Saffron Huang

@saffronhuang

not with that attitude | perpetual newcomer, kiwi, applied math & cs & german / research engineer

Vrijeme pridruživanja: travanj 2013.

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  1. Prikvačeni tweet
    4. lis 2019.

    If I ever feel like I can’t do anything, I just think back to that time over winter break where I drank milk every day to get over my lactose intolerance

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  2. 28. sij

    A principled, specific and thorough investigation of key philosophical questions in AI alignment by !

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  3. 21. sij

    peanut butter + marmite is the most interesting and acceptably tasty combination I’ve tried so far

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  4. 20. sij

    can’t tell if this is the kind of thing twitter is for

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  5. 20. sij

    what are interesting ways to eat peanut butter, ive got a large supply and a want of novelty

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  6. 19. sij

    acclaimed 20th century novelists’ ages at time of masterwork(s) - “for more than half of the authors the timespan between the debut and the first masterpiece is no more than five years”

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    Thinking a great deal about the value of four year university as structured now for the future. My friend has written a thoughtful piece from her experience: A great combination with amazing December piece:

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  8. 14. sij

    Obviously elite schools open doors but it’s what you do with your education regardless of where or if you attend. And (my point) whether your mind is free from all the new narratives and pressures.

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  9. 14. sij

    I find that people back home r often _much_ more ambitious about changing their part of the world than people at Harvard.Auckland Uni kids start startups/social enterprises/maker spaces,do art, run for council—nonchalantly invent their own rules.Stuff Harv kids generally don’t do

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  10. 14. sij

    The pressure to make your degree ‘worth it’ is an insidious side effect of attendance (albeit yes, a ‘first world problem’) no one talks about.

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  11. 14. sij

    Elite colleges also actually close doors — at least, psychologically. You don’t see Harvard alum becoming plumbers or farmers or opening a corner store, or doing anything that’s not _worthy_ of their degree, even if that’s what makes them happy.

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  12. 14. sij

    Who should you be making a change for, what do you invest in, when ur in an inherently transitory position? It’s obv not impossible, it just gets harder esp for substantial direct/local impact. So ppl tend to self-focus, adopting very self-regarding goals in uni - prob not great.

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  13. 14. sij

    Also by going to college for 4 years, you become uprooted from your home and community in ur formative years, and lose significant agency and power to serve a community ur rooted in. I personally got v disconnected from NZ, & its hard to replace with a new town in a new country.

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  14. 14. sij

    People start to think smaller, safer. “I’m not good enough for magnificent dreams, I can’t even get into any clubs. And how do I even ‘change the world’ as promised?” in contrast to that type of opacity, the school provides (too) many easy paths to stable prestigious jobs.

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  15. 14. sij

    People get there, and realise that they’re not the best, the smartest, the most hard-working anymore. So they say, okay, my role is not to change the world. That’s the role of x, y and z, who are all smarter and more hard-working than I am. They become less ambitious.

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  16. 14. sij

    You get into Harvard by wanting to change the world, by having pie-in-the-sky ambitions. Not by limiting your goals simply to admission. So Harvard does take amazing, well-intentioned kids. But it changes them.

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  17. 14. sij

    A post I wrote on big dreams, transience, risk taking, and the problem with elite colleges: . with annotations by ! Some points from it below:

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  18. 10. sij

    whats a mind expanding book on an interesting topic in physics for someone who is STEM-y and wants to learn more physics?

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  19. 7. sij

    All I want in 2020 is for the world to stop charging me 50c extra for almond milk

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  20. 5. sij

    Came across this cool concept of 0=2 — a neat way to think about every thing existing in duality/contrast with something else (at the very least, what it is not)

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    2. sij

    If we want people to work towards an amazing future, we need to construct visions of what that future might look like. Which motivated my latest (and longest) blog post, Characterising Utopia.

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