XIndustry05:07Tomasz Tunguz@tunguzYeah, but how would they then be able to justify the upcoming Tesla/SpaceX merger?Collected by WispRead in full↗
XIndustry01:33Tomasz Tunguz@tunguzYears ago I had the pleasure of attending a lecture by wonderful Peter Kreeft at Wabash College in Indiana. The audience asked a lot of interesting and oftentimes pointed questions. There was one question about a particularly contentious and controversial issue, and to this day I remember Peter’s response. He quoted the famous Confucian adage that in order to fix society the first step is to start calling things by their proper name. I feel we’ve drifted far away from that ideal, and it will take us a while to find our way back.Collected by WispRead in full↗
XIndustry00:49Tomasz Tunguz@tunguzFun fact: no two counties that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's.Collected by WispRead in full↗
XIndustry19:20Tomasz Tunguz@tunguzGood overall post, and I agree with most points, but I *strongly* disagree with the claim that mathematical *consistency* has *historically* been the driving force behind progress in fundamental theoretical physics. Calculus was not put on mathematically consistent footing for centuries after its discovery. QFT calculations were an absolute abomination from a purely mathematical consistency standpoint (oh look, we are just gonna handwave here and cancel all these infinite terms so that it all works out!). Most of the progress in theoretical physics comes from using *just enough math* to get your points across and get a theory that can describe the world on a very fundamental level.Collected by WispRead in full↗
XIndustry18:59Tomasz Tunguz@tunguzAt this point in the exponential curve two years is distant future, and anything could happen between now and then.Collected by WispRead in full↗
XIndustry19:08Tomasz Tunguz@tunguzThis is one perspective. The other one is that we are now entering THE golden age of mathematics, and some mathematicians that I personally know are giddy with excitement. I’ve spent most of the past month and a half collaborating with an old friend of mine who is a math professor/researcher. We’ve been having a blast. We will be sharing some of our findings soon.Collected by WispRead in full↗
XIndustry19:03Tomasz Tunguz@tunguzIf you are into trying to persuade and influence humans, pivot to trying to persuade and influence machines.Collected by WispRead in full↗
XIndustry22:33Tomasz Tunguz@tunguzpreemptive reset implies no imminent releaseCollected by WispRead in full↗
XIndustry03:28Tomasz Tunguz@tunguzYeah, I've been saying this for a while. Human Genome Project was interesting from a scientific point of view (barely), but it made next to no impact on actual therapeutic applications.Collected by WispRead in full↗
XIndustry22:29Tomasz Tunguz@tunguzI mean, it’s fine - we’ve built an entire scientific superstructure based on research papers that no one had read.Collected by WispRead in full↗
XIndustry02:12Tomasz Tunguz@tunguzWe COULD have fixed this but there was absolutely no political will to do it, and the technocratic elites had been vehemently opposed to the ONLY solution that could have work: decentralization of knowledge work through widespread use of remote work. Now it's probably too late to do anything about it, and very soon most of these issues will be moot.Collected by WispRead in full↗
XIndustry07:20Tomasz Tunguz@tunguzAll institutions are provisional, but most of them have painted themselves into a corner, and will be consigned to irrelevance at an extremely fast rate in the upcoming months and years.Collected by WispRead in full↗
XIndustry00:46Tomasz Tunguz@tunguzPeople who will be the happiest in the future will be those who are experiencing the greatest positive discrepancy between what they have access to and what their childhood aspirations were.Collected by WispRead in full↗
XIndustry23:43Tomasz Tunguz@tunguzUp to a point. My contention is that in the particular case of high energy/particle physics we've had more than enough data for quite a while. What we needed was to try out a lot of different paradigms - based on the established approaches that have historically worked in theoretical physics - to fit all that data into a single framework. What we got instead is an institutional capture by a single grifter paradigm, entirely at odds with how physics has always been done, pushing out all the other approaches. It has been a disaster every single way, but the fact that none of the leaders of that wretched program ever showed any concessions about their monumental failure is the evidence that the failure not only intellectual, but moral as well.Collected by WispRead in full↗
XIndustry23:15Tomasz Tunguz@tunguzImagine what a device like this could accomplish if it had actual AI on it.Collected by WispRead in full↗
XIndustry20:23Tomasz Tunguz@tunguzmetal-graph 0.1.1 is out! Another graph algorithm sped-up on Apple Silicon to a ludicrous degree. Go check it out.Collected by WispRead in full↗
XIndustry09:11Tomasz Tunguz@tunguzGlad to see it. If it’s a truly from-the-scratch new model, then it can really add to model diversity.Collected by WispRead in full↗
XIndustry23:39Tomasz Tunguz@tunguzwe'll literally have oss version of ALL major software products within 3 - 12 monthsCollected by WispRead in full↗
XIndustry20:53Tomasz Tunguz@tunguzI'd love to share a blog post with you explaining the research agenda of the Commission of Artificial Intelligence and the Future of the American Workforce. My own focus will be on the impact of AI on Technology Industry - what AI can do today and what we can expect it to do in the near future. Other researchers on the commission and their specific focus are: - Bill Congdon will explore several scenarios of how AI could change the US labor market and affect workers - John Soroushian will explore how AI is currently being regulated and identify the policy levers that can effectively guide the pace and direction of AI adoption - Adam Leonard will lead research on the reforms needed to federal, state, and private data systems. - Kevin Corinth will identify the programs that could provide a cushion for workers as they transition between jobs and industries - Brent Parton will work to understand how to fund and design training and reskilling programs - Jason Tyszko will examine real-time changes in employers’ talent needs and how policymakers can protect jobs and workers - Rekha Balu will lead research on how AI’s effects may vary across regions and localities. You can read more about all these efforts in the following post: https://aiworkforcecommission.org/latest/ai-research-agenda-adapted-uncertaintyCollected by WispRead in full↗
XIndustry20:03Tomasz Tunguz@tunguz“Well, yes, of course we can align entities that are vastly more powerful than us if we ask them nicely or are firm with them!”Collected by WispRead in full↗