Who's doing the talking is irrelevant. What's being talked about is everything that matters.
Jyväskylä, Finland
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Taavi Tossavainen retweeted
Democracy isn’t perfect, but it can’t function if billionaires decide elections.
In most European countries, Musk couldn’t do this because million-dollar campaign donations aren’t allowed.
When the rich have vastly more influence than voters, that isn’t democracy
Taavi Tossavainen retweeted
"I'm an anti-Zionist, because I'm the daughter of holocaust survivors. The Shoah is baked into my DNA, and that's why I call for Palestinian liberation. It's not anti-semitic to be anti-Zionist. It's not anti-semitic to call what's happening in Gaza genocide."
Elsa Auerbach - Jewish-American Author
Taavi Tossavainen retweeted
> be demis hassabis
> spawn in london
> age 4, become child chess prodigy
> win chess tournaments
> reach ~2300 elo
> face danish chess champion
> game lasts hours
> position is a forced draw
> too exhausted to see it
> resign
> danish guy laughs and shows the draw
> feel sick to my stomach
> realise something is wrong
> chess is too narrow a problem
> brilliant minds wasting decades on it
> decide not to become a chess pro
> buy a computer with chess winnings
> teach self to program from books
> start hacking on games with friends
> decide to finish school early
> apply to cambridge age 16
> cambridge says you're too young
> forced to take a gap year
> enter a video game coding competition
> win
> get invited to join bullfrog game studio
> too young to be legally employed
> work there anyway
> build ai system inside theme park game
> game becomes a global hit
> turn 17
> offered £1,000,000 to stay and build games
> turn it down
> go to cambridge anyway
> decide games aren't enough
> study computer science
> interested in agi since 2007
> most people laugh at this idea
> realise brain is only form of agi we have
> want to learn more about human brain
> go back to school
> study neuroscience
> realise academia moves too slow
> decide to build a company instead
> start deepmind
> pitch “solve intelligence”
> investors don’t know what that means
> get to meet peter thiel for one minute
> wonder how to convince him
> spend one minute playing chess with him
> pitch "solve intelligence" again
> he invests
> go into total stealth mode for two years
> no website
> secret office
> candidates think it’s a scam
> start to train ai in simulated environments
> train ai with reinforcement learning
> train ai on pong first
> it sucks
> can't win a single point
> keep trying
> wait it won a a point
> wait it's winning every single point
> it actually works
> expand to train on any two-player game
> chess first, then move on to go
> beats world champion at go
> beats pros at starcraft
> games is not enough
> want to push into science
> realise compute is the bottleneck
> know this will take decades
> google offers ~$400m
> not the highest price
> but they offer unlimited compute
> accept
> refuse to become a product team
> stay in research mode
> determined to use ai for good
> need to figure out what's next
> land on protein folding
> 50-year-old unsolved science problem
> many great minds have tried and failed
> "good luck"
> start up alphafold
> try to solve protein folding
> humans take years to find 1 protein structure
> alphafold can find ~5 per day
> submit results, win competition
> not good enough
> hire more scientists
> rebuild it
> go from solving one per day to millions per day
> create invaluable system
> pharma would pay anything
> have to decide what to do with this
> could sell access for usage
> maybe make it a paid service
> remember childhood chess tournament
> remember why we built this
> decide to give it away all away for free
> publish all known protein structures publicly
> win nobel peace prize
> just the beginning towards agi
Taavi Tossavainen retweeted
1/ Porvariston mölinä siitä, että “Kelan tuilla eläminen” olisi moraalinen ongelma, kääntää koko kysymyksen päälaelleen. Perimmäinen epäoikeudenmukaisuus ei ole siinä, että ihmiset elävät tulonsiirroilla, vaan siinä, että yhteiskunta on rakennettu yksityisomistukseen ...
Taavi Tossavainen retweeted
Silicon Valley is about to trigger the entire Western civilization with AI, and it comes down to two frameworks.
There are two universal frameworks that reliably describe and predict human behavior and needs, the Self-Determination Theory and the Tripartite Theory of Meaning.
AI runs afoul of both of them.
AI threatens jobs and livelihoods, which has numerous downstream consequences:
Autonomy - if AI takes your job, your choice space is constrained.
Competence - if AI takes your job, you lack the skills and ability to navigate in the world.
Relatedness - if AI takes your job, you lose a social network that valued you.
