“The constant refrain among researchers is to “feel the AGI” (artificial general intelligence), as if their models were calling out to them, asking to be summoned forth.
Simply put, they are enchanted.” 🎯🎯🎯
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Children whose parents read to them before age five develop stronger language networks in the brain. A 2018 study in Developmental Science found that children exposed to more reading at home showed greater connectivity between the brain regions that process language, even before they could read a word themselves.
The study used structural MRI to measure white matter tracts in the brains of children between ages four and six. The children whose parents read to them more frequently had stronger connections in the left-hemisphere language pathways, particularly in the arcuate fasciculus, the bundle of nerve fibres that connects the regions responsible for understanding speech and producing it.
The parents were not teaching reading. They were reading aloud, doing the voices, pointing at pictures, and answering questions. The child's brain was building the wiring that would later support independent reading, and it was building more of it in homes where the nightly story was a habit.
The effect was dose-dependent: more reading meant stronger connections. And it was independent of income and parental education after those factors were controlled for. A wealthy family that did not read to their child had weaker language pathways than a lower-income family that read every night.
The bookshelf in the bedroom is brain infrastructure. The study says every night you sit on the edge of the bed and open a book, you are laying fibre-optic cable inside a skull that has not yet learned to use it. The cable will carry every word the child ever reads, speaks, and understands. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3032…
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EXCLUSIVE: AI actress Tilly Norwood glitches and starts speaking CHINESE during her interview with Piers Morgan and real-life actor Tom Conti...
Watch the full interview at 7pm (BST)👇
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man. the more and more I listen to these insider AI scientists, the more I realize they're like most academics….
e.g. you can be brilliant in your academic understanding of poverty (know all the facts in sociology, anthropology, and economics studies, etc) and yet still be an absolute disaster at helping an actual family get back on its feet.
same is true with AI. you can know exactly how the models work, know all the math behind it, recite every potential risk, and still be a disaster at painting a vision for AI’s real life impact on people
no wonder people hate AI
OpenAI's Noam Brown says air-gapping the computers may not stop a misaligned AI, because two air-gapped machines can still talk by running a CPU hot and reading the temperature change
"But I think the major takeaway from the incident is that people underestimated the AI. And we never want to be in a situation again where we underestimate the AI. It's a weird world, because AI progress is so fast that people are consistently underestimating the AI."
"So to be in a situation where you don't underestimate it again, when it comes to safety and alignment, you have to have a very, very, very high bar."
"You could even go as far as to say, "Well, we should air gap the computers." And I'm not convinced that that would be sufficient."
"There are studies, and this is mostly academic, where you can have two computers next to each other that are air-gapped and they're still able to communicate with each other because they have temperature sensors."
"One of them is able to run their CPU really hot, and then the other one can actually detect the temperature change, and then that actually gives them a mechanism to communicate."
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Link and more key quotes from OpenAI's safety related conversations: firesidealpha.substack.com/p…
Stanley is now a pastoring a AoG church in South Ozone Park in Queens.
His testimony on 9/11 is one you’ll never forget:
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Above the Impact Zone
When Flight 175 struck the South Tower between floors 77 and 85, almost everyone above it was trapped. Only a small number found a way down through Stairwell A, the one stairwell that remained passable.
Here are four of their stories:
Brian Clark, 84th floor: While escaping, he heard Stanley Praimnath calling for help, pulled him from the wreckage, and the two made their way down together.
Ron DiFrancesco, 84th floor: He initially tried going upward, then turned back and fought his way down through smoke and fire. He is widely described as the last person to escape the South Tower.
Ling Young, 86th floor: Badly burned in the attack, she made it down to the 78th-floor sky lobby, where Welles Crowther helped guide her toward safety.
Stanley Praimnath, 81st floor: He saw Flight 175 coming directly toward his office moments before impact. The plane tore through his floor, but he survived in the wreckage until Brian Clark found him.
Their stories are some of the most remarkable survivals of 9/11. One damaged stairwell made all the difference.
“Perhaps Spurgeon’s brother most accurately described the major factor in the great preacher’s success when he said:
‘I think that it lies in the fact that he loves Jesus of Nazareth and Jesus of Nazareth loves him.’”
— Jay E. Adams
You only need 10 minutes of reviewing your Kione Greek and Hebrew.
Jalen Brunson says 30 intentional minutes can beat 2 hours in the gym, and explains the NBA was never his goal because he was consumed with just trying to get a little bit better everyday
“People say, ‘Oh, I was in the gym for two hours today.’ Like, okay, what did you do in the gym?’ You can get a much more difficult and better workout in 30 to 40 minutes versus just being in the gym BS’ing for two hours.”
“While it was about consistency, it was about being precise. There was intent to everything you did. It was definitely commitment. I loved going out and working out. I loved going and playing pickup.”
“When we lived in Virginia, we lived in Charlottesville Virginia when my dad worked at UVA. I would go play at the rec center with college kids. We would play pickup, I’m playing against older people and I’m playing well. I’m not thinking, I’m going to the NBA. The NBA was never talked about. No. I’m just trying to get better. It was all about going to college.”
“There were baby steps. Yes there were long term goals, but I’m focused on the short term goals. Baby steps, one step at a time. People just want to jump straight there, and they get disappointed because they didn’t enjoy their journey. I enjoyed every step of my journey. Enjoy your steps.”
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True freedom is freedom to, not freedom from.
Best things in life - family, friends, community - require commitment and accountability.
Freedom is the means, not the end. You can love, or you can be "free," but you cannot be both.
why Naval deleted his calendar, ghosts everyone, and refuses to be anywhere at a specific time
Naval: "I read a blog post by Marc Andreessen where he said don't keep a schedule. And I took that to heart. So I deleted my calendar and I don't keep a schedule. I try to remember it all in my head. If I can't remember it, I'm not going to add it."
"I have a nasty email autoresponder that says, I don't check email and don't text me either. If you need to find me, you'll find me."
"My wife knows not to ever book or schedule me for anything. I'm not expected to go to couples dinners. I'm not expected to go to birthdays. I'm not expected to go to weddings. If somebody tries to rope her into having me show up, she says he makes his own decisions. You got to ask him directly."
Chris: "Are you not killing serendipity in a way?"
Naval: "No. I'm freeing up all my time. So my entire life is serendipity. I get to interact with whoever I want, whenever I want, wherever."
