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Bojan Tunguz
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Bojan Tunguz @tunguz.bsky.social · Aug 4
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Bojan Tunguz @tunguz.bsky.social · Aug 4
How about this one?
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Bojan Tunguz @tunguz.bsky.social · Aug 4
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Bojan Tunguz @tunguz.bsky.social · Aug 3
There is already enough kompromat on each and every one of us in the training dataset that AGI will not have any trouble exerting total control over everyone once it arrives.
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Bojan Tunguz @tunguz.bsky.social · Aug 3
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Bojan Tunguz @tunguz.bsky.social · Aug 3
Everything takes a factor of pi longer to do than you think it would.
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Bojan Tunguz @tunguz.bsky.social · Aug 3
Declutter, streamline, and decentralize your life.
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Bojan Tunguz @tunguz.bsky.social · Aug 3
I’ve had one of those jobs.
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Bojan Tunguz @tunguz.bsky.social · Aug 2
1. Do something.

2. Observe the outcome.

3. Learn from it.

4. Repeat.
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Bojan Tunguz @tunguz.bsky.social · Aug 2
Human intelligence: exists.

Autists: “hey, maybe we should replicate it with machines, but make it like a gazzillion times more expensive!”
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Bojan Tunguz @tunguz.bsky.social · Aug 2
They should have used XGBoost.
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Bojan Tunguz @tunguz.bsky.social · Aug 2
Hoping for a good haul today.
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Bojan Tunguz @tunguz.bsky.social · Aug 1
This is a fun game!
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Bojan Tunguz @tunguz.bsky.social · Aug 1
No one is more aggressive than those with a deep seated victim mindset.
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Bojan Tunguz @tunguz.bsky.social · Aug 1
Hey, it happens.
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Bojan Tunguz @tunguz.bsky.social · Aug 1
Right???
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Bojan Tunguz @tunguz.bsky.social · Jul 31
People who know how to manipulate people still have a huge advantage over the people who know how to manipulate things.
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Bojan Tunguz @tunguz.bsky.social · Jul 31
This one is a steal!
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Bojan Tunguz @tunguz.bsky.social · Jul 31
Adulting is hard.
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Bojan Tunguz @tunguz.bsky.social · Jul 31
“But he is not actually that bad!”

You are right, he is worse than that.

Much, much, worse than that.
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Bojan Tunguz @tunguz.bsky.social · Jul 30
It's Trojan Horses all the way down.
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Bojan Tunguz @tunguz.bsky.social · Jul 30
Who’s the most chill Boomer you know?
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Bojan Tunguz @tunguz.bsky.social · Jul 30
BREAKING: first images of GPT6 training cluster emerge.

Developing …
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Bojan Tunguz @tunguz.bsky.social · Jul 30
Being good at prompting is just not good enough. You need to work on your meta-prompting skills.
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Bojan Tunguz @tunguz.bsky.social · Jul 30
Some interesting stuff
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