Next is meaning:
Coherence - if AI takes your job, your life story, and the story you understood about the world, no longer makes sense.
Purpose - if AI takes your job, you need to renegotiate your entire mission in life.
Significance - if AI takes your job, you will feel like you matter less to your family and society as a whole
The resistance to AI is because, at a deep unconscious level, people know this is coming.
Taavi Tossavainen retweeted
Jos luet vain yhden kirjoituksen urheilusta tänään, olkoon se tämä!
Kylian Mbappén ja Teemu Selänteen puheet paljastavat suomalaisen urheilun yhteiskunnallisen avuttomuuden, kirjoittaa @JariKupila punnitussa kirjoituksessaan.
Lue ➡️
#emfutis #Leijonat apu.fi/artikkelit/mbappe-pal…
Taavi Tossavainen retweeted
Denmark’s left wing discovered that their social system required danish cultural norms in order to function, and that culturally diverse immigration would destroy it. So, they campaigned on the idea that all immigrants must adopt danish culture or leave. As a result of this focus on cultural preservation, the right wing shriveled.
'Denmark, almost alone in the western world, has a very strong centre-Left, and the main reason is that, uniquely, it followed its voters on immigration.
... They actually did what the voters wanted.'
On Danish exceptionalism, by @edwest edwest.co.uk/p/on-danish-exc…
Taavi Tossavainen retweeted
Fresh evidence: 6 months of at least $250/mo per kid to 9 out of 10 kids in the US had *NO NEGATIVE IMPACT* on the employment status of their parents. This includes those who were previously excluded from the CTC for not earning enough money to claim it.
nber.org/papers/w29823
Taavi Tossavainen retweeted
Työttömistäkin kolmasosa on ollut vailla työtä alle 3 kk ja puolet alle 6 kk, joten melko huomattava osuus heistäkin on pikemminkin työpaikkojen välissä kuin pysyvästi sosiaaliturvan varassa. Vielä harvempi on sosiaaliturvan varassa vapaaehtoisesti, mieluummin kuin töissä.
Taavi Tossavainen retweeted
Mielipiteisiin vaikutetaan antamalla ymmärtää, että iso osa työssäkäyvien tuloista otetusta siivusta palaa laiskottelevien työttömien elintason ylläpitoon. Todellisuudessa suurin osa sosiaaliturvan ja muista yhteiskunnan menoista on sellaisia, joille on laaja hyväksyntä. 6/5
Taavi Tossavainen retweeted
Kuva näyttäisi aika erilaiselta, jos myös yhteiskunnan kannateltavat eroteltaisiin visuaalisesti. 5/5
ALT Muokattu versio EK:n kuvasta, jossa myös ”yhteiskunnan kannateltavat” on eroteltu: eläkeläiset 26 %, lapset 15 %, työttömät 5 %, opiskelijat 3 % ja muut työvoiman ulkopuolella olevat 3 %.
Käärijä pärjää ihan hyvin, vaikka laulaa suomeksi. Suomen kieli on hieno kieli, mutta sitä ymmärtävät vain suomalaiset. Ruotsiin menee tämä pokaali tällä kertaa. #euroviisut2023
Taavi Tossavainen retweeted
As financial story follows story, dark clouds encircle esports and talk begins of its possible demise.
Once this post has been RT'd 500 times the Four Horsemen will ride and tackle this ominous threat.
@MonteCristo @RLewisReports @LastFreeNation
TFW you can't even blame aleksib for the map loss. Most inconsistent rifle core I've seen in a while. #ESLProLeague
Taavi Tossavainen retweeted
Evil Geniuses have been much too #LIVEEVIL recently as information about their poor treatment of their star LoL player Danny has emerged.
The Four Horsemen are gathering to discuss the issue in detail
@RLewisReports
@Thorin
1000 RTs and we begin.
Taavi Tossavainen retweeted
Is that the distant sound of hooves? Questions swirl around the state of CS:GO. 1,000 retweets and the horsemen, @RLewisReports , @montecristo and I, shall assemble to discuss.
Taavi Tossavainen retweeted
Is that the distant sound of hooves? Rumours that an esports org owner been fraternising with Andrew Tate leading to the standard PR shitshow have passed to this side of the realm. 1000 retweets and the horsemen, @Thorin @montecristo and I, shall assemble to discuss.