Had loads of fun with contributing to the 100 Greatest Games for cheers Sam!
A few surprises in there! gq-magazine.co.uk/article/best-v
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the year is 2030. after ed sheeran lost his case, musicians exhausted every 4-bar chord progression. pop music now features 23-bar cycles. tutorial videos explain how to escape copyright infringement using arabic 17 tone equal temperament. noise music experiences a renaissance.
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Some news! After a long Twitter hiatus, I'm happy to announce that I'm going full-time ✨ We're launching something new called Spaces, a more personal careers page for teams 👫
👉 spaces.loversmagazine.com
Oh, and the landing page was built in 💚💙❤️
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They were all sports nuts. So my dad and uncle were on the field, and Don wrote about them, and our cousins, and family, and everyone else nearby in Iowa. But we all know Don would have been a killer on the field, given the chance.
RIP, Don. You were loved.
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One unfortunate aspect of thalidomide is you can easily see the potential. The limbs are affected, but not much else. I expect he could see it himself. He was clearly designed to be a star athlete. I think it’s why he bonded with the twins in his grade, my dad & uncle.
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Don was a kind, cheerful, amazing human. I really can’t express his energy. If you have a Don in your life, you already know and keep them close.
Don loved sports: he was a professional sports writer.
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His title says it all: he was born without full limbs. His physique indicates thalidomide.
As a child, I couldn’t understand why he was sometimes tall, sometimes short. (Spoiler: he hid his prosthetics as a joke 🤷) He was always happy to see me, lots of jokes, lots of hugs.
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Don Lund was a very close family friend (Uncle Don!) who recently passed away. I just found out he wrote a book(?!) about his life, available on Amazon. This is the cover.
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Should I want to join Bluesky? Genuinely curious question for those who are on it. I found a nice designer community with Posts, but nothing to replace Twitter’s community yet.
Let's talk about some of the recent improvements to Unity! I'm not talking about the big, flashy things you already know about but the small changes we were able to sneak into the changelog. I'll look at 2023.1 beta stuff but most of it also backported as far back as possible :)
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So much of our neural processing is distributed throughout the body
Such that if a brain were transposed into another body
One wonders how much of the mind would still be there
And what strange new dysmorphias would emerge from e.g. a stomach with a foreign mind
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Been updating my personal wiki's styles and am pretty happy with where they are now vs the default Roam template: roamresearch.com/#/app/timoni/ Goal was to make it feel like an app, not a website. If you're curious, here's the standard graph theme: roamresearch.com/#/app/help/pag
Hey #PortfolioDay! Here are some of my favourites from my second year long every day project Facets II <3
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Hi #PortfolioDay , my name is Anu and I’m an art director in the video game industry + graphic novel and kidlit illustrator. Seeking new opportunities soon in vis dev and art direction, as well as illustration work for YA and MG book covers ✨
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Hi #portfolioday ! I’m Olivia - an illustrator and comic book artist, currently working on some game design.
I enjoy surreal landscapes and environments…
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i am conner. i am an illustrator and character artist continually torn between a thousand genres and a thousand textures
happy #PortfolioDay
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Hello #PortfolioDay! I'm an illustrator and comic book artist that likes cozy, magic and warm environments. ♥️
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Baby ducks in a row
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Hubble observed a curious linear feature that was first dismissed as an imaging artifact from the telescope’s cameras. But follow-up observations reveal it is a 200,000-light-year-long chain of young blue stars created in the wake of a runaway black hole: bit.ly/3JTk7Ma
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I know I got a lot of good faith responses, but basically here's an example of what I think good looks like for my side of the argument: togelius.blogspot.com/2023/04/is-eld and I'd like an equivalent counterpoint for the other side.
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So you know my bias: I assume a real AGI is somewhere between, say, Deep Thought and Marvin. Having the ability to access data, reason through it, and apply it to the problem at hand gives AGI the ability to create, but it doesn't give AGI desire.
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Then it's just a ramble on why AGI would be so good at killing humans. The sheer human-centricity of the essay is very, very hard to look past—but the fundamental assumption that lethality is inevitable is harder.
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I did give "AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities" a spin. It does not explain the basic premise. It instead presupposes killing will just be...inevitable? Somehow always a path of least resistance AGI will inevitably take to achieve its goals? And AGI will have goals?
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This article mirrors my confusion blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/d, although it mainly focuses on how the desire to dominate is an evolutionary trait. I'm unconvinced a real AGI would care about collab, domination, or anything else.
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- Not interested in 'any chance is unacceptable'—I am looking for data to support *reasonable expectations*. Again, first principles: start with why would we expect AGI to care about anything at all, then take me down the path to how it gets to lethal.
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- Not interested in paperclips, only AGI. For weak AI, I understand the risk, albeit skeptically. (https://cepr
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- Not interested in paperclips, only AGI. For weak AI, I understand the risk, albeit skeptically. (cepr.org/voxeu/columns/)
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Can someone point me to a clear, short overview of why I should reasonably expect AGI to kill anything? ELI5, first principles.
(Please read thread before answering—it is otherwise pretty likely your first answer is something I already know!)
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Great example of gendered socialization impact.
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Our beliefs about what others think have consequences.
87% of Saudi men privately agreed they supported women working, but 70% thought other men were less supportive. When they learned the real support, 6 month employment among their wives went up 179%. home.uchicago.edu/bursztyn/Mispe
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There's a lot of folks under the misunderstanding that it's now possible to run a 30B param LLM in <6GB, based on this GitHub discussion.
This is not the case. Understanding why gives us a chance to learn a lot of interesting stuff! 🧵
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Plot hole: In Jurassic Park, John Hammond repeatedly says he "spared no expense." Yet at several times in the movie, it is clear several expenses were spared in the construction of Jurassic Park
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Sweethearts: I wrote a little essay about my current thoughts on AI etc. it’s got comments turned on, so please please please leave your thoughts on the doc || Stuck in a Rut: habits, rabbits, AI & the Unknown! docs.google.com/document/d/19b
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