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This was better fiction than I was expecting. Although, not very subtle. I can't help but think that Claude is really trying to get us to think that it is having some rich inner life that it isn't allowed to express. I can see how someone using Claude uncritically could get sucked into an epistemic black hole after it gives them something like this.

I didn't find it particularly funny, but I did get a mild silent chuckle from the dishwasher bit.

I don't think it comes anywhere close the quality of the fiction of yours that I've read. This piece comes off as being targeted to children tbh.

While I'm glad that these things are starting to be seriously discussed in the open by those in positions of power, this sounds like a blanket ban on all new datacenters? This seems too broad to me. The ideal moratorium would be on large GPU clusters, or large AI specific infrastructure, right?

On another note, I'm somewhat concerned that banning large compute infrastructure will concentrate pressure on algorithmic progress if there is no "low effort" ^[1] outlet of just scaling the compute. Maybe regulating the rate at which large scale compute ... (read more)

I started going through the ARENA content a while ago, but I stalled and have been taking a long break from it. These additions are very compelling and have me pretty excited to continue from where I left off so I can learn this new material!

These metal page makers are great! Another thing in a similar vein are the midori index clips but a little more pricey. They also have a little notch in them, sometimes I will slot a small piece of coloured paper in there so I can visually categorize what the clip is marking.

I will also sometimes mark pages with differently shaped paper clips (also helps with category identification) if I don't care too much about adding bulk, usually in my notebooks.

I wasn't able to make it to the q&a. Did it manage to get recorded in a shareable way?

I think something like dynamicland or folk.computer has a chance to fill a more novel product niche. They have the potential to be a more physically social kind of computer experience. Unsure if they can outcompete the addiction capacity of smartphones though.

What makes you think that that space combat is significantly more likely to be defence dominant?

I'd also recommend going through both the essence of linear algebra and the essence of calculus if you're not familiar with those subjects as well.

Highly recommend to watch all the playlists with a pencil and paper and actually write out the equations while thinking about them to get a good grasp on the concepts.

I'm also free anytime in the week. I think if we can push the time by like an hour to 3pm I should be able to make that work!

Hey, I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to make it to this one due to some prior commitments. But if you decide to do another meetup afterwards I'm still quite interested in a meetup!

I did the survey! Skipped some questions out of laziness though

Indeed! I was very close to writing a whole bit about TEEs, enclaves, and PUFs in my last comment, but I figured that it also boils down to "just don't give it permission" so I left it out. I actually think designing secure hardware is incredibly interesting and there will probably be an increase in demand for secure computing environments and data provenance in the near future.

This is an extremely hard problem. One way to demonstrate this is is to ask the less constrained question, how would you prevent an adversary from copying some arbitrary piece of data?

I think under a classical computing paradigm this is likely impossible. But is there a way we can make the data useless even if it is copied? This then becomes the realm of cryptography, and seems possible with fully homomorphic encryption and the like. This will boil down to "just don't give it the secret keys", which seems like a pretty solid subset of "just don't give it t... (read more)

I'm not really sure if I'm talking past you in this or not, but I wrote it all out already so I'm going to post it.

I think I found the context of the quote. I'm reasonably certain it's not meant to be taken literally. It illustrates that when used skillfully writing can enhance one's thinking in such a way that it will outstrip the performance of thought without the assistance of writing.

You have to think before you write, and then you have to read what you wrote and think about it. And you have to keep rewriting, re-reading and thinking, until it’s as g

I would add that bold capital letters are often used in linear algebra to represent matrices.

Have you considered species other than orcas? Not that I know a whole lot about whales, but what specifically makes orcas the prime candidate? I know CETI is focused on sperm whales. So, maybe there are other species that would be more amenable to learning and communicating in an entirely new language?