pizzathyme

we are going to find out very soon

I wrote a Monte-Carlo simulation while working on a Pokemon-Go style game to simulate people walking all over the world. I used statistics for average walking speed and times played for similar games. To my amazement when the game launched, my predictions were within +/- 2%! A career highlight.

It's not that it's fake. It's that it has a distinct style.

I once thought that AI image/video would quickly become unidentifiable, but the surprising thing (so far) is that every new model release is followed by two reactions: "This is incredible" to "I recognize this style. It's AI. They're all the same."

It takes only a few weeks. I've been amazed with our mind's ability to move the goalpost.

I love my whoop band. Has noticeably made my day to day life happier than before I owned it. The insights pushed me to sleep much better, which makes each day brighter and less overwhelming. The insights also pushed me to up my cardio fitness metrics in general, which has made me overall more athletic and capable on strenuous hikes, trips, and activities.

YMMV but for me it might be my favorite product I own

> it’s far too early to claim a discovery, physicists warn...“How do you even make sense of one event?” muses Tom Shutt, a particle astrophysicist at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and co-founder of the LZ project. “We just decided we should publish and think really, really, really hard about what that event could be.”

Very hard to manage jumping the gun by reporters. Sounds like they saw some new data. No idea what it is.

Looking forward to the follow up.

I have claude just label at the top of all the notes it's generated "Generated by Claude". I also put them into specific claude folders. I agree with the downsides of not being able to distinguish your own writing from an AI's in the future, but don't see why it's a unsolvable problem.

I’m not certain that an AI agent itself is going to cure cancer. But I am certain that millions of scientists using AI will make lots of progress.

I guarantee someone at Moderna was using Claude in some capacity.

Strauss Zelnick the TakeTwo CEO has talked about how there’s two periods to go hard at your career ambitions: before kids and then after they are older and have their own lives. In between, my frame on this personally has always been that no matter how much money I make in the future, one day I would spend all of it to have another day with my kids at the age they are right now. And so for a period, that’s the focus. It won’t be forever but it is right now.

It's true. The negative takeaway is that is no matter what miracles come in the far future (free energy, perfect health care, infinite resources, infinite intelligence), people will eternally be wanting, take things for granted, focused mainly on the things they don't have and can't do. It's the human condition.

The US wields incredible negotiating power and hegemony because the dollar is the world’s reserve currency. Like the British pound and the Dutch guilder before it, if that loses reserve currency status it will be harder to borrow on favorable terms, which would affect the entire US economy. This is a big step in that perhaps starting to happen over the next few decades.

For those old enough to remember, this is like dial up internet to broadband. So fast it creates new markets