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@meaningness is one of the thinkers who's influenced me most.
Prompted by @saffronhuang and @humford, I wrote a reader's guide to his work. Topics include the invention of Vipassana, Heideggerian AI, and how to do science. Excerpts:
Max Langenkamp
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Max Langenkamp
@mslkmp
biosecurity, cryptography, meaning, tofu
- Terence Tao on how he solves math problems mathoverflow.net/questions/3863…
- Replying to @mslkmpfrom @meaningness "statistics and the replication crisis". I can attest to having been both the scientist begging for the right test and the witness of someone told to just "get the stats to work"
- I present to you all: "How Open Source Machine Software Shapes AI" (essay/my thesis/@AIESConf paper - links at end). In it, @dhadfieldmenell, @dyuephoria, and I claim that Machine Learning OSS (MLOSS) is a crucial but neglected factor shaping AI development. 1/
- After blistering hours of bibtex debugging, I have submitted my Master's thesis! There is still much to do before it's ready for public consumption, but wanted to share + hint at what I've been fostering for the last 18 months. 1/3
- Replying to @mslkmpFor me the key here is how different Tao's description is from the dry stereotype I was taught of 'how math works'. Terence's description here feels rich and of the world!
- can confirm Helen is one of the most compassionate clear sighted people I've ever known. I don't have strong feelings about the conflict but it has been interesting to see the ire heaped upon herno. none of you assholes understand helen toner in the slightest. she's one of the most thoughtful and principled and level-headed people i met in the bay. not sucked into the crazy psychodrama that i could tell, not motivated by money or status. she's a homie
- There's a lot of excitement about AI and automation. Mostly, people seem to assume *if* a task can be automated and there's economic incentive, it will be. Here's a short essay on why I think that perspective is naive.
- One common quip I hear among technologists is that 'AGI/BCI/etc is inevitable'. This claim misunderstands the contingency of tech development and is attempting to be a monopoly in the marketplace of ideas. 1/
- “Collecting art is one of the most important things you can do” somehow this throwaway sentence from @tylercowen has stuck with me in the last two years and immensely improved my appreciation of art
- Did some crackpot physics last night — I think it's pretty plausible that pigeons detect the earth's magnetic field by detecting deflection of Ca ions by flapping their wings
