steve hsu

Must watch: AI discussion w/ @sama and @patrickc Forget the congressional stuff, this is a high-level discussion. At 15m, SamA: ".. only takes about 6 months to take a smart physics researcher and make them into a productive AI researcher" 🤔

Geoff Hinton makes some similar points in this excellent interview. If you already know something about the topic (eg backprop), can skip to ~10m for details as to why recent LLM advances made him very worried about AGI. Possible End of Humanity from AI?

Great documentary. Low-margin crisis for Carrefour and other European retailers. AMZN Fresh looks super high tech until they show you what [link] is doing in PRC. Don't miss the hydroponics and chip-injected pig farming!

This article includes some really great covers of old PKD SciFi paperbacks!

Despite the mistake about miltech (understandable, since it's part of US propaganda justifying the chip war), the WIRED article by @page88 is a good read. Pro tip: in PRC they believe, with justification, that anything TW, JP, or Koreans can do, they can do better.

Excellent essay by @ShaiCarmi and @ToddLencz on polygenic embryo screening. Both are researchers in this area. [THREAD]

Good thread on DUV/EUV and chip war. IIRC ASML guidance is that 2023 revenue from PRC sales will not be impacted by the new agreements, which means lots of DUV machines sold there. Ofc subject to revision.. See my podcast with Asianometry

Excellent Glenn Greenwald interview. 1/2 24m: "Hitler Germany's war of extermination against Russia is not forgotten.. Will awaken deep traumas.. German tanks against Russians is like us delivering tanks to fight Israelis."

Great thread on India. "Per capita income $2,000. Remove top 30 million people (out of 1.5B): drops to ~$700" Indian physicists I know estimate effective base population (ie good educations, produce STEM human capital): ~100M But most of these end up in West so optics skewed!