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Nicholas A. Christakis

@nachristakis
8 posts
2024-03-30
Cool name, despite the ominous echoes, and exciting time to be alive: Stargate.
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The Information

Sources: Microsoft and OpenAI are planning a $100B data center project with a US-based supercomputer dubbed “Stargate” to power OpenAI's products

Executives at Microsoft and OpenAI have been drawing up plans for a data center project that would contain a supercomputer …

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2024-02-06
I've been tracking this (and so should you), and it's like a Holy Grail that might be within our grasp. Incredible. “Our hope is that the success of the Vesuvius Challenge catalyzes the excavation of the villa, that the main library is discovered, and that whatever we find...
2024-02-06 View on X
Bloomberg

How researchers used AI to read the Herculaneum papyri, charred in 79 AD by Mount Vesuvius' eruption, potentially rewriting key parts of ancient world history

Well, make a 3D CT scan, use the images to virtually unfold, recognize the ink drops, and off you go.  Amazing work by three students (from Berlin, Nebraska and ETH Zurich). … X: N...

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2022-12-02
AI Is Coming for Thought Leaders. Via ⁦@DKThomp⁩ ⁦@TheAtlantic⁩ “I've wanted to type questions into a search bar and, in milliseconds, read the consensus from decades of scientific research.” And that's now possible: https://consensus.app/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
2022-12-02 View on X
The Atlantic

A look at some implications for generative AI: “answer engines” replacing search engines, AI mastering cognitive tasks by surveilling how experts work, and more

This is Work in Progress, a newsletter by Derek Thompson about work, technology, and how to solve some of America's biggest problems. Tweets: @krishnanrohit , @buccocapital , @carn...

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2021-02-15
“I don't want to accuse NYT of lying, exactly, but if they were truthful, it was in same way as Wizard of Oz review: ‘Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again.’ https://astralcodexten.substack.com/ ...
2021-02-15 View on X
Noahpinion

The NYT overstated the influence of both Slate Star Codex and the Rationalist community on Silicon Valley, and falsely portrayed the tech industry as right-wing

Stereotyping the tech industry as a bunch of secretive right-wingers isn't correct, and it isn't helpful.  —  11 hr ago

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“I don't want to accuse NYT of lying, exactly, but if they were truthful, it was in same way as Wizard of Oz review: ‘Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again.’ https://astralcodexten.substack.com/ ...
2021-02-15 View on X
New York Times

Examining the links between the Rationalist community, with Slate Star Codex blog as its epicenter, and influential leaders in tech, including OpenAI's founders

even inside newsrooms. This is depraved. https://twitter.com/... Robin Hanson / @robinhanson : “The ideas they exchanged were often controversial — connected to gender, race and in...

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2021-02-14
“I don't want to accuse NYT of lying, exactly, but if they were truthful, it was in same way as Wizard of Oz review: ‘Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again.’ https://astralcodexten.substack.com/ ...
2021-02-14 View on X
New York Times

Examining the links between the Rationalist community, with Slate Star Codex blog as its epicenter, and influential leaders in tech, including OpenAI's founders

Slate Star Codex was a window into the psyche of many tech leaders building our collective future.  Then it disappeared.

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2020-12-05
So much sadness and awful violence, complemented by humanity and nuance, in this deeply reported piece by @NickKristof. The unforgiving nature of the internet, sometimes capturing people's worse moment, is something we will continue to have to address as a society. https://twitter.com/...
2020-12-05 View on X
New York Times

How Montreal-based Pornhub profits from child and revenge porn, rape, spy cam and other criminal, non-consensual sex videos

study Billy Steele / Engadget : Recommended Reading: Ted Lasso and the American decline Tweets: Gabriel Dance / @gabrieldance : facebook - the most prolific reporter of child sexua...

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2020-10-03
Amazon says >19,000 workers got #COVID19. But that's just 1.44% of their 1.37M workforce. Even correcting for age and geographic location, this might be a lower risk than the typical American. And it's another data point regarding USA attack rate to date. https://www.cnbc.com/...
2020-10-03 View on X
CNBC

Amazon says that of its 1.37M frontline workers, 19K+ contracted COVID-19 between March 1 and Sept. 19, with an infection rate lower than general US population

nearly 20,000 cases so far! https://www.cnbc.com/... Ben Popken / @bpopken : Amazon finally discloses how many of its workers tested positive for COVID-19 - over 19,000 - and says ...

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