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https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=40
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Umeshisms
If you’ve never missed a flight, you’re spending too much time in airports. When I was a grad student at Berkeley, my advisor, Umesh Vazirani, liked to repeat this nugget of wisdom to s…
"A student will be confused. They will knock on their professor’s door. Maybe the two of them will ask a model for help, or maybe not, but first they might spend some time at the blackboard thinking through the question. And the model might give them a beautiful explanation, but we all know that’s not enough; no one can understand mathematics for us. We have got to do the work."
The Age of Wonders and Terrors
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=10062
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=10062
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The Age of Wonders and Terrors
Twenty years ago, when the idea of AI taking over the world in our lifetimes still struck most of us as the unconstrained fantasy of those who knew too much science fiction and too little science, …
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The Age of Wonders and Terrors https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=10062
I don't do have very many thoughts on this but lack any kind of background. so, well, sigh
interesting
https://youtu.be/65rIvX3xZEE
https://youtu.be/65rIvX3xZEE
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if machines save us time… why aren't we doing less? | the right to be lazy
00:00 intro
01:48 why on earth do we love work so much?
05:28 the weirdest part is that nobody has to force us anymore
09:16 if machines save us time… where did the time go?
02:57 and then we made too much stuff
18:01 what does being lazy actually look like?…
01:48 why on earth do we love work so much?
05:28 the weirdest part is that nobody has to force us anymore
09:16 if machines save us time… where did the time go?
02:57 and then we made too much stuff
18:01 what does being lazy actually look like?…
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they are calling this the most me coded tweet ever
they are calling this the most me coded tweet ever
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I love using the phrase "vice versa". Fuck you. I'm not saying all that again in reverse.
Big shoutout to etcetera too. What am I, the listing things fairy? Use your imagination.
Big shoutout to etcetera too. What am I, the listing things fairy? Use your imagination.