David Stone @RealPartOneHalf

ML & genomics. Now @ultimagenomics; formerly @tracegenomics; particle physics @ Rome + UCSD. Interests: genomics, physics, ag, philosophy, urban utopianism. San Francisco, CA Joined October 2012

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Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️ @ESYudkowsky

2 weeks ago

"If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" is now out. Please buy a copy before this week ends Sep 20, so the book gets on the bestseller lists. And if you have remaining questions after reading, check the ONLINE RESOURCES, now online. IfAnyoneBuilds.It

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Yann LeCun @ylecun

4 months ago

@_rockt This is a fundamental flaw of sequential (auto-regressive) symbol prediction. The fix is simple: don't do auto-regressive symbol prediction.

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David Stone @RealPartOneHalf

7 months ago

Justin Smith-Ruiu (of The Hinternet) continues to write some of the most clear-eyed essays on the world-historical "Upgrade" (his words) he are going through the-hinternet.com/p/a-world-hist…

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Dr. Daniel Swain @Weather_West

7 months ago

The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within #NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (#NWS), is profoundly alarming. 1/11

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Zack Labe @ZLabe

7 months ago

After nearly two weeks of overwhelming uncertainty, today it happened. I was fired from my dream of working at NOAA. I'm so sorry to everyone also affected. My job was to strengthen NOAA's use of machine learning and AI for subseasonal-to-decadal weather and climate prediction

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David Stone @RealPartOneHalf

8 months ago

I asked Claude to reflect on what was said in this piece (if it is actually written by DeepSeek, and why wouldn't it be), and part of what it gave me in return was this. Sure, you can critique it; some of it may seem sophomoric-- but is it any less sophomoric than you'd expect…

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8 months ago

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David Stone @RealPartOneHalf

8 months ago

Very thought provoking essay from @jackclarkSF's Import AI newsletter. My question to him: if his intuition is correct-- that the winners of the AI revolution will be those most agentic and curious-- is that actually a less just alternative to the current spoils distribution…

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David Stone @RealPartOneHalf

8 months ago

I’ve watched Vishal work on this idea for a long time. His essay is the maturation and fruition of all that intellectual leg work and has lessons even for those not of the second generation diaspora (…like me). Go read it.

Vishal Ganesan @vjgtweets

8 months ago

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Vishal Ganesan @vjgtweets

8 months ago

Just published my inaugural essay for #FrontierDharma, titled "The Hindu Case Against "Hinduism": A Reflection on Dharma in the Diaspora", linked in the tweet below. I guess now's an appropriate time to explain what Frontier Dharma is, and why I started it. For those of you…

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David Stone @RealPartOneHalf

10 months ago

I've been looking for exactly this application of LLMs-- an interface to my terminal for all the obscure commands and their options. Future should look more like a conversation with your terminal. Will be even more useful when something like a Mac's spotlight bar can do the…