vslira's blog

The Adolescence of Technology Lots of good stuff, what’s more interesting to me is the beginning, where Dario roughly says, if I’m reading this right, that he’s not that worried about AI power seeking because you have to hammer these things a lot in post training for they to begin doing something useful, so maybe runway capability isn’t that automatic. Also, I laughed at “Democracies competitive in AI”. Something tells me he’s not talking about France’s Mistral. What else didn’t he say out loud? On The Adolescence of Technology Zvi’s commentary on the previous text. tl;dr he’s not impressed, still very worried and doesn’t think Dario is doing all he can. The Housing Ladder's Broken Promise Nothing new if you’re already landpilled. Why didn’t he add the happy/sad emojis to section 3, though? Vitol With Nukes The USSR had a place for people who belonged in hedge funds, and that place was managing the USSR's own commoditi...

     I use Anki to learn, and for the last few years I've successfully built a habit of doing my daily cards. It's hard at first, sometimes you don't feel like it, but like any habit if you stick to it eventually becomes easier (not always "easy", just "easier").     But I'm not immune to falling behind, and like everyone who does Anki when life gets in the way of the daily sessions I struggle to keep up and start accumulating cards. Then one day you open the app, sees that there are 100 cards to study and you get that strong resistance to get started.     I could simply change the settings to lower the daily review limit, but I feel like I'd be just sweeping the problem under the rug then. I need to face the fact that I have to work through the backlog, which is also a signal to myself to pause adding more stuff until I get it into a manageable state.     So lately I decided that my ...