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PhD, Philosopher and Political Economist, @nyuniversity, @UniFreiburg, @KingsCollegeLon

AI at Meta @aiatmeta ·

6 Aug

To understand whether we're making genuine progress on reasoning, we entered our AI models in five STEM Olympiad competitions.

The results:
🏅 Asian Physics Olympiad (APhO): Perfect score, theory exam
🏅 International Physics Olympiad (IPhO): Perfect score, theory exam
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Otto Lehto @otto_lehto ·

5 Aug

This is indeed a good method for getting systems on your wavelength.

Andrej Karpathy @karpathy

One pattern I find useful for working with LLMs is a nice long ramble session. Sometimes the LLM needs more bits to understand what you're trying to achieve, but you're too lazy to type them. In these cases I like to lean back, switch to /voice and just ramble for like 10

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Otto Lehto @otto_lehto ·

1 Aug

This story is incredibly sad, a joint result of bad IP laws and corporate hubris. We need the Web as the Library of Everything (not just for books), accessible by every human being & kept away from both state & corporate monopolies. Open source AGI will be its natural librarian.

Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann

btw anthropic's internal document on this literally said "we don't want it to be known that we are working on this.”

it was called project panama.

here's exactly what happened:

1: anthropic concluded that books were the cheapest way to build a world-class model because they

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Noam Brown @polynoamial ·

1 Aug

The cost of generating the proofs for all 10 of these breakthroughs combined was under $2,000 at Sol API prices. We’re excited to see what scientists and researchers are able to create with our upcoming Astra models!

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The Fable of the Bees: Or Private Vices, Publick Benefits, Vol 1

The Fable of the Bees: Or Private Vices, Publick Benefits, Vol 1

by Bernard Mandeville

Mandeville was an epic troll. He laughed all the way to the bank. But he was also an insightful social psychologist, sociologist and ethical theorist who anticipated Darwin, Freud and Bentham; and his contribution to economic theory, via…

An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

by David Hume

Hume’s essay appears modest, but it cuts deep. Much like its author, the text is genteel and unassuming, but surreptitiously radical.Hume writes beautifully and argues elegantly. Sure, there is a floweriness to the style that might be…

Enchiridion

by Epictetus

Short and pithy philosophy books are always a treat. Doesn’t waste your time!

The Discourses

by Epictetus

Engaging, inspiring, earthly, funny… Epictetus can give you great insights, skills and determination to change your life for the better, even if you don’t agree with everything he says.The text might be old, but our life problems ar…

Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

Meditations is a deserved classic of ancient Stoic wisdom. The book is a high-brow self-help tome from the pinnacle of the Roman political pyramid. It contains useful guidance for the everyday practice of the virtues of magnanimity and e…

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