theseriousadult

@gallabytes

father, ML enjoyer @anthropicai. previously @midjourney v2-7

Oakland

Joined April 2014

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theseriousadult
@gallabytes
Mar 6
if straight lines on graphs are to be believed, this is the last year in which agi labs are merely highly resourced megacorporations. this is the year of cyberpunk. 2027 is probably too weird for even that.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
@allTheYud
Mar 6
The current timeline is as normal as you will ever see again. Take this moment to relax and breathe before it gets weird.
theseriousadult
@gallabytes
Aug 16
1y from today this will no longer be true. even today i'd say it's more of a skill issue than a model issue but this time next year it'll just be overwhelmingly false.
Jean P.D. Meijer ― 🇪🇺 eu/acc
@initjean
Aug 15
it’s very hard to consume a lot of tokens outside of software development
theseriousadult
@gallabytes
Aug 10
Anthropic
@AnthropicAI
Aug 10
We asked an unreleased research version of Claude to take a stab at the Riemann hypothesis. It didn’t solve it, but it did make strides on a related problem: it increased the lower bound for the fraction of zeros of the Riemann zeta function that satisfy the hypothesis from
theseriousadult
@gallabytes
Aug 3
cosign
Dean W. Ball
@deanwball
Aug 3
my view is basically: “with even moderate prudence, things will probably go extraordinarily well.” to expand a bit, I believe that, with moderate prudence beyond what the incentives of advanced capitalism on its own might provide for, I believe it will be possible to bring
theseriousadult
@gallabytes
Jul 31
this but unironically - scaling could have started much much sooner, and the world would likely have been better for it, and we were all of us fools for not spotting it sooner. even if you want to slow down, earlier scaling would have been slower!
Nick
@nickcammarata
Jul 31
anyone could have looked at 2004 nematode brains seen scaling laws and predicted the singularity was late 2026 not early 2029, embarrassing miss from kurzweil, moron