thinking about how the most enduring catchphrases of the English language in recent memory have come from Donald Trump and Claude
Dario Amodei does not want China, ruled by a Leninist party-state, to control AI. Instead, he wants the AI revolution to be lead by a small group of responsible professionals like him and his coworkers at Anthropic. A vanguard, if you will.
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doing delayed/limited releases would play exactly into anthropic’s hand. their wet dream is heavy govt regulation that would lock in the existing big labs and make it impossible for new contenders to even try.
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a lot of people dont know this but the Cornell and Occidental ornithology labs actually have an east vs west coast style rap beef that has been waging since the 1800s and has taken the lives of multiple postdocs
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Cornell showing its commitment to fighting antisemitism by sponsoring a lecture on replacement theory by an overt antisemite
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lol it sounds more like an undergrad essay than Revolutions. also it's mostly false
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broke: reading a compiler correctness paper because it's related to my work
woke: reading a compiler correctness paper because of the colors
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I'm devastated to hear that William Cook passed away on Wed. Much of 1990s OOP was defined by his seminal papers. When he returned after a decade in industry (AppleScript!) I invited him to @BrownCSDept (where he got his PhD from Peter Wegner) and we became friends. Tragic.
IMO this is the correct take---it was especially bad wrt the water politics omnipresent in the book that was only briefly alluded to in a few scenes. Also dialogue was stilted and corny (𝓓𝓔𝓢𝓔𝓡𝓣 𝓟𝓞𝓦𝓔𝓡), but the movie inherited that from the source material


















