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A direct link: aitrainingstatement.org.

Congratulations on missing the last 17 years of "[citation needed]" being used as a rhetorical device.

I see you have already been escorted to the egress.

Fuckity bye!

Your blithe trust in capital fails to be endearing.

alignment offer

That's sure a choice of words, ain't it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob

as you will discover if you read,

Hey, man, that's a lot to ask, you know, brah

Google has signed a deal with California startup Kairos Power for six or seven small modular reactors. The first is due in 2030

So, well after the bubble is going to pop.

Good sneer from "Internet_Janitor" a few comments up the page:

LLMs inherently shit where they eat.

The only argument I find here against it is the question of whether someone’s personal opinions should be a reason to be removed from a leadership position.

What do these people think leadership is?

(wipes away a single tear)

Beautiful, man, just beautiful

(Preface: I work in AI)

Preface: repent for your sins in sackcloth and ashes.

IMO, LLM’s are what they are, a good way to spit information out fast.

Buh bye now.

What if I told you I have the power to ban you from the forum because you're terminally boring?

According to the Wikipedia article on Bell's theorem, the physicist Tsung-Dao Lee "came close to" inventing it independently. Word from people who would know is that he actually got it, deriving a no-go theorem for local hidden variables that was basically the same as the one Feynman gave much later. But the only documentation for this is in e-mails that have never been published, so nobody can fix the Wikipedia page.

and even unsolicited dick pics.

But what about the dck pcks?

yeah, 3b1b animations can take you through all of undergrad math in probably a month if it all existed and you used anki

We could bottle this arrogance and sell it as an emetic.

And besides, we all know that mathematics videos peaked with the Angle Dance.

Oh. He retweets Cremieux.

Fun fact: The plain vanilla physics major at MIT requires three semesters of quantum mechanics. And that's not including the quantum topics included in the statistical physics course, or the experiments in the lab course that also depend upon it.

Grad school is another year or so of quantum on top of that, of course.

(MIT OpenCourseWare actually has fairly extensive coverage of all three semesters: 8.04, 8.05 and 8.06. Zwiebach was among the best lecturers in the department back in my day, too.)

This is just straight-up gossip, but why not:

Tegmark used to go around polling physicists at conferences about which interpretation of quantum mechanics they prefer. A colleague of mine said that they were sitting near Tegmark and saw him fudging the numbers in his notes — erasing the non-Many Worlds tallies from those who said they supported Many Worlds as well as others, IIRC.

Banned for using the word metacognition seriously.

Max Tegmark has taken a break from funding neo-Nazi media to blather about Artificial General Intelligence.

As humanity gets closer to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)

The first clause of the opening line, and we've already hit a "citation needed".

He goes from there to taking a prediction market seriously. And that Aschenbrenner guy who thinks that Minecraft speedruns are evidence that AI will revolutionize "science, technology, and the economy".

You know, ten or fifteen years ago, I would have disagreed with Tegmark about all sorts of things, but I would have granted him default respect for being a scientist.