Sharon (sharonjohn)

Sharon

Curious infovore, flailing dilettante

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Normies are people who want to go back to 1999. Weirdos are people who want to skip ahead to 2050.

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@vgr post about hypernormalization vs weirdness as two opposite modes people are using to navigate the world in 2024 articulated something I’ve been trying to get at. Ties into the institutionalist vs anti-institutionalist groups as well. Though many anti-institutionalists simply want their point of view in power.

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The discussion about where LLMs will go next seems to boil down to those who believe ChatGPT was the start of AI so it can “only improve from here” or actually the cashing out of 5 years of transformer architecture R&D at its peak.

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Watching @vgr’s Devcon talk about hypercomplexity. I like the implied idea of liberalism as a protocol for enabling pluralism. Every system is kind of a TINA within itself, what we would call rule of law.

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It’s wild that our best guiding metaphor for the ML driven future might be magic

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Friendship measured in max $ owed that goes without Venmo

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