Never buy an SUV.

I love my wife

When I’m tired I sometimes just sit staring into the distance because in the back of my mind I think I’m waiting for some AI agent doing something

Then I realize I actually don’t have any agents doing anything and I’m not waiting for anything outside of me

Motorcycling is how insecure straight men are allowed to dance

Suppose two beings are omniscient about Earth but not each other. One wants to point out one specific human being on this planet to the other.

They must do this in the minimum number of ASCII characters such that they can be quite confident the other being will know exactly who they are referencing.

No previous common knowledge except common knowledge of the planet Earth and everything that can be logically deduced from that common knowledge.

Now suppose you pick a given person. How would you evaluate whether a proposed string has this property?

If they had a pre-agreed codebook, you’d need roughly log₂(8×10⁹) ≈ 33 bits ≈ 5 ASCII characters to index any human. If they are logically omniscient and omniscient about Earth, but do not have a pre-agreed codebook, how good can they get at minimax? How close to five chars?

The grumpy feeling you get when you read someone who’s written about the same thing you’ve thought about but in a different way that you don’t like

It feels like when I get out of bed in the morning feeling groggy and realize that I’ve overslept and have something unpleasant on my to-do list

Gateway to Bluegrass Playlist

These are the songs that, if I had found when I didn’t like bluegrass, would have accelerated my conversion.

I still love them all.

Full playlist also on Spotify and YouTube

Note: this is intended for people who already like rock and/or folk music and are trying to see if they like bluegrass. If you mostly listen to pop and/or country, this probably isn’t for you.

Very incomplete list of researchers whose work is directly related to my research goals, in no particular order:

• Artemy Kolchinsky
• Aram Ebtekar
• Daniel Chiang
• David Lorell
• John Wentworth
• Fernando Rosas
• Jeremy Gillen

Do we like letters? Do we like written words? How do we feel about speech? And what about speech to text?

TD Bank’s anti-AI ad… written with AI?