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Ben Chugg

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Ben Chugg

@BennyChugg

these pretzels are making me thirsty

The Old Forest

Joined December 2020

Ben Chugg
@BennyChugg
May 8, 2024
The theorists are doing well at ICLR
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Ben Chugg
@BennyChugg
May 9, 2024
How does one learn to appreciate poetry? Just read it? Read about it? Read reviews of it?
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Ben Chugg
@BennyChugg
Jun 9, 2024
the most chaotic places on the internet are by far the homepages of mathematicians. They learned how to use html and css once in the 90s and called it quits michel.talagrand.net hunch.net/~jl/ luc.devroye.org bactra.org theo.inrne.bas.bg/~bozho/index.p…
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Ben Chugg
@BennyChugg
May 22, 2021
Imagine how boring and dysfunctional civilization would be if humans all had the same interests. Instead we’re idiosyncratic, interested in different problems, and wrong about different things. And we make progress via positive sum collaborations Eff yes humanity. We’re awesome
Ben Chugg
@BennyChugg
Oct 2, 2023
"AI will do science in its head" First they rely on classical empiricism (of Locke, Hume etc) to explain why AI will become all powerful, then switch to classical rationalism (of Descartes etc) to explain how it will do science. Just stick to one mistaken epistemology please
Liron Shapira
@liron
Oct 2, 2023
Me: Superintelligent AI will do science in its head; human scientists are weak minds who lean on experiments as a crutch My critics: Insane doomer claim! AI can't speed up science that much! @sama: AI could let us do a century's worth of science in 1 year
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Ben Chugg
@BennyChugg
May 30, 2023
"train an LLM to predict the future" I'm going to have an aneurysm.
Roko 🐉
@RokoMijic
May 29, 2023
I just had the most amazing idea. Imagine you train an LLM with data that is all chronologically labelled. Every book, every scientific paper, every newspaper headline, every primary source from history. Where primary sources are lacking, descriptions of events or archeological
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Ben Chugg
@BennyChugg
Jul 8, 2024
won my AI capabilities bet with @kohjingyu (who's a little too successful for his own good so this was needed). Before throwing arbitrary p(doom)s around let's remember that LLMs have yet to make a novel scientific contribution
benchugg.com
An AI-capabilities bet
Will a paper written by a language model be accepted to an A-tier conference or journal?
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Ben Chugg
@BennyChugg
Jul 8, 2022
Eternally baffled by the position that we’re near the end of science. What about depression, sleep, consciousness, dementia, aging? P vs NP, the multiverse, origin of life, AI? We barely understand any of these things, and progress in any of them will raise even more questions
Ben Chugg
@BennyChugg
Nov 17, 2021
PhD theses would have been so much bolder in the pre-socratic era. “On the nature of matter: Literally everything is made of water” “Humans emerged from the mouths of big fish: An empirical investigation” “A logical proof that motion is impossible”
Ben Chugg
@BennyChugg
Dec 6, 2022
I find it bizarre when elites colleges tout the success of their alumni. Admissions are so competitive precisely because they select for this kind of person. It would be much more impressive if they admitted students at random and still showed amazing outcomes
Ben Chugg
@BennyChugg
Jun 12, 2024
Sure, you could read about AI, trillion dollar compute clusters, geopolitical warfare, and situational awareness. Or you could read about some philosophical issues with p-values
P-values and counterfactuals
From benchugg.com
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Ben Chugg
@BennyChugg
Aug 7, 2023
Replying to @kasratweets
Wait until you read about the world record beer mile
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Ben Chugg
@BennyChugg
Feb 9, 2022
“We have not succeeded in answering all our problems. The answers we have found only serve to raise a whole set of new questions. In some ways we feel we are as confused as ever, but we believe we are confused on a higher level and about more important things.”
Ben Chugg
@BennyChugg
Nov 14, 2022
Replying to @paulg
1,500 respondents split into 10 groups, not a huge sample size. Also worth noting that the survey was of job seekers, so naturally skewed towards those with reason to have high regret at the moment