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Mar 23 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
We need another AI winter simply so I can catch up on everything that's happened in the last 2 weeks
So we have a weak AGI that is connected to the internet and can read and use APIs? Sure looks like e/acc is winning.
Top HN comment on plug-ins right now: Image
(Not an endorsement, but it’s interesting how even the non-doomer/safety-concerned crowd is getting nervous.)

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Jan 8
Every tech person in San Francisco is either unemployed or works at OpenAI
The unemployed ones never worry about income and call themselves things like “qualia researcher”. Everyone goes to the same few parties.

(This is good actually, it’s why SF is the modern-day Florence.)
There is an amazing book to be written about the anthropology of modern-day San Francisco. It’s extremely unique.
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Dec 22, 2022
Probs obvious, but I think lack of cheap housing in cities is the main thing to blame for most culture getting worse (contemporary novels, indie movies, music, less weird art, etc.) — mostly, the only people who can afford to make a career in this stuff have inherited wealth now.
I’m struck by how much more *weirdness* the 60s seemed to have — the Beats, hippies, LSD/free love, Dylan/Beatles/whatnot, and it seems that all of that stuff could only have arisen in a condition where people could afford rent in the city with relative ease
Not trying to be a doomer, there is still some good stuff (mostly from foreign countries, though). But overall the decline feels fairly striking.
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Dec 1, 2022
Been playing with ChatGPT all morning and it is absolutely amazing at generating plausible-sounding nonsense. I have to squint pretty hard at each output to figure out exactly how it's nonsense, though.
For example, I tried it on Advent of Code #1. It's first attempt was this, which sort of looks right, but has a bunch of problems:
- 'current_elf' is never initialized
- It's hard-coded to 5 elves, so fails on the non-example dataset Image
I asked it to try a solution for variable numbers of elves, and it gave me this, which is again sort of right, but also fails -- 'current_elf' is just updated to 'None' each iteration of the loop so the eventual dictionary just has one key, 'None'. Image
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Feb 13, 2022
I know it's been said before, but most people seriously underestimate how easy it is to cold email people and how impactful that can be. Confidently sending cold emails/DMs is a life-changing skill
IRL most people are nervous about cold emailing their favorite author or researcher or whatever, not realizing that:

(a) the person would probably love to hear from them
(b) it's a pure-upside bet (worst case they ignore you!)
I wrote Zadie Smith once just telling her how much I liked one of her books and she wrote the nicest note back to me, and I've never forgotten it. One of hundreds of examples. Tell people you like their stuff!
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