There are actually subcultures where people view a 900 lbs deadlift as more impressive than getting into YC. There are parts of the world where your great-grandfather making lucky gambles on oil rights 100 years ago matters more than your work ethic or IQ
a friend tried to argue that a "jury of your peers" should literally be your peers. as an mit grad he thinks he should only be judged by mit grads. im dying
small business sunday :)
insanely proud of our team—we built a model that is imo sota naturalness and ability to "get" human speech patterns (emotion, pauses, filler words) with 4 people and under $1m. scaleup coming soon.
At Standard Intelligence we’ve been researching scalable cross-modality learning. We’re excited to share some early results in the form of 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘇-𝗱𝗲𝘃, an open-source, first-of-its-kind base model for full-duplex conversational audio. 1/
imperialist countries that colonized and plundered other countries should provide tens/hundreds of billions in development and health aid and open their borders to people from those countries
People are scaring away AI safety comms people and it's tragic.
Remember:
- Just because you don't like a certain comms style, that doesn't mean that other people don't.
- Twitter is not LessWrong. You don't have the space or intention to hedge every claim and say everything
Turns out the good folks in the medical industrial complex have invented a literal torture simulator — it’s called the Medoc TSA2 Thermal Pain Simulator!
The device runs hot water through a metal plate attached to the inside of your wrist until you’re in excruciating pain.
food: $800
rent: $2500
water: $200
Nvidia DGX H100 SXM5 with 3.2Tbps Infiniband: $131,328
electricity: $45,000
snacks: $300
someone who is good at the economy pls help me budget this. my family is dying