of lives
la Lechuza @0wlGhost
The whole gun control argument should have died the moment a former head state was killed by an improvised firearm in one of the countries with the most restrictive gun laws in the world. https://t.co/f5AWC51iRR
8:56 PM · Mar 30, 2023
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nikki ◕ ᴗ ◕@nikkiccccc
"any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" ✨ p sure i've never said this about anything we've made.
meet uncle rabbit—the first conversational holographic ai being powered by #ChatGPT @OpenAI powered by @LKGGlass
(hey @DBtodomundo 👋🏼)
4:51 PM · Mar 29, 2023
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