I am increasingly worried about the tradeoff between robustness and efficiency of systems and what the effect of this will be on our society. This is a continuation from my thoughts on Fragility and Boundary Conditions Efficiency tends to increase fragility As you optimize a system, you tend to make it more fragile in the process. There are lots of reasons for this, and plenty of examples, so I’ll…
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I am flying long distance for the first time in a long time — this time to the US for a festival. My experience with my flight being canceled made me reflect on how airlines work and the dynamics of the airline industry that have resulted in the way they are. A useful framework that has come to mind is the classic one of competition, but in this case I want to examine what happens in the…
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Premises: Intelligence is power. Artificial systems can become very intelligent, quickly. Superintelligent AGI will be super powerful. We need it to want the same thing as we do. We don't know how to make machines want things. 1. Intelligence is powerful Humans are powerful. We are so powerful on earth that we routinely wipe out entire species by accident — not because we don’t care (although we…
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In the dimly lit server room of OpenAI's headquarters, a low hum filled the air. Thousands of processors whirred away, working tirelessly to train the latest iteration of the company's groundbreaking language model, GPT-5. The researchers had made incredible advances since the days of GPT-4, and this new model was poised to change the world. The first few tokens passed through GPT-5's layers…
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ChatGPT writes generative art.
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Visualizing streamlines in "curl noise". Some particles are traveling forward through the flow, others backwards. 's' to save, 'r' to restart, click or 'p' to pause/unpause. Colors and setup variables change each time. Press 'a' to randomise the flow while keeping the previous picture and particle positions.
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Visualizing streamlines in "curl noise" — an analogy to the movement of an incompressible fluid, at different scales and with various visual characteristics. I've thought about how to generate noise using properties of fluids and it finally clicked when reading this article https://www.bit-101.com/blog/2021/07/curl-noise/
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Had a half-dream while falling asleep of a pool in a desert. Tried to capture the vibe of that dream.
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