Links and tweets, 2023-03-01
by Jason Crawford · March 1, 2023 · 1 min read
The Progress Forum
- Anton Howes on what the Dutch did better than the English
- AMA with Gale Pooley & Marian Tupy, authors of Superabundance
- Ben Reinhardt AMA has concluded
Opportunities
- Lex Fridman wants to meet people, fill out this form to get coffee with him
- Essay contest: “What does a perfect research institute look like?” (via @akuataya)
News & announcements
- Works in Progress Issue 10 (thread from @s8mb)
- OpenAI announces its long-term strategy and principles
- BioGPT, an LLM trained on biomedical research literature (via @tunguz)
- Constitutional AI: training LLMs with behavioral principles (from @AnthropicAI)
- UAE turned on its third nuclear reactor in 3 years (@BrianGitt)
Articles & essays
- “How can anyone stop being fascinated for long enough to be angry?” Scott Aaronson on GPT
- Jerusalem Demsas on “permission-slip culture” in America (via @atrembath)
- “Cyborgism” as a strategy for using LLMs
Queries
- Can anyone intro Dwarkesh to Robert Caro? (@dwarkesh_sp)
- What’s the best book on Taylorism? (@davidtlang)
- What are the best books about insurance? (@ByrneHobart)
- Best writing to illustrate to the layman where we’re at with AGI? (@PatrickFinley_)
Quotes
- Everything has to be invented, including stop signs and numbered highways
- The great equalizer: indoor plumbing
- When your boat gets in an accident and works better afterward
- The restless motivation of Paul Ehrlich (the German microbiologist)
- A good metaphor for breakthroughs
- In the 19th century this was considered a sick burn
Tweets & threads
- Institute for Progress one-year anniversary retrospective (@calebwatney)
- All solutions reveal new problems. But to be solutions they must be better problems
- Virtually everything about spacecraft was figured out by a Russian eccentric decades before rocketry
- “The technology we have can do X. Therefore, it will always be limited to X”
- An easy way to trick ChatGPT
- Can China lead on AI if free speech is literally a feature the technology?
- Listen to people when you’re impressed by how they think, not when you agree with what they think (@AdamMGrant channeling @waitbutwhy)
- The invention of the modern pictogram
Charts
