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Conventional advice directed at young people seem shockingly bad. I sat down to generate a list of anti-advice.
The anti-advice are things that I wish I was told in high school, but that are essentially negations of conventional advice.
You may not agree with the advice given here. In fact, they are deliberately controversial. They may also not be good advice. YMMV.
Thanks for the post!
The problem was that I wasn’t really suited for mechanistic interpretability research.
Sorry if I'm prodding too deep, and feel no need to respond. I always feel a bit curious about claims such as this.
I guess I have two questions (which you don't need to answer):
Hi, do you have a links to the papers/evidence?
Strong upvoted.
I think we should be wary of anchoring too hard on compelling stories/narratives.
However, as far as stories go, this vignette scores very highly for me. Will be coming back for a re-read.
but a market with a probability of 17% implies that 83% of people disagree with you
Is this a typo?
What can be used to auth will be used to auth
One of the symptoms of our society's deep security inadequacy is the widespread usage of unsecure forms of authentication.
It's bad enough that there are systems which authenticate you using your birthday, SSN, or mother's maiden name by spec.
Fooling bad authentication is also an incredibly common vector for social engineering.
Anything you might have, which others seem unlikely to have (but which you may not immediately see a reason to keep secret), could be accepted by someone you implicitly trust as "authentication."
This includes:
As the worst instance of this, the best way to understand a lot of AIS research in 2022 was “hang out at lunch in Constellation”.
Is this no longer the case? If so, what changed?
Thanks for the feedback!
I agree that it is possible to learn quickly without mentorship. However, I believe that for most programmers, the first "real" programming job is a source of tremendous growth. Why not have that earlier, and save more of one's youth?