Blog
2024
- where the bitter lesson endshumanity only has one engineering project, building better engineers than humans
- let's build our own AI modelto generate text based on prompts
- planting the roots only to fall out of the treemy (foster) father has passed away 3 weeks ago at the age of 64.
- hedonic treadmillI was scrolling through LinkedIn like i sometimes do, and stumbled upon job descriptions that annoyed me to say the least.
- tech heroinTechno-Optimism is cocaine. Atlas Shrugged is cocaine. Futurism is cocaine.
- consumptionOh the dream. We all travel. Vacation forever. Live life as digital nomads.
- Building a really big computerGPT-4 was trained on 25k A100s in about 90 days. That’s 3e25 FLOPs.
- probability(doom)I think the crux of the debate was whether AIs will look more like formal systems or like inscrutable weight matrices.
2023