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Sonia Joseph
@soniajoseph_
mother of agi & the stories that make it
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san franciscosoniajoseph.aiJoined August 2015
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Thank you to the members
@southpkcommons
for making this one of the healthiest and most interesting communities I’ve ever been a part of, and for supporting my dreams 🚀
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It's hard to get much more ambitious than SPC member @soniajoseph_. Our latest member profile explores how Sonia plans to answer the most fundamental questions about the nature of reality. Buckle up. blog.southparkcommons.com/sonia-josephs-
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Luzia
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I find it really hard to read that Time article about sexual harassment and misogyny in EA. Based on my own experience, some of the norms in the community do make it more likely for bad things to happen.
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Anna Gát 🧭
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Last September I had a very unpleasant personal experience and saw the women around me go through the same in Berlin, San Francisco, New York. I tweeted that EA would soon have its Me Too moment. I was right. I only knew about one of these stories…
time.com
Effective Altruism Has a Hostile Culture for Women, Critics Say
Seven women connected to effective altruism tell TIME they experienced harassment and worse within the community
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Julia Bossmann
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Massive respect for the women who decided to come forward. The ball is in the EA movement’s court. Are these dynamics inseparable from the EA ideology, or can good people in the movement create positive shifts?
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Charlotte Alter
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Effective Altruism— the movement dedicated to doing good better— has been under scrutiny since the fall of SBF. But seven women told me that EA also has a hostile culture for women, one in which sexual misconduct is tolerated or rationalized away. time.com/6252617/effect
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I was in the
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mag article about sexual violence in EA. I know firsthand the fear of speaking up— and the immense courage it takes to speak up anyway. Sending love to the brave women who are shedding light on darkness, you are my heroes. ❤️
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Charlotte Alter
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Effective Altruism— the movement dedicated to doing good better— has been under scrutiny since the fall of SBF. But seven women told me that EA also has a hostile culture for women, one in which sexual misconduct is tolerated or rationalized away. time.com/6252617/effect
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rochelle shen
@neuro_morphic
Silicon Valley needs more women who look out for other women. The lack of support network is the real reason why the gender ratio gets worse with age-- women burn out on social activities over time and turn to smaller safer groups versus meeting new people.
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Irina Rish
@irinarish
"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." Robert A. Heinlein I would also add AGI to the first group, while the "extreme" wing of AI safety/ethics researchers to the second 😂 (warning: trigger alert 😜)
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Sonia Joseph
@soniajoseph_
Alexandria is hiring a full-stack engineer! Work with an incredibly talented engineering team to craft beautiful products for literature. You'll work with gen AI, smart contracts, & other frontier tech. Ideal candidates have a proven track record of shipping consumer products.
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Alexandria
@AlexandriaLabs
We're hiring a full-stack engineer to join our engineering team! You will work on some of the coolest problems in the world-- building a consumer product that readers, writers, and artists deeply love. Interested? Please apply! alexandria-labs.notion.site/Full-Stack-Eng
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entering ml research again is physically exhausting. i'm at 1-2 bagels per lecture video to make up the calorie deficit for installing concepts in my mind.
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replicating gpt-2 often feels like cargo-culting. for instance, why does gpt-2 initialize its token embeddings at 0.02 SD and position embeddings at 0.01 SD?
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Tamay Besiroglu
@tamaybes
How much progress in machine learning has been due to advances in algorithms (architectures, optimisers, activation functions, etc.), and how much as been due to the scaling of compute or datasets?
@EgeErdil2
and I provide new answers:
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Algorithmic progress in computer vision
We investigate algorithmic progress in image classification on ImageNet, perhaps the most well-known test bed for computer vision. We estimate a model, informed by work on neural scaling laws, and...
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Jim Fan
@DrJimFan
We train Transformers to encode algorithms in their weights, such as sorting, counting, and balancing parentheses from lots of data. I never thought we may also go in the *reverse* direction: *compile* Transformer weights directly from explicit code! Cool paper
@DeepMind
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Sonia Joseph
@soniajoseph_
Excited to soon be releasing a curriculum that builds a new field of AGI, grounded in engineering and economics, and breaking from the existing paradigm!
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South Park Commons
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Let's zoom in on the Learn part of the Collaborate-Learn-Build-Launch sequence at SPC, and one of our favorite ways to help members do it: We call them Forums. Recent forums were on LLMs, computer vision, & AGI. Next one is on TechBio. This is cool stuff.
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Julia Bossmann
@juliabossmann
AI safety needs an update. To represent the interests of humanity, this excessively technical industry needs to do some squishy-freely humanities work
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Sonia Joseph
@soniajoseph_
I left classical AI safety after being harassed out of the field, like many other women. As AI alignment undergoes its Technical Reform, it also needs to think about its Cultural Reform. twitter.com/more_weight_/s…
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@soniajoseph_
I left classical AI safety after being harassed out of the field, like many other women. As AI alignment undergoes its Technical Reform, it also needs to think about its Cultural Reform.
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Claire Voynich
@more_weight_
Women are pivotal for AI alignment. Not in their polite and useful society-sanctioned roles - we need their fully realized voices and their fearless agency. Without women, AI alignment is incomplete.
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Sonia Joseph
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thanks
@voxmenthe
for surfacing this paper
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Armen Aghajanyan
@ArmenAgha
I'm excited to present: Scaling Laws for Generative Mixed-Modal Language Models. In this paper we explore the scaling properties of mixed-modal generative models, discovering new scaling laws that unify the contributions of individual modalities and the interactions between them. twitter.com/_akhaliq/statu…
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Funding schemes for AGI never cease to fascinate
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Pete
@nonmayorpete
Update on OpenAI/Microsoft deal terms: Once $92 billion in profit plus $13 billion in initial investment are repaid [to Microsoft and once the other venture investors earn $150 billion, all of the equity reverts back to OpenAI
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Byrne Hobart
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Today's free post: how AI might end up like the steel industry. Important, ubiquitous, but also chronically unable to generate good long-term returns for investors. (It's not the only possibility explored in the post.)
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@soniajoseph_
Overall, is doing science more efficient when constrained by economic purpose? What is the nature of insights in blue skies research versus science in startups? Examples?
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Shane Gu
@shaneguML
“AlphaGo vs Lee Sedol” moment for justice system
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Joshua Browder
@jbrowder1
DoNotPay will pay any lawyer or person $1,000,000 with an upcoming case in front of the United States Supreme Court to wear AirPods and let our robot lawyer argue the case by repeating exactly what it says. (1/2)
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@soniajoseph_
What are some AI PhD theses that were engineering heavy, instead of more theory based? Like PageRank, if they had actually written the dissertation?
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@soniajoseph_
Paperclip maximizer and Roko’s basilisk were once useful points in philosophy space. But they're also stories grounded in the need to control and fear of the unknown What stories are counterpoints— just as sticky, but with better vibes?
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