Favorite Rejects 2023-03-30

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.

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."

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.comAudacious Goals - 386 mile all-electric flightBETA’s 386 mile, nonstop, all-electric flight across New York State.

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

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

San Jose police union chief was running a fentanyl trafficking ring

kron4.comExecutive Director of the San Jose Police Officers’ Association charged with importing fentanylSAN JOSE, Calif. (KRON) — The executive director of the San Jose Police Officers’ Association (SJPOA) has been charged with attempting to illegally import a controlled substance, accord…

🦣@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…

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

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

Brian Albrecht @BrianCAlbrecht

Come for AI destroying the world. Stay for the supply and demand graphs. pricetheory.substack.com/p/an-equilibri…

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

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 👋🏼